Nobody likes being asked for money, and nobody likes asking for it. “Neither a borrower nor a lender be” is a Shakespeare quote that reflects our general aversion to mixing money and relationships.
Companies don’t want to be in debt, but they also don’t want to let outstanding debts remain uncollected. How can they push clients and customers to make repayments without accidentally pushing them away? Nobody likes being asked to make a payment, even when it’s genuinely owed.
Even if businesses are right to expect the money they’re owed, soliciting the debtor for funds risks alienating them. Companies invest a lot of money into branding and marketing, so they’re understandably reluctant to undermine their relationships with B2B businesses and customers.
On the other hand, letting debts go unpaid means being without badly needed money and establishing a bad precedent.
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Pro Debt Collectors, the Neutral Buffer
If a customer sees a payment request from a brand they like, rightly or wrongly, it may turn them off the brand. Everyone understands that shooting the messenger isn’t fair, but in practice, it happens.
Hiring a professional debt collector to play this role accelerates debt collection without harming your branding. Companies shouldn’t let debt collection hamper their marketing efforts, but they also can’t let the debts go uncollected.
Hiring a professional collection agency like Summit Account Resolution can solve both issues quickly and effectively.
Better Skip Tracing
Outstanding debts can be an obstacle to developing future relationships. Companies don’t want to do business with people or other companies with a pattern of delinquent payments because it’s a financial and even psychological strain on the company. Every dollar of unpaid debt also takes a corresponding toll on the company.
The level of skip tracing offered by the best debt collectors is truly a game changer because they use licensed private detectives. In contrast, many debt collectors rely on free tools and databases available to everybody else.
If you can find a debt collector with their own private detective, they’ll track your debtors and their assets more quickly and effectively. Companies won’t resent delinquent debtors as much because they aren’t the ones personally dealing with them. On a more basic level, there are also fewer delinquent debtors, an even better result.
Smoothing Out Employee-Employer Issues
Sometimes, the financial drain within a company isn’t caused by B2B partners or customers but by the company’s own employees. Professional debt collectors can also play a vital role in recouping employee debt, no matter how it was caused.
Technical glitches can result in overpayments, which can be tricky to recoup without causing distress. If an employee genuinely misunderstands the policy around business expenses, a professional debt collector can iron it out without causing either party undue stress.
Yes, professional debt collectors help keep relationships intact between companies and their partners and customers, but they also help raise employee morale. Between the effortlessly improved debt collection and the tremendous boost to vital relationships, you may be surprised by all the ways collection agencies support the relationships that drive your business forward.