3 posts tagged “plan”
Once in a while I come across a person who wants to know about community legal services. For the most part they have reached the lowest limits of their financial situation. One of the most unfortunate things is to need legal help and not know where to get it or be able to afford it.
One thing that most middle income folks who fall on hard times don't know is that when they fall below the middle income level, there are a host of free services provided for them. Of course because they have never had to access them before they have no idea of these services. One of these services is community legal services. The good thing about the internet today is all a person has to do is Google what they are looking for and they can find it. Unfortunately one of the last things that is on the mind of a person in a stressful life event is Google.
Although community legal services offer help to lower income families, what does a middle income family do when they need legal services? After all even the middle class in today's economy would have a tough time securing legal help if it was needed. The equity in our homes used to be our safety net. Today it's sort of a toss up. It will depend on where the economy is on the given day you were in need of legal assistance.
With community legal services only being available to lower income families and the middle income families not qualifying there has to be a better way. There is. It's called Prepaid Legal Services.
Did you know that 80% of Europeans have a Prepaid Legal Plan? Did you know that less than 3% of Americans even know about Prepaid Legal Services. Those in the Real Estate and financial services field for the most part have heard of it. But only a fraction of the Realtors and Financial Services professionals I know own a Prepaid Legal Plan.
If you are looking for a way to better serve your clients before they fall into hard times, consider learning the benefits of owning a Prepaid Legal Plan.
Talking with small business owers everyday gives me tremendous insight. There has never been a time when I have as aware of the potential trouble every business owner faces just because they are in business. Think about your business for a moment. Can you think of something that could potentially put you out of business. Of course this sounds like a senseless question but most business owners know the answer and do nothing about it. What will you do?
Let me give you an example. If you are in a service business where you repair personal property such as computers, copiers, clocks, or even automobiles or motorcycles, you stand a chance of not performing up to the standards of your customer. When you’re faced with the disgust of a customer what really goes through your mind? Certainly you want to take care of the problem. But once in a while there is that totally off the wall customer who demands far more than the service should provide. In fact they are purposely trying to take advantatge of your business service mishap. You know it’s not fair so you yield to their wishes because you don’t know exactly what they will do if you don’t let them have their way. This is no way to run a business.
In today’s society we have to be better prepared to make sure we can do business on our terms and not strictly on the terms of people who are trying to take advantage. Don’t get me wrong, we still have to look to serve our customers needs far above average. The key here is that when we are positioned properly from a legal perspective we stand to have much more confident conversations with disgruntled customers. This kind of confidence comes from business owners who have a Business Legal Plan. It’s not by coincidence that big businesses have attorneys on retainer or on staff. They know the frivilous law suits are bound to happen during the course of doing business because we deal with human beings. They know something that most small business owners don’t know. That is head off problems before they start. For the small business owner to protect themselves at the same level as big businesses it would be obsurd to think that they would have the resources to have an attorney on retainer or on staff.
The thing that most small business owners don’t know is there is a solution for them through a Prepaid Legal Business Owners Legal Plan. That’s what it takes to give yourself peace of mind and not haggle with customers who are looking to take advantage of you.
The question still remains. What will you do?
