Businesses can take action to ride out tough times

If you owe money to Tom Anderson’s employee-recruiting company, don’t expect to take your time paying. Every morning, his office manager checks to see which customers have paid their bills. Clients who promised that a check was in the mail get a personal call from Anderson a week later, instead of the nice letter he used to send out. For the full story visit www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-smallbiz20-2008oct20,0,6889297.story