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Making Good on Collections

Bad debts should be rare, but sometimes even the most well-meaning customers don’t satisfy their obligations. They may have written a bad check or they may not have paid at all. Regardless of how their customer’s debt became overdue, small businesses need to use documentation, diplomacy, and if necessary, a judgment, to collect what’s owed.

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Bonded Together

Tom and Gwenay Coniglio may have faced some trials when they began an interracial relationship, but their love may have been truly tested when they got married and went into...

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We Must Never Surrender Our Hope

Since I founded my company more than 40 years ago, there have been seven recessions. In fact, the first issue of black enterprise was published in August 1970, during the first of those recessions. Only three years later, our young company and our country would face another, more devastating, recession. This one, marked by rising unemployment, funding a war in Vietnam, and skyrocketing oil prices (sound familiar?), lasted from the fall of 1973 through the winter of 1975—almost as long as our most recent Great Recession, which started in December 2007 and officially ended in June 2009.

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