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Feeling Appreciated- And a Pie Video!

By Matt Helz:

This last week we celebrated employee week at APR. This is a special event for the employees that the owners have put together to show their appreciation of all the hard work and dedication.

There were many games, events and tons of food to be eaten every day.

This year, a few events really stood out for me. 1^st was the Tiger game- I was able to take my oldest son who just graduated from High School. I was a proud father, showing him off to people I work with every day. What a good time! 2^nd the Owner Breakfast. The Owners slave over griddles making omelets and pancake’s before the workday starts. This happened […]

APR2020-11-01T12:56:08-05:00June 18th, 2015|Categories: Team APR|Tags: Appreciation, Employess, Pie in the face, Staff, Video|

The one thing that makes debt collections effective

We don’t feel that we can stress this point enough; being respectful and treating consumers in a dignified manner is not only the right thing to do, but it also goes a long way in collecting more money for our clients. If you are a current client of American Profit Recovery then you know how much we focus on the issue of respect.

But if you have not yet experienced the APR difference, then you’ll want to view the accompanying video. Greg, one of our very first team members when we opened our doors, explains our philosophy in under 90 seconds. Either way, you’ll want to hear Greg’s message.

And because of that, we collect more; it’s […]

APR2021-01-31T16:06:01-05:00June 4th, 2015|Categories: Advice for Businesses|Tags: debt collections effective|

Collector’s Challenge Raises Over $2,300

If you’ve been following us for any length of time then you know we like to raise money. And yes we do collect money because that our business, but our team also loves to bring in money for several worthy causes and initiatives. From Cancer charities, jumping in a Lake in the middle of the winter for Special Olympics and funding Veterans causes, our team hits a home run every time.

This past April our team participated in the Annual Collector’s Challenge to raise money for the ACA Education Foundation. They raised over $2,300 by paying to dress in casual in the office, a March Madness Bracket event […]

APR2020-09-27T14:09:15-04:00May 11th, 2015|Categories: Team APR|Tags: ACA International Education Foundation., American Profit recovery, Collector’s Challenge, Raising money|

40 Hours (A 20th Century Idea)

When Henry Ford set the 40hour work week precedent in the 1920’s the math made sense. The automotive plants needed to run 24 hours a day to keep up with demand and 12hour shifts were too long for anyone, given the manual labor (work that is physically demanding) he expected from his employees; Notwithstanding the fact that during the industrial revolution there didn’t exist the many distractions of modern day life, dividing the workday up into three equal, 8hour parts made good sense.

Any compensation plan based solely on the number of hours worked is wedded to this idea: Wedded to the idea that no individual can work faster or more efficiently than the worker in […]

APR2020-09-16T12:37:30-04:00May 5th, 2015|Categories: Team APR|Tags: 40 hour work week, integrity, Morals, Team apr, Work ethic|

National Small Business Week-Tips for Getting Paid

National Small Business Week is May 4-8 this year. As a popular saying goes, small business is the backbone of our economy. And if you look at the past several months of Jobs Reports, you don’t need any more proof. Small business has led the way in job growth for many months and the trend continues as our economy gets back on track.

A small business is classified as any business that has under 50 employees. But many small businesses have far less than that. And the resources they need to conduct a whole host of tasks can be limited because many are serving the customer, as they […]

APR2021-06-16T09:24:23-04:00April 29th, 2015|Categories: Small Business Collections|Tags: 2015, National Small Business week|

April Is Financial Literacy Month- Tips To Stay On Track

April has been designated as Financial Literacy Month. It’s designed to help educate anyone on the practical ways in which we all need to manage our finances. It’s also meant to educate those struggling with various issues of debt and how to navigate their responsibility to those they owe money to. In the video with this post, we have a number of tips that can assist a consumer when trying to resolve an issue with a debt collector. It comes straight from one of our veteran collectors and its worth sharing with anyone you know who may need assistance.

As […]

APR2020-09-18T10:17:46-04:00March 27th, 2015|Categories: Advice for Consumers|

Sales 1%’ers !

We attended a great seminar last week from the Yes network! The speaker was a gentleman named Michael Hoffman, who was very entertaining and full of good information. His seminar was regarding how to become a top 1% sales professional. Although the seminar was geared towards sales, I think the material applies to all of us in life and communication. We all know that sales touches all of us in one way or another….. selling your kids on doing homework, friends on where to go to eat, etc., etc. Some of the main takeaways for me where as follows:

To be a top performer is not something you are born with! It is something that you […]

APR2021-01-31T13:49:41-05:00March 24th, 2015|Categories: Advice for Businesses|Tags: learning, Matt Moskowitz, Sales Training, Solutions, Yes network|

Pledge of Leadership: Service Management

There was a time, early in my career, where I measured success strictly by the numbers. Number of overtime hours I worked per week; number of consumers I successfully contacted and collected from; the number of dollars I collected; and the number of times I assisted a fellow Collector collect.

Not too long after my career in Collections at American Profit Recovery began, my career in Collections management did too. As a young manager I knew the value of goal setting and leading by example, but I still assigned success to numeric performance outcomes alone. The number of quality Collectors I could recruit, interview, hire, train, and maintain in any given calendar year; the number of […]

APR2021-01-04T11:41:44-05:00March 9th, 2015|Categories: Team APR|Tags: Collection Agencies, Goals, Leadership, Management, Service, Staffing|

What Clients Ask Us

We realize there are many collection agencies out there trying to get your business. And we understand that in many cases, it can be a big decision to bring in a collection agency and have them start contacting your customers. After all, you worked hard to attract your clients and you don’t want to lose them.

If you are a current client of American Profit Recovery, you have probably seen firsthand just how different we are when it comes to recovering the money owed to your business and the way we treat each and every consumer.

So when our team sits down with potential clients struggling to get paid on time, we are asked many questions but […]

APR2021-04-03T15:11:10-04:00March 5th, 2015|Categories: Advice for Businesses|

Time To Take The Plunge

I am glad that say that for the third year running APR will be sponsoring the Special Olympics of Michigan Polar Plunge. This year we will have a team of six employees taking the plunge at Sylvan Lake. The Special Olympics will always hold a special place in my heart. When was in high school, one of swim teammates had a disability. He came to every practice and worked as hard as anyone else, all he wanted was to be on the team. He was an inspiration.

Please join APR this weekend, Saturday the 28th at 12 pm, at Sylvan Lake community center. I hope to see you there, if you can’t […]

APR2021-01-31T16:47:10-05:00February 26th, 2015|Categories: Community Outreach|

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