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Series

Confessions of an MCA Broker

The founder on the years he spent inside an MCA shop — the pitches, the lists, the rooms. Written the way he talks, lowercase and all.

Part 1

confessions of a former mca broker: the deal i lost to a ringing phone

From the Notebook · Jul 23
Part 2

confessions of a former MCA broker, part 2: the room your phone calls come from

From the Notebook · Jul 23
Part 3

the mca questions merchants actually ask, answered straight

From the Notebook · Aug 1
Part 4

how to stop 20 mca broker calls a day when you are at your breaking point

From the Notebook · Aug 1
Part 5

what mca brokers don't tell you about sba loans

From the Notebook · Aug 11
Part 6

three kids and a day of insurance claims

Small Business · Aug 30
Part 7

things waiting on a person

Small Business · Sep 9
Part 8

my dad never got the email

Small Business · Sep 9
Part 9

the books said eleven

Small Business · Sep 9
Part 10

seven minutes and forty-five seconds

Small Business · Sep 9
Part 11

thirty seconds i didn't spend

Small Business · Sep 9
Part 12

the name on the file

Small Business · Sep 9
Part 13

relatable weekend

Small Business · Sep 9
Part 14

two human acts

Small Business · Sep 9
Part 15

one word from me

Small Business · Sep 9
Part 16

tomorrow was today

Small Business · Sep 9
Part 17

seven words, one typo

From the Notebook · Sep 11
Part 18

two emails with my own hands

From the Notebook · Sep 11
Part 19

the seats bought themselves

From the Notebook · Sep 20
Part 20

i wrote down my job

From the Notebook · Sep 20
Part 21

do not go to the airport tonight

From the Notebook · Sep 20
Part 22

the errand that felt like travelling

From the Notebook · Sep 20
Part 23

six weeks of good work

From the Notebook · Sep 20
Part 24

what friday actually was

From the Notebook · Sep 20
Part 25

away — back tuesday

From the Notebook · Sep 22
Part 26

half an hour of being back

From the Notebook · Sep 23
Part 27

twelve minutes later

From the Notebook · Sep 24
Part 28

the folder the scoreboard missed

From the Notebook · Sep 25
Part 29

the round closed while i stepped away

From the Notebook · Sep 27
Part 30

we were in the backyard

From the Notebook · Sep 28
Part 31

the one nobody put on the list

From the Notebook · Sep 29

Getting the calls? Shut it down.

MCAFax was built to do the thing you can't do from inside the room: make the phone stop. Check any broker against our member-built database, send cease & desist letters from your own Gmail, and build the paper trail. Some laws, like the TCPA, put statutory damages on illegal calls — whether they apply to your calls depends on your situation, and business lines get less protection than home ones. It's free, and we're not a law firm.

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