Credit and Collections


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The credit crisis, high fuel costs, job losses, bankruptcies, foreclosures and the failing economy are all contributing to factories closing, job loss and business owners going out of business because they can’t get paid. Learn how to take specific steps and use positive action to streamline and maximize your credit management policies. This book, Credit and Collections: A Business Perspective, is for businesses that have past due customers and need help collecting from them. It is for businesses who want to check their customer’s credit to limit credit risk and avoid bad debt. Things that have worked in the past are no longer working; everybody’s credit has changed, everyone’s job situation has changed, people have lost their homes due to the economy or weather and the flow of our business cash has taken a hit. Credit and Collections: A Business Perspective will help anyone who has customers that owe them money and will give them specific steps and actions they can take to make effective collection calls that work. This book will show you how to check a customer’s credit and determine their credit worthiness before you extend credit to someone who may not be able to pay you. With this book you can protect your business and your bottom line by protecting your most important asset, your cash flow.




Credit and Collection Letters and Emails


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Is the delay in payment putting a severe dent in your cash flow? Do you need to set up a credit line personally or in your small business—but fear sounding amateurish in your request? Nothing captures the attention of a letter or email recipient as much as money issues––their money or yours. Whether depositing, withdrawing, lending, or borrowing, you want to make sure you provide all the facts––and get all the facts. In this book you’ll learn and become confident in all areas of credit and collection management. Additionally, you’ll learn to communicate intelligently with your customers about other miscellaneous matters of accounts receivable collection, banking, finance, and taxes. As a borrower for personal or family needs, you'll find sample letters for many areas that you must handle individually—aside from those issues that any credit and collection role at work might require: · When you have borrowed money · How to motivate creditors to work with you during difficult times · When requesting a loan · When addressing friends or family regarding money issues In your collection position at work, you of course realize the need to learn how to deal with sensitive money matters such as lending, borrowing, and collecting where tone becomes very important in reaffirming customer commitments and in keeping any personal relationship intact. The image you create with your writing style and with your thoroughness often makes an impression that spills over into the business transaction and lending decision itself. These credit and collections letter examples and alternate phrases cover a wide range of categories: · Requesting credit · To creditors promising payment · Investigations · Offering Credit · Refusing Credit · Cancelling Credit · Collection letters and emails for accounts receivable If you’d like to spend up your accounts receivable collection, then these business collection templates provide the right wording to get the money in your door without putting distance in the customer relationship!




How to Collect the Money People Owe You


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HOW TO COLLECT THE MONEY PEOPLE OWE YOU is a complete credit and collections guide for the small business and individual – an invaluable resource that will help you establish effective credit policies, collect overdue bills quickly, and increase the money available to you. The book includes sample scripts for collection phone calls, sample collection letters, and important legal guidelines so you avoid the pitfalls of trying to collect. The book shows you when and how to: - Send polite reminder notices and stronger letters - Make a collection phone call - Hire a collection agency or attorney - Determine whether to extend credit and how much - Collect overdue account and maintain good will - Work with customers facing hard times - Collect from impossible deadbeats




Credit and Collections Kit For Dummies


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A breakthrough title explaining effective, cost-efficient collection methods In a down economy, the demand for a successful credit and collection game plan increases. Credit & Collections Kit For Dummies is a comprehensive guide for people involved in collection activities with accounts/clients, helping readers approach the often difficult task of collecting from late/slow paying customers, as well as determining when (and if) to extend credit to questionable ones. It gives readers the expert information and tools designed to ensure that their collection methods are both effective and legal. The book's attached CD includes helpful scripts, forms, letters, templates, and spreadsheets to help readers work efficiently and effectively. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.




Business Letters Ready to Go!


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This comprehensive business-building tool gives you 150 easy-to-use examples of business letters that work, communicating your message powerfully and persuasively. In addition to the sample letters, you'll learn six steps to more effective writing - expert guidance to help you personalize your letters.




Credit and Collection Forms and Procedures Manual


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Here is a practical and indispensable collection of ready-to-use forms, checklists and reports for credit and collection managers and their staff. Coverage includes: successful credit management, processing new accounts, solving new account problems, resolving special situations, collection letters that collect, other effective credit letters, staying atop the slow payer, and legal matters and bankruptcy. Includes a CD-ROM containing all of the key forms and letters.




Bulletin


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Entrepreneur and Small Business Problem Solver


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A new, revised edition of the classic guide forentrepreneurs For more than a decade, The Entrepreneur and SmallBusiness Problem Solver has been the go-to resource forbudding entrepreneurs and small business owners alike. Now in itsThird Edition, this classic has been revised and updated to meetthe needs of the modern reader in today's fast-paced businessenvironment. Covering everything from getting a start-up loan tointroducing a new product, this comprehensive guide shows you howto deal with the common problems every small business faces-withouthiring expensive outside help. This handy guide is packed with the kind of essential,down-to-earth advice everyone running a small businessneeds-whether you need help with your business plan or collecting asmall debt. This new Third Edition features new information on taxlaw changes, technological advances, and changes in governmentservices, and includes an entirely new chapter on Internetmarketing and e-commerce. Focused on practicality, the book alsofeatures downloadable, chapter-ending worksheets that will help youretain what you learned and implement it correctly. A truly uniquesource for sound business guidance, The Entrepreneur andSmall Business Problem Solver, Third Edition is aninvaluable reference that every business owner needs. Inside, you'll find world-class guidance on these topics andmore: How and where to find start-up capital Insuring your business Extending credit and collecting debts Financial record-keeping Carrying out marketing research Pricing products and services Marketing and advertising your business Doing business and marketing online Recruiting and managing employees Protecting your business and avoiding rip-offs




Credit and Collection Letters


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