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Marty Zients

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Certified Business Analyst

Business Planning, Valuation, & Financials

Martin Zients is a Certified Business Analyst with the Small Business Development Center at USF. His background includes owning and operating several small businesses over the past 50 years. These included a residential general contracting business, a sales training business, and several small business consulting companies. Martin has been involved with the SBDC since 1992 and specializes in financing and capital improvement. He has advised both prospective and existing entrepreneurs in the areas of business start-up, financing, buying a business, real estate investing and business plans. He also works with clients as concerns their personal credit, a prerequisite for business financing. As part of an ongoing commitment to counseling and teaching excellence, he regularly attends professional development, small business, & industry events. In addition to one-on-one counseling, Martin has taught on nearly every aspect of small business operation and, like his colleagues he is constantly reviewing the entrepreneurial landscape in search of new topics to offer clients. One of Marty’s more recent new program developed for SBDC clients is: Personal Credit versus Business Credit and How to Control Your Scores.

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Achieve Better Business Purchasing Power

Posted on March 16, 2012 by mzients

The more you desire to start or expand your business, the more important your individual credit becomes. Yes, that’s right— your business credit relies on your personal credit. A shabby personal credit report can have a negative  impact on how

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Top 5 Business Financing Considerations

Posted on January 20, 2012 by mzients

Financial injections come with the territory of business ownership, as does the extensive range of methods and lenders/investors to choose from. It’s critical to take a step back and review all the considerations before diving into something that either: A.

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SBA New Refinancing Program in Effect for Small Business Owners

Posted on July 27, 2011 by mzients

Stemming from the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, the Small Business Administration (SBA) recently launched its 504 Loan Refinancing Program to help ease  the large percentage of outstanding commercial mortgages that are due to mature in the next few

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