If you're looking for a way to improve your business credit, you should apply for a business credit card. By keeping a business card, your company allows itself to establish credit over time with its simple purchases or corporate credit, and that credit history over time can help you gain added funds you may need, through building or property loans, land loans, equipment loans or leasing fees, and other types of business loans.
When you apply for a business credit card, you're essentially setting up your business as a separate person. If you own a small business, you may have been doing a lot of your shopping for that business on your own dime; that is, you've probably been paying for that business out of your own pocket (or bank account, as is more likely.) By establishing a separate bank account for your business, you can save both you and your business; you from the hassle of taking care of your business with your own personal finances, and your business from the confusion of trying to create organized accounting out of the jumbled mess that becomes your own person/business statement.
By establishing a separate bank account, you keep your business's assets separate from yours. Along with this, you may want to establish your business as a corporation, which allows you to create a separate legal entity for your business. This separate entity comes with an EIN (Employer ID Number,) which functions for your business just like a Social Security Number would function for you. This number allows your business to perform business as though it were a person, like you: your corporation can open its own bank account, apply for a business credit card, and resolve its own debt problems. This may also be able to absolve you from direct responsibility if your business starts to go sour, and you end up having to declare bankruptcy. If you're still joined at the hip to your business when that happens, you'll be personally responsible for paying off your creditors. That may mean using your life's savings, or - heaven forbid - a foreclosure on your house, just to pay off your small business endeavor. By separating yourself from your business, you can help prevent this from happening.
As you apply for a business credit card, you should be able to find a company easily that will handle a business account. While there are companies that will only take personal accounts, there are many that will accept a business account, and in fact, there are some that specialize in it. When you find a company that will allow you to apply for a business credit card, you also want to discuss with your credit card company the terms of your card, like the interest rates you're going to be paying and whether or not your account is going to include a personal guarantee.
Your interest rates are, of course, one of the most important aspect of your business credit card account. By keeping your interest rates as low as possible, you can save a great deal of money over time on your credit card bills. If you have good credit, you should be able to get a low interest rate on your credit card bills. (If you're not sure you're getting the best deal possible, get quotes from several different companies and let them underbid each other.) If you have bad credit, it can still be a good idea to apply for a business credit card, because being able to pay those bills on time will reflect well on your credit history, and you can improve your interest rates over time.
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