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I writing about a topic I’m sure many of our fellow small business owners, and from my past life, large companies face. Customers paying their bills. While I understand it’s a problem everywhere I thought with canvas it would be different. After all we operate in a “Holistic” space and target the LOHAS market and aligned businesses.

Wow what a wake up call I’ve gotten….

I don’t understand how people in business casually don’t pay their bills and try to beat you out of money. We pay our bills and try to pay them in a timely fashion. There have been times for one reason or another we’ve gotten the “where’s my payment” call. That said we would never knowingly not pay our bills. Yet we have experience customers who outright lie about their intentions, talk about how honorable they are and worse make don’t make payments at all, ignoring us, hoping we’ll let it go.

What a travesty, I believe in Karma and will not speak poorly of specific companies or individuals but I’ve thought many times of using the space in our magazine to share our experience, non-payment, by some of our customers. I feel it would be a reader service. If they treat us this way clearly the image they’re portraying to their customers is false.

How can people who operate like this look at themselves everyday in the mirror and suggest to others they’re “holistic.” Fortunately most of our customers do not operate like this and are a pleasure to deal with. To them we say thank you…thank you… thank you. To the others we wish you success in becoming better people.

Tom Pellicane – Publisher, canvas Magazine