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Commercial Collections: Business Finance Booster Shot
by: Joel Walsh
If commercial collections is not part of your B2B business plan, you’re losing money. Get your cash flowing again with these commercial collection secrets.



Commercial collections: fixture of the new B2B culture



If you’re in the business-to-business field, or even if you’re a consumer products business that works through third-party distribution channels, you probably know what it’s like to check your mail anxiously each day, sifting through all the bills for that payment that was supposed to have been in months ago.



It wasn’t supposed to be like this. If you were a good, honest businessperson who dealt with other good, honest businesspeople, “commercial collections” wasn’t supposed to be part of your vocabulary.



Back in the good old days, an invoice or purchase order that had an established company listed in the “bill to” field was almost as good as a cashier’s check. Nowadays, if you’re in the business of serving other businesses you may find that your cash flow is less reliable than a small-time bookie’s.



Commercial Collections: A Personal Story

This past April I finally got the $2,000 a client owed me for work done in December, after spending almost as much money’s worth of my time reminding them to pay.



No, this wasn’t one of those hand-shake deals—we had a 5-page contract specifying net-30 payment terms. Nor was this some guy with a lemonade stand. It was the media division of one of the largest retailers in the United States.



The worst part was, I trusted this client based on my experience working with them a few years before. I actually spent the money on Christmas presents, fully expecting the payment to come in before my credit card statement.



Avoiding Outstanding Invoices

Of course, you can nip this problem in the bud by cultivating strong relationships with clients who pay on time. But those clients are getting few and far between—and, as I found, the good can go pretty bad pretty fast.



Worse, it seems that the larger the business, the less likely they are to pay on time. “Net 10 days” might as well be a foreign language in Fortune 500 land. The long-standing advice given to B2B businesses and self-employed people is that the money is in big corporations. But good luck getting it from them before your rent is due.



What I Should Have Done



Looking back on my experience with the deadbeat corporate client, my biggest mistake was doing it all myself, with writing the letters and making the phone calls. With an hourly rate of about $75, I ended up spending the time equivalent of a large chunk of my $2000 fee.



I should have gone to a collection agency. I just didn’t know then that were collection agencies that would take on small business debts and run the whole process for you for as little as $20 per debt.



Of course, I also didn’t know that going to a collection agency didn’t necessarily mean “putting an account in collections.” Many collection agencies are in fact refashioning themselves as “accounts receivable management” specialists; they’ll even manage your invoicing from end-to-end if you want. The client may not even realizing that the person on the phone is from an outside agency and not your own personal assistant.



When I think of all the value of the time I spent collecting that last $2,000, I could kick myself for not handing it over to a collection agency. But, I can always look forward to putting this knowledge into practice the next time I have a client who’s slow in paying.


About the author:
Joel Walsh, a freelance writer and regular contributor to Collection Agency Information (http://www.let-no-debt-remain-outstanding.com), invites you to http://www.collection-agency-information.com/collection-agency/nationwide-collection-agency.htmldiscoverthese commercial collections secrets: http://www.collection-agency-information.com/collection-agency/nationwide-collection-agency.html



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 Debt Relief From Debt Consolidation
 by: Jakob Jelling

If you are up to your neck in debt, there may seem like there is no relief in sight. In fact this is not necessarily the truth. There are ways to take all of your stifling bills and roll them up into one neat package by using debt consolidation in two very popular forms Home Equity Loans, Refinancing Loans, and a Consolidation Credit Card. All of these instruments provide the debtor with one thing “relief” from the current debt by shrinking it down to a single manageable debt.

Using home equity to consolidate debts

One of the popular methods of debt consolidation today is the Home Equity Loan. What happens is that the debt is extinguished using the equity from a homeowner’s home. A loan is created outside of the mortgage in order to satisfy the debts. Should the homeowner default on the loan, their house is in jeopardy of being foreclosed upon if that loan is not satisfied with a specified amount of time.

Refinancing loans

People often consume the debt by rolling it into a new mortgage. This way the house costs more money to the borrower, but the debt is extinguished at close and the debt is neatly rolled away into the mortgage securely. Upon settlement of the loan, the debts are paid in full and satisfied. The clock on the mortgage is reset to day one.

Credit card consolidation

A low interest credit card is offered to the borrower to include any outstanding credit and loan balances. The interest rate is a low fixed rate for a period of up to one year, upon the year’s end it will resume at its normal rate. Upon acceptance and terms the account should be closed once paid in full and payments be made directly to the new credit card provider. Some people have been able to master paying off one credit card with another to keep the debt revolving and interest rates low. Some people fail to close out the previous creditors account and run them back up again as well.

All three of these options provide solid relief for the debt and help them reconstruct and manage their debt better.

By Jakob Jelling
http://www.cashbazar.com


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