Tag: Best Practices
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Customer Story: How a Plumbing Subcontractor Got Their Delinquent Customers to Pay Up
When we first got to know Marisol, she was dealing with a problem that may sound familiar to just about anyone reading this post: Bay was having trouble collecting on a few past due invoices. In Marisol’s case, she was dealing with 2 delinquent customers, and even though she had called and emailed each customer…
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Still Using “Angry Phone Calls” or “Prayer” to Get Paid? See the Top 11 Wrong Ways to Manage Lien Rights.
Many of our customers that fall into the “in-house category” simply realize that lien rights management is better left to the experts like zlien, and they could be doing far more valuable work with all of the time spent trying to navigate complex lien laws. For companies lucky enough to be growing, it often doesn’t…
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The 7 Worst Construction Lien Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make!
We’ve been at this a long time here at zlien. Over about a decade in business, we’ve helped thousands upon thousands of folks just like you in the construction industry get paid the money they’ve earned on their projects. Over that time we’ve also learned quite a bit, to the point that we are now…
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3 Reasons to Send Voluntary Preliminary Notices
We consider sending notices to be an undisputed industry best practice, and that by putting in the time on the front end of a project (by sending notices), you can save yourself and your company a significant amount of time, money, and headaches, if a payment issue were to arise on the project at some…
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Quick Tips to Manage Financial Risk and Get Paid in Construction
The ability to secure payment for labor and/or materials furnished to improve property is built directly into the laws of every single state in the country – all 50 of ’em, and all of the U.S. Territories too! These laws are incredibly powerful tools, however, you just need to meet the statutory requirements in order…