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A trusted ally in critical times, TAP’s financial expertise and decades of collective experience make it a difference-maker for small and medium-sized businesses, no matter the assignment or mandate.
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Our Story
TAP Financial Partners had its origins in the desire to fill a void for small and medium-sized companies that traditionally didn’t have access to firms with the expertise, experience, and resources to help them to realize their business potential.
The quest to make a difference for companies at all stages in their history continues to drive the senior-level pros that created TAP, a privately-held, boutique merchant bank that offers client-centric advisory, restructuring, and fundraising services to a select group of clients and affiliates. With Tap Financial Partners, you’ll have the resources to succeed.
10 Biggest Challenges Faced by Small Businesses
Accessing and Raising Capital
When institutional investors aren’t interested, where can small or medium-sized businesses turn for capital to fuel growth?
The Marketing Trap
In trying to grow your business, should you spend your time enhancing your relationship with those customers or should you spend your resources on new customer cultivation.?
Concentration Risk
One of the many risks a business faces is customer concentration. In general, if a large customer represents more than 10% of revenues, the business is exposed to customer concentration risk.
Time
Regardless of whether you appropriate a monetary value to it or not, time is generally one of the most valuable commodities a small business owner has.
Changing Government Regulations
How do government regulations permeate different aspects of your business and industry? Tax changes? Competitive changes?
Needing a Clear Plan To Go With Your Vision
One of the key pillars for any business is to reduce your vision to a crisp, yet flexible plan accompanied by a financial model
Analyzing if You Are Making Money
Measuring and understanding current and past profitability, and projecting future profitability is of the utmost importance for any business.
The Need for Better Internal Systems
Every business is different and internal reporting showing where you are and where you’d like to be is somewhat individualistic.
Affording Needed Staffing
It always seems like you need another (or two or three) pair of hands as you grow. Question is who? When? How many and can I afford them?
Outside Consultants and Advisors - Do You Need Them?
You can do a lot, but you can’t do it all or hire all the people you need at critical times in your development. It’s that plain and simple. Do I need, can I afford and should I bring on outsiders to assist?
Case Studies
Client Challenges Overcome with TAP Solutions
Here Comes the Sun
PROBLEM: The decision to change its business model to one that concentrated on community solar gardens led to unexpected problems.
Smooth Sailing after Chapter 11
PROBLEM: Large contracts were lost, forcing the company to file for Chapter 11 protection.
Accounting for Growth
PROBLEM: A lack of working capital and unique corporate structure hindered management’s growth agenda.
Featured Posts
Cannabis Update: When Will it be Legal at the Federal Level?
Inflation and Your Small Business
While the effect of COVID-19 on small businesses can’t be overstated, it is far from the only threat companies face. Inflation is on the rise, and so are the number of tough choices that need to be made by those in decision-making roles.
How China’s Zero-COVID Policy Can Affect Your Small Businesses
While COVID-19’s effect on consumers and corporations has been widely publicized, supply chain disruption has hit small businesses especially hard, since many don’t have the reserves needed to weather unexpected and devastating changes.
TAP IDEA: Next-Level Crowdfunding
With banks largely disinterested in funding small and medium-sized companies and traditional crowdfunding often not delivering adequate amounts of capital, businesses with growth agendas were left between a rock and hard place.
It was time for a new ‘IDEA’ . . .
Making Email Marketing Work for You
Email can be an effective marketing approach for your small business, but it takes more than a ‘spray & pray’ approach to be successful. Thinking of getting in the game? Here’s what can be done to optimize the (electronic) mail you send.