In 2007, Michelle Dunn was nominated for 5 prestigious awards in the debt collection industry as well as the business industry.  Dunn's awards are more than an ego boost; they help Dunn stand out in a crowd of bigger companies with more money to spend on marketing and promotion.  "It never crosses my mind that I cannot be nominated for any award because I am not in L.A. or New York", says this N.H. resident. "I have been nominated because of my expertise and because I get the job done and done very well", says Dunn. 

Michelle was nominated for the 2007 Inc.com Entrepreneur of the Year Award as well as the 2007 New Hampshire Business Review 2007 Business Excellence Award.  Michelle's award winning book "Starting a Collection Agency, how to make money collecting money" won the 2007 New York Book Festival Award in addition to other awards it has won in the past.  The third edition of this award winning book is being released in January 2008 and has already been entered into the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards contest.  Michelle was named one of the Top 5 Women in Collections in 2007 and has been nominated as one of the Top 5 Women in Collections for 2008 as well as one of the Top 50 most influential Collection Professionals of 2007.  

The recognition these nominations and awards bring to Dunn and her work is well deserved.  Having been an entrepreneur for 10 years as well as a bill collector for 19 years, Dunn is also the author of 7 published books on the subject of business finance. Michelle is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and is frequently interviewed for popular financial magazines such as Forbes and Smart Money as well as radio and television shows nationwide.

HAUNTED HOUSE

Come help us scare the pants off the community on School St. in Rumney

 Benefits local charities

 OCTOBER 26, 27, 28 and 31, 2007

 
We need your help!

  Can you scream, groan, be spooky, decorate, build, and help with a great community driven Haunted House to help  local charities?

If so, WE NEED YOU!!!

Join us on Tuesdays and Thursdays after 6 & Saturday afternoons from now until Halloween and help us make this Haunted House a success! All ideas are welcome, donations of time, money and/or materials are greatly appreciation.

 Please call Katie at 786-9361 or Michelle at 744-9427 if you can help!

 
Things we need:

 People to dress as Ghouls, Creatures, witches, corpses, vampires

Porta  potty                                                                         

Sandwich boards                                                                        Chicken wire

Night vision glasses                                                                     dry ice

Old furniture                                                                                       fishing line

CD players or a sound guy                                                 black lights

Spider webs                                                                                            bandages

skeleton                                                                                                     fog juice

lab coat                                                                                  pumpkins & gourds

We will not discriminate against any volunteer because of severed limbs, bleeding, excessive screaming, age, religion or general creepiness. Actually we encourage it!

Inc.com has selected Michelle Dunn as one of their Entrepreneur of the Year for 2007. The Inc.com editorial team has selected Dunn from many businesses nationwide, and has advanced her business to the next round of the 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year search. They have also have created a page for Michelle on their site at:  http://www.inc.com/entrepreneur/2007/profile/index.php?dunn218  Editors and other readers will now have a chance to read about Michelle and submit comments. Inc.com  encourages friends and colleagues to submit comments about Michelle on this website so they can review them when making a final decision.

Inc.com is a daily resource for Entrepreneurs and annually chooses a business that makes a difference as their Entrepreneur of the year. They also publish a monthly magazine with articles and tips for Entrepreneurs. Inc.com, the website for Inc. magazine, delivers advice, tools, and services, to help business owners and CEOs start, run, and grow their businesses more successfully. You'll find information and advice covering virtually every business and management task, including marketing, sales, finding capital, managing people, and much, much more.

Michelle Dunn, author of an award winning book has spent the last 19 years stepping into dangerous debt collection potholes.  She shares her hard-won expertise on debt collection with the titles in her "Collecting Money Series." Michelle was a bill collector for 19 years and started and ran her own collection agency for 8 years. She is also the founder of her Credit & Collections Association with thousands of members worldwide. Michelle was named one of the Top 5 Women in Collections as well as one of Collection Advisor's Top 50 Collection Professionals as well as being nominated for a 2007 Business Excellence Award and has been featured worldwide in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Smart Money Magazine, and MSNBC.  Michelle has been a featured guest on (NPR) National Public Radio and many other radio programs as well as published in many newspapers and magazines nationwide. For more information visit www.michelledunn.com

The WSJ video is live if you want to check it out:

The Journal's Raymund Flandez talks to author Michelle Dunn about when and how small businesses should think about hiring a collection agency. (Sept. 24)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119049789579136405.html?mod=SmallBusinessSmallBusinessLink_feature_articles

Today and tomorrow I will be moderating the debt collection forum you see there as well.

So please come over there and check it out and if you have any questions, please join in!

Check Your Credit Policy Expertise with Michelle's Quiz

I bleong to a networking group called "Women Inspiring Women"and we met last week at Steel Hill Resort.  There was a reporter from the Citizen, and she wrote a great story, check it out!

Back in early July, there was a brouhaha over Sprint's (NYSE: S) decision to terminate roughly 1,000 subscribers because of persistent calls to customer service (the average was about 40 to 50 calls per month).

But isn't the customer king?

Check out the rest of this story at http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/08/11/fire-your-customers-sometimes-their-business-just-isnt-worth-i/ and please leave your comments!

Stephen Colbert's Threat Down- the bankruptcy announces that this is class warfare!  Stephen calls for the re-instatement of debtors prisons!

http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=90630&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_c..show&ml_origin_url=/shows/the_colbert_report/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml%3Fstart%3D16&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true