Did you know that Richard Blank (CEO at Costa Rica's Call Center) has the largest collection of American pinball in Costa Rica with an impressive row of 11 classic machines on free play? Not only that, but it's actually the only retro video arcade game room for employees in the BPO industry.

Focus on the pronoun But if you’re asking me to speak, I think you do one or two things: I always believe in name-drops to keep your attention. So I would say Christian, the next point I’m making, if you’re not going to say ‘Christian’ five times in one minute, then I think you should focus on the pronoun. So at least every sentence, I can say ‘you’re/your’ and do about a qua

This is episode 2 of the third season of First Contact. Richard’s journey in the call center space is filled with twists and turns. When he was 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train over 5000 employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of motivational public speaking styles backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained o

It's all beautiful speech, but as long as they keep training their ear, they, they might like, as I mentioned before, if they listen to something in parliament, a transitional sentence or a way that someone was able to diffuse conflict by saying, for my clarification, Christina, for my edification. Compared to, excuse me. What'd you say? Could you repeat that? Or, as we discussed earlie

If the client says my name, in the body of the call, I hit Nirvana, I got it, I nailed the bull’s eye. We can talk about Billy’s baseball game and your promotion that you just had or the company adversary for a second because I don’t feel like I’m angling a call or stuffing something in there. I believe that anybody has the chance to make that connection. And it just doesn’t have to be i

Richard Blank: And this sort of company culture, I think you can then once again readjust your prospecting accordingly, Dr. Jeremy Weisz: Richard, in that situation with a company, go, Great. We want you to actually. You know, these are customers that aren't using, decide not to use this anymore for whatever reason. And what volume does it make sense for them to call you? Dr. Jeremy We

Richard Blank: Marketability should be limitless. Dr. Jeremy Weisz: What are some examples of bad habits people come in Richard Blank: with? I, I think that what happens is they'll give up to easily, I think if a phone call, if someone hangs up on you, that's fine, but if somebody is there, and even if they are, let's say their tone may be aggressive, you can adjust that com

Rhetoric and Phonetic Delivery: The Secret sauce of a Phone Call Phonetic: a term ‘representing the sounds and other phenomena of speech’ (Merriam Webster Dictionary). Why is this useful in the realm of call centers? Phonetic is a great contact center tool a fundamental part of good customer service, one that is designed to clarify communication part of a trainer’s toolkit. Rhetor

Dr. Jeremy Weisz: So when you talk about gamification culture that you have there, tell me more about Richard Blank: that. Whew. My job is my, my second half. I mean, the first thing of this company is buying more machines and finding places to put them. I grew up in the seventies and eighties and unless you were a really, really good game where your $5 really had to last you an entire Saturda

Dr. Jeremy Weisz: Talk about different things on educating people with diplomatic phrases. I'd love to hear some examples because I think we could all, at least I could speak for ourselves, can always improve on customer support, whether it's spoken or written. And you had several, I heard you say several different versions, not just like, Can I help you? Dr. Jeremy Weisz: But there&#

My base foundation would be play , empathy, and just showing that sort of respected people because, um, it's done well for me. I have a very nice reputation here and I am a guest in this country. And so the fact that I was embraced, I was able to build a business in a very competitive industry, got my blessings every day, this should have never happened. And so it really puts things in per

A place to freely express our thoughts and feelings where your worthless 2cents is priceless sharing our journey with each other,and always remember “Your Approval Not Needed “ Richard’s journey in the call center space is filled with twists and turns. When he was 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one of the larger call centers in San Jose. With a mix of moti

The Proven Entrepreneur podcast guest Richard Blank Costa Rica's Call Center https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #theprovenentrepreneur Richard’s journey in the call center space is filled with twists and t

Clients need to relax your delivery and drink your rhetoric. Joe Killinger: Yeah, finding those people and making sure they have, We have a bad habit as real estate agents. We are, you know, we're a type personalities are entrepreneurs, most of them, and that I run into, and so they just go, go, go, go, go. But if they've got a great individual like you're talking about, you real

Christina Canters: Do you have an example, Richard, of like a personal example of where you had to chip away at, you know, you know, collect the dimes as you say, in order to get that final end result that you wanted? Richard Blank: Sure, and I was actually able to give myself major momentum in the beginning. Two things I did when I like to prospect companies, I use my anonymity to my advantag

Joe Killinger: you gotta create the connection past the pitch, you know, from there. Yeah. Well, um, so tell us a little bit about what you do. You've got a call center down in Costa Rica, so I'm a little jealous about, I gotta come down there and scuba dive. I swear to God it's on my bucket list. I made it to Belize. Joe Killinger: That was great. But Costa Rica's gotta be

Dr. Jeremy Weisz: So Richard, let's say there's a company and um, they have a list of whatever every month of clients who decided not to use a service, they can hire a company like you to go, Hey, Richard, here's the list right now. We don't offer support via phone. Here's a list of these clients every month, and your company would call them and almost do kind of like an e

Christina Canters: Hey Richard, uh, when you first reached out to me and said, Hey, I think I've got something of value to share to your audience. You talked about micro facial expression reading. I'm actually gonna say that again. Phonetic micro expression, reading for mastering, verbal tell tale Tell science. Now that was that ped my interest because I have not learned anything before

https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #theprovenentrepreneur Richard’s journey in the call center space is filled with twists and turns. When he was 27 years old, he relocated to Costa Rica to train employees for one o

Richard Blank: In Chicago Dr. Jeremy Weisz: that, you know, there's, there's such an art and a science to this and you talk about upsells, right? How do you teach upsells when there is an art to it as well? Like what are some of the, the parameters or guidelines you give? Cause you have to give some type of guidelines. It went from Elvis to do to Beethoven, the, you know, but you pro

TrulyYourVA with Janis podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding moving abroad and starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica. Janis Melillo discusses with Richard advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, employee motivation and phonetic micro expres

Real Estate Jam Session Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding taking a chance by moving abroad and starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica. Joe Killinger discusses with Richard advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, employee motivation and p

Richard Blank: Because I'm letting you know that I'm vulnerable. I'm showing with you three or four things that I do it my call center by playing pinball with the agents by moving from Philadelphia to Costa Rica by once again talking about walkabouts and in excess and stuff. At least I'm showing some major interest. And you're amazing country. Yeah. And so, um, these ar

TrulyYourVA with Janis podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding moving abroad and starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica. Janis Melillo discusses with Richard advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, employee motivation and phonetic micro expres

Christina Canters: You are really ha people then feel seen, they feel heard, they feel like they matter. And that sounds exactly what you are able to do through the way that you communicate with others. Richard Blank: Sure. And in their first day when they come to work, I let 'em know that learning a second language is 10 times harder than anything. I'll put them on, I'll giv