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Your business has options when deciding where to send your third-party collections. At Aldous & Associates, we believe the thing that makes us stand out the most is our professional yet effective approach to collections. We are able to collect a good amount of...

When your gym sends a member to the collections process, the member may decide to dispute the claim. This happens to us at Aldous & Associates, as gym members write to our office to dispute the debt we previously contacted them about. When this happens, we send a...

When you run a gym business, you and your team likely want to focus on your collective passion for fitness. It muddies the water when your staff has to talk to members about non-compliance regarding payments, yet payment of member dues is how to run a successful gym...

When someone stops paying on their agreement, the collections process begins, ideally starting with first-party efforts to receive payment and escalating to third-party collections after a period of time. Nonetheless, the collections process doesn’t guarantee results...

When a member fails to pay their membership dues, it’s helpful to try to work out the issue directly between your gym and the member. If that fails to work, you can then send the member to the collections process to see if a third party is able to recover the lost...

Gym management has a lot of components, many of which take owners, managers and other gym staff away from where their real passions lie. It’s helpful to hand off some of these duties to software, such as gym management software, and also to third party professionals...

When clients fail to pay their dues, your business can take certain steps to encourage payment. If these fail, it’s time to consider third-party collections, which provides a degree of separation between your business and further discussions of money. At Aldous, we...

While your gym can have policies that help protect you concerning money, your members have some of their own consumer protections that may backfire on you, regardless of any policies or practices you have in place. A chargeback through a credit card is one of them,...

When someone fails to make a payment, it’s good to have your own procedures for reminding and following up. If they still fail to pay in response after a certain amount of time (we recommend three months), sending the account's information to a third-party collections...

We have all had the experience of calling a company’s customer service only to talk to someone in another country. This dynamic creates particular challenges that having a call center in the United States can solve. Not only is this true for customer service, but also...

If you like your vendor for 3rd party collections, why not also use them for 1st party collections?  We’ve had quite a few requests to start servicing 1st party collections, or accounts when they are 0-90 days past due.  1st party collections should be communication...

Recently, our very own Lizzy Goates was featured in GGFA’s publication The Voice. She wrote a great piece about having a more flexible approach to collections in 2021. The piece is below. Enjoy! Get Started TodayDoes your business need help with collections?We can...