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Why It’s Important to Follow Up with Customers About Payment
This is a pretty simple statement. Why would you wait to collect from a customer? Well some businesses bill out after the work has been done, what’s been sold etc. so they have to wait for the customer to send in the money back to them. As soon as the work is done send out [...]
Bulk Pricing for our “Beware Letters”
We have had a lot of bigger businesses ask us about bulk pricing and if we do that sort of thing and our answer is…..YES. If your business or company has more than 20 letters that need to be sent out then feel free to send us an email at support@businessbeware.biz for a custom quote. [...]
The “Beware Letter” Rocks
Good afternoon! Here are some recent testimonials that we received from different people who have used our “beware letter” and got paid by their customer. For more information on what we offer check out our beware letter. “I found your site through a friend and I had been trying to get this certain customer to [...]
When a Customer is Rude to Your Employees
We had someone send in a question and ask us this: “What do you do with a customer that is rude to your employees?” Here is our response: It often makes us wonder why a manager or business owner would take the side of a belligerent customer. One that continuously is confrontational and demeaning to [...]
Bad Customers Even at Starbucks
I was going about my day today and had to make a quick run to pick up some office supplies and there was a beacon of light right in front of me “Starbucks.” So I got everything I needed, checked out and headed over there to pick up a lovely nonfat peppermint latte that was [...]
Collection Agency Percentages Flushed Down the Toilet
For those of you who are trying to collect money from customers and are tired of the collection agencies collecting crazy % from you, we are here to say… we are too. We run small businesses and it’s so aggravating having to pay other companies to collect the money that we worked hard for but [...]
Don’t Outsmart Your Common Sense
Okay common sense people. If a customer signs a contract and then decides not to stick with the agreement are you going to write them off? NO. If a customer tells off your employees just because they are angry and are actually the ones in the wrong with the situation are you going to say [...]
Bad Customers For Sale
If you don’t have enough bad customers already, here’s another one for you for sale or loan. Don’t be afraid to fire that bad customer or auction them off like we do… If you win you also get a Business Beware t-shirt of choice, other cool swag and a signed photo of this bad customer. [...]
The “Business Beware” Challenge
What is the “Business Beware” challenge you ask? Well today on the show we decided to open up the floor for anyone who would like to tell us why they think the customer is or not always right. You know how we feel about (and if you don’t well we think the customer is always [...]
How Many Customers Have You Fired?
Okay you asked for it… On the show last Saturday we talked about how we asked our friends on Facebook and Twitter how many customers they fired since they first started their business. Here are what some of them had to say: “Since I started my business five years ago I have had to fire [...]
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We were tired of reading books and hearing from "experts" about how to deal with customers, yada, yada... when they have never owned a business. Most of them write that stuff for fluff but we are the non-fluff small business people who decided to go against the "experts." Here at Business Beware we don't whine and complain about how bad a customer was, we do something about it. We are here to balance the scales between the businesses and customers.
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