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		<title>What`s the best way to collect from clients who won`t pay?</title>
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				<title><![CDATA[I chose to outsource my back-off]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I chose to outsource my back-office management to a company called MBO Partners, which handles contracts, invoicing and collections, so I`m fortunate that they collect from non-paying clients on]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Katherine--
I appreciate your f]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Katherine--
I appreciate your frustration.&#160; If the `pay up front or no deal` is for habitutal slow or no pay customers, than I think you`re right.&#160; However, if you`re thinking of applying this policy to ALL your business, then I thin]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[I have decided they pay up front]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I have decided they pay up front or no deal.&#160; If that means less profit, and things take more time to move, fine.&#160; Even if I were doing wholesale, I would require 70% up front and 30% within a certain time.&#160; I would tell them that if it is n[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[The trick to effective accounts ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[The trick to effective accounts receivables collection is to be persistent.&#160; If you have a net 15 day invoice, you contact the slow payer on the 16th day, not the 45th day as so many do.&#160; Don`t have to be nasty or disrespectful, just let them kno[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[I was going to suggest hiring a ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I was going to suggest hiring a collection agency too!]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Hire a collection agency that re]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Hire a collection agency that reports to the credit bureau`s. They`ll keep a portion of&#160;the money collected, but at least other vendor`s will know they don`t pay their bills.
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				<title><![CDATA[
  Thanks for your suggestions!]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  Thanks for your suggestions!
  Melanie
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				<title><![CDATA[
  I had a customer that wouldn]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  I had a customer that wouldn`t pay $3600. After 10 months of phone calls and letters I hired a collection agency. The first step they&#160;took&#160;was to send a standard collection letter. If the debt was paid within 10 days I owed the collectio]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  Thanks for the&#160;good ide]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  Thanks for the&#160;good ideas! Anyone else?
  Melanie
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				<title><![CDATA[Here`s a couple more ideas, how ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Here`s a couple more ideas, how well they work will obviously vary:Hire a collection agencyAsk them if they`d like to go on a payment planAsk if they`d like to barter the bill]]></description>
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