speezack wrote:
As a bondsman: I AM A SOLE PROPRIETOR!!! so I only have to worry about me... I just don't need all the extra headaches of other agents.... so, having said that............. you may also consider incorporating.
Excel from MS Office Professional 2007... can be tweaked to whatever you want and the info is always there and easily accessed... I use simple Quicken 2008 Business (I update about every 3 or 4 years if I think there are noticeable updates) for my financial stuff and it can also be tweaked to your requirements... that is all your should need although there are always those high dollar programs that someone is always trying to get you to use... I also have Quick-books Professional that is used by my CPA but I use Quicken Business and transfer to the Quick-books cause my CPA likes it... I think it is frankly overkill.... all I am basically interested in is.... the bond amount; power numbers; date issued; date forfeited; finalized or revoked or however it ends; name of defendant; premium charged; amount collected; premium paid; admin fee if any; collateral if any; MY MONEY including my BUF account... Maybe some other related stuff but that is about it.
Quicken can be set up to handle anything... if you have a good head on your shoulders you can do anything you want with these two basic programs.... I keep a digital copy of all correspondence and I back it up daily on a portable hard drive and a zip drive which I can plug into any of my 3 computers... desktop as the 'mainframe' with two laptops... I don't own a "Blackberry" or whatever cause it is IMHO overkill also.... I cotton to the "KISS" (Keep it simple, stupid)
YOU JUST DON'T NEED ALL THE FANCY STUFF TO GET THIS JOB DONE CORRECTLY, SIMPLY AND KEEP IT UP TO DATE AND CURRENT IN EVERY ASPECT.... unless you just like complicating stuff................ take care. hope this helped a bit... I am fairly sure the more astute and larger organization will have much more complicated advice.... but for me it is the 'KISS' thing.
Haha kiss theory eghh that's a good one
I love my Bankers Bail BB Tracer it req office 07 and uses Access unfortunately I can't use it for any other surity specific to Bankers and does live updates to them every time I update something reports in real time to bankers
Being I have 4 Surities well 5 technically 2 with Powers on hand one for Imigration and the other 2 non write Ability only allowed to call but have no liability
I have 3 licensed Bondsman in MD under me One in Delaware and I have the ability through Surity of having access to 15 more Bondsman throughout MD some in Ocean City, Hagerstown, Alagan County 5 Hours from me, Glen Burnie, fredrick and PG county few in VA to costly for lic there they post for me in PG and Mongomery with Saint Mary
And I'm in Process of training 4 new pot Bondsman and 3 runners who just Want Post working out details after I finalize DE and get up plan on Taking PA and hopefully Ohio and WV to
I have silent Partners who back me legally and financially they want US to get Big but I want be stable and the bigger I get the more headaches I'm coming across
I'd kill to have someone to handle all my finances should see them girls run when they see my 30 bags of black trash bags of receipts hahah I know I'm Horrable
We currently Provide Process clients are lawyers from FL to Nc to Va and MD, we work ahnd on hand with several finance companies and repo companies
Imigration Bond's I have no liability on and just call example 10 grand INS Bond I make $500 or ref and do no work
For Recoveries kinda of slow at moment we provide for FCS. And few other Surities and a few Bondsman in past worked with Chesapeak under another name and Bondsman
We Provide Bonds for all of MD and DE I have ability to post bonds for any state in US
I just don't at the moment
I have 4 trainees for process serv and Repo and Skip Tracing with recoveries and I'm trying to recruit more recently I fired 3 people for being to fricking lazy not answering my calls when they were forwarded to them
All of my Agents are ether paid a fee or percentage to post no ones salary once I finalize my NC deal I def plan on getting a LLC possibly a S-Corp LLC
Note all agents and employees are 10-99 no insuriance for these guys sorry cost to fricking much and there to of Risk to me
So as you can see I'm still small but have a large capacity and am growing every day now if I could get people who would stop this it takes 6 months to get 600 bucks I'd be a lot Better off
I like your Old school tactics but to me I find them to hard to handle all I need when I first started they were fine But now I need something more automated or soon I'm going go out My mind.
PS writing this on my Blackberry Tour which is up for sale sprint should buy it will come down so you can show me your kiss system hahah
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