{"id":184,"date":"2013-06-28T22:59:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T22:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/esopblog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2014-05-31T20:13:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T20:13:26","slug":"first-bankers-helps-small-business-owners-testimonials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/esopblog\/2013\/06\/first-bankers-helps-small-business-owners-testimonials\/","title":{"rendered":"First Bankers Helps Small Business Owners &#8211; Testimonials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First Bankers Helps Small Business Owners &#8211; Testimonials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First Bankers Trust Company is a bank holding company whose primary mission is to help local community businesses and organizations meet financing needs. First Bankers is represented on <a title=\"ESOP Marketplace | What is an ESOP\" href=\"http:\/\/esopmarketplace.com\"><strong>ESOP Marketplace<\/strong><\/a> via a number of its <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/advisor\/marilyn-marchetti-first-bankers-trust-services\">ESOP advisors<\/a><\/strong> who offer employee-owned companies expert guidance when it comes to succession planning, governance and more.<\/p>\n<p>The First Bankers website features a number of testimonials from small business owners who have benefited from an ongoing business relationship with the company. One of these tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstbankers.com\/documents\/testimonials\/1763_FB_RushCF_Ward_R4_HR.pdf\">the story<\/a> of a burgeoning pet grooming business in Rushville, Illinois. The owner has had a relationship with First Bankers since 2009, when she took out a home mortgage; when it came time to open a business, First Bankers was there for her with a business loan and expert advice that helped her through the first difficult stages of setting up a business.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the story on the First Bankers website, and check out ESOP Marketplace listings to see how First Bankers ESOP advisors can help your business as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Bankers Helps Small Business Owners &#8211; Testimonials First Bankers Trust Company is a bank holding company whose primary mission is to help local community businesses and organizations meet financing needs. First Bankers is represented on ESOP Marketplace via a number of its ESOP advisors who offer employee-owned companies expert guidance when it comes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55],"tags":[70,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/esopblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/esopblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/esopblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/esopblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/esopblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/esopblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/esopblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/esopblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/esopblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esopmarketplace.com\/esopblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}