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Recent News Reminds Us No Business Is Too Big To Fail
If your business operates as a supplier to a small group of large brands, then this will probably be providing the vital foundations that underpin your operation, ensuring its survival. But what happens if one of those businesses fails? This can and does happen even to some household names as we have seen in the…
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Advice On Calculating Late Payment Costs
Most business owners have experienced a late paying client at one point or another. Trying to recover the money can be a frustrating, time consuming and sometimes even a costly process. The latter can often put people off pursuing debts for fear of losing more money than the amount they are trying to recover. Fortunately,…
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Gym Membership Debt Recovery
As the annual January fitness craze begins to ebb away and gyms start to empty, the prospect of members defaulting on their payments or attempting to get out of lengthy contractual agreements is likely to rise once again. As we head towards spring, this is the most likely time gyms will be dealing with cancellations…
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Are You Keeping A Close Eye On Your Customers?
If you run a b2b business then you may already be aware of how difficult it can be to recover late payments. Often it can seem easier to stop chasing when the costs of doing so outweigh the investment you put in. This is why it’s all the more important to do some detective work…
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What Does The New Pre-Action Protocol Mean For Creditors?
The New Pre-Action Protocol introduced on October 1 by the Ministry of Justice has slipped in barely unnoticed but it will almost certainly make debt recovery harder when dealing with individual debtors. If you are in the midst of considering a claim against an individual or even a sole trader, the claim will now need…
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The Simple Way To Reduce Your Risk of Not Getting Paid
The amount of debt written off by business every year in the UK is eye watering but the risk of having your own business suffer can be reduced by a simple thing that is often over looked in small businesses – effective credit control. Of course no business can avoid problem customers. Even the most…
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How To Improve Your Debt Recovery Processes
Late payments can have a major impact on business survival therefore it is crucial that an effective process is in place to tackle the problem before it gets out of hand. As with any effective operation, preparation is the key and there is a lot that can be done to streamline your business debt recovery…
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New Research Highlights the Importance of Getting Paid on Time
The impact of late payments on cashflow is well-known, however a recent survey shows that late payments come with additional consequences for those businesses affected. The survey of 1,233 British businesses commissioned by employee spend management firm, Concur, found that 4 in 10 of those businesses were feeling the impact of late payments. The way…
