{"id":143,"date":"2016-03-12T01:21:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T01:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corpcredit.net\/corporate-credit\/?p=143"},"modified":"2022-10-25T16:16:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T16:16:52","slug":"owners-corner-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corpcredit.net\/corporate-credit\/owners-corner-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Owner&#8217;s Corner: 6 new 2013 Ford Transit Connects with a personal FICO score of 507???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN\">With the great success of my<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>previous BLOG POST<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>regarding the pool contractor our client (7 new TrueBuild Elite clients within 48 hours) I thought I would share another success story.\u00a0 Perhaps you can relate and see how his story may help your business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/corpcredit.net\/images\/UniversalFloral.jpg\" alt=\"Floral Business\" width=\"262\" height=\"160\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>This is a florist in the Atlanta area.\u00a0 He had been in business for about four years.\u00a0 It was a modest beginning with a 500sf store and one used delivery van.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i><b>Like a lot of entrepreneurs he was putting in 70 hour weeks and just getting by.<\/b><\/i>\u00a0 But his hard work over time had started to pay off and in a couple of years and he expanded to a 1,500sf store and added two more delivery vans.\u00a0 Then, a year later he expanded to a 2,700sf store and added another delivery van.\u00a0 He was now servicing the entire Atlanta metro area. \u00a0The profit margins in the retail florist are not the biggest and there is lots of competition so keeping costs down is the key to sustaining growth.\u00a0 As he grew, he started experiencing growing pains.\u00a0 The four delivery vans he owned were purchased used. \u00a0All had V8\u2019s, got terrible mileage and were starting to break down frequently.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i><b>He was paying for fuel with the businesses debit card and was running $2,000 a month in repairs just to keep his vans on the road<\/b><\/i>.\u00a0 All of his cash flow and profits were getting eaten up but fuel costs and repairs so he had a problem on his hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\"><strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><i>His personal credit had taken a beating when he first started and he hadn\u2019t time to repair it and quite frankly, didn\u2019t even know separate business credit even existed.<\/i><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 He had received one of our emails and called in and I just happened to be the one that answered the call.\u00a0 Within 30 minutes he signed up for our TrueBuild Business Credit Building Program.\u00a0 For over 13 years it has set the bar as the industry\u2019s gold standard and over 15,000 businesses have used it to grow their companies.\u00a0 No other business credit building program gets the results we do. It was a no brainer for him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN\"><i>Within four months we were able to build fully structured A+ business credit profiles with all three of the major business credit bureaus.<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 We obtained a Wright Express fuel card for him with a $15k credit limit so he was better able to manage his fuel costs.\u00a0 But the best was yet to come. With only six months in the program we were able to negotiate a master lease for six brand new Ford Transit Connect delivery vans.\u00a0 With the additional two vans he was able to expand even further.\u00a0 With their extremely efficient four cylinder engines he was able to cut his fuel costs by more than half.\u00a0 And he could cover the entire monthly payment on what he was spending on repairs alone not to mention projecting a better company image.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"color: #990000;\"><i><b>All of this was done with no personal guarantees.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">Does this sound like something your business could use?\u00a0 Working Capital, Inventory and Equipment Financing and virtually every type of business credit is within reach by going through the TrueBuild Program.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t you give me a call at 800.730.9490 to see how your business can benefit from it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thank You,<br \/>\nMike T. Berrien | Principal<br \/>\nSales &amp; Business Finance Consulting<br \/>\nTrueBuild Corporate Credit Program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the great success of my\u00a0previous BLOG POST\u00a0regarding the pool contractor our client (7 new TrueBuild Elite clients within 48 hours) I thought I would share another success story.\u00a0 Perhaps you can relate and see how his story may help your business. 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