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Working with local organizations is beneficial to everyone, and Bay View Funding is enjoying collaborating with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in San Jose to help educate members about invoice factoring as an alternative, and effective source of accounts receivable funding.

Projecting cash flow is one of the most vital elements to a profitable business. If the cash flowing in to your business is not matched with the cash flowing out, chances are you will be looking at badly managed cash flow, and a potential crisis.

Consider the fact that the federal government buys close to $100 billion worth of goods and services just from small businesses every year! It may be time to brush up on the skills required to win a contract from the federal government.

Opportunities in the oil and gas sector are set to increase in 2014 – find out how invoice factoring can help your business keep up.

Firstly, what is all the hype about?

According to a recent article in CNN Money, the US is set to overtake Russia as the biggest oil producer outside OPEC during 2014. The reason? There has been a huge investment in the production of shale gas in the US. This increased investment is partly due to new technologies, such as hydraulic fracking, that make the extraction of oil and gas from shale rock commercially viable.

The new processes involving shale oil and gas excavation are driving plenty of business for many companies involved in the oil and gas industry. The International Energy Agency estimates that the US will produce more than 11 billion barrels of oil and natural gas liquids per day in the second quarter of 2014.

Are you struggling to find an invoice factoring company that caters to your company needs and the specific requirements of your industry? Discover how a factoring broker can help.

Firstly, let me establish the role of a factoring broker. A broker will work on your behalf to facilitate the sale of your accounts receivables to a factoring company. The process is straightforward, but brokers frequently have industry specific knowledge, which can obviously be handy when you are not sure exactly which invoice financing company to choose from the myriad of possibilities.

How frustrated must you become before you resort to nasty letters and angry attitudes towards your late paying customers?

Large and experienced AR departments often have a solid policy in place to help with invoice collection from late paying customers. The staff has been carefully trained to remain calm. They have several arrows in their bow to deploy in a potentially inflammatory situation. Not so for small business owners, collecting on your invoices is just a small part of your many responsibilities; you are simply wearing too many hats! And this can be a drain on your time and your patience