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Dr. Jeremy Weisz: Um, what about from a service perspective? People calling, maybe, maybe they're a fit from a company perspective, uh, the type of company you serve, but they're looking for a different type of service. What are the, the service type of services that maybe people are expecting that you're, you tell them, we don't, we don't really do that here. Richard B

On this episode of the Inside BS Show, Dave Lorenzo interviews Richard Blank, the owner of a call center in Costa Rica. How to Build a World Class Call Center | Richard Blank | Show 95 description On this episode of the Inside BS Show, Dave Lorenzo interviews Richard Blank, the owner of a call center in Costa Rica. 00:00 How to Build a World-Class Call Center 01:02 What are the unique qualit

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First question. Sure. Why did you decide to open a call center in Costa Rica? That's one of my favorite questions, Michael, and I appreciate you asking it. I have to go back a couple years and tell you where it all began. When I was growing up in Northeast Philadelphia, a lot of opinions were provided for you and sometimes your destiny and careers were predecided for you. So a lot of m

It's amazing. I I've talked to a lot of people that have traveled internationally. I haven't had the ability to, yet. I plan on doing it at one point in time, but I will, I don't think I'm not gonna no. So, but what they tell me is that when you leave this country and you go elsewhere, mm-hmm, people who have nothing. And I mean, nothing mm-hmm can still be happy. It. A

And I can tell you from my experience in, in management, that when you treat people well, you treat people fairly. Uh, they tend to want to stay there. They tend to tell their friends and family, Hey, you should come work where I am. We really like it there. And your turnover goes down. Your productivity goes up and your, your company culture becomes a very positive thing. And there's some

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Should that have lost their way. We have, we have those encampments here now. And, uh, and it's, it's a, it is a big problem here. And it's because we, as a people, don't take care of each other as, as well as we should. Um, and, and there is some drug abuse and there is some, you know, uh, stuff like that, but. it's interesting that if that people will, you know, give

Michael Neuendorff: How, how do you, how do you develop sales? People who are relatively green to become someone that is effective at following your methods and processes? That, what, what, what do you look for in salespeople to know that I'm working with someone who could be great? Michael? Those are my favorite agents to. I can mold them. They're not coming in with bad habits. T

Richard Blank: Enhanced communication. Joe Killinger: Yeah. I You get it. Um, who is your, What does your typical client look like? Richard Blank: Well, there's two types. Okay. It could be someone like yourself in the United States that needs to scale, and sometimes it's difficult to find qualified individuals that will meet your requirements in the states. Richard Blank: Yep

Exactly and, and you're growing it enough that you can have a bunch of games that we're gonna talk about here in just a minute. but, uh, um, I, I wanted to, to ask you, because I believe that at least in, in the United States, actually listening is a lost art. And a lot of, I was a sales manager for a long time. Mm-hmm and I had sales guys that I would go on calls with and they would

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Joe Killinger: Richard is the, um, not listening. They're so busy. They've got somebody on the phone, they're trying to get everything out so fast and, but they're not listening to what the person on the other end is saying. And I just think that if you, you, you know, my, my father, it's amazing how the older I get, the smarter he gets it, just, you know, he goes, Joe, yo

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Richard Blank: For my clients. Dr. Jeremy Weisz: Let's talk about culture for a second and when, when Covid hit, again, like you have the tools and opportunity to do things virtually, obviously, cause people call you, you're a call center and you're doing things virtually, but what about in house? Did things change at all with Covid? Did you find that more people were able to wo

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