The Business Funding Club is a property of Digital Solomon, a small company in Gastonia, North Carolina. It exists because the businesses we wanted to help were not in trouble. They were in front of their cash: the work was won or done, and the money for it came later than the costs of doing it.
We are a referral club, not a lender and not a broker. We refer businesses that want capital to ROK Financial. ROK and the lenders it matches you with review every request and make every funding decision. ROK pays us when a business we refer is funded. You never pay us.
The publisher
Marcus L. Barber
Publisher, The Business Funding Club · Founder, Digital Solomon
Marcus L. Barber is the publisher of The Business Funding Club and the founder of Digital Solomon, a small company in Gastonia, North Carolina that builds and runs customer acquisition systems for small businesses. He reads and approves every page on this site before it is published.
He has worked in digital marketing since 2015, starting with his own small-business consultancy, Savvy Solutions (2015 to 2018). He then ran paid search, social and programmatic campaigns for small and mid-size businesses at Comporium Media Services, Townsquare Ignite and AdCellerant (2018 to 2022), led paid media at Dental Implant Machine (2023 to 2025), and led programmatic media at Renuity, a home-improvement company (2025 to 2026). Along the way he built a lead generation system for wholesale real estate (2022) and a direct response funnel and follow-up system for small business lending (2023), the forerunner of this Club.
Before that he spent a decade in sales (2007 to 2017): as a former licensed P&C producer (2010–2012), as an account executive negotiating office technology contracts with purchasing managers at mid-size companies, and as a sales manager coaching more than 200 consultants.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Global Business and Public Policy from the University of Maryland University College (now University of Maryland Global Campus, 2014), with coursework in business finance, accounting, federal contracting and entrepreneurial venture planning.
What Marcus is not. Marcus is not a lender, a broker, an accountant, an attorney or a financial advisor, and he does not make or influence funding decisions. Former licensed P&C producer (2010–2012). Nothing on this site is individual financial, tax or legal advice.
How we write and check facts
- Sources first. Every industry fact, program rule and legal statement is taken from a named public source, usually a regulator, a government agency or the program itself, and linked in the Sources list on that page. The full list, with the date each source was checked, is on the Sources page.
- AI-assisted drafting, human approval. Pages are drafted with AI assistance from those sources and checked against them. Marcus L. Barber then reads and approves each full page before it is published, including its title, description, common questions and image descriptions. Each page says so in its "How this page was made" note.
- No rates, terms or odds. We do not quote rates, terms, amounts or odds, because we do not set them. ROK Financial and the lenders it matches you with make every funding decision.
- Images are labeled for what they are. The illustrations on this site are AI-generated. They show no real business, customer or person. The publisher's headshot is a real photo of Marcus, with the clothing and background edited using AI.
- Dates mean something. A page's "Updated" date changes only when its content changes in substance.
- Corrections. If you find something wrong, tell us. We check it against the source and fix it.