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Why it is Important to Establish Business Credit Early by Aminah Knowles

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Building business credit is probably the most important thing to prioritize for business owners. Many startups depend on the use of their own personal assets to secure their funding. This is because they want to increase their creditworthiness. But today, building business credit is preferred by most business owners. The National Small Business Association has surveyed and as much as 27% of businesses claimed that they weren’t able to receive the funding that they needed. For many businesses, the impact of the lack of funding was stopping them from growing their business. Unfortunately, one cannot build a successful business and business credit without having a good credit history. Creditors will be reviewing your credit scores, and if they have nothing to review, they won’t know the risk they are putting their-selves into, worse than that is you will definitely not be approved. You might have heard somewhere that building business credit does not matter. If that’s true, then

Brilliant and Built For Success Part 1 by Dr. Catrina Pullum

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As my husband, Shawn, and I prepared to launch our entertainment management company, we sat down with each other, as we always do, and talked about our vision, and what we were setting out to embark upon. We’d spent countless hours up until that point, planning, pinpointing, and, most importantly, praying, about what we desired for our lives, our business, and everyone we would touch through it. We knew the type of clients that we desired to serve and how we wanted to nurture them and their careers within our firm, but we needed to go beyond that. We needed to think about not only how far that we as a team had the capacity to take people, but how far our clients, these brilliant, black stars (in every sense of the word) could take themselves. So, we came up with a quote that is now the guiding principle of our business: “Reaching beyond the limits of success.” There it was. With that handful of words, we set out to powerfully and intentionally redefine what success means

Why Discovering Your Purpose Can Elevate Your Life by Jena Bell

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Do you know your life’s purpose? Have you ever reflected on your life and wondered what is my purpose? Why am I here? These are great questions to ponder if you have not done so previously.   Why? There are three reasons. First, I believe that each of us has a purpose and a calling on our life.   Second, it is up to each individual to discover what that purpose is and to make a decision to be obedient to the calling. Because understanding your purpose, gives meaning to your life, it serves as a compass for how you live and how to prioritize things that are important to you.   Third, When you are connected to your purpose, your reason for being, you elevate your life,   show up powerfully in the world and increase your impact on the people you ultimately serve.   I believe that our life is about serving others.   Now many people talk about purpose, but for the sake of our discussion, let’s make sure we are on the same page.   I am specifically focused on the belief that w