As the summer heats up many of us are looking to take a break to enjoy our favorite summer activities. While this break is well deserved (and essential for maintaining our sanity) it’s important to remember that the discipline around our credit...
Which comes first - BizSource or TrueSearch? It’s a bit like the chicken and the egg – without one you can’t have the other. BizSource is the repository where all the information coming into Experian’s commercial database is housed. This repository...
Since fluctuations within the market or unexpected disasters can drastically impact your portfolio’s risk, it’s generally good practice to regularly review the level of exposure within your portfolio. Here are few evaluative questions you may want...
So, sometimes it takes a little while for the popular press to catch up. I say that because on June 14th, an article ran on msnbc.com talking about, of all things a “Tale of Two Economies”. Well, if they had seen our blog on May 18, they would have...
In my very first post to this blog, I advanced the notion of “the credit risk trifecta” and how there are three general factors that contribute to a business credit score. Well, I thought I’d follow that up with a sample of real data from...
In my first blog posting I mentioned credit reports were the credit story of a business. In this posting I’d like to provide you with some insights on the raw materials that are brought together to become the chapters within the credit story.
Doing business internationally is much simpler today than it was 10 or 20 years ago, but the need to mitigate risk while expanding globally has not changed. That is why I’m so excited to launch our new international offerings through BusinessIQ . We...
Southern hospitality continued today at NACM Credit Congress 2011 with a Dolly Parton impersonator who kicked off the morning with lots of energy and familiar tunes. The fun continued in the Super Session where critically acclaimed author, Joe...
We’re live from Credit Congress 2011 and it’s hard to beat the Southern hospitality on display in Nashville.
I entered college during the [self-proclaimed] golden years of university education, which is to say shortly after the release of the movie Animal House. This was a simpler time when the closest thing to a personal computer was the de rigueur TI...