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Happy Halloween from the SBA 504 Experts
  • Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 11:21 am
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If you haven’t figured out by now that the MCC Family is a fun bunch of people, you must be new to this blog and/or our marketing. We play just as hard as we work (and our Clients can tell you just how hard we work!). Here’s a picture of our crew in costume earlier Read More »

Some Friday Fun from the SBA 504 Experts . . .
  • Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 2:19 pm
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It’s Friday and the end of another long workweek is upon us. To end it on a good note – – and start the weekend right – – my staff and I have thrown together some of the outtakes and deleted scenes we had left over from the filming of The MCC Office. Just click Read More »

SBA Loan Programs Need Bear Grylls-like Help

If the French Can Do It, Surely We Can Too! (more on that in a minute) Last night, my wife and I took our two young children — ages 6 and 8 — to our “part-time” church (since we spread our visits among three) to hear TV star and faith-filled survivalist, Bear Grylls, speak about Read More »

Changes in Washington, but still same old Small Business Administration
  • Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 11:55 am
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I wrote an opinion piece a little while back about changes that have been made to the SBA recently. They’ve been helpful, but not enough to have the major positive impact that small and mid-sized businesses need so badly. The Orlando Sentinel picked it up and published it on their website last week. If it Read More »

SBA 504 Interest Rate Hits All-Time Low . . . AGAIN.
  • Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 9:09 am
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The 20-year fixed interest rate on SBA 504 loan projects has hit a new record low . . . and this is the fourth time it’s happened in the last six months. I feel a bit like a broken record – – every time I turn around I’m blogging about this, emailing someone about it, Read More »

SBA 504 Loan Experts on… Wouldn’t It Be Nice IF:
  • Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 at 11:54 am
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Full credit goes to my favorite economist, Jeff Thredgold (who I interviewed in my Small Business Success Strategies® monthly teleseminar series back in November on his book, EconAmerica – more details at www.SmallBusinessSuccessStrategies.com), as he recently made the following points below in his newsletter… which I liked so much, I thought I’d share them with Read More »

SBA Experts see “rain” in the forecast…

We’ve had a “run” on our “Makin’ It Rain” Tour t-shirts. Many handfuls of people requested shirts, and we had only one handful of shirts to be claimed. It appears that the demand for these is much greater than the supply. To meet this great demand, we’re going to print more shirts. My dream is Read More »