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New Service Offers Short Term Cash Loans Secured by Your Domains & Financing for New Purchases

 

inteLend Founder Matt Collins 

While I was at the Webfest Global conference earlier this month I had a chance to chat with attorney Matt Collins who has launched a new financial services company at inteLend.com. Collins designed the business to serve intellectual property owners, especially those who hold quality domain names and/or revenue producing websites

inteLend's service is much different than the long term domain financing model pioneered and dominated by DomainCapital.com. Collins has gone in the opposite direction, offering short term (usually one month) cash loans, as well as financing of new domain purchases (deals that can be paid off or renewed on a month to month basis).

While inteLend is a new company, Collins, is no novice in the short term financing and online business  field. He helped DigiPawn.com get off the ground and went on to serve as Legal Counsel for a wide variety of ecommerce companies. Collins said he kept encountering people and companies who, even though they owned valuable domains, patents or other 

intellectual property, got the cold shoulder from traditional lenders when they needed access to capital. He founded inteLend to fill that gap.

I asked Matt for more details on the two services inteLend offers - 1) cash loans and 2) financing of domain purchases. For loans, Collins said, "We advance cash on domains that have intrinsic value as well as websites that generate cash flow - the higher the value of the collateral, the more we can advance on any given deal. Once we agree on the financial terms with the client, the client forwards the domains to us in our registrar account and we wire transfer the money to the client."

"Since the name servers are unaffected, the client continues to operate his business as normal," Collins said. "inteLend.com can never “call” the deal or force a client into a default, meaning the client can close out the deal whenever ready. More importantly, the client can continue to renew the deal every month for as long as the client wants to do so."

For those interested in the company's other service - helping to finance new purchases, Collins said, "In this situation, inteLend.com will loan up to 70% of the purchase price.  The buyer will need to put down at least 30% so that he will have a real ownership interest and thus will not be likely to default on a deal."

Collins acknowledges that inteLend is not for everyone. As with short term financing providers in other fields, interest rates are high. However, Collins cited several reasons why many will find the cost is justified: 

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1.  There is never a credit check. 

2.  Cash advances are made solely on the value of the assets so personal credit is never going to be involved. 

3.  Whether a client needs $500 or $5,000,000, we stand ready to help as we have vast financial backing in order to do deals of any size. 

4.  A client will get a decision and/or offer within one business day.

5.  While the domain is the collateral for every deal and is held by inteLend.com curing the term of the deal, the client still gets full use of the domain and has control of the name servers. 

6.  The client has maximum flexibility to decide every month whether to pay off or renew the deal so every deal is on a month to month basis.  

If you would like to hear an in-depth discussion of inteLend's services, checkout the video interview that Michael Cyger did with Collins for DomainSherpa.com. Matt can also be contacted via email at [email protected].

One other thing - if you run a website, you might be able to profit from inteLend's arrival on the scene, even if you never have a need for the company's financial services. Collins said, "We have an affiliate program where affiliates can refer friends and associates to our service and earn a commission for every deal that is done. As an affiliate, the commissions can be very lucrative as we pay 3% of every deal an affiliate brings to us.  This commission is payable after the client pays the first month’s finance charge."  You can check out http://intelend.com/affiliate.php for more information on the inteLend affiliate program.

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