Cash is King: Credit Control/Collections for small businesses..

Those who know me may know a previous hat (sic) I wore was as a credit manager. I worked both in the areas of credit assessment and credit control/collections. While often this was for large companies like Dell, Yellow Pages and NTL a large chunk of the time was spent setting up and managing Credit Control facilities for companies like Euro Sales Finance a large factoring company in the UK. This means me and my team had to deal with the book debts of a large portfolio of small companies. So I have a unique insight into the problems and threats faced by many different types of companies from a cash flow perspective.

Obviously cash flow has become a problem over the last few months and, just lately, in a kind of conversational way I’ve found myself being asked for advice by friends and peers in startups who are having issues with defaulters. Of course I gave them what help I could in a short conversation, just simple steps and techniques for dealing with their clients and they were very grateful.

Anyway the same folks have coerced me into running a course on Credit control and Collections for small businesses and I’ve agreed. So I’ve put together 2 options. One is a two hour evening course and the other a more in depth half day course. It’s not fixed in stone but I’m told that 100 euro per person is about the right price for the 2 hour session and around 250 for the half day. What do you think?

There will be course resources as well and some other speakers may join us on the half day course. The venue is most likely Dublin initially but I can do it in other places as well. I’ll solidify details and dates when I’m more sure of the interest level.

If you’re interested in this type of thing or if you have any feedback on what I’m proposing please leave a comment below.