My name is Sherry. I work with a company called Schel Management Credit. This is a company that my father started in the late seventies- back then it was called Omega Commercial Investigators. Back then, we focused on helping our clients recover what they could from debtors who had gone delinquent (actually I helped vacuum the office for my allowance back then- but that helped the staff with skip tracing and enforcement- it did, it did!).
Over the course of a few years dad noticed that in way too many instances our clients were spending time and money trying to collect a fraction of a debt that should never have gone bad in the first place…
Of course no debt *should* go bad, but these were situations where, if our client had tried a few fairly simple things earlier in the process, the problem wouldn’t have become a problem.
As a kid, I wasn’t exactly sure what my dad did. I did know, though, that it was NOT a collection agency. Dad was emphatic about that. It was accounts receivable management. Now that phrase is attached to virtually all collection agencies. Back then not so much. The point was, though, that there were some very basic differences between the system my dad developed and what was generally available to companies who needed help collecting a receivable.
Thirty three years later, it turns out that there are still some basic key differences between what Schel provides to our clients and what is generally available. Mainly, we are here to help our clients avoid the issues in the first place… also our fee structure is wildly different from most companies in this sector of business. Over the course of this blog I’ll touch on some of the differences in the context of various situations common to clients who run receivables. For now if you’d like more information, simply click our website link. Or contact me!! Yes! That is a lovely way to find out more- I’d love to meet the people who end up reading this!
Ultimately, though, this blog is, as most blogs are, a way for me to find out more about the community online who are interested in this stuff, and most importantly, to learn about other viewpoints, issues, commonalities and differences in approaches. We, probably like you, simply want to be the best we can be and we’re hoping with feedback and in getting to know this community, we can do that.
Anyway, thanks for checking this out, and I look forward to getting to know you!
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