Choosing the best location to start your business – Which state you decide to center your business in will depend largely on the kind of products or services your business provides. To that end, organizations dealing in technology have some surprising advantages due to technological innovation. A great example would be the creation marketing materials.
Granted, it’s generally a good idea to be near your target clientele, but here’s the thing: you’re going to have contact with many clients requiring marketing solutions regardless of proximity through the internet. What this means is that you can source some of your largest clients, and never physically meet them.
The same can be true – get this – with your employees. [pullquote]There are various means through which advertisement can be outsourced today, and quite a few technology agencies are jumping on this bandwagon.[/pullquote] While some work with individual creators, others work with diverse agencies.
The same is true for advertising agencies running aural marketing campaigns. There are many radio programs with advertisements created in some private studio that’s nowhere near the stations which play the produced advertisements.
Then there’s the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) component, where employees can use their own smartphones, laptops, and tablets over the cloud in order to design their marketing campaigns, send them in and receive payment online. What all this means is your central location should be where it’s most financially feasible.
Your Location Should Depend On Financial Stability
Interest rates differ per state. With technology, you can compete with “the big dogs” even in a completely remote location. What you want to do is find the state with flexible loan financing laws pertaining to interest, low taxation rates pertaining to small businesses, and whatever else specifically concerns your operations.
What are rates like for small business loans in your state, as opposed to the neighboring state, is a question that could have multiple answers; according to SmallBusinessLoans.co, when it comes to Wyoming, “With an average of 3.43 small businesses per 100 people…there is no shortage of funding…”
The same site describes applying for loans in Oregon as a process that is fairly straightforward and goes on to include information pertaining to loans across most the continental US. Both Wyoming and Oregon have their own advantages and disadvantages; which is better for your business will depend on you.
Certainly, there are going to be situations when your business can’t move its central location to a state simply because interest and tax rates may be lower there, but it still makes sense to be cognizant of these differences for possible later expansion.
A business must continue to generate profit in order remain viable. If you start doing well enough, expansion out of state will eventually be something you’re going to want to pursue. You might contact agencies that offer small business loans in separate states to see what their qualifications are.
Finding Your Best Operational Foothold
Collateral can be risky, but sometimes collateral and cosigners have greater weight in what you can be approved for, and the interest that will be appended to a given loan, in different states. Sometimes it won’t make any difference whatsoever. What’s important here is to make careful, considered financial decisions.
Do your research. Figure out whether or not there are sharks in the water before you jump in. And indeed, some scuba divers go underwater in cages specifically looking for those sharks—that’s their “business model”. So take all this advice with a grain of salt: sometimes your best choice may seem counter-intuitive for others, but will work for you.
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Small Business Loans Differ Between States
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