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title: "Simon's Says Newsletter #70 👀"
description: "In this issue:  Accelerating Your Collection Accounts, the Simon's Way, Stats, Links, & More!"
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 In this issue: Accelerating Your Collection Accounts, the Simon's Way, Stats, Links, & More!

| Simon's Says - Issue #70 - September 2020 View As Web Page Accelerating Your Collections With the Coronavirus Pandemic wreaking havoc across the board for retailers, physicians, and healthcare organizations, furloughs and layoffs have become a daily assault on our newsfeeds and colleagues’ livelihoods. With this in mind, it might be time for you to start thinking about accelerating your bad debt collections and letting your specialized third-party collectors handle your accounts sooner. Just like the services your organization expertly provides, debt collection is a specialized service that is best left to the professionals so you can get back to doing what you do best, and often do exceptionally well. Click Here to Read the Full Article Learn More About Simon's Accelerator Program Can't You Hear Me Knocking? If you like the Rolling Stones song by the same name, you’ll really appreciate this scary fact, Americans are only answering their cell phones 47% of the time according to Hiya, an authority on the subject.  Less than half of all attempts to reach consumers on their cell phones are successful and yet statistics show that Americans check their cell phone every 12 minutes or 80 times each day! Click Here to Read the Full Article The Simon's Way In the last 6 months of 2020 during the most trying time in the world, we at Simon's Agency, Inc. have found that we could work, hire, and train remotely. We have always prided ourselves in promoting the "Simon's Way" of debt collection throughout the industry by using empathy and emotional intelligence in working with our clients' patients and customers. Click Here to Read the Full Article A Day in the Life: Theft by Dispute In the spirit of our previously-published Who’s Got Your Six blog post, we are introducing a new From the Owner’s Corner blog series that highlights some of the critical exposure points that your third-party collection agencies face in their everyday work of collecting your outstanding receivables. Through a recent series of events that epitomize the blatant disregard for debt validation in favor of juicing a system intended to help the few consumers who use the process legitimately, this article exposes the hypocrisy that some attorneys and credit repair companies use to exploit the process that allows consumers to ask for validation of a debt or to dispute its accuracy. Click Here to Read the Full Article Source:  Statisa How will the US ever repay all of this debt? The pandemic is turning into a super-expensive business quagmire US divorce rates skyrocket during Covid-19 Affordability “crisis” causing problems for consumers with medical debt Facebook will pay you to de-activate your account in leadup to election NPR Poll: Financial pain from pandemic ‘much, much worse’ than expected And one just for fun... The Twitter account shaming the New York Times for typos     Simon's Agency, Inc. \| 4963 Wintersweet Drive, Syracuse, NY 13088 \| 315-454-8700 You received this email because you are subscribed to emails from Simon's Agency, Inc.  Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive. |
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