The Entrepreneur DNA - How to Access $250K–$1M in 0% Business Credit (Even in a High Interest Economy) | Ari Page

Episode Date: January 14, 2026

Want to know how much you might qualify for? Just head over to www.fundandgrow.com/flippingpq the free pre-qualification takes less than two minutes. In this episode, I sat down with Ari Page from Fund & Grow to break down how business owners and real estate investors are still accessing massive amounts of capital at 0% interest—even while rates keep climbing. We talked about how to use business credit cards the right way, how card stacking works, how to fund deals, payroll, marketing, and rehabs without touching your own cash, and why this strategy beats hard money and traditional loans. If you’re serious about scaling your business, protecting cash flow, and using smarter money instead of expensive debt, this episode is a must-listen. About Ari Page: Ari Page is the founder and CEO of Fund & Grow, a leading business funding company that has helped over 30,000 entrepreneurs secure more than $2 billion in business credit. With nearly two decades of experience, Ari specializes in helping business owners and real estate investors access 0% interest business credit, optimize cash flow, and scale without relying on hard money, private lenders, or giving up equity. His expertise spans business credit cards, card stacking strategies, and long-term corporate financing that doesn’t rely on personal guarantees. Connect with Ari Page Website: https://www.fundandgrow.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aripage3 Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fundandgrow About Justin: After investing in real estate for over 18 years and almost 3000 deals done, Justin has created a business that generates 7 figures in active income through wholesaling and fix and flipping as well as accumulating millions of dollars of rental properties including 5 apartment buildings, 50+ single family homes, and 1 storage facility Justins longevity in real estate is due to his ability to look around the corners, adapt to changing markets, perfecting Raising private capital, and focusing on lead generation which allows him to not just wholesale and fix & flip, but also accumulate wealth through long term holds. His success in real estate led him to start The Entrepreneur DNA podcast and The Science Of Flipping podcast and education company, and REI LIVE where he’s actively doing deals with members. He has coached and mentored thousands of aspiring and active investors over the last decade. Connect with Justin: Instagram: @thejustincolby YouTube: Justin Colby TikTok: @justincolbytsof LinkedIn: Justin Colby Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What is up the entrepreneur DNA? You will need to listen to this if you are in business. We all know the financial sector is a little bit in upheaval. And my guest today is the founder of Fund and Grow. He is someone who has over 30,000 clients and is funded over $2 billion for working capital for businesses at you guessed it 0%. Yes, I said it 0%. So if you're in business on any vertical, make sure you're watching and listening this episode. My man, Ari Page is here.

What's up, dude? Thank you so much for having me on, Justin. I am excited to get into this today. Yeah. You're kind of the keynote in my world right now because I'm in the real estate space and I know you deal with a lot of real estate businesses, but in our space, man, financing is brutal.

And as someone who actually is a client of yours, I really wanted this to be, you know, top of mind for businesses, all businesses, doesn't have to be real estate. to understand that there is funding out there. There is cheap funding. In fact, right now you have opportunities at 0% financing, right? And you're getting people up to, you know, 250 grand in the first 30 to 45 days. And this is a 0%.

And so I highlight that out of the gate because I think that's the first thing people want to understand is can financing be affordable these days? Can I have, you know, financing for operations, for marketing, for rehabs, or whatever the thing may be. And you do. And so let's jump right into that. You know, how are business owners like myself, real estate investors or any vertical, for that matter,

really, you know, taking advantage of what you guys got at Funding Grow? Yeah, so there's so many loan products out there right now that we both know the interest rates are just creeping up on higher and higher and higher. Making, owning a home or investing as an investor in, you know, buying, flipping, rehabbing, all of that, making it just more expensive than ever before. But what a lot of people are unaware of is that business owners have been taking advantage of business credit cards, which give them funding introductory rates like 0%. Literally 0%.

While we're talking, people can Google 0% business credit card. But the question is, how do you get approved for business credit cards that don't report to your personal? How do you get the high limits on those cards? and how do you stack it so you're getting up to 250,000, and it can really be used in one's business. How much business credit do you have, Ari? That's an awesome question.

So right now I have over a million dollars in 0% business credit cards. And I actually have well over $2 million in total ability to borrow. That could borrow one right now that I use. I can pay it down. I can borrow one. But the business credit cards are the least expensive. of all of that type of funding. And I can draw down on them.

I can pay them off. I can use them over and over without it being tied to a specific asset, without it being tied to a specific deal. And they're just kind of like the gift that keeps giving. And then when the interest rate is going to hit the card, when the 0% is about to expire, then I do the card stacking process, move the money over and keep it at 0%.

Guys, this is going to be a fun episode. If you care about financing, if you want some capital for your operation, for marketing, for funding, construction. I mean, you name it. These cards are there for your business. We're going to lean into this. I know you've done this now for 20 years, brother,

and you are the leader in the space for sure. Frankly, I actually don't even know who your competition. So in my mind, there is none. You are the company. You are the guy. And so first and foremost, everyone go follow Ari right now. Go look up, fund, and grow. Go to the website.

I am a client of his also just for vouching for his actions. actual service, which is phenomenal over the top customer service. I mean, it's, we'll get there. We'll get all, we'll get through all this kind of stuff. But you've done this for 20 years. You have how many billions, how many billions have you gotten in lines of credit? So we've set up two billion dollars worth of this type of funding for, excuse me, for over 30,000 entrepreneurs. And we're really, really super proud of those numbers. We've been pushing them up further and further. We're more effective at getting funding for our clients now than ever before. Yeah, I mean, you treat it like a business.

Listen, most people, you know, they might go out there and you and I were talking about this even yesterday. You see all these people all over social media, right? And, you know, they're going to go just tell you what credit card to get. They're not going to treat it like a business the way you do. I mean, you literally, I was on a Zoom with your whole staff and your executive assistant and like your sales guys on the phone. I mean, I literally felt like it was a white glove scenario. And it's because you treat it like a business. You take a look at your client and say, how can I best provide value to the phone?

client and not everyone's the same right not all clients are just doing it for the sake of doing it they have an agenda more often than not they want to utilize the money for certain purposes and you guys really cater to the client yeah and part of that is that a lot of the companies that that attempt to do what we do they apply for the cards for clients but then they don't know how to provide service to give them things for example on how to use third the third party service services properly when they're spending the card with a vendor that does not accept credit card or how to use it properly for asset protection. So what really sets funding grow apart is that we provide a comprehensive set of services that go in tandem with the funding. So it's not just

getting $250,000 of credit cards. It's also showing you how you can spend those cards without incurring fees. We're not telling you what to spend it on or even giving suggestions. We're just showing you if you need to spend it with X, Y, Z vendor, and they don't accept credit card, how do you do that? How can you maximize your points so that you can fly the world for free as a business owner spending on the things that your business has to spend on anyway and just using the points? They're giving points for free for getting you access to credit. And so many business owners are not utilizing these little tips and hacks that can really

end up like I flew to Spain a number of years back with my entire family business class and it would have been $55,000 in tickets for nonstop from Orlando to Barcelona and then Barcelona back to Orlando. And that trip for me was a $500 trip, not a $55,000 trip. And that's just because I'm using the points that my credit cards are providing by spending on my business not making up any extra spending no dave ramsie stuff here we're not talking about uh spending a hundred grand of made up expenses in order to earn two percent cash back of two thousand dollars but many businesses are spending 50 000 100 thousand on things that they have to do every single month might as well use cars that are generating you a a 1% 2% cash back on that there's no doubt

i mean we can get into all the hacks here in a minute i mean there's just so much i want to be to cover here because this isn't now, listen, everyone knows my main vertical in business, and I do several things, but main vertical always has been for almost 20 years now is real estate, right? And so in our world, you have a lot of people like me who would say, hey, I need to do this for marketing budget. I need to do this to go pay lows or Home Depot for construction, whatever that might be, right? But you don't, you're not limited. I mean, you literally can service any, is it right to say any company? I mean, anyone that has any level of operation? cost or need for capital, you can service them.

I would caution only against a few specific things like, for example, marijuana or like investing in Bitcoin. Yeah. Which, you know, and those are solid businesses. It's just we wouldn't want to use this type of business credit cards for that. But for real estate and for marketing and for any business use, for any type of brick and mortar when they're buying inventory or for Amazon resellers. I mean, the list just goes on and on.

I would say the only few businesses that we would recommend not using it for is if you're doing institutional investing or if you're doing something that's generally prohibited like marijuana, for example. Sure. Well, and listen, I have a question. I think some people would know. Like, let's just say you're a, I'm just going to make up maybe a boring type of company. Maybe you're an accounting firm.

Right. But you have eight accountants in your firm and, you know, things are getting a little slow and you need to cover some bills and cover some costs. And it's the slow months, right? So accounting is very seasonal. And we're in tax season right now. So they're slammed. But let's say you're in the months that are low. Can you use something like this to go get true working capital to pay your office rent to pay, you know, office supplies to pay the electrical bill? Can you use it in that format? Exactly. In fact, business credit cards are really easy to use when you're buying inventory and things like that. And payroll, that's where we would point our clients to these third-party services that are specifically set up and designed to do exactly this. You set up an account with them, and then you add your credit card into the account, and then you tell them what you're trying to pay. You upload your invoice, and then they make the payment for you. So payroll is something that can easily be paid for you. for directly off a credit card, you could use a service like bill.com or Melio payments or Zill money or plastic. Plastic, for example, which is the word plastic when it ends with a cube,

that particular service allows you to add credit cards and then you can directly fund an escrow account. You can literally use the credit cards for buying real estate, for buying virtually anything that your business needs. So if the vendor you're trying to purchase with does not accept credit card, and most do, but if they happen not to, there's ways to work around that. And we wouldn't want to do a cash advance. Cash advances are at a crazy interest rate. So we would want to use these third-party services so that the purchase goes onto the credit

card at 0%. That's phenomenal. I mean, dude, ladies and gentlemen, I really need you to listen to what this man's saying. and the affordability of what his company does is insane. The value, you almost can't afford not to do it if you're in business. Listen, we all are in business, right? Him and I have been in business almost 20 years now. I'm 44, he's 43.

I started in 2007. You started in what, 2005, right? 206. I mean, there are highs and low in all of our businesses. Like, it just doesn't matter the vertical year in. Be knocking the cover off the ball one year and the next year might be your very worst year ever. but you're not going to quit. You're not going to give up.

Find a bridge, right? Like, this is what we're talking about, dude. And there's so many other cool things that we're going to talk about. Like, one really cool thing is you can pay payroll. Another cool thing for me, as a real estate investor, I can buy ass. I can buy an actual property that I'm going to flip in three months and I'm going to make my money back. And it was 0%. Talk about borrowing capital.

For us, real estate investors, this is phenomenal, right? Like, now again, let's call it what it is. Like, no, you're not going to go. probably get pre-qual, and by the way, you tell me, but there's probably not a lot of people that are going to go get a $300,000 immediate approval, I would guess. Maybe some do, but I would say the vast majority won't. Let's talk about cuts. I'm sorry, go. Let's drill down on that because that's a great question. So usually, when someone's getting started, they could pre-qualify from anywhere up to 100,000 down to, you know, 20,000.

Or if it's even a worse situation, then less than that. But that's just what we would call their first batch or their first round, which means that that's the first round of cards that we're going for. That could be four or five cards. So then two to three months later, we're going to be doing another round. And that's the card stacking process. And I can drill down further into how cool and easy the card stacking process is because it's actually pretty simple to it.

explain. Do it. Go. That's exactly it. What is the process? Okay. And I'm going to explain it on the personal side and that we can extrapolate that to the business side. But essentially, everyone watching this has a credit card of some kind. So let's say, just for ease of this conversation, that it's a $10,000 chase card. So I have a $10,000 chase card and I've had it open for a couple of years. So it's not at any particular special interest rate. And I've been using this $10,000 business card or personal card in my business. So I go, what the key here is, if I want to get more credit and I want to be able to convert this $10,000 existing credit line back to 0%, this is the way to do it. This is card stacking. So I go back to the same institution. I go back to Chase. And most

of the time, they'll allow you to apply for the exact same credit card. If not, then you apply for a very similar product. And they'll definitely allow you to apply for that. You're you can get multiple cards from almost every bank. So I go back to the same bank, apply for the same product. And let's say they only give me $5,000 because I already have $10. We might be thinking, hey, this isn't going in the right direction. 5,000 is not very big. That's not enough to move to $10,000 over.

However, this is the key that I take the $5,000, which has 0%. And on a separate call, I call the negotiator, or I'm sorry, the underwriter. So I become a negotiator. I call the underwriter at the bank, and the underwriter is basically someone who works at a bank who is the determiner, they determine these types of situations. And so I talk to the underwriter,

and I merge the $5,000 zero percent card into the older $10,000 card. The older card's been set up longer. It's got the seasoning. It's got the length of history. So I take the brand new card, and I merge it into the 10th, Now I have a $15,000 card all at 0% back to only one product from that bank.

And I merged the new card into the old one so that I didn't lose any seasoning. My history stays nice and long and my limit just popped up. I didn't have to move money from the $10,000 card to any other card. Yeah. So if there was a balance, I just effectively brought that balance down to 0%. As a real estate investor, one of the most challenging, hurdles you'll face is figuring out how to fund your first project and then how to keep that money rolling in for all the projects that follow through while holding onto as much of your

profit as you can. This is a challenge that today's sponsor, Fund and Grow, knows all too well, but they've built a strategy that has helped tens of thousands of real estate investors access zero percent interest business credit for the first, third, tenth, and even hundredth deal. As you know, I don't recommend anyone uses their own cash to invest in real estate, especially when there are so many financial tools available, like business credit cards. And today's sponsor, Fund and Grow, will tell you the exact same thing because they've helped tens of thousands of real estate investors access the zero percent interest business credit cards for the first, third, tenth, or even hundredth deal of their own. Funding and Grow has

been in helping real estate investors and business owners access funding since 2007. Their unique done-with-you credit coaching process is a great program for all those in the real estate space. Their team walks you through the entire process of building and leveraging business credit, helping you apply to high-limit business credit cards at zero percent interest in teaching you how to use those cards for expenses that typically don't accept credit cards like real estate deals, renovations, marketing, or vendor payments. You stay in control of the account, there are no outrageous fees, and you get expert

coaching to help you put that credit to work in smart, strategic ways. Want to know how much you might qualify for? Just head over to www.fundendgrow.com forward slash flipping pq. that is www. fund and grow.com forward slash flipping pq. The free pre-qualification takes less than two minutes and again, that is

www.fundendgrow.com forward slash flipping pq. And just for clarity, because I want to make sure I'm clear on it too, I have a personal card. I get the same card from the same bank but a business version. No, in this case, I was just giving an example all in personal.

So if it's a personal card, apply for another personal card. If it's a business card, then apply for another business card. So it's the same thing just on the business side. Now, here's just a personal question. Can you do that? Can you transfer a personal credit card to you? Is there? Transfer it over to a business card?

Absolutely. Well, that helps people personally, right? Because if you just think about what I know, and I'm limited, you're the expert here, but I know that the personal cards are really heavily predicated on my credit score, right, in my income and all that kind of stuff, where the business cards are not quite as predicated on my credit score, right? I mean, effectively, they might have a soft pull, but it's not a hardcore credit poll based around the limits.

Now, if you get a 0%, obviously they want some level of guarantee, right? They are looking at your credit score, but they're also including the business's profile, which can help when it comes to income. but a lot of this is predicated off of the business owner having good personal credit. If you have good personal credit, that's when they'll approve you and they'll report it to the EIN number of your business and the tax ID number. That's where they're not reporting it to your personal credit.

So that's the, there is no getting 0% credit cards without some form of a personal guarantee. Yep. Yeah. So, but once they've approved you, then it reports to the business. And just for clarity, some people are going to think this is. some hack if they have bad credit. You still need good credit. I understand these are business cards and we're talking about business lines of credit, but you still need good credit to be able to get approved for something, right? Whether it's 10 grand, 20 grand, 100 grand, 200 grand. And so just to understand

that, I think I was asking more of a personal question because wouldn't it make sense for the limited stuff I know about credit? If I'm able to move a personal credit card's balance to a business card, I'm freeing up a lot more of personal credit that isn't necessarily viewed the same way. And maybe I'm wrong here. Right. So Dun & Bradstey, which is looking at my EIN versus transunion and experience. Jumping real quick. So we have situations where we will apply at Chase or US Bank where they also have personal

cards where a client will have personal cards. In fact, we generally try to go first to banks where they already have existing relationships. existing relationships should at this point be at the top of the list. If I have an existing relationship, the Bank of America or Chase or U.S. Bank, I'm going to go there first. Now, if I have useless $20,000, $30,000 personal cards because they're 18%. If I have these cards sitting there and then I apply for a U.S. bank business card and I get approved for $15,000, you can bet I'm going to do what Justin suggested. I'm going to go into my personal and I'm going to ask that underwriter, can I migrate $5,000, $10,000,

off of this $20,000 card on my personal and move it over to the business because they see you as a total exposure. They don't care if it's reported to the business side, if it's reported to the personal side. The bank sees your total exposure and you can actually have a conversation with them and they will happily divide it up how you see fit. The total exposure really matters little to them. Wow, that's amazing. I mean, this can really help.

This is a odd way of looking at this helping you more personal, right? Like if you need to, if you need to free up credit personally, you want your credit score to bump, right? Like you want your personal credit score to bump and you have a, I'm making it up 50% leverage on your credit cards. Your credit score is not going to get to the higher numbers, right? But if you can take off 30% of that, move it over into the business credit cards, the TransUnion experience, they're going to look at your personal credit a lot better

and your credit score is going to go up, correct? Yes. And to add to that, you can also now use the business credit cards a lot easier without worrying about them affecting your score. Because when you use a personal credit card, the more you put on that card, the more it pulls your personal score down. And then that precludes you from being able to do the card stacking process. So if you want to be able to do the card stacking process, it's kind of important that you're doing it using business credit cards that don't report to the personal credit report. That way, like you were just, mentioning your personal scores go higher. You can still leverage using the business credit cards.

And then when it comes time to doing the card stacking process and getting new 0% cards, your credit score hasn't taken a dip in the meantime. It's like you should have a coaching program around this. And I wanted to mention that that is probably perhaps one of the biggest things that Funding Grow does is the teaching and the education and the basically the nurturing for the entrepreneurs surrounding all of this. We're not telling them where to spend it. We're not even offering places to spend it. We're simply saying, you tell us where you need to spend it and we will help you make that transaction go through once you have business credit cards. Because sometimes when people get business credit cards or credit cards in general,

they don't know how that can translate like a credit line to just spend within their business. And we show them how to do that and how easy it is. This is just so phenomenal. I mean, listen, we started the episode by just talking about the challenges right now in the financial sector, right? Interest rates are not easy. You know, my, because I'm in real estate, I mean, I don't think they're going to get that much better. I think people got spoiled during COVID. But the reality is something like this is a maneuver that most people, most business owners are not aware of. I know you have serviced 30,000 clients, but I don't even know how many businesses in.

I mean, you service everyone listening to this right now. If you're listening to this, you're probably a business owner. And there would be no reason for you not to do this. So again, back to credit. This is not touching my credit, right? They do a soft pull as my understanding, right, which is not a hard pull on my credit score. And so it moves little to nothing. It doesn't move it at all.

And it doesn't move it at all, right? And so I'm just saying things that, perfect, correct me when I'm, you know, close. But to me, as in, I own multiple businesses, right, just as you do. But this would even be beneficial for anyone that even owns an LLC as a, they're about to get started as a business. right like this this just only helps absolutely everyone because you're not banging your credit to go do it it gives you a credit availability and then you start to have options like a lot of people think that you need money i'll use real estate so i'm in real estate it's my thing a lot of people think you need money to be in real estate and you just don't and part of it is because you borrow other people's money

well i don't like borrowing other people's money as much as i like borrowing free money free money is the best money to borrow. And this is exactly what it gives all entrepreneurs. Yeah. When you look at other people's money in terms of hard money, you're looking at spending a lot, 15, 20% more if you're lucky. And so when you're looking at the 0% credit cards, this is the cream of the crop when it comes to banking products.

When I say offering it to you at 0%, I literally mean 0%. It's a simple interest loan. you are paying back the exact amount that you borrowed and no more. And so that's truly different when it comes to investing. And most entrepreneurs aren't even aware of products that carries such a low interest rate. And so not only are we helping small business owners and people that make, that are just breaking out of their nine to five, breaking out of the corporate world, getting into becoming an entrepreneur, We also help businesses that are that are earning six figures, that are earning seven figures, that need funding for a variety of things that they simply don't want to be tied to specific assets or specific deals.

We really want floating money to use for whatever. Growth scale, right? I, you know, I bring my company and I want to 5x my company. Well, there's costs associated with that, whether it be office-based personnel, systems, whatever, right? in marketing. Like, I don't want to have to use the cash flow, right? So bear with me on the numbers. If I'm bringing in 100 grand a month,

I don't have to rip the whole 100 grand up and now grow my company out of the 100 grand that I'm normally making. Why not use free capital to build the growth so that when you get to the growth, now you're making, if you're 5xing it, you're making $500,000 a month. And then you can pay back to 0% capital. I mean, I don't care what level of business you're in.

be foolish of you not to consider something like this. Yeah. And we have many situations where instead of a small business just spending out of their bank account, which those transactions can't be reversed, they'll use a business credit card. And when they're dealing with different vendors that they're unsure about, not only does that free up that cash, that $100,000 coming in, now they have more cash to spend because they're using the credit cards to purchase things with their vendors. But sometimes we end up working together with vendors who are not reputable.

And you can't reverse a transaction directly out of your bank account. If you pay them by check, if you pay them by cash, if you pay them out of your bank account, you can't reverse that. But you can reverse transactions on a credit card, whether it be a business credit card or a personal credit card. And so this form of asset protection is huge for small businesses that are interacting with other businesses and contractors that they simply are unsure of. And certainly after you interact with that business enough, you can trust them and know.

But there's many times where if you can see that a business doesn't accept credit card, go online and start Googling them. And you'll find out very quickly why they don't accept credit card because they're not a great company. So companies that offer credit card usually are the ones that stand behind their work. And they know that at the end of the day that their customers aren't going to charge back on them. and that's the key there is for people to use chargeback. When they're interacting with the business and they've used their business credit card and they purchase something that wasn't as described,

you can call the back of the credit card. You just look at the back of the credit card, call that phone number, and they'll reverse the transaction. It's called a chargeback. And so we've had many customers have to use that to defend their businesses from fraudulent transactions that they thought were a legitimate company. I wish I would have done this.

in the beginning of 2024. And you're well aware of the nightmare I've gone through in my real estate business. If I would have paid these contractors with my credit cards, I would not be in the position I am today. Because even as recently as last month, I got a message from a tenant that she feels like her floor is like a trampoline. And you're like, what? Well, it turns out he just, the contractor just laid LVP with no subfloor.

So now I got to go back in. I got to go spend more money to put. in a subfloor and then more LVP. Meanwhile, the tenant needs to vacate. Meanwhile, I'm paying a mortgage and I could just charge him back on faulty work and get my money back. And as opposed to having to pursue him and sue him. Right. Now I'm going to spend more money to go pursue him and sue him and probably has no money. This is why he did this, right? And so I'm going to get no, no juice out of this rock. So anyways, I would tell you real estate investors, I mean, you do a lot in the real estate space in terms of your clientele.

What do you see cool hacks with this program in the real estate space? So I see we work together with a lot of what we call affiliates, which is essentially different educators and teachers. And what we've found is that entrepreneurs being able to get access to this funding moves their deals forward faster than they ever thought possible. They thought that they were going to have to collect a whole bunch of cash first, that they weren't going to qualify for the larger loans. suddenly when they have cash on hand, when they are able to put skin in the game that's not based on a

DSCR loan or on a mortgage or a business line of credit, but they can actually get this easy funding that comes in really quickly, very accessible, that it's just able to spur a lot of business that wouldn't be happening otherwise. And many times the coaches have to kind of break down to the students, this is how a credit card can help you. Most people aren't thinking in terms of credit cards. They're thinking in terms of traditional finance. So that's kind of one of the things. We have to break out of that mindset and that model and just think of, like back in the day, it used to be that the banks would, you know, just loan $500,000 to a business, fairly easy,

one bank. But now they kind of mitigate it. They split it up. And you might get $50,000 from one bank, $75,000, $25,000. And so these, the business credit cards have brought a different form of funding. Instead of these massive loans, they're much smaller, broken up. between many institutions. And it seems that over the years,

this is what this type of funding is just being pumped out more and more and more. Right now with the interest rates being as high as they are, mortgages and all these traditional loans have slowed down. But if you look at the bank's numbers, the business credit cards are continuing to be pumped out at higher and higher numbers. And then if we look at the default rates,

default rates of business credit cards very low in comparison to personal credit cards. So our, So the clients that are business owners generally tend to use these responsibly. The banks see business credit cards. It's kind of like a purple product that are bringing in a royalty type of client that they then are able to offer business insurance and a whole plethora of products that are for this specific suite of clients. Business owners are courted essentially by the banks using these zero percent offers. And you just, you pull them all together for us.

so I don't need to go deal with Wells, Chase, US, like you just say, hey, here are your five best offers, take these. Let's go to the next bet. Let's, you know, as a client, and I know this, but I want everyone to understand what I know. And I want them all to be your client. So first of all, get over to Funding Grow. Right. Fundedgrow.com, go get a hold of Ari page. Like, go apply.

And you gave me a website the other day that I thought was super cool. Isn't there just a quick website that they go to? So if they go to Funding Grow.com forward slash flip, they are going to see two things on the screen. One of them is the pre-qualification tool. And then the other one is a webinar presentation that I've created. So what people can do is they could click on that pre-qualification link and they can immediately get a printout of exactly how much funding they can get.

Now, it's important to note that like Justin's mentioned multiple times, there is no inquiry from doing this. It is a soft pull. We are going to look at your credit, but it's a soft pull. It will not affect your screen. score in that way like an attorney we can tell you in black and white exactly how much funding we can get for you on the first batch as well as how much we can get for you over the life of the program and there's no cost to that pre-qualification that's just something that that will allow

us and you to determine your your credit worthiness and how much funding how much business credit cards you could get i mean say that website again because this is all free guys just go to fund and grow.com forward slash flip. Go see how much you can get. Maybe it's 20 grand. Maybe it's 50 grand. Maybe it's 70 grand. Who knows? But you might as well go see. It's totally free. It doesn't bang your credit. You're totally fine.

And by the way, I would take it because it's 0%. Right. Like, just take the free money. You know what the best part of that part is free money. Right? You always have costs associated to your business. We all do. Okay. I don't care if you're an author. Well, you travel to go speak on stage, right? Like, you have costs. Don't be silly.

Let that cost be on a line of credit. I see a lot of different verticals in the real estate space that I'm just super excited about, right? From marketing to, you know, material costs to paying the contractor to paying payroll while, you know, the flip is in the middle of flipping and paying payroll. I mean, there's just so many benefits here. There's another benefit that you and I were joking about of like, what about the point? What about the travel points, right? The airlines, the hotels, like, people don't even sometimes think about that, right? Like, you're going to travel.

I'm going to take my family somewhere every single year. Now, in my case, it's a lot of places. But, like, why would I ever have to pay for that? The answer is I shouldn't, right? I mean, and you have points associated with all this. Yeah, and you don't even have to use them all for airline. You'll be able to fly anywhere you want for free as well as be able to get cash back. and grow every quarter receives $10,000, $15,000 of cash back.

So we're getting paid for using the very credit cards that we have to use anyway. We use it for things like our electric bill. We use it for pay-per-click marketing. We use it just for a variety of different things that you could pay for out of your bank account. You could pay for with a check. But why do that? Why not pay for using a business credit card where we can get?

And when we get a card that has a higher cash back amount, we swap it out for that card. Yeah. Well, you know, you mentioned it earlier, but I want to bring it back up because we didn't go very deep on it. When you, you know, 0% usually lasts what, 12 months, maybe 18 months. So then you just go do that again. Go find more. Like, what's the process there? Like, okay, this sounds great.

But what happens in a year when my 0% is up? Yeah, we have clients that have 600,000, 700,000. in this type of funding. When I look through the database and I sort it by the amount of funding, I have to scroll for quite some time to get down to even where clients are just at the 250,000. Yeah. I mean, obviously, these are clients that have been with us for some time. Some of them have been signed up for two years.

And so the long and short of it is the more that you use the credit cards, the more that they're going to give you more of the credit cards. If we sign you up for credit cards and then you don't ever use them, it's going to be hard to get you more. That's an important thing to mention. Spending on the cards is important in order for us to be able to do the card stacking process. Otherwise, they say, well, you had a $20,000 card, but you only ever used it for $3,000

last year. So putting big purchases and paying them off is important to. Yeah. So what's the process of getting more, right? So let's just say, I go get approved for $50,000 as an example. and I'm like, man, I'm about to, whatever the case is. I have this big marketing budget coming up next month or, or, you know, I want to go buy this $50,000 rental, but I need more on the 0% line. Is there a process to that?

How quickly can you go get more? What do you have to do to go get more if the initial number was good, but then this new thing pops up and you need more of that? So let's say that we've already done one round for the client they've got started. and then they have something pop up and they need more funding. What they would do is reach out to their counselor here at Funding Grow, who ushers them through the program. And they would contact the correct department on their behalf, and they would start the application process,

which starts with the review. So we would review what their score looks like. We'd review which cards we believe they'd most likely be approved for, that we'd be able to get the higher limits on, that have the most lucrative 0% rates. then saying that everything's matched and perfect for that and there was there's nothing that we need to do we would then move forward and apply for them then after that is where our consulting services of working together with the client this is where two-thirds of the funding come in we then show

the client and it described to them exactly how to interact with the underwriters and it's a pretty simple thing because we give them the phone number they legally they have to be the one doing this we wish we could do it for them, but we can't. They have to do this. So then once they've spoken to the underwriter and they've transmitted the information that we've told them to, which is basically the perspective, we need to speak to the underwriter from the perspective that will, that will give them the most confidence in that client's business. And so we teach the client how to create that confidence. There's no kind of lying or misrepresentation. There's nothing untoward going on there. It's all just about in the way that the business is presented to the underwriter.

Now, that can be the difference between a decline or a $50,000 approval. And like I showed you before, Justin, in our software, one third of the funding coming in comes from the applications. Two thirds of the funding, the lion's share, 70, 60, 70 percent of it comes in from the negotiations. That's where when that client talks to the underwriter, they're like, oh, now I'm talking to you, Justin. All right, cool. Let me get you, go ahead and get you approved. So a lot of it is about this identity theft, identity, you know, this, that,

and the other really talking to that person, verifying things. These are things that we can't necessarily verify. Some of it's going to be about the business. Now, this whole process is where two-thirds of the funding comes in from that simple interaction with the underwriter. Then they approve it, and then the client will report back to us how much was approved on that call.

And then, you know, we can look at what their total aggregate amount of funding was for that batch. Goodness gracious. This is just, A, you make it easy. A, you make, like, you're just service-oriented, right? You make this as easy as possible for us. Is there, like, and you may not be able to answer this,

so it might be too deep. But, like, is that, like, within the first 30 days or would that be too soon? Like when could you go? Let's just say I get approved and I get 50 grand like the example. But I got to use that 50 grand. And then in 34 days, this opportunity comes up. Or I want to make this higher.

Or I have to cover this bill and I need another 30. Are we like, is that just too fast to turn around or is there actual? Yeah, that would probably be a little too fast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now, there is limited situations where we did move forward like that. we got the client, the extra 30 they were looking for, but if they had followed our recommendations

and we had waited the three months, then we would have gotten them probably 60 or 70,000 on the second batch. Right, right. So you just really pick and choose, right? Like, what do you need? Need it now or do it and get more later? Yeah, because we could take them to other banks that we didn't take them to on the first batch, but they're going to then look at those inquiries and say, well, why are all these inquiries on there?

And we can help the client talk around it and explain why. those are on there, they're using that for their business as well. But it might hamper the total amount. This is so easy. I would say, well, let me rephrase the question I was going to go out. What do you think people need to know? What do you think is misunderstood in this space

or something you feel like you should probably clarify because people just, they either don't know or they misunderstand the reality of what all this is? I think that a lot of people don't realize how easy, it is to use business credit cards in lieu of traditional financing. Most people are just going to go for traditional financing because it's what they know. It's what they've heard of. They've never heard of using business credit cards like this. It sounds strange to have to use third party payment services and to have to piecemeal multiple credit cards together. And the question is,

how badly do you not want to give all your profit to the banks? Yeah. It's like, do you want to save money? Do you want to get easy access to funding? I mean, There are some people that will go on Shark Tank and give away 50% of their company for $50,000 when you could get access to 250,000 and 0% credit cards and be completely in charge of your own business. So I couldn't explain to you why sometimes people will go and give away half their business for no good reason at all. All right. That was a brilliant analogy. It's not even the same example. Yeah, people give away 50% of their business for like 50 grand, 25,000. or whatever the number is, or you go find funding grow, you go find Ari and you just get

0% capital. And so what happens after 0%? It just goes to your normal 15, 18% normal credit card stuff. So now that's the card stacking process. We show people how to keep it at 0% pretty much ongoing, but that would also mean that they need to be a client of ours. Now, the cool thing is that we show them how to do this. When we're teaching you how to interact with the negotiator, guess what we're doing. We're not just showing you where to fish. We're teaching you how to fish. The part of our program we haven't spoken about so far is, for example, like the building

that I'm sitting in right now. Close to $2 million building. Funding grows headquarters was purchased using corporate funding. It had nothing to do with credit cards. But it also is not in my name. It's 100% fully in the business's name. So we help our clients with the business. credit cards, but we're showing them how they can eventually qualify for paid X done in Bradstreet

based corporate financing that has nothing to do with their personal credit report. It's not personally guaranteed, whether it shows up or not. It's not personally guaranteed. Like, I have multiple office buildings that I've personally purchased that have nothing to do. Well, I say I personally, but they're all in the business name, but mine. It was first based off of building up using the business credit. credit cards, getting my scores higher and higher, then transitioning over to Dun & Bradstreet-based financing, corporate financing that truly is 100% in the business's name. At first, you have to

use the personally guaranteed business credit cards because you don't have, it's like your business is like a high schooler. It doesn't have a credit score yet. It just graduated. So that has to be built up. Fund and grow will help every client that comes to us for business credit cards. we will help them build their payback score, build their done in Bradstreet, and be able to qualify for all types of corporate-based financing that has nothing to do with personal guarantees. Yeah, I mean, now we're next level. Now we're like, you know, buying, you know, big boy real estate on loans that are not personal. And that's where I start to get really excited.

So there is a process to essentially turn your 0%, year over year. So you essentially can stay in zero percent financing for a very long time. Yes. Does it work in the same way, you know, personal credit cards they were taught at some point. I think it was Robert Kiyosaki who's teaching like you give them a call. These are personal credit cards. Give them a call, ask for the promotional rate. Can you kind of do the same thing with the corporate cards over time? Well, it used to be that we could call and we could ask for the checks. Oh, right. where they would then send you out a check that you can spend off of your credit line. It would have some type of a special rate to it. It's like,

May, Justin has this $25,000 card for 18% that he never uses. So if I send him these convenience checks and tell him that between this month and this month, it's going to be at this particular, it's going to be at 0%. Anything he does on that credit card with these convenience checks is at those percent. But now that kind of fell out. over the you know the the basically the last like five six years as the economy kind of went up and down those types of convenience checks are more they're not consistent across all all different all things yeah but but what you can do is you can call that same bank and you can apply for another

credit line from them and then merge the two together if i have two businesses i could do this in two separate businesses, essentially. Yeah. Because it's all still PG by me. Exactly. That's the key. The key is that it's all still based off of your good credit. So now, Funding Grow for our paid members allows two people to be part of the membership. So imagine that you have good credit and your partner has good credit.

And now we could use the same entity. We could use multiple entities. We could help set up an entity. It doesn't matter. That's all taken care of within the program. We will help someone get an entity set up. They just pay the state filing fee. So getting the entity set up is not an issue if they don't already have it.

But the key thing here is the individual business owner's good personal credit because we can use any entity to properly keep it off of their credit report. Of course, it's going to be their entity, of course. Yeah, of course. That's easy. It's way easier to set up someone in an entity than it is to get them good credit. No, no. Ari, first of all, this has been incredible. I mean, you literally are just, I think you're at the tip of what everyone should be doing the business space.

This is why we're here. Go to Fundinggrow.com forward slash flip to just see how much you're going to qualify for. Go check out Ari. Go check out Funding Grow. I think anyone listening to this, anyone watching this, you need to get going on this. It doesn't make, like mentally to me, we were talking yesterday. And I'm just like, bro, let's just go. Like, it doesn't make any sense for any business owner to not do something.

like this. So thank you very much. Again, go follow Ari all over social media, Ari page. What's your handle on like Instagram for example? I think it's Ari page three. Okay. And then fund to grow.com forward slash flip would be where you want to go to get pre-qualified. You have a lot of can someone find a way to like get on a call with one of your team members? Is there a way that they could do that to ask further questions? Yeah, absolutely. So if you go to the link fund and grow dot com forward slash flip and then you choose the pre-qualification option and then do the pre-qual, directly below the prequel, you'll see the Microsoft calendar tool pop up. And then boom, just click when you want to talk to our people and they will give you a free

business development call that, and regardless of whether you qualify for our program or not, we're going to show you how to qualify for funding. You may not be able to sign up and pay us anything, but we can at least point you in the right direction. If you don't qualify, what do you need to do to qualify? So we're very passionate about getting people access to funding and whether that means you need to put some work in ahead of time. We're the only company out there that actually is willing to put in that work ahead of time. I love that, too. You're phenomenal. Really good information you want to share. Try to share this with at least two of your friends. Make sure you give it a five-star review because that is Ari Page and

Fun to Grow. I am Justin Colby. This has been the entrepreneur DNA and we will see you on the next episode. Peace.