The vast majority of clients you may have dealings with in business will be reasonably honest and trustworthy. but a small minority can cause you problems you may not have anticipated when taking them on. Here’s 5 siple tips on how to avoid those types of businesses and save yourself from having to pursue them for payment further down the line. <\/p>\n
1. Be cautious when taking on new clients <\/strong><\/p>\n If you don’t know your client, how can you be sure they won’t run off without paying for the goods you supplied or your services? A common trick is to place a small first order and pay, then place a much larger order further down the line which they then don’t pay for. <\/p>\n 2. Check out the business<\/strong> <\/p>\n Use tools which can be easily found online to check out your customer to make sure they don’t have any bad credit history. <\/p>\n 3. Ensure paperwork is in order <\/strong> <\/p>\n Your paperwork will be important if it comes to fighting a case later on. Anything that wasn’t signed when it should have been or doesn’t include terms and conditions can leave your business vulnerable. <\/p>\n 4. Ask others in a similar business what their experiences were<\/strong> <\/p>\n Often a connection might have had dealings with a rogue company. If they warn you about them take notice or at least take measures to protect your business. <\/p>\n 5. If you have been caught out act fast <\/strong><\/p>\n Appoint a debt recovery agent to act on your behalf to recover outstanding payments. If the client is new this is when they should be paying you on time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The vast majority of clients you may have dealings with in business will be reasonably honest and trustworthy. but a small minority can cause you problems you may not have anticipated when taking them on. Here’s 5 siple tips on how to avoid those types of businesses and save yourself from having to pursue them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,105,3,76,45,52,46,62],"tags":[106,68,8,9,10],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avoiding-debt","category-business-fraudsters","category-churchill-recovery","category-debt-collection","category-debt-collection-agencies","category-debt-collection-company","category-debt-recovery","category-debt-recovery-processes","tag-business-fraudsters","tag-churchill-recovery","tag-debt-collection","tag-debt-collection-procedures","tag-debt-collection-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchillrecoverysolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchillrecoverysolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchillrecoverysolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchillrecoverysolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchillrecoverysolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/churchillrecoverysolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/churchillrecoverysolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchillrecoverysolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchillrecoverysolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchillrecoverysolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}