Choice Business Loans Blog

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin.


These are our Blogs about alternative finance, SME loans and the broader business environment

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Peer-To-Peer Lending With The Secret Investor

Goodbye from the Secret Investor

Last post: Oct 24, 2019

The Secret Investor summarises his thoughts after 4 years of writing about his P2P investments. What has he learned, what does he think will happen to the industry now and what will he do from now on?

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Reviews Of The Peer-To-Peer Lending Sites

InvestUP - The P2P Superstore

Last post: Dec 21, 2015

Diversification. That is the key to successful P2P lending but such a strategy, with funds spread across many platforms, can be extremely time consuming. The InvestUP Crowdfunding brokerage has been established to alleviate this problem by enabling investors to distribute their capital across many P2P hosts using just one account. Currently, offerings are listed from over 20 P2P sites in this online superstore of opportunities.

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Special Reports & Infographics

What is marketing - and how it can benefit your business

Last post: Nov 8, 2021

At Choice Business Loans we want to see our clients thrive, which is why we take the time and care to provide them with the right advice when it comes to loan solutions available to them. Beyond smart finances, running a successful SME often includes lots of multitasking and balancing of priorities. One such priority that can be difficult to get to grips with but is hugely important, is marketing. Nicole Martin of Pinpoint Marketing shared with us her top tips on getting it right - and some thoughts on when it may be time to outsource.

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Relevant Issues Blog

Redundancies – What must employers do?

Last post: Nov 8, 2024

In light of the recent budget, we have had a few conversations with clients where they are having to consider making some extremely hard choices about the number of staff the business can reasonably sustain, to ensure that the business remains successful to continue to employ as many people as they can. A choice no business owner relishes making, but one that on occasions needs to be considered.

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Recent Blog posts

  • The typical use of a bridging loan is to buy a property that is unmortgageable. A standard journey for a Bridging loan borrower is to buy a property using a Bridging loan, complete some renovations, get a tenant and exit the bridging loan via a Buy to Let mortgage.

  • Funding Secured commenced operations in March 2013 by a number of experienced property investors and is based in Sittingbourne in Kent. Their role is to bring together lenders and borrowers via their website and in person. Hopefully, as a borrower or a lender you will find this Funding Secured review useful.

  • There is hope for the small independent business at last. Where traditionally the smaller independent retailer struggled to get financing for stock, there is a now a finance option available to allow you do this enabling you increase turnover, revenue and grow your business.

  • In a testimony to how popular their service is proving with both Borrowers and lenders, Funding Circle have today formally announced that they will increase their maximum loan size available to £1,000,000 - this is double the previous maximum of £500,000.

  • While each Invoice Finance institution will have their own specific criteria or set of standards in screening and approving clients, there are some things that receive universal approval and will always increase your chances of getting invoice finance.

  • Details of how the government is lending to UK SMEs via the alternative finance sector.

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