INVENTORY CLEAN TENTS
Building a business can require long hours growing sales, putting out fires, and driving ideas to fruition. Checking your business credit score might not be the first thing that comes to mind, but it can make a difference in your ability to achieve those other goals. A low credit score will inflate your borrowing costs and make attracting strong business partners and vendors harder. To establish business credit, register for a Dun & Bradstreet Data University Numbering System or D-U-N-S number. Your payment history, the age of your business credit accounts, the size of your debt, and trade credit extended by suppliers all affect your score. To put your best foot forward, check your score frequently with Dun & Bradstreet, Equifax, and Experian. Ensure your business and financial information, revenue figures, and industry classification are accurate. Mixups happen more easily with business credit scores than personal ones because identifying information is indexed only to your business name and address. If your DBA is similar to another company’s, your business might be confused with theirs. Also, pay your bills on time or, preferably, before they are due. The clock runs faster on business credit than on personal loans. While consumer debt typically isn’t treated as late until 30 days after invoicing, business debt payments are considered “late” if only one day overdue. Your payment history determines Dun & Bradstreet’s Paydex score and is vendors’ primary information source. If you pay your bills on their due date, you will earn a Paydex score of 80 on a scale of 100. To get closer to 100, you must pay before the due date! Also, segregate your business and personal borrowing as much as possible. When starting a business, maxing out a personal credit card is a common but ill-advised strategy. Businesses typically use far more credit than consumers and can access far more credit. PROTECT YOUR COMPANY’S CREDIT SCORE Build Your Business Muscles
Every tent rental company deals with the challenge of cleaning, but most underestimate what it’s really costing them. If you think the expense begins and ends with labor to clean them, think again. Dirty tents don’t just sit in a pile. They quietly block revenue and chip away at your margins. It comes down to what accountants call “earns and turns.” Every time you rent a tent, that’s a “turn.” Every dollar you get from that rental is an “earn.” The more often a tent goes out and the more money it brings in per turn, the better your return on investment. The goal is to maximize both.
When a tent sits dirty, it’s out of commission, and that cuts your turns. To compensate, many businesses do what I used to: buy more tents. That way, you still have inventory for big weekends. But think about what’s really happening out there. You’re spending hard-earned profit to cover for
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inefficiencies, often purchasing tents that will only go out a handful of times a year. The rest of the time, they sit in storage collecting dust, not dollars.
It doesn’t stop there. Storing and maintaining those extra tents adds more cost over time. Meanwhile, the original problem — your ability to accumulate the pile of dirty tents — still exists. Instead of solving it, you’ve just worked around it with a low-return investment.
Our washers can handle more than just tents! Amanda Pharis at Blue Rock Event Solutions in Mt. Zion, Illinois, used her washer to bring this boat cover back to life. Before & After
Following these basic rules can help you demonstrate your trustworthiness to prospective business partners and lenders, increasing
your financial flexibility and opening up new opportunities!
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