Swiss cheese is known for being holy. Not in the religious sense, but in the sense that there are a lot of holes in the food. As a result, many plans, campaigns, or entities who have weaknesses in their egress are often compared to Swiss cheese. One comparison that is extremely apt in modernity is the juggernaut of bureaucracy that impedes first-world business today. From taxes to zoning, employee benefits, lawsuits, and more, it becomes very difficult to run a big-ticket business successfully. What’s even worse is that even those who should be in the business of helping you obtain autonomy will stab you in the back. Business in today’s world has a cutthroat aspect difficult to deny. One of the ways lucrative throats are slit, letting their investment capital bleed out, is through avoided invoices.
Real Talk
Say you’re owner of a marketing agency. You run a small magazine that sells advertisement space at differing rates. An eighth-page ad is $20; a quarter-page ad $45, a third-page comes in at $70, and a full page is $210. A two-page spread is $410, and a cover ad is $1000. Now you sign an agreement with a real estate agency for three months of covers at $3000. You make the ad, they approve it, you print the magazine, it is circulated, and they’re happy with the ad. You send an invoice after the first month, and it is ignored. You send another one after the second month, and it’s likewise ignored. You bring the invoice to the business in person after the third month, but the receptionist won’t even let you into the office. What’s a mother to do? You’re out the cost of printing, the cost of distribution, the cost of design, and the cost of mental stability due to the stress these debt-dodging cheese-weasels have leveled against you. Now this is a small-business scenario–keep in mind, the same kind of debt-dodging regularly takes place with much higher amounts of money from much higher circles.
Solutions to Consider
The fact is, some businesses make it their prerogative to avoid paying legitimate bills as long as possible. That’s why corporate debt collection agencies like Greenberg, Grant & Richards are an absolute necessity in the modern maelstrom of mainstream business, be it large or small-scale. Sure, you can wait till the person you brokered the deal with for the cover and comes out of their office at midnight; half-soused and ready to go carousing about town (as the character of a debt-dodger often indicates). You can then intimidate them into paying you whatever they’ve got on them at the moment. Doing that will risk litigation against you. What did you think the courts of America were about justice today? Not unless you’ve got a fat wad to grease the judge with, the jury with, or whatever high-profile attorney can be had who likewise knows how to finagle his way through the Swiss cheese loopholes of a bureaucracy masquerading as government. No, it makes a lot more sense to have some sort of debt collection agency available for you for when – not if – you run into those that practice unscrupulous means of conducting business.
Closing Thoughts
It’s impossible to guarantee anything in this world, except maxims like “you don’t always get what you want” and “what can go wrong will go wrong”. Basically all we know is that the road is bumpy. So you can either cruise down it on those sensitive wheels, or invest in some off-road debt-collection tires designed to handle the roughage and still get you where you need to be.
