It is not difficult to get an SBA business startup loan if you do the following:
Financial projections is a two-three year breakdown of your business revenue and expenses. Financial projections go hand in hand with a business plan. We help our clients create both, and we always start with financial projections as these are the numbers that the business plan will have to justify.
When you create your financial projections, you will have to understand how you will get to the revenue you are projecting, and why you will need the expenses you are listing.
A thorough business plan is crucial to being approved for a startup SBA business loan. This business plan is going to help you determine all aspects of your business and convince a lender to fund your dreams.
The third step is sourcing your equity injection. At this point you know what the total cost of your project will be. And as a startup business you will need 5-15% of that cost to put into your own business.
For example, if you want to open a laundromat and the total cost to do so is $200k, then you will need 5-15% of that cost to put into your own business, and the lender will loan you the rest. You should know where this equity injection is going to come from before going for the loan.
Finding a lender whose qualifications you meet is one of the hardest parts of getting an SBA startup business loan. There are hundreds if not thousands of SBA lenders who provide SBA loans in the United States and they all have different minimum qualifications. You will have to do your research, and contact the lenders you find to see which lender:
Making sure you follow the above steps will improve your chances of being approved, thereby making getting an SBA startup business loan a lot easier.
To improve your chances even more, let us help you get approved for your SBA startup business loan.
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