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

What You Need To Know: Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment (ITSA)

Last post: Apr 7, 2025

Now that Spring is here, our friends at Seymour Taylor have very kindly allowed us to share their Spring statement which covers crucial information regarding the Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment (ITSA).

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Recent Blog posts

  • Many hair salons in the current retail climate find themselves operating on a tight cash flow. Running costs need to be paid out of monthly income and that often leaves little or nothing for expanding the business. One way of creating the necessary cash is to take advantage of a clever package for retail finance called Merchant Cash Advance.

  • As the credit crunch has tightened its grip on mainstream lending, companies have been forced to be more innovative in how they get funds and manage cash-flow. This has seen an unprecedented rise in many forms of finance that were previously just a small part of business life.

  • We’re pleased to announce that through a new partnership with one of our specialist private lending institutions we are able to offer unsecured loans to professionals (doctors, lawyers, dentists etc) in up to £25,000 for terms from 1-3 years.

  • Getting a loan for your business is a difficult process in any economic climate. However, with banks being ever more cautious about who they lend to it is even harder to secure a commercial loan.

  • We are pleased to say that from today we can offer invoice trading to UK companies via the online trading platform; Platform Black. This relatively new approach allows companies to auction their invoice to the best bidders and therefore provides much-needed competition in the invoice finance sector.

  • A report released by the EEF, the Manufacturers’ Association, has shown that Asset finance remains the most popular form of external finance chosen by Britain’s companies.

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