Gerri Detweiler: How to Build & Monitor Business Credit to Unlock Funding

Gerri Detweiler is a leading, nationally recognized financing and credit expert, with more than 20 years of experience.

Gerri shares her knowledge through contributed content in leading industry and national publications, and her articles have been featured on Yahoo!, MSN Money, ABCNews.com, CBSNews.com, NBCNews.com, Forbes, The Today Show website and many others She is the author of seven books including her forthcoming book, The Ultimate Credit Repair Action Plan: A step-by-step guide to great credit to be released in late 2025.

Gerri hosted her own talk radio programs for more than five years and she has been interviewed for more than 5,000 news stories. She is an international speaker and has testified before Congress on consumer credit legislation.

Today, Gerri develops educational programs and content for small business owners for Nav, a financial health and credit platform that provides small businesses owners a dedicated space for accessing, building, managing their business and personal credit, tracking cash flow patterns, and understanding their financing options before they apply.

During the show we discuss:

• Why business credit feels confusing—and how to simplify it
• What business credit is and why it's critical for small business success
• How monitoring business credit across all three bureaus supports smarter decisions
• How quickly business credit scores can improve with tradeline reporting
• Why tracking business and personal credit together matters
• What tradelines are and how they strengthen business credit profiles
• The funding options unlocked by strong business credit
• How Nav matches businesses with the right financing opportunities
• Why cash flow tracking is essential to financial health
• How strong business credit increases loan approval odds
• The common mistakes that limit business credit growth
• How to find and fix errors on business credit reports
• What sets Nav's credit monitoring and reporting apart
• How business credit separates—and protects—personal finances

Resources:
https://www.nav.com/gerri/