Providing commercial financial solutions for:
Asset and General Business Equipment
Commercial Property
Cash Flow & Insurance Funding
Let Ecolease assist you with your commercial financial needs, whether they be equipment leasing, commercial property finance, cash flow funding or insurance premium funding. Promise, if you give us a go we will work our bottoms off, bend over backwards, burn the midnight candle to get you the finance you need for your business. So please, give us a call (land line: 9416 0629; mobile: 0412 741 590), send us an email (info@ecolease.com.au), or in the very least take a look throughout our site as a way of getting to know us, including that which we stand for. And in doing the latter we hope that you are somewhat entertained…a bit of a giggle, a reflective moment, an opportunity to make a comment which you can do. Just hit the leave a comment button, type away, and then submit. Hope to hear from you. Ps. We decided some time ago that, whilst we would give our absolute to assisting our clients with their finance needs, we would also have some fun!
Grunt, grime and glamour…a day at the V8 Supercars
Whilst attending the Visual Impact Expo on the Gold Coast last weekend I was given an opportunity by Roland DG Australia to muscle in on a day at the Ipswich 300 V8 Super Car race
So what’s a Prius Driving, Tree Hugging Financier doing rubbing shoulders with the pride of Australian V8 Racing?….A contradiction you may say?
Whilst the V8 Supercar is far from the hybrid and other low carbon emission vehicles, it is mandatory that these high performance cars run on bioethanol fuel.
This was the initiative taken by V8 Supercars Australia in its effort to reduce the sport’s carbon foot print. This is due to the fact one litre of Sucrogen bioethanol, a sugar based fuel produced by Australia’s CSR Ltd, produces about half the CO2 emissions of one litre of petrol as measured by a full lifecycle analysis.
This initiative confirmed my belief that to live a more sustainable life you don’t have to give up the things you love. It supports the notion that every little bit counts and it’s the small changes that make a big difference.
Long live V8 Supercars I say!
When inquiring about general equipment finance, there are a couple of
important benefits that need to be considered:
1 GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITHOUT IMPINGING UPON YOUR CASH FLOW…
General equipment finance, otherwise known as asset finance, enables businesses to purchase essential operational equipment without tying up vital cash-flow. Of course, such facilities are subject to interest however, if the equipment procured is solely used for business purposes, then the interest costs associated can be 100% deductible against business income, depending upon which facility is undertaken. Such tax benefits, of course, reduce the actual costs associated with equipment finance agreements. Do these benefits outweigh up-front cash payment? This will depend upon where your business sits within its development phase.
At Ecolease, we are happy to discuss such issues with yourself or your accounts person, to determine the best financial arrangement for your business.
For further discussions, call us on 02 9416 0629 or more specifically Marian on 0412 741 590. Alternatively, send us an email to info@ecolease.com.au.
2 SIDE-STEP THE PIT FALLS OF OVER EXPOSURE
Picture this…
Since the business started you have had a great relationship with your bank. They have always been there or, more to the point, a banking representative has been who just so happens to be a person, and a good one at that. This person over the years has listened and on many an occasion gone out of their way to assist you and your business with its financial needs. Good relationships. Good! And all’s going well.
But one day, no matter how much your banking representative may want to help you, and no matter how great a cause your business need may be, for some reason the bank simply can’t do it, or more to the point, will not do it. And whilst there may be a thousand and one reasons why they should, from their perspective, there is only one reason why they can’t…to do so would OVEREXPOSE them in your business. Overnight it seems you have become too great a risk for them. We have seen this happen on many an occasion.
Now we are not saying cease relationships with your current banking representative, but from a smart business perspective, consider diversifying your funding portfolio.
At Ecolease we have great relationships with many a banking/funder representative. What’s more, we have credibility when it comes to introducing quality customers and their business cases to them. This enables us to work closely with alternative financiers to organise the best financial solutions for your business in a way that side-steps the pit-falls of ‘over exposure’.
Again, call us on 02 9416 0629 (office) or 0412 741 590 (Marian), or email us at info@ecolease.com.au.
More on this area soon.
Chink-ching…
More on this soon.
As we have previously mentioned, we are very committed to supporting entrepreneurialism that assists impoverished communities break the poverty cycle. A mechanism through which to achieve this is made possible with the relatively recent advent of microfinace. We are pleased to say that Ecolease has just registered with such a microfinance institution, Kiva.org, and made our first very modest loan to the overall loan requirement of the Al Abrigo Del Altisimo Group, a small food production and sales company situated in San Pedro De Macorís, Dominican Republic.
With time and a little more organisation we will set up a group account with Kiva that will enable you, should you wish to, assist small enterprises such as Al Abrigo Del Altisimo Group more quickly raise the capital they need for their business.
Importantly, the financial contributions that are made to small enterprise via Kiva are not donations but loans that are paid back with minimal interest to the lender. Furthermore, 100% of the loan goes to the intended business. If a lender chooses, they can make a small donation to Kiva to finance the costs associated with the processing of the loan.
Another indirect way that you can undertake micro-lending is by switching to Digital Pacific via our website (just click on Digital Pacific banner below) to host your website. In having joined their Affiliation Program Ecolease will receive a monetary reward for introducing you to them which we will upon payment immediately transfer to Kiva for their use. Killing two birds with the one stone so to speak…good for the environment, good for impoverished communities.
Think about it!
You can keep track of our lending by clicking on the Kiva.org logo below.
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Ecolease joins Digital Pacifics Affiliation Program.
It is very simple.
If you, through our recommendation, sign up with Digital Pacific to host your website, they will automatically pay us a monetary reward which, and here’s the social catch, we will then forward onto our micro-finance provider, or indirectly support impoverished communities throughout the world, including Australia, by spending these $$$ on Oxfam Unwrapped items.
So, through this simple undertaking you not only reduce your carbon footprint, but assist other less fortunate though equally budding entreprenuers find the crucial financial resources to break the poverty cycle.
What’s more, the people at Digital Pacific are very VERY service oriented people.
We are very pleased to say that we have made the cut, this being the process by which Westpac reduced the number of financial brokers that they deal with by 80%.
We put this down to a number of key factors…being that pale shade of darker green for one…but in short it more than likely indicates how easy it is for Westpac to evaluate and sign off on the data that we submit to them on behalf of our customers. Quality facts and figures. Good time management. Prompt responses. Easy to work with.
We take our Westpac retention as a compliment.
