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Get Lender Ready course curriculum

Identify your pain points & action items

What sets the Get Lender Ready course apart

The Get Lender Ready course covers everything from building business credit to strategic borrowing to grow your business.

This comprehensive course will give you the steps and knowledge needed to position your business to get loans and financing.

Whether you're a start-up or an established business, this course can help you see the steps needed to scale your business without affecting your personal credit.

Meet the instructors

Gerri Detweiler is Education Director for Nav. Known as a financing and credit expert, she has been interviewed in more than 4000 news stories, and answered over 10,000 credit questions online. Her articles have been widely syndicated on sites such as MSN, Forbes, and MarketWatch. She is the author or coauthor of five books, including Finance Your Own Business: Get on the Financing Fast Track. She has testified before Congress on consumer credit legislation.

10 questions to ask before you apply for financing

Establish your business legal entity

How to establish tradelines

Set a solid foundation for your business

Personal credit factors for small business owners

Business credit 101 & building business credit

Financing options and strategies for young businesses & startups

Business financing options: Uses, qualifications, definitions - find the right financing for your business

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.

Range of information: Our course covers a broad range of topics that aren't covered in other similar courses.

Price: We priced our course so it could be accessible for any small business owner. You'll save over $300 with this course vs. comparable options in the market.

Solutions: Because we have a variety of partnerships to help businesses with their financial health, we have solutions built into the course to save you valuable time.

Your Money-Back Guarantee: If you complete at least 60% of the course and don’t find it helpful for your business, we will refund your payment.

7 hours of on-demand video lessons

3 downloadable resources

Full lifetime access

List of vendors to build business credit

Resources to establish your business properly for lenders

This course includes:

Learning outcomes

Step by step guidance to establish a solid foundation for your business

Firm understanding of the role your personal credit factors play when it comes to applying for business financing

Knowledge and resources to establish and build business credit so you can separate your business and personal finances

Realistic strategies to use business financing to grow your business gradually and access more financing as you grow

You'll learn about the major types of business funding and their qualifications so you can set financing goals for your business