Blog: 2014

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has, without question, taken over the internet in the last few weeks. As anybody with a Facebook profile can attest, people all over the country have taken video of themselves dumping ice water on themselves while nominating their friends to do the same, raising awareness, and making donations to research for ALS, or “Lou Gehrig’s Disease” as it is commonly known.

On the Money section of their web site this week, Time Magazine ran an article entitled: "9 Ways to Outsmart Debt Collectors."

The approach of the article makes sense, as the Buzzfeed culture of the internet is such that people love lists and countdowns. In that sense, all this was missing was a slideshow. Unfortunately the title of the article, the headline that is worth clicking, implies that debt collections is always combative. It suggests that it is always "you vs. them" and that there are ways to fight back and get around the issue at hand.

Here is an interesting number, one that might surprise a number of people given the negative stigma that is attached to a person being sent to collections.

According to a recent report, more than 35 percent of American adults are in collections.

Patrick Lunsford of InsideArm passes along the data from the TransUnion report:

TAG was honored once again last week to take part in the annual Rochester Chamber Golf Event at Willow Creek Golf Course here in Rochester, MN. It was a great as expected. We thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to connect with people and businesses from the Rochester community.

This year's theme was time travel. For our hole, the par 4 no. 4 at Willow Creek, we went all the way back to 1903 to honor the Wright Brothers and the first flight.