Welcome Advisors!

Here you’ll find tools to help you educate and advise your clients about how to build better credit and increase their options for financing.

Quick Links

Access Nav’s App for SBDC Advisors
Business Search
Free Credit Reports and Scores
Business Loan Calculators
The Ultimate Guide to Financing Your Business
Help Clients Get Lender Ready (video)
Handout: 14-Step Checklist
The Nav Newswire
Request Free Training for Advisors or Clients

Access Nav’s SBDC Advisor App

We have created a new “app” to provide you with easy access to tools you can use to help clients understand their credit and shop for financing. You can access it on your cell phone, desktop computer, laptop or tablet. We’d like you to try it out and share your candid feedback.

Access the App

SBDC Advisor App

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Business Search

Use our free Business Search tool to get an overview of your clients’ business ratings and to start the conversation about building credit to get better financing. That link is for SBDC consultants and advisors only. Business owners with a premium plus Nav account can get unlimited business searches to review summary credit reports on key clients, customers or vendors, etc.

Business And Personal Credit Scores

Nav’s standard account provides business owners with two free business and one personal credit score. It’s truly free; it is not a trial offer. They can also email their report to you to enhance financing discussions. Detailed credit reports are available in our premium subscriptions and the FICO SBSS score is available with a premium plus subscription.

When you refer small business owners to Nav, please use the following link: Nav.com/SBDC

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Website Content & Tools

Business Calculators

Help clients understand upfront how much their loan or financing product costs with our free calculators available to embed on your website. Your visitors will not leave your site and no personal information will be collected when they use them.

Invoice Financing APR Calculator

Kabbage APR Calculator

OnDeck APR Calculator

Merchant Cash Advance APR Calculator

Term Loan APR Calculator

Where’s the Money? 10 Types of Small Business Financing and How to Qualify

Not an expert on the many types of financing available to small business owners? This ebook can help you and your clients understand the pros and cons of various types of small business financing, plus how to qualify.

Download for free here

The Ultimate Guide to Financing Your Business in 2018

Help Clients Get and Stay Lender Ready

Learn how helping your clients build strong business credit can increase access to capital, and find out about Nav’s tools that can help, in this brief webinar with Nav’s Head of Market Education Gerri Detweiler.

14-Step Checklist for Making Your Business Legit

Use this handout with clients and help them get their business off to a good start! This handout also reinforces the value of working with an SBDC advisor.

Download for free here

The 14-Step Checklist for Making Your Business Legit

The Nav Newswire

Educate and empower your clients with free articles from our team of experts. As part of a content partnership with America’s SBDC website, Nav can create a custom newswire of educational articles and tips that matter to small business owners for you to post on your website or blog.
You can take content from the newswire, post it to your own site and use it to:

Share with potential clients via social media.
Explain complex topics like business credit scores and cash flow.
Engage clients via newsletters.

Here are a few examples of the types of articles available:

It’s easy to sign up! You decide what content you’d like to post. We ask you follow a few guidelines to make sure the content accurately credits the author of the piece and follows standard SEO best practices. Send an email to kali@nav.com to get access!