Money
5 Tips for Hiring the Right Collections Company
As your small business grows, you’ll be dealing with a larger audience and more customers. You can’t guarantee they’ll follow up on their end of the bargain with monthly payments, overdue fees, etc. When this happens, you may notice a…
Money
Selling Receivables for Small Businesses: Is it Right For You?
You need cash. You just landed the big account you’ve been working on, but don’t have the funds needed to complete the service promised in the first place. Maybe you have payroll due in the next few days and are…
Money
Accounts Receivable Management: 13 Tips and Tricks to Get You Paid
Ever wish you could just snap your fingers and start getting your late paying customers paying on time? Dream of your delinquent accounts miraculously mailing you in a check? Sadly there is no (yet) discovered magic that can help make…
Money, Trends
How to Save Money on Credit Card Processing With Interchange Plus Pricing
Any business owner can tell you: credit card processing is expensive. It comes with high monthly fees, steep charges for every transaction swiped and, worst of all, often a long-term contract. But there’s just no way around it; the ability…
Trends
What Paul Ryan Means For Your Small Business
A few weeks ago, the name Paul Ryan may have never crossed you mind. Now, between the countless television ads, radio announcements and life-sized posters, it has become permanently lodged there. But what does this mean for small businesses across…
Money
How the UCLA Research Administration Decreased Past Due Invoices (and How You Can Too!)
When the University of California, Los Angeles‘ research funding more than doubled over a 10-year period, they knew, without a doubt, that this was going to put tremendous pressure on their research staff. Unfortunately, the Provost of the school, Scott…
Management, Trends
Let’s Get Digital: How the Internet Can Improve Your Small Business
It’s official, the game has been changed. Social media has catapulted us into a new age—an age where customers are demanding more and more from the brands and businesses they interact with— and that’s not true just for the big…
Money
When Your Small Business Should Call In a Debt Collection Lawyer
It’s a sad reality, but sometimes customers just have no intention of paying you. There might come a time when you have exhausted all possible resources—when you have sent numerous letters, called countless times and maybe even met in person—but…
Money
How to Perform a Customer Credit Check
Extending credit inherently takes a large degree of trust, trust that may or may not be well founded. Credit has become such an ubiquitous part of the today’s business community that we sometimes forget the risk it actually entails. But…
Money
How Your Small Business Can Utilize Receivables Management Services
If you’re a small business operating on credit, chances are you occasionally run into obstacles when attempting to manage those receivables. You’re not alone in this. Small businesses across the country struggle with ways to properly oversee and handle these…
