CheckMark Collections specializes in account receivable management/financial service. As revenue recovery specialists, we offer our client a convenient, hassle-free way to collect debt; and for the debtor an opportunity to pay in a way that is easy and respectful.

Yes, our mission is to assist businesses return earned revenues to their top line.

I (Melissa Nash) am the president and bring over 30 years in the business finance industry to the company. I am no stranger to the Glades area; I grew up in Belle Glade. My grandmother Rosa was Postmaster and also a teacher at Gove ECE specializing in Deaf Education.

I lead a team of specialists including James Pierre, Collections Manager. James, originally from Miami, understands a multi ethic community and the diversity of our rural community.

We already have several clients from the Glades area, and I still come out regularly to support local business. I’m always excited to see advancement in any industry and look forward to working with the Chamber to promote commerce in the Glades area.

What’s special about where we are today is that the pandemic allowed our business to go back home and operate. I started as a home-based business in 2007 and was featured in INC. magazine in 2009 as  1 of 11 Businesses You Can Start in Your Pajamas.

With a proven model, we are now offering opportunities to be awarded a Franchise and join our brand. The goal is to build entrepreneurs and have small and local, serve small and local.

We are highly regulated both State and Federally, we refer to all the Departments and Regulatory Agencies as “alphabet soup”. The best advice I can give is that for any reason you find yourself behind in payments, even if by unintentional oversight, just talk to the person on the other side of the phone, it is their job to work with you on a solution.

Tell us about MCA Fishing 21, LLC: We started as a dream conceived in a small Texas garage in 2013. That dream led me to tournament fishing. While fishing, I realized some important life lessons in patience and perseverance. These, among other life skills, I felt were desperately needed in the youth, and I wanted to help pass these skills on to them. This brought me back home to the Glades with a vision to reach out and mentor the youth in our community.  

Does MCA Fishing 21, LLC have a Mission/Vision?  Yes, our mission is to bring today’s youth together and provide them with discipline, stability and a growing mindset that will develop them and ultimately our communities.  Giving life skills learned through fishing and hunting.

Tell us about your management team: I am the founder and CEO Jeffery J. Willis Jr. I was born in South Bay and grew up in a single parent home where my mother raised me with strong biblical principles which guide me today. Khadeidra K. Willis is our manager, and my wife! Her background is in developing and mentoring youth. Which she has done for elementary through college age youth for over the last 15 years.

Name a “fun fact” about the business:  Not many people know this but; three games into the 10th season of me playing professional football, I quit to start fishing… #fromfootballtofishing!