by Dennis Beaver | accounting, business, debt collection
September 22, 2023 • By Dennis Beaver A common complaint — especially from small-business owners — is the failure or refusal of their customers or clients to pay their bills on time, or pay them at all. I submit that a certain amount of this, sadly, is encouraged by...
by Dennis Beaver | business, insurance, lawyers
April 19, 2019 • By Dennis Beaver “I work both in sales and as a tech for a mid-west technology company. As an hourly employee, I can see the potential for going out on my own and earning far more than what I am currently being paid. “Today, with so much business,...
by Dennis Beaver | business, medicine
July 17, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver “We have all heard of the importance of a ‘Rainy Day Fund’ for such things as being out of work for a period of time or facing an expensive car repair, ‘Amy’ wrote. “But I have never heard of anything similar for a business and...
by Dennis Beaver | business, contracts, ethics
July 22, 2022 • By Dennis Beaver “My husband, ‘Dean,’ is looking into starting his own market research company structured very much like part-time jobs he had while in college: phoning people and asking questions about products or services. He would hire...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney, business, dui - drunk driving, employees, lawyers
April 8, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, your recent story about the employer who recommended a personal injury law firm to his employees because he liked the firm’s television ads hit a nerve with me. I am involved in something similar that I would like to...
by Dennis Beaver | business, employees, estate planning, family, hospice
April 29, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver Business owners, longtime employees, families — we are all caught up in life’s challenges. Things go along more or less the same day after day, and then, out of the blue, come the words no one ever wants to hear: It’s terminal. “So...