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2 months ago | tbbwmag.com | Jim Marshall |Ari Honarvar's Page |Debbie Lundberg |Jo-Lynn Brown

If you’re reading this, you already know that sales can be a challenging business—constant rejections, numerous dead ends, endless price quotes and proposals that often don’t lead to anything. It’s tough work. When a prospect doesn’t buy, the blame often falls on them. “They weren’t really interested but acted like they were. The timing wasn’t right. It’s a bad economy. They already have a supplier. Our price was too high.” The list goes on.

2 months ago | newsmax.com | Ari Honarvar's Page

Earlier this month, Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he would introduce legislation to cap interest rates charged by credit card companies at 10%. On the surface, this might seem like a good thing because it promises to reduce expenses, but in the real world, rather than reducing your interest rates, it will actually just reduce credit available to millions of Americans with lower credit scores. That’s because interest rates are based on risk of default.

Jan 16, 2025 | newsmax.com | Ari Honarvar's Page

Business funding is equal parts science and art, and like most topics that fall under both categories, it’s also incredibly misunderstood. There are a lot of laws and standard practices that are clearly black and white, but there are also a lot of aspects of the process open to interpretation and in many cases, there’s room for negotiation.

Oct 17, 2024 | newsmax.com | Ari Honarvar's Page

People want financial freedom, but don’t know how to achieve it. Whether it’s with our clients at Fund&Grow, a podcast audience, or even attendees of an event, the topic comes up for me every day, and almost every time, my answer on how to get there is the same—start a business. Don’t get me wrong—starting and running a business is hard work, and it’s definitely not risk free, but if you do things right, you can be looking at unlimited earning potential and significant tax advantages.

Sep 19, 2024 | tbbwmag.com | Ari Honarvar's Page |Jim Marshall |Joelle Paban |Debbie Lundberg

Last week, an entrepreneur I know well was speaking at a private mastermind group I’m a part of and as he was talking about how tough things have been for him lately, I looked around the room and saw a lot of heads nodding. Now this guy has always run a pretty efficient company with healthy profit margins, so to hear that he was struggling was a surprise. It was even more surprising though, to see so many other entrepreneurs say they’re going through the same thing lately.