Give your business a successful credit and collections plan with this easy and clear guide Over 100,000 businesses have slow or non-paying customers. Yet very few actually have a workable plan for claiming the missing revenue that results. This book gives you a complete solution and tool set to ensure your business maximizes its collections while maintaining an effective, profitable credit plan. You'll discover how to set up an efficient in-house credit policy that not only lets you collect more debts, but also boost sales, increase cash flow, and grow profits. Step-by-step credit management instructions show you how to weed out bad-paying customers, add more good-paying customers, collect on past-due balances, avoid bad debt, and limit credit risk. Contains all needed forms to set up and implement an effective credit policy Author is a popular columnist for several newspapers and national magazines, and appears regularly in the media as a go-to authority on debt Get Paid enables you to decide what matters most to your business when it comes to billing, payment terms, pricing, cash flow, and more, then set up the systems to meet these goals and increase profitability.

The working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority of city artisans were native-born; by the 1850s three-quarters of the city's laboring men and women were immigrants. How did the influx of this large group of young adults affect the city's working class? What determined the texture of working-class life during the antebellum period? Richard Stott addresses these questions as he explores the social and economic dimensions of working-class culture. Working-class culture, Stott maintains, is grounded in the material environment, and when work, population, consumption, and the uses of urban space change as rapidly as they did in the mid-nineteenth century, culture will be transformed. Using workers' first-person accounts—letters, diaries, and reminiscences—as evidence, and focusing on such diverse topics as neighborhoods, diet, saloons, and dialect, he traces the rise of a new, youth-oriented working-class culture. By illuminating the everyday experiences of city workers, he shows that the culture emerging in the 1850s was a culture clearly different from that of native-born artisans of an earlier period and from that of the middle class as well.

Your indispensable guide to getting paid on time Want to change the way you work to improve operational efficiency and reduce business risk? This book can help. Find out why getting paid on time is important, not only for paying the bills, but also to help build a stronger business for the future. Packed with concise and effective tips, Getting Paid For Dummies is your one-stop shop to enable you to improve your cashflow and get your finances in order. It's all about the money – discover simple but effective tips for keeping the financial wheels in motion Know your limits – understand and make the most of credit limits Getting serious – know when and how to take legal action Digging deeper – find the best online resources to help you Open the book and find: How to set credit limits with your customers Tips for stopping late payments in their tracks The right professionals to contact for help The rules and regulations you need to know How to improve your credit rating

"Getting Paid is Good!!" is jam packed with innovative concepts, tips, effective strategies and "Golden Words' that will help establish anyone who wishes to succeed in the selling field as both a high earner and a true sales professional. You will find that "Getting Paid is Good!!" is written in an easy to read, conversational style that proves to be thought provoking and very informative. Whether you consider yourself a sales professional, a sales rookie or simply someone eager to enter the sales arena and partake of the many great opportunities and rewards available today in the selling field, you will find that "Getting Paid is Good!!" is an indispensable part of your sales training and your reference library. You will want to refer to it again and again throughout your selling career.

Following the steps outlined in this book will result in on-time payments, as agreed in advance for your products or services. Or, you can do business as usual and get paid later through a series of collection steps which may include a lawsuit and/or judgments. The goal is to get paid on time, so we will settle for just getting paid-on time, every time (title of my first book) in this new expanded version. I have always believed in free markets and American enterprise. I have a huge respect for business owners. The risk and rewards of owning your own business are immeasurable. On many occasions, I have found myself helping a colleague with a billing and/or collections issue. With over thirty years of experience in multiple business industries, I have acquired the knowledge and experience to guide you through the steps to develop a process that leads to "The Art of Getting Paid." There is an art to getting paid. Truly, and it is proven. When I see businesses repeatedly try to solve cash flow and AR problems reactively, I shake my head in dismay. Let me share a story with you. I explained once to a potential client why he needed the services of my company, ARI, for outsourced accounts receivable service with collection agency services.

Home Staging is a time consuming, labor intensive process, often involving many independent contractors, time delays and unexpected problems. Many books teach home stagers how to generate clients, but none teach how to actually get paid and protect oneself when offering extended services - until now. Barbara Jennings shows readers how to take professional precautions to protect themselves financially once they are hired for a project. Jennings also delves into how to survive and grow a home staging business in a tough economic climate. Jennings' books cover the gamut of starting, building, expanding and protecting a home staging business.

Technology changes almost constantly, increasing vastly in importance to businesses large and small. Now that video can be captured on smartphones and tablets, filmmaking and video production has become a more integral and invaluable part of any business’s marketing strategy or even the cornerstone of the business. This comprehensive guide to building a career in video production and filmmaking takes a look at how to get an education in the field, which types of businesses are hiring and why, and the different angles employees are taking on the path to success.

Any business that allows their customers credit terms will invariably run into late or non-payments. This affects cash flow and business viability. However, as the authors show, customers that are solvent will pay some suppliers every month, even if they don't pay everyone. So how do you ensure you are "first in line" to get paid? This book examines the strategies that work – and those that don't. The authors introduce a simple but highly effective model, the Virtuous Revenue Cycle, that shows readers how to cultivate business relationships that keep the cash flowing. The strategies are highly practical, down to advice on just how to phrase those tricky emails reminding customers to pay up!

This book describes some of the basics needed to get started, including the typical elements that make up a blog and some tips on managing the content. It will also describe some methods of building an audience, and the various ways bloggers can cash in on their popularity or otherwise make a living by blogging.

Do you have a message you want to get out into the world? Have you ever dreamed of speaking for a living? Is there something you have to say but just aren't sure what to do next? The Successful Speaker is a proven, easy-to-follow guide to helping you do just that. Whether you want to speak at your next board meeting or community gathering, start making some extra money on the side, or become a full-time professional speaker, Grant Baldwin knows how to get you from here to there. Why? Because he's done it himself and has coached over 2,000 speakers. In The Successful Speaker, you will learn the five-step road map to start and scale a speaking business from the ground up, including: - How to hone your message and know exactly who it's for - The preparation process to help your next speech move an audience to action - What it takes to establish yourself as an in-demand expert - Practical steps to finding and booking paid speaking gigs - How to know when it's time to grow your impact and income In each chapter, you will get specific action steps and case studies from professional speakers (including some of the most successful communicators in the world) to put you on the fast track to booking gigs, getting paid, and building your speaking platform.