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UCC Filings: What You Need to Know
UCC Filings: What You Need to Know If your business provides credit to customers, it’s important that you know about UCC filings. Let’s start at the beginning. What Is the UCC? The [...]
Reinforcing Sales Documentation for Strong Collection Claims: Lessons from Litigation in Mexico (Webinar)
In this fast-paced, interactive presentation, you will learn the best methods to manage the two most important types of credit risk - slow payment and nonpayment.
Collection Best Practices: Doing Business in Brazil (Webinar)
In this fast-paced, interactive presentation, you will learn the best methods to manage the two most important types of credit risk - slow payment and nonpayment.
Social Media & Ethical Concerns for the Credit Grantor (Webinar)
In this fast-paced, interactive presentation, you will learn the best methods to manage the two most important types of credit risk - slow payment and nonpayment.
Beyond the Amazon Effect (Webinar)
In this fast-paced, interactive presentation, you will learn the best methods to manage the two most important types of credit risk - slow payment and nonpayment.
Inside a Collection Agency – Your Questions Answered (Webinar)
Inside a Collection Agency – Your Questions Answered The collection industry has witnessed a lot of change over the last two years. Social media has had a huge impact on collection practices. Privacy laws [...]
How Collectors Keep Their Mental Balance
How Collectors Keep Their Mental Balance The business of collections can be intense and stressful. But there are several simple ways to help you keep your mental balance, while still providing [...]
Accelerating Your Revenue Cycle During COVID-19 and Navigating First-Party Collections (Webinar)
Accelerating Your Revenue Cycle During COVID-19 and Navigating First-Party Collections June 3, 2020 - Presented by BARR Credit Services Has your collection approach changed over the last few months? The COVID-19 pandemic has affected [...]
Check Fraud and Other Payment Scams
Protect Yourself from Payment Scams Do people still write checks? It seems that few customers use paper checks these days, so it may surprise you to learn that check fraud is actually on the [...]
Protecting Your Business, Cybersecurity, and Working Remotely During COVID-19 (Webinar)
In this fast-paced, interactive presentation, you will learn the best methods to manage the two most important types of credit risk - slow payment and nonpayment.
My Debtor Filed for Bankruptcy – Now What?
If you’ve received a notice from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court indicating that one of your debtors has filed for bankruptcy, you may be confused about how to respond. Well, it depends upon the type of bankruptcy filed.
Credit Risk Mitigation Tips and Tools (Webinar)
In this fast-paced, interactive presentation, you will learn the best methods to manage the two most important types of credit risk - slow payment and nonpayment.
Why Sending an Account to Collections Is Good for Your Company’s Health
What could your company do with the money recovered from all your overdue accounts? Employing a professional debt collection agency is an effective way to recover payment on those past-due accounts, which increases cash-flow and allows business to have the funds needed to pursue its goals.
Skip Tracing and Personal Guaranty
If you’ve considered hiring a collection agency to handle your past-due accounts, you may have heard the term “skip tracing.” But what exactly is it, and how does it work within the collections industry? Skip tracing is a method used to locate debtors when their contact information is no longer accurate.
Volunteering for Easter
Volunteering for Easter Every year the Tucson chapter of The Salvation Army hosts a community Easter breakfast. It is a free public event held at their hospitality house. The event had breakfast, Easter baskets, [...]
Credit Where Credit Is Due: Women in the Collections Industry
Did you know….of the 140,000 professionals in the collections industry, nearly 70% are women? Of course, it wasn’t always this way. In fact, before 1974, single women in this country couldn’t even get a credit card, much less forge a career in the credit industry. Let’s take a step back and see how the role of women in credit has evolved throughout the years.
Choosing a Collection Agency: Weighing Price vs. Value
Your past-due accounts are taking up too much of your precious time, and you’re at your wit’s end. As a business owner, you’ve been thinking about turning them over to a collection agency. But you keep asking yourself one big question: Is the cost worth it?