Collect Your Money: A Guide to Collecting Outstanding Accounts Receivable for Your Business (Paperback)

~ Cody Flecker (Author)

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Product Description

Poor management of accounts receivable was a major reason for the 16% increase of business bankruptcies last year. Don't let this happen to your buisness. Our debt-based economy works fine as long as everyone pays their bills on time. But they don't, do they? In today's easy-credit times, when most of your customers have many debts other than yours, you must become their first priority. This valuable manual shows you how. With the techniques of artful persuasion you'll discover, you'll start to convert all of your hard core, past due accounts into accounts that are current and non-deliquent. Use this book as a refresher, or as a primer if you're a beginner. Either way, get ready to maximize your recovery dollars!

From the Author

The collection of money owed to you is ususally the most difficult part of the business cycle. It's often left to the most inexperienced and lowest paid members of the office team whose motivations are not always in tune with management. COLLECT YOUR MONEY is designed to turn the least educated member into a formidible producer of past due income. The book is easy to read and instructs using examples and techniques that have been tested time after time.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 190 pages
• Publisher: Cobra Publishing, Inc. (January 15, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1890168181
• ISBN-13: 978-1890168186
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,340,906 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Little rough, but like any gem...Worth a Fortune., January 28, 2001

By	Dr. Heinz Starkermann (Boston Ma) - See all my reviews

I am a practicing Psychiatrist with a large practice in Boston. My wife is also a Physician in an unrelated field. Our accounts receivables have been in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and we have tried everything possible to bring back some of those dollars.

I was " turned " on to Collect Your Money by Cody Flecker after one of my colleagues told me about this collections professional out on the West Coast and the book that he wrote to help professionals like my wife and myself.

"Collect Your Money" gets to the heart of the matter. Since using the techniques as outlined in the book our recovery rates have gone up dramatically, while not disturbing the good will of our clients. The letters as outlined by Cody Flecker were to the point, and sincere. They did bring in the required results that we were looking for.

Other good points about Collect Your Money were the telephone conversations, not so much what you say, but what your reply would be once the patient/debtor makes his statement to you and expects an answer.

My wife and I are foreigners and our command of the English language is not always up to par. Collect Your Money did the trick for us. We recommend this book to every small business trying to bring back some of those lost dollars.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent alternative to collection agencies, or attorneys, February 19, 1999

By A Customer

Collect Your Money, is an excellent reference and how to guide for anyone who is owed money, and is having difficultly collecting. For the relatively small investment, It has shown the a/r person in my office the quickest and easiest way to collect from our customers,a t a fraction of what we had spent in the past. The step by step processes and easy to understand format make this the the most effective tool we have ever used in 13 years. The form letters are right on the money (no pun intended). Collect Your Money, covers every aspect of the credit part of your business or life, from who to issue credit to, how to issue it, collecting in a timely manner, and if the situation arises ( and it will) how to collect from people who have no intention to pay. The book even goes as far as reposession as a last resort and how you can achieve this with out great expense. This is a must read for anyone in business or thinking about starting one. It has saved my business thousands of dollars in a short time, and the potential is endless.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Saver of Time & Money, May 18, 1999

By A Customer

I am a Doctor with a very large practice in Colorado. My accounts receivable is just alarming.Before I purchased Collect Your Money by Cody Flecker, I was owed in excess of 750,000 dollars. In 4 months using this book, its letters and simple to understand advice, my staff collected over 350,000 dollars without the advice of an attorney or collection agency. In fact, I fired the agency. Why pay them 25-50% of the outstandings when I can pay my own people to do the same. I recommend this book to every medical practioner I come into contact with. Every small to medium size business should have this book as well. I have recommended it to all of my business patients. If people or businesses owe you money you should buy this book. I am glad that I did.