The Real Cost of Advertising: Factoring Rates Unmasked
The following post was originally posted on our primary website, BentzenFinancial.com. Advertising: how businesses spread the word about the products and services they offer in the hopes of gaining customers. It ranges from cheap word-of-mouth referrals to massive, expensive, mass-media campaigns on TV, radio, the Internet, and more. For factoring companies, this isn’t as simple as Burger King showing us a juicy new burger from various angles. It’s a matter of stimulating

Take Action: Protect the Privacy of Structured Settlement Annuitants
We have spoken to a lot of brokers since the unveiling of the Ethics Initiative and there is an interesting trend developing. Many brokers haven’t heard of any harassment going on and are shocked, rightfully so, when informed. Both the brokers who don’t know and the ones who do, however, generally aren’t sure what can be done to help the situation. Here are a few recommendations: Click here to sign the petition calling for protections of annuitants’ privacy. Spread the word

Why Ethics Matter in the Factoring Industry
The Ethics Initiative launched on March 30th, 2015; that’s 3 ½ weeks ago. In that time we’ve had a lot of questions and comments directed our way. Some good, some not so good. The bulk of these comments, particularly the critiques, will be addressed below along with a discussion of the core issues we’re confronting. Firstly, an update on the petition from the March 13th post: the petition to stop robocalls has, as of this posting, reached over 36,000 signatures. We encour
FactoringEthics.com & StopCashCalls.com
The following is a review and unveiling of each of the two new sites. Both are part of the same movement we’re starting which we call, collectively, the Ethics Initiative. We’ve always believed that business should be conducted in as clean a manner as possible, and have always striven to do so. We are dismayed at the level of prominence that scraping, in particular, has reached in an industry that doesn’t need the bad press; and more importantly, we’re hoping you’ll join u