First Star Capital Expands Financial Services in Medical Sector

First Star Capital, an established national leader in the commercial equipment financing industry, is expanding its services in the medical equipment financing sector. The company has taken a variety of steps to focus on the specific financing needs of the medical and dental community, offering alternatives to traditional bank loans. They have announced that they have set aside significant funding resources to allocate to this division, increased lending limits for the application only programs, implemented a new working capital program and launched a comprehensive new website dedicated to medical and dental professionals. (www.firststarmedicalfinance.com).

The medical and dental industry has always been one of the company’s strongest performing sectors. “We recognized an opportunity to expand upon something that has always been a strong performer for First Star”, says President Brad Harmon. “We’re excited to ramp up our focus, allocate greater resources and provide more expanded financing options for medical practices and medical equipment vendors in a time when capital is scarce.”

In addition to adding more staff to service the growing division, First Star has launched a new website specifically for the growing medical equipment finance division (www.firststarmedicalfinance.com). “The new website was designed to showcase our expertise in medical equipment financing and provide medical professionals a comprehensive financing option for needed equipment replacements and/or additions. The site provides a thorough overview of the different types of medical lease and finance options available, tax benefits, payment calculators and all of the relevant credit and application documents”, says Harmon.

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First Star Capital is an established firm that has financed thousands of different businesses across the country and has funded hundreds of millions of dollars worth of capital equipment. They are an independent commercial lender with a specialty focus in equipment financing and leasing. First Star Capital is a direct lender with the ability to quickly and efficiently fund new financing requests between $10,000 and $10,000,000.

Having a Positive Attitude in a Negative Environment

It is amazing at how an attitude can change everything. Being in a negative environment can really make people be angry, short-tempered, or sad. The bad vibe rubs off on everyone that comes in contact with it. It can make the even cheery person upset.

Consider the results if there was a positive environment. Those in a bad mood would be affected by the positive surroundings. It would build a good workplace for those working or visiting.

Now consider how one person can affect the environment they are in. Being the positive person in the negative workplace can really help change the mood. Your joyfulness can spread to others. You can change the environment for unhappy to happy if you don’t let the negative feelings affect you.

Brad Harmon is the President at a leading financing company, First Star Capital (www.firststarcapital.com). Brad is a frequent contributor to online publications and newsletters, and is the author of this blog on commercial financing topics.

Great Informational Websites

It seems like no matter what we need these days, we often turn to the internet to help us whether it's to research products, find information, purchase goods and services, hire employees, book travel, arrange shipping, or much more.

The new year is right around the corner and you might be asking yourself what you need to do to generate even more business. So here are a few websites that will help you build and run your business throughout the coming year. These are websites for market and industry research:

• U.S. Census Bureau - www.census.gov - has a vast amount of free information on all aspects of American life. Want to know the percentage of college graduates in Cleveland or how many baby boomers live within a particular zip code? This is where you'll find this information.
• "County Business Patterns" - www.census.gov - is very useful for finding information about businesses.
• American Fact Finder - www.factfinder.census.gov - is aimed more at finding data about people and demographics.
• Experian - www.experian.com - Offers free credit reports in addition to many other services.
• D&B - www.dnb.com - Offers global risk, credit, sales, marketing and supplier management solutions.
• ERsys.com - www.ersys.com - is a quick and easy way to find information about a city where you might be planning to do business.

The beginning of the year is a great time to research new customer opportunities and new markets. Setting goals and staying focused will allow you to realize increasingly better results.

Brad Harmon is the President at a leading financing company, First Star Capital (http://www.firststarcapital.com/). Brad is a frequent contributor to online publications and newsletters, and is the author of this blog on commercial financing topics.