Personal and Small Business Credit with Gerri Detweiler. Gerri is an author and expert on the topic of credit, and currently serves as the Education Director for Nav. She shares tips & advice on how to build or correct your personal and business credit. We also discuss how to manage and leverage debt and how to manage cash flow in our small businesses.

Gerri Detweiler has more than twenty years of experience guiding individuals through the confusing world of credit, and has earned a reputation as a reliable and independent resource on personal and small business credit. She serves as Education Director for Nav, the first site to give business owners free personal and business credit scores and tools to build financially healthy companies, where she develops educational programs and content for small business owners and works on advocacy initiatives.

Gerri is also a writer, and her articles have been featured on Yahoo!, MSN Money, ABCNews.com,
CBSNews.com, NBCNews.com, Forbes, The Today Show website and many others. She is the author
or co-author of five books, including her newest title, “Finance Your Own Business: Get On The
Financing Fast Track“, co-authored with best-selling author and corporate attorney Garrett
Sutton. For more than five years, Gerri has hosted her own talk radio programs and she has been interviewed for more than 3,000 news stories for numerous television programs across the country.

Gerri lives in Sarasota, Florida.

Resources:

• SCORE – the nation’s largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, with more than 10,000 volunteers in 300 chapters.
• SBA.gov
• Annual Credit Report.com – to get your free credit report.
• Vendors who help build business credit: Nav.com/vendors
• How business credit cards report to personal credit: Nav.com/report
• Which business credit cards help build business credit: Nav.com/business-report
• Ecredable – tool to build business credit faster: Nav.com/add-accounts
• 150+ places to get free credit scores: Nav.com/free-scores
• Special Offers: Free Nav account with 1 month premium upgrade – Nav.com/freeaccount Use Promo code: Podcast

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