Excellent Executive Coaching Podcast. Connecting with a Person on an Iced Cold Call? A Call Center CEO Can Give Us Insights. Episode 278

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You are CEO of one of the largest call centres in San José in Costa Rica. What made you, a US citizen travel, live and work in Costa Rica? You trained 10,000 bilingual telemarkers. What makes a good telemarketer? How does phonetic micro expression reading help you become a good telemarketer. Please provide us with a good and a bad example? What are the viral tell signs? What is the Buffer Boomerang technique?

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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 motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers.

Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture. Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.

Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain. A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. In addition, inducted into the 2023 Hall of Fame for Business. Giving back to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.

Costa Rica’s Call Center (CCC) is a state of the art BPO telemarketing outsource company located in the capital city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Our main focus has been, and will always be to personally train each and every Central America call center agent so that we may offer the highest quality of outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions and bilingual customer service to small and medium sized international companies, entrepreneurs as well as fortune 500 companies.

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The Art of Pondering and Breathing in Communication

question for you. If we're going back and forth and you're answering me between three to five seconds, would I say something that's amazing to you? Hey, you got to know something. I have a gamification culture with 13 pinball machines on site. You didn't answer me in five seconds. You waited 10 seconds. So I'm like, was she not paying attention or is she pondering? It's a ponder because if she's not interested, she's hanging up or she interrupts me and changes the topic. We go tangent. So I love ponders. And then if you're thinking about it, that gives me a chance to like a boxer because, you know, breathing, the core is the most important. When you're telemarketing, you're talking a lot. When you're not speaking, besides active listening, taking copious notes and being in the now, you should be slowing down that breathing to 44s, four in holding, four out holding.

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Podcast guest appearances. Richard Blank Costa Rica's Call Center
<p><br></p><p>Podcast guests appearances regarding taking a chance by moving abroad and starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica. Topics discussed include: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, employee motivation and phonetic micro expression reading.</p><br><p>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 motivational public speaking style backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers.&nbsp;Richard Blank has the largest collection of restored American Pinball machines and antique Rockola Jukeboxes in Central America making gamification a strong part of CCC culture.Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.</p><br><p>Mr. Richard Blank holds a bachelors degree in Communication and Spanish from the University of Arizona and a certificate of language proficiency from the University of Sevilla, Spain. A Keynote speaker for Philadelphia's Abington High School 68th National Honors Society induction ceremony. Giving back to Abington Senior High School is very important to Mr. Blank. As such, he endows a scholarship each year for students that plan on majoring in a world language at the university level.</p><br><p><a href="https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/</a></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>