Ty Kiisel

Ty Kiisel

Ty Kiisel is a Main Street business advocate, author, and marketing veteran with over 30 years in the trenches writing about small business and small business financing. His mission at Nav is to make the maze of small business financing accessible by weaving personal experiences and other relevant anecdotes into a regular discussion of one of the biggest challenges facing small business owners today.

Articles by Ty Kiisel

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Che Butter Jonez Wins Nav $10,000 Grant

I’ve been with Nav for not quite six months (but in COVID-19 time, it feels more like six years). Being …

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Manufacturing Finance & Loans: How to Finance your Manufacturing Business

Although the demise of large manufacturing in the United States has been lamented for many years, the role small manufacturing …

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Mining Equipment Financing for 2020

Like many of their small business counterparts, the roughly 106,000 small mining firms in the U.S. rely on borrowed capital …

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Does Your Business Need a Merchant Account?

As a small business owner 20 or so years ago, one of the most confusing and frustrating things I did …

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Credit Card Processing Loans

If you’re unfamiliar with the term credit card processing loans, more familiar terms might be business cash advance or merchant …

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What You Need to Know About a Merchant Cash Advance Post PPP

Small business financing will likely become more difficult in the post Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) world. Many lenders have pulled …

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What You Need to Know About Factoring Post COVID-19

Factoring has been around for centuries and is one of the oldest ways to finance projects in the world. Although …

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5 Things You Can Learn From a 9x Turnaround CEO

Several years ago I met 9x turnaround CEO and author Dick Cross not long after he published his first book, …

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What is Commercial Loan/Mortgage Forbearance?

Many small businesses are suffering financial hardship right now because of COVID-19 and shelter-in-place orders that have shuttered many for …