Agreed with your points below.<div><br></div><div>How do you send an email invoice? Do you do a PDF with the Mac? Using Quickbooks to do the invoice?</div><div><br></div><div>What about people who don't have an email? I have a few older customers who don't have a computer.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think email is a good way to go, considering our modern era. My practice now is to leave an invoice. Most people expect to pay me before I leave. I allow churches to mail payment. And folks who aren't at home while I'm there.</div>
<div><br></div><div>--</div><div>JF<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:24 PM, David Andersen <<a href="mailto:david@davidandersenpianos.com">david@davidandersenpianos.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">My friends----
<div><br></div><div>Would you like to be treated like a doctor, or a lawyer, or a skilled artisan?</div><div><br></div><div>Or would you like to be treated like a day worker, or a cable installer, or a shade-tree mechanic? </div>
<div><br></div><div>In the first group, the work, and the atmosphere surrounding the work, is the focus; actual money exchange happens later.</div><div><br></div><div>In the second group, the focus is on getting the check.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you want to make more money and have more respect, act like a business with cash flow. If somebody wants to give you a check, OK.</div><div>I hardly ever handle money now, and most of my clients (still) are private entities. I send an email invoice within 24 hours of the work; I haven't been stiffed once since I started this protocol 6 years ago. Well, once, by a white-collar criminal in Malibu...300 bucks.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A hard and fast rule: those who<b><span style="text-decoration:underline"> seem</span></b> like they couldn't care less about getting paid make a lot more money and are trusted quicker and deeper. People just like it better way back in the deep, old part of their brains. Don't fight the wiring.</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>David Andersen</div><div>(flame suit on)</div></font></div></blockquote></div><br><br></div>