For the second year in a row, Boston Based Banker & Tradesman conducted a readers’ poll in which their readers cast their votes for the best providers of services and goods in the banking industry.  And for the second year in a row, American Profit Recovery won the Gold Award in Asset Recovery. 

This is a subjective poll and allows readers to tell who they believe are the best providers and we were thrilled to accept this award.

B&T Publisher Vincent Valvo presents Jeff DiMatteo and Andy Robinson our award

Congratulations to our clients who were named to this Best of 2009 poll in their categories as well:  Wainwright Bank, Bridgewater Savings Bank, ServiceMaster Clean and National Lumber.  We are proud of this accomplishment and thank all who voted.

So I’m back from Chicago … excited because I missed my coworkers but saddened to know that such a great trip had to come to an end.  I learned a lot at TS2 and have many great ideas to share with my team.

I was motivated to blog, twitter, Facebook and get on LinkedIn more after a motivational, informative speech my Omar Wasow.  If you haven’t heard of him, I recommend you follow him on Twitter (or one of the other aforementioned sites).  I learned that orange makes people move more quickly in a closing keynote from Leatrice Eisman.  Now I want to paint our whole office that color to get my coworkers moving!  Probably not the point … Continue reading »

As I write this I am on my VPN from a hotel room high atop a gorgeous hotel in downtown Chicago.  Since its been raining in Boston all week and beautiful here, I consider this a good thing.

I am in Chicago for TS2 which is an industry trade show and conference for corporate event and trade show managers.  Since this is one of the hats I wear at American Profit Recovery, my manager and one of our partners agreed that sending me here for this week was beneficial continued education.  Most of my seminars this week have been filled with people from Boeing and BAE and Pfizer and all this massively large companies with huge training budgets and teams of 10.  Then there’s me.   Continue reading »

In this day of troubled businesses and struggling consumers, we thought we would reissue a whitepaper we wrote a while back. It’s called, “Seven Illegal Things You May be Doing in your Business” and it can be downloaded here; http://www.americanprofit.net/white-papers2.htm

We did this because there is a growing number of small businesses that just don’t have the capacity to chase down their past due invoices and, in this economy can’t afford to make a mistake and break the law when doing so on their own.
The whitepaper details a number of important items including when a business can and cannot call a consumer, where they can call that person such as their home or place of employment, and what constitutes harassment. It’s a valuable tool for any business that is working their past due accounts on their own. Continue reading »

Have you ever had a TV thrown at you? Have you ever been attacked by geese? Well our own Al Scott has. Al has been in the collection industry for over 50 year; He started as a banker and ran the collection division during his time in banking. These were the days when collectors went door-to-door looking to settle debts.

Now, Al and the entire APR team take not only a diplomatic approach, but they follow all the laws that have been passed over the years. We like to think American Profit Recovery epitomizes a reputable collection agency. Al has a great story of his years in the business and Cathy Buday of the Metro west Daily News captured Al’s story in a piece that was published last week. Read it here. You’ll love it! http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/business/x488831750/A-bank-bill-collectors-tale

There also a great video of Al if you’ve never seen it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbtRoIFq5Tk&feature=channel_page 

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