If You're Paying For "Full Service" Billing You Are Wasting Your Money!
Full Service Billing Is a Dinosaur - Instructors should STOP paying expensive monthly billing fees because billing companies rarely deliver the delinquent collections and follow up results they promise. It makes absolutely no sense to pay a billing company hundreds, and sometimes thousands of dollars each month for collection efforts that never produce extra income.
The TRUTH About Martial Arts Billing is: It is very difficult to collect from students who have quit coming to class, even if they signed a contract. Billing companies have made a fortune over the years convincing school owners to pay for "collection" efforts on students who stop coming to class. In reality, even though the billing company may make an effort to follow up with the delinquent student, the calls are probably screened with caller ID, and most of the threatening letters from the billing company probably go into the trash.
Don't Pay Higher Fees for Expensive Software and Full Service Promises That Never Come Through - In today's economic climate, people don't seem very concerned about collection efforts from a martial arts billing company. Credit has been handed out so freely over the last several years that people have become accustomed to collection calls and don't seem to be as affected by them as they may have been in the past.
Billing companies want you to think you need full service billing (which is code speak for collection calls) but you don't. When all is said and done, collection calls rarely add much to your monthly income, and they could actually be costing you future students through bad "word of mouth".
Don't Let Your Billing Company Hold Your Money - Another old trick of the billing companies is to hold your collected tuition money for weeks. Unfortunately, unscrupulous billing companies may be using their clients money as their own while holding it, and this is a very dangerous practice. When billing companies are holding a school's collected tuition, a school owner could be forced out of business if something happens to the billing company.
Every School Needs An Easy to Use, Affordable Billing System That Pays Quickly, and That's What SideKick Billing's Online Program Is All About.
My name is Rick Bell, and I want to tell you about the best billing solution I've ever seen for Martial Arts schools, but before I tell you about SideKick Billing.com, let me tell you a little about my background.
I am a veteran Black Belt Instructor and former professional Kick Boxer. I know the Martial Arts business from both sides - As a school owner, and as a Billing Company President.
My original style is TaeKwon Do, but like many instructors, I blended several systems together over the years and ended up teaching a mixed style that incorporated quite a bit of boxing.
I am the developer of the NO INTRO ENROLLMENT TOUR, the system that allows you to stop teaching intro lessons and enroll more students. I've shared the Enrollment Tour Method with thousands of instructors over the years, and the "Tour" system, in various forms, is used by many schools across the country.
I have been a columnist for "Martial Arts Professional" Magazine, and I have appeared in numerous videos, audio interviews, and seminars.
I have worked in the Martial Arts billing business for over a decade as President of a well known billing company, so I know what I'm talking about when it comes to collecting tuition for a Martial Arts school. SideKick Billing will save you money and get you paid faster, and with high speed Internet available in more places than ever, online billing is the easiest most affordable way to do your billing.
SideKick Billing Is Web Based With Nothing to Buy
SideKick Billing is a web based Martial Arts billing program that can be mastered in about 15 minutes! All you need is a computer and Internet access. There is no software to buy, and nothing to download. All screens are point-and-click simple, and extremely user friendly.
Billing Should Not Be Expensive for Your School
There have been revolutionary developments in automatic billing over the last several years, and Martial Arts schools should not be paying high fees for billing like they were a few years ago.
SideKick Billing wants to offer Martial Arts schools an honest, affordable, reliable billing system anyone can use, that will get them paid FAST.
Here Are Three Important Questions to Ask Yourself:
Question 1: Is your billing company encouraging you to use expensive software to manage your Martial Arts school?
The truth billing companies don't want you to know is, YOU DON'T NEED EXPENSIVE 'HEALTH CLUB' SOFTWARE to manage your school.
Billing companies encourage you to use their software because they want a monthly software fee from you, and even though they promise billing for a very low fee if you use their software, you may be paying several times what you should be paying for basic billing because of the expense of the software.
If you prefer to use student tracking software to manage your students, we have a very affordable solution that integrates directly with SideKick Billing. The days of paying crazy monthly fees for software are a thing of the past.
Question 2: Is your billing company "Holding" your tuition money for more than 5 days?
If they are, you should fire them immediately and get all the money that's owed you as quickly as possible! One VERY good reason to get paid every 5 days instead of waiting a month, is the fact that billing companies sometimes go out of business, and you could stand to lose an entire month's worth of income if your billing company became insolvent.
You should not allow your money to "float" around in someone else's account. If your billing company gets into trouble it is a very serious situation that could put your school out of business overnight.
Question 3: Are you paying your billing company for collection efforts that don't work?
If you're paying for "full service" billing, the answer is probably yes. All full service billing means is you pay more for billing, but don't usually see an increase in your bottom line as a result.
The sad truth about full service billing is: You may even be paying for things that can actually hurt your business, such as collection calls to your students.
When a School Switches to Online Billing They Can Save Thousands of Dollars Each Year.
Many schools don't even realize how much they're paying their billing company because the billing statement is so confusing and hard to read. CPA's even have a hard time determining what some billing statements say!
Another sad truth is that some schools may be behind on receiving their tuition payments from their billing company without even realizing it. If you receive January's tuition collections in the month of February, you are being paid late. You may have become accustomed to it, and not think much about it - but when you switch to a faster system you will realize that your tuition checks were possibly as much as one month behind.
Call 1-800-398-2213 if Anything I've Said Here Makes Sense and You Would Like More Information. SideKick is Not a Gimmick, and it's Not Martial Arts Hype.
SideKick Billing is NOT like other billing companies, in fact, SideKick is just the opposite of traditional billing companies. Until now, school owners paid way too much for billing services, and sometimes had to wait weeks - or longer - for their money.
SideKick Billing is a total paradigm shift in the Martial Arts billing business, and you will be amazed at how fast, easy, and inexpensive it really is to collect your tuition with SideKick.
Call me right now @ 1-800-398-2213.so we can discuss your school's needs.
Yours in the Martial Arts,
Rick Bell
Rick@SideKickBilling.com