Looked at your credit card fee statement lately? Have any idea what those fees are costing your company? Get ready…

Mismanaged inventory costs millions of dollars each year. How much is it costing your company? Start with the fact that…

Both wholesale and retail petroleum industries are unique. Because most bankers do not specialize in petroleum, the burden falls on…

Are your fuel and lube tankwagon operations as efficient as they should or could be? Part of the answer to…

New loan money is cheap today. At least the interest rates are cheap. Where your company may get nipped, however, is not…

More and more companies have written credit policies. That’s the good news. The bad news is that most do not…

Family business owners complain about rising insurance costs. A few owners, however, are taking very proactive approaches to insurance cost…

When you deal with the public and take personal checks, it’s difficult to totally avoid bad checks. Thanks to continually improved…

If you live in a small, rural community, you may have the distinct honor of never paying any bank service…

For year-end financial statements, you have the choice of three levels of service from your CPA: compilation, review, or audit. …

Failure. Sit on that word a moment, let it sink in. My educated guess is it doesn’t evoke happy thoughts…

After three decades in the business, thinking I’d seen it all, but once when hosting one of our monthly webinars,…

Every marketer wants more and more profit.  I’m blessed to be working with many marketers who are hitting it out…

At Meridian, we are faced with this question on a daily basis: “I want to sell my company; should I…

In my early business career as a banking VP, I thought I had to have all the answers. Then, starting…