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Cashflow tip – Improve Cashflow - Simply Invoice Promptly!
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Published on Thursday, 20 April 2017 09:59
Most small business owners struggle about asking to be paid, yet one of the best ways to improve your cashflow is invoicing PROMPTLY!. When you run a business, (especially service businesses) if you don’t invoice promptly as well as follow up payment promptly (which causes a cash crisis in the first place), then … consider the following –
Consequences for your cashflow:
1. Clients quickly forget what they owe you.
2. They are less likely later to remember how much they loved your work and pay you promptly.
3. They may conclude that you do not expect quick payment and will take their time in sending in their money.
Some ACTION solutions to take:
1. Where possible, issue invoices at the time services are delivered.
2. Send your invoice by email to speed the process.
3. If you can’t issue immediately, be sure to issue your invoices weekly, or at least twice per month on designated days, such as on the 15th and the last day of each month.
4. Do it like clockwork – it will help to even out your cashflow.
Take-away message -
Create the habit - invoice quickly and often!
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One of our clients said the business finance is now in the BEST shape it has ever been – our 3-5 hrs work weekly involves managing the invoices, debtor payment follow up and now supplier payments! The owner now can catch up on quoting jobs and finalizing the sale to grow the business and not get caught IN the business day-to-day details.
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