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GreatAmerica is the largest independent, family-owned national commercial equipment finance company in the U.S. and is dedicated to helping manufacturers, vendors, and dealers be more successful and keep their customers for a lifetime. GreatAmerica was established in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1992 and now has offices in Iowa, Georgia, Minnesota, and Illinois. In addition to financing, GreatAmerica offers innovative non-financial services to help our customers grow.
As the hiring landscape continues to change, it’s time to set strategies in place to market your business to the next workforce generation. Whether you’re looking to fill an internship or full-time role, current students are eager to find a position that checks all their boxes. Attending career fairs is a great way to address your upcoming hiring needs and introduce yourself as a competitive opportunity for the best graduating candidates.
Updated 1/13/2022. Originally published 4/22/2021. Customers need technology and look to their Solution Providers as the experts who can help determine how to best fulfill that need. The current economic implications on businesses include uncertainty and hesitation around utilizing cash flow, but financing can help. In this blog, we highlight the top eight reasons you should be offering your client a flexible way to acquire your technology solution.
Updated 1/6/2022. Originally Posted 1/28/2018. If the world of financing and leasing seems like a confusing landscape of options, you’re not alone. Approaching the industry with little to no financing experience can be overwhelming for anyone trying to introduce financing as a viable option for their business. Related: What is the Difference Between a Lease and a Loan? Like anything new, it’s helpful to understand the nuts and bolts of financing: at GreatAmerica, that’s an introduction to our most popular equipment lease types in use by businesses today. We’ll look at the pros and cons of each so you can identify which one is best for your business and your customers.
Updated on 12/2/2021. Originally Posted on 5/6/2020. Since 2020, IT and office technology providers have been tasked with deploying their clients’ remote workforce at record pace. Many projects were put on hold, and IT providers worked around-the-clock to ensure their clients could continue doing business securely from home, staying busy with software migration, implementation, and upgrades – all of which could conveniently be done remotely.
Originally published on 4/1/2021. Updated on 7/29/21. We have the pleasure of working with office technology providers every day. In our channel, it’s not a question of if financing will be a part of their go-to-market strategy, instead, it’s a question of who they will use to facilitate the financing arrangement. There are many financing sources to choose from as an office technology solution provider, and when deciding what the best fit for your business is, you should start by looking to your mission, values, and go-to-market strategy. Since we're often asked what kind of providers are typically a good fit with GreatAmerica, we wanted to take some time to offer our insight on the topic. There are two categories of considerations we tend to look at when evaluating if an office technology business will be a good fit for GreatAmerica: The first is what we call the ‘on-paper’ attributes. We lean on these attributes to help us understand if the company seeking financing can fulfill the terms of the agreement. The second category we look at is whether they hold growth minded attributes. Let’s dig into both categories.