Richard Blank will join your audience for a solid discussion regarding taking a chance by moving abroad and starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica. At the earliest convenience of the host, we can discuss advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, employee motivation and phonetic micro expression reading.
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, he shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers. Richard Blank is the Chief Executive Officer for Costa Rica’s Call Center since 2008.
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.
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.
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- Event Business Formula 116: The Business of Meetings Podcast. How to Leverage Call Centers with Richard BlankDedicated to offering content to business owners in the Meetings & Events Industry, Event Business Formula features original interviews from The Business of Meetings Podcast and other videos of interest. The Business Of Meetings Podcast The #1 podcast for business owners in the meetings and events industry, hosted by Eric Rozenberg. Today, we are delighted to be speaking with Richard Blank, the CEO of Costa Rica’s Call Center! Richard has had an amazing journey! In this episode, he talks about call centers, sales, people retention, life, and entrepreneurship. He explains how to leverage call centers to connect better with your customers and grow your business. Richard has had an amazing journey! In this episode, he talks about call centers, sales, people retention, life, and entrepreneurship. He explains how to leverage call centers to connect better with your customers and grow your business. We hope you enjoy listening to today’s conversation with Richard Blank! Richard’s journey After graduating in 1991 from Abington High School in North East Philadelphia, Richard went to the University of Arizona. He majored in Spanish and Communication and focused on public speaking, non-verbal communication, and micro-expression reading. When he was 27 years old, a friend who had a call center invited him to go there to teach English, and he ended up working there for four years. Starting a call center In 2008, Richard decided to start a call center with his wife. They began with one seat and fifty hours. Today, fourteen years later, they are 150 strong. They are very selective and reject more accounts than they accept because Richard wants to ensure that he can fulfill his clients’ needs with the accounts that come in, and the agent will be comfortable enough to do the work. The agents’ experience Richard respects Costa Rican customs, culture, and native tongue. He also respects the bilingualism of his agents. He can mold brand-new agents, and with older agents, he sometimes has to get rid of bad habits. By properly preparing his agents, he feels he can put them all on a level playing field. The culture Sometimes, telemarketers and call center agents feel like numbers or robots, and they feel expendable. So before putting them on the phone, Richard gets to know their names and who they are. He also trains them to give them a base foundation to grow. Quality calls Richard likes his agents to focus on doing quality calls. About 30% of all calls come about through referrals. Much of their business happens because they do an excellent job on the first call. By working smarter rather than harder, they earn those referrals. Growing a business by working with call centers Growing a business has a lot to do with workforce management. Small business owners in the meetings and events industry can grow their businesses using omnichannel support and emails. By making phone calls, they also get the chance to do up-sales, get referrals, and answer questions. Put more effort into your communication Putting more effort into your communication, and making it warmer and more inviting, will separate you from others. If you make outbound calls, send an email, or leave a voicemail, take the time to look at the website or the CEO or business leaders’ LinkedIn profiles to get a sense of the tone or the company culture. Answering calls Have your best people answer calls. If there is an overflow, it is worth paying a little extra to work with a blended call center answering service so that you never have to miss that special call! Cold calls Doing cold calls represents half of their business. Their forte is appointment setting and lead generation, and they sometimes do surveys. Outbound calls Richard believes he has cracked a code for making outbound calls! The best approach for a phone call is to use anonymity (apart from mentioning the name of the company you represent) in the first three to five seconds of the call. The Buffer Boomerang technique If someone gives you a negative one, negative two, or a negative three-tone, reduce that tone and make it positive to reset the conversation. Then, show active listening by repeating the question. Land it back at them with a plus-two boomerang response. Positive escalation When your call gets transferred, it is the perfect time to give a positive verbal escalation (complimenting someone who works for you) to gain momentum and move forward. Concluding a call Calls consist of an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. To conclude, ask if there are any final questions, and then finish up with a military alphabet to double-check the email address of the person to whom you are talking. Follow up Follow up with a thank-you email that includes the name of the person who assisted you by transferring your call. Motivation Richard’s agents are properly prepared and well-rehearsed. He motivates his team by giving them prizes for meeting their goals. Working with good faith and good intentions also helps them weather the storms. Reading micro-expressions on the phone The purest form of communication is phonetics because congruence is where audio matches the visual. Phonetics can be broken down into four different sections: Tone Rate Pitch Duration Your tone is the one consistent variable you have when you read micro-expressions. Keep it confident and empathetic. Mirror imaging Focus on the speed and pitch of the person you are talking to. Read them initially to see if they are going faster, slower, louder, or softer. After about five minutes, you will notice if there is a spike or dip in their speech. Tone, rate, and pitch can be manipulated. Your ultimate tell-sign is your subconscious answering speed. Then it will be the ideal time for you to ask a tie-down, a pin-down, or a clarification question. Repetition Richard suggests that you repeat something from time to time to make sure that the person you are talking to is following along with you. It will also give them time to digest what you have been talking about. An exit interview Better phone calls sometimes include an exit interview. You could get five reasons why someone chose your competition or get a suggestion to enhance your services. We hope you enjoy listening to today’s conversation with Richard Blank! The Business of Meetings Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. 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- Lead Generation Strategies Podcast. How to use an outbound lead services provider to grow a telemarketing team.This is an interview with Richard Blank, CEO of Costa Rica’s Call Center, which is an outbound lead services provider BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) company. Discover example benefits of a lead generation outbound call center, job opportunities for those living or looking to move to Costa Rica, and an insight into some of the processes. Hi! I’m Joey, founder of EnFuegoMedia and LeadGenerationSEOServices.com. I use my connections, special deals, and strategies with major media sites to help businesses like yours get seen and get new clients in a less stressful yet highly profitable way.I cover businesses like yours for a variety of reasons including how they have responded to the current crisis, the quality of their services, and publish hyper local ads in major publications to bring more clients.In fact, ensuring you get a clear benefit from this media coverage is our top priority.Our team consists of writers, developers and advertising professionals that have helped hundreds of businesses get more clients, patients and customers in a variety of industries.We help you to reach your best clients by crafting meaningful hyper-local ads and media coverage. If there’s a service you offer in a specific location, neighborhood or region, we help you get seen.If your business is a good fit, we will be able to get hyper local ads and content on sites like NBC, local Fox and CBS sites, Google, YouTube, podcast sites, and hundreds of other brand name sites.Before I can move ahead I will of course first need to confirm some details to get an understanding of your business to see if we can help increase your exposure. Here are the questions Richard answers in this interview: - What does Costa Rica’s Call Center do? - What’s the biggest problem that you solve for your clients? - What makes Costa Rica’s Call Center special or unique? - Who’s your ideal client? - How do your clients typically connect with you and then how do you market to them? - What are some of the tactics and strategies you use to get around gatekeepers? - What do you look for in hiring a call center agent? Do you start from scratch or are you looking for a particular personality? - What top challenge or two challenges are you experiencing in the call center business that maybe somebody in my network or myself could possibly help with? - Where can people find you if people wanted to reach out? Richard Blank Costa Rica's Call Center Interview 2022-06-01 [00:00:00] Joey Myers: Hello, and welcome to the Lead Generation Strategies podcast, here with me today is Mr. Richard Blank and we'll be talking about call center. [00:00:15] This is costaricascallcenter.com and that is Rica’s with an S at the end. So not Costa Rica call center, Costa Rica’s with an S cause that's a possessive, I think on that side of it. [00:00:27] Richard, first, I want to welcome you to the show. [00:00:30] Richard Blank: It's great to be here, Joey. I can't wait to talk to you and your audience on lead generation strategies. I got a ton of stuff to share with you today. [00:00:37] Joey Myers: Oh, very cool. So Richard, tell us what Costa Rica's Call Center does. What does Costa Rica’s Call Center do? [00:00:42] Richard Blank: It's a very simple inbound and outbound, bilingual dedicated call center. [00:00:47] All of the agency are college educated. They have experienced before, prior coming into this account. As I say, half of them are inbound support for customer service. We do back-office support and non-voice support with chat and emails. [00:01:00] I also have a lead generation appointment setting and a sales department. We pretty much hire and work with everything. [00:01:07] Joey Myers: Very cool. We'll probably get into that, the lead generation side of things first. I just want to build some context for everybody. [00:01:12] What's the biggest problem that you solve for your clients that you guys get? What's the biggest problem that you solve for your clients? [00:01:16] Richard Blank: A lot of the times it must do in regard to the metrics, they may have certain expectations in regard to their calling lists, the talk time, conversion ratios. With me, a lot of the times I'm able to plug into a list in a predictive dialer. [00:01:30] I also have a quality assurance and a QC department, quality control, so we're able to coach and grade the calls as well. So, a lot of the times we're using our infrastructure, our experience, and the sort of once again, the mediums that we have on the different verticals that we must compare apples, to be able to give our clients back a lot better intel and much more effective strategies for their time and for their money. [00:01:55] Joey Myers: Cool. Richard, have you worked for call centers or own call centers? What got you into [00:02:00] this business? [00:02:00] Richard Blank: It almost started back in high school when I was in Northeast Philadelphia. My favorite class was in Spanish, so I decided from Abington High School to go to University of Arizona and be a Spanish communication. [00:02:10] Like yourself Joey, I worked with public speaking rhetoric and nonverbal communication. So, at 27 years old, I had the opportunity to move to Costa Rica for just two months to work at a friend's call center. [00:02:22] You and I will take that one in a million opportunity, and I did. When I was here, I was amongst hundreds of bilingual, mid 20 Costa Rican Ticos that were on the phone, that were conversing in English, converting calls, and getting wonderful, positive escalations and great marks. [00:02:41] For me, I got to see from the inside and out, I wasn't C-level, I wasn't looking at contracts and the finances, but I was with the people. I could see the good, the bad, the happy and the sad. [00:02:52] For me, to start my own company, X number of years later, I really was really looking to see what I could do to enhance the experience for the agent and for the client. By having that sort of experience in retention, support customer service, sales, even search engine optimization with affiliate management and training and onboarding. [00:03:12] It enabled me in those four years I worked with my friend to learn the business, but I will be forthright with you, Joey, it took me into my mid-thirties. To have my impulse control, to be mature enough and financially ready to throw my hat in the ring and to start my own call center. [00:03:30] I wish I did it into my teens and I wasn't ready in my twenties, but in my thirties, I believe with the experience and the maturity and the sort of center in balance, I was ready to take the next stage of my life. [00:03:42] Joey Myers: Very cool. So, this is the first call center that you've owned? [00:03:45] Richard Blank: That is correct. I'm seriously, still batting a thousand and it's amazing because in my 14 years of owning a company in the industry, I'd love to give you a financial tip or trick or a CEO [00:04:00] cracked code, but I can really sum it up, Joey, in just one word, empathy. [00:04:06] My friend did a great job at his call center but realistically, a lot of agents in this industry do feel like a number. They feel like a robot, they feel nameless and expendable. If you can give somebody their dignity, they'll come back to work the next day. [00:04:22] If nobody shows up, you don't have a company. So, for me, I started from scratch. I wanted to make sure I could break bread with them. I will know your name. [00:04:31] Pre COVID when the call center was packed, I would walk the rows. I would stop and listen to a call and give a thumbs up to someone. I would listen to a call and give my own soft skills coaching besides the sort of things that they were graded upon. [00:04:45] It's hands-on, not that I'm forced to do it. I've got plenty of supervisors, but I love doing it. I still see the art in speech, and it can be done with lead generation and sales. It just doesn't have to be carpet bombing, Joey. It just doesn't have to be sending out these informal emails to people. [00:05:03] We can custom make phone calls. We can make certain interactions unique so we can get that sort of rate of return that you and your clients are looking for. [00:05:14] Joey Myers: I love that. When people think of call centers, they think of India, or they think of Vietnam or anything like that. So, what makes you special or what makes you guys unique? [00:05:23] You mentioned empathy, so I'm sure that's a big part of you guys as a secret mix, but what makes you unique versus India or Vietnam or anything like that? What makes Costa Rica’s Call Center special or unique? [00:05:31] Richard Blank: First I'm glad that people are watching this on the big screen. Glengarry Glen Ross, the Wolf of wall street, boiler room. [00:05:37] Sure. They're call centers like that. I dress like that, and I could actually sell like that, but I'm not going to sell you a pen today and you're referring to offshore call centers in India, Philippines, and the east. There are caliber agents. Everywhere. My hats off to anybody that does this for a living and is very good at it. [00:06:00] [00:06:00] What are the differences? First and foremost, in those sorts of areas of the world, they're extremely price competitive. It's almost half the price. So, a lot of my clients are expecting me to do double the amount of work, I can in some sort of instances. Sometimes I just can't make twice the number of calls per hour. [00:06:17] But they have an accent, but to me, an accent bears the mark of higher education. India's a real powerhouse for IT, Philippines, they're amazing in regard to empathy. But once again, unless you've lived in the United States, in Costa Rica here, nearshore. You could be on a flight out of LAX and be here within a couple hours. [00:06:38] We're on mountain time zone. I got a half a million ex-pats that live here. We're a democratic society in Central America. We have a 95% literacy rate with no standing army. We have scalability because companies such as Amazon, HP, Intel, and Oracle or here. So, if you want to compare apples. Sure. You could get twice the number of agents offshore, than near shore, but I would be looking for specific skill sets. [00:07:04] Maybe you need someone to speak in Spanish. Maybe that you'd be looking for a smaller mom and pop sort of call center like myself, that's very hands-on that could work with you in this way, compared to a very large blended mixed center where you're just in with thousands of other agents, we all share the same equipment, with our predictive dialers and our CPU's and our noise canceling headset. [00:07:26] So it can almost do a comparison with technology, but as I mentioned before, if nobody shows up, your technology is worthless. My company culture, Joey, it really revolves around gamification. We spoke prior to this call today, how much you love my jukeboxes and pinball machines and I'm going to find you one I promise you. [00:07:47] I've created a happy medium, so people can meet other agents from other departments that can let off steam. They can recharge their batteries or even spend time with El Jefe with the boss and do it in an environment where there is no [00:08:00] pressure to rest where they can have some fun. [00:08:02] If anything, and nothing, if you want to compare me to Olympic call center events, I think I won a few golds. First and foremost, I know everybody's name. I break bread with them, and I play games with them. [00:08:13] I think those are three very good core foundation things that I do here to ensure very long-term employment and reduced attrition. So just off the bat, my good friend, that's maybe some of the initial comparisons that I can make between my near shore to offshore calls. [00:08:30] Joey Myers: Love that. I love that. Obviously, you guys have a competitive advantage in the company talking about a lot of different cool things that you guys are doing. Sounds like the early days of Google, remember the early days where it was, do no harm and they have the big giant playrooms, ping pong and all that kind of thing. [00:08:46] Almost it's like that kind of atmosphere for you guys. So, I love that. Now let's move on to who you guys serve. What kind of clients typically industries, you don't have to mention client names, but industries that are frequent to you guys as call center? Who’s your ideal client? [00:09:00] Richard Blank: Once again, there's certain things that are hot for a moment and then burn out. [00:09:03] But we work with certain verticals here. Like the inbound support campaign. With the movies and music company. It's almost like the old Columbia house. So, our demographic is 55 plus female that receives these big books every year and calls us up and orders their movies. We also work with law firms in regard to intake coordinators and support. [00:09:23] I work with transportation companies. So, we can follow up with dispatching and follow-up on the packages. Also with the travel industry, the real estate industry, the education industry, and sometimes the tech industry. We'll set up appointments for people in the IT sector. [00:09:42] As I mentioned before this is a very strict Catholic country, Joey, and as much as I want to grow to 5,000 seats, I'm very selective of the campaigns that come in. So, I refuse more than I take. These young men and women must go home and tell their parents, what they do for a living. It's very important for me [00:10:00] that, hey, not only do I prepare them properly and put them on a level playing field, but we never compromise their ethics, values, and morals. [00:10:08] Now making phone calls and receiving them. Sometimes they're not easy, that's part of the game. That's what you signed up for. But there are certain skills that we have here that can be very diplomatic and strategic. We'll discuss this later in the podcast. There are some amazing things that we do here that I think you will find interesting. [00:10:28] Regardless of getting through the gatekeepers, and once again, these positive, verbal, and written escalations to assist you in closing contracts. I'm just really giving more of an advanced and quality sort of agent that would be representing you and your company in the best light. [00:10:46] Joey Myers: Very cool. [00:10:47] Let's move on to the marketing side of things. Or I think this could be two tiers. This could be for your business Richard, or this could be for the businesses that come in that you help. We can go in, down both of those rabbit holes if you want. [00:10:59] How do your clients typically connect with you and then how do you market to them? Lead-generation wise. Let's start on how you're getting clients and then we can talk about what you're doing for your clients on the lead gen side. How do your clients typically connect with you and then how do you market to them? [00:11:09] Richard Blank: Wonderful. A lot of the clients are introduced to me through referrals and those are my favorite because people that have worked with me and believe in me will recommend me. [00:11:18] It's not even a sale. It's more of a conversation, but I'm very heavy with search engine optimization. If you go into Central America telemarketing call centers near shore. Especially Costa Rica, forget about it, I dominate in regard to those pages and I'm not the largest center, I'm very good on the internet. [00:11:35] I do a lot of sharing. I read a lot of articles. We're doing a lot of podcasts now on videos. Prior to even needing me, my potential clients have the opportunity to read about me, listen to me and learn million dollars’ worth of free advice prior to even calling me. So, it saves me a lot of time on my phone calls, but we're almost starting off on third [00:12:00] base. [00:12:00] What it is more deductive reasoning, where they will tell me 10 things and I will write it down and I'll be the second one to speak. I will answer each one in a forthright way to see if I am or not able to fulfill their needs and make a suggestion and then I will always add one or two more additional points that they didn't ask about before to not just establish my credibility, but to let them know the extensive and the depth of what I have here in regards to my experience that would be worth that one or two extra dollars an hour. [00:12:33] As I mentioned before, I like people that have systems in place where I can plug and play. If they've been doing it for years, then I do have metrics that I can compare to, and the amount of calls they make in an average talk time and wrap up time. [00:12:46] If they have email templates, if they leave voicemails, these are things I can listen to and as I say before, I make suggestions and unless I get a green light, I don't implement it. But there have been times where I've seen certain tones that I think were not appropriate. Or a certain vocabulary where I had to explain to them why that the source is important. [00:13:08] As I think I might be able to choose a word to avoid a rabbit hole. I'll give you the easiest example, like it's not a deal breaker, but instead of using the word help, which might offend or could get the tone off a little bit, I prefer using words like guide, assist, and lend a hand. [00:13:23] Those are certain soft skills. In addition to that, instead of saying, excuse me, could you repeat that? A lot of the times, for my clarification or for our edification, did you say 1, 2, 3, 4, ABC. So, these are things once again, to reduce talk time to move conversations forward, I will be sharing with you times to use rebuttals in certain areas like that, too. [00:13:45] It's more just about active listening and focusing on their interests first. So those are the sort of things that I could see as being much more effective. [00:13:55] Joey Myers: You mentioned some ways to, I don't want to say, like you said, [00:14:00] the language matters, right? Get around gatekeepers. You mentioned empathy, right? [00:14:04] What are some of the tactics or strategies that you're using because a lot of times these big companies you want to go in and chase a lead there. They have a gatekeeper and that then would say in the way, but there's somebody there that's gatekeeping for the decision-making people. What are some of the tactics and strategies you use to get around gatekeepers? [00:14:17] So what is it that you guys do? You don't have to get super specific to give away any of your proprietary workings. [00:14:23] Richard Blank: I'm giving you my special sauce. That's why you have me here today and what I'm going to be sharing with you, my good friend is something that once you see it, you don't unsee it. [00:14:33] After three weeks it becomes habit and it is my pleasure to share this with you, I just want you to know, I don't have a book to sell. There's no seminar. It's Joey's friend Richard that's here today in sunny, Costa Rica, sharing ideas to add wind in your sails. [00:14:48] Once again, to increase your audience's ability to have these relationships. All right, follow me through this. I believe that the attention span is 30 seconds to two minutes, and every conversation has an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. If you don't wait the intro, forget your body and conclusion. [00:15:05] When you're calling into business, yes, of course. There's somebody there that's filtering the call. My suggestion immediately is to do a company name spike. You still have your anonymity, so somebody, if I call your company for an example, and Joey, let me ask you a question. Do you have an assistant that works with you that may answer the call at your company at lead generation strategies? [00:15:25] Joey Myers: Not right now. So, it's me. [00:15:27] Richard Blank: Okay. So, we'll use the name Kathy, for an example. I'll call your company, right? And Kat goes lead generation strategies, Kathy speaking, I go, how's lead generation strategies doing today? I'll never ask Kathy how she's doing. I'm asking how your company is doing today. [00:15:42] First and foremost is the first three seconds of when I speak, I'm saying the name of your company. I'm saying what you did better than you did. I also have my anonymity and then immediately Kathy's like, how I said it better than she did, probably wants to hire me and she'll usually ask me the first question. [00:15:57] Oh, that's great. What is your name? [00:16:00] And that's when we have a buffer boomerang test. It's when somebody asks you a question, sometimes they might have a negative tone. What is your name? I would say, Hey Kathy, that's an excellent question. My name is Richard Blank. I buffer her negative tone. I throw the name drop in there Kathy. [00:16:20] I say that's an excellent question, but you can't say that every time you got to switch up the XO question with, I'm glad you brought that up, and then now repeat the question, just show active listening, and then send it back as a positive answer. This could be done six to 10 times on a phone call, a book buffer boomerang technique. [00:16:35] So I answered Kathy's question. She likes Richard Blank, right? And then she goes, okay, I'll transfer you over to Joey, before you go, Kathy, I just want to let you know that you did a great job and when I speak to Joey, I'm going to let them know. That's a positive escalation, in call centers, you get paid for that. [00:16:48] The call gets transferred to you and once again, I'm using my anonymity. Hello, this is Joey, lead generation strategies. Hey, Joey, I just got to let you know that Kathy is the best employee you ever have. I thank you. Once again, I'm giving the gift. I have momentum, have my anonymity. And then you say at a level two instead of a 10 in defensive. [00:17:08] What is your name? Once again, a buffer boomerang, Joey, so glad you asked. Once again, my name is Richard Blank, and now we begin. So, we're on a phone call, right? Then Joey asks me a second question. Okay, Richard, I like you. What do you do? Joey, I'm so glad that you brought that up. This is what I do. A, B, C, and D no desert pitching. [00:17:31] You need an oasis, so you can drink and rest. I will give you A, present it like a dessert tray. See if you make a noise or reaction, a positive or a negative reinforcement. Let's just say you like A, so instead of a horizontal, now it puts you into a vertical and start stacking you with open-ended questions. [00:17:51] You understand that now I get explanations. We go through that, and you're explaining to me what you like about A, I haven't gotten B, C or D yet, [00:18:00] but this is what we need to know. There are certain times on your call, Joey, where you have phonetic micro expression reading. I believe phonetics is broken down into four parts. [00:18:11] Your tone, rate, pitch, and duration. Your tone is your consistent variable. That should always be positive and empathetic. But what about the mirror imaging technique? I got to Joey, but don't mirror image a negative tone. You are consistent, you match them in their rate and their speaking level. Why don't we do these every 30 seconds to two minutes? [00:18:31] Because I don't know you. I just want to make sure that when I'm speaking with you sight on scene, because I can't taste, touch or smell, you could only listen, which gets expanded and using your image streaming because you can't see them. So now it's more imagination. [00:18:45] Every 30 seconds to two minutes, if you're not making a noise, if you're not typing something or writing something, you might do a spike or a dip in regard to how you speak in regard to your phonetics, not the semantics, not what you say, how you say it. [00:18:59] That's when I will usually interject and say tie donor rebuttal. I would ask if it made sense or sounds good Joey, or once again for my clarification. Now why for my clarification, because a lot of us are working from home now and there could be a dog barking in the background. [00:19:18] So inadvertently and passive aggressively, what I recommend to you and your audience is to let them know, hey, the me-too technique. I love dogs too, Joey. Great. Do the follow up question. What's the dog's name? And you say it's Fluffy. Great. Put them outside. I love Fluffy. You put Fluffy outside, you come back. [00:19:37] You'll apologize. No worries and that's usually when I anchor you, what do you mean? I'm not pitching you on what I'm doing. I'm not trying to close you. We're probably going to talk about your dog for a minute or two. That's when you say to me, once again, what is your name? Joey, I'm so glad that you asked again, once again, my name is Richard Blank, and now your name dropping me the rest of the call. [00:19:58] After I give you the list [00:20:00] and I stack it, and I'm sure you like at least one, which you've mentioned to me. [00:20:04] Now, we're at the conclusion of the call. And I will say, Joey, since you still have me on the phone, are there any questions you have? You told me you liked A, remember B, C, D? Oh, you like D, now we stack it and say it again. [00:20:17] I confirm any information you have with the military alphabet because once again, the call should be ending but the next thing you know, you serve, do you know someone that served or is just Memorial Day? We're going to be talking about that and how proud we are. [00:20:33] I'm still not done when I'm finished the call, I'm going to write to you and explain how amazing Kathy was to assist me in the beginning, besides the other bells and whistles that we spoke about. [00:20:43] So then when I call you back and Kathy answers the phone, she's going to say, Richard, I just got to let you know, in the last 10 years, no one's ever said something like that about me. That's the Richard circle and once I get transferred to you again, it's just constant positive reinforcements. These are the sort of things that instead of making a hundred phone calls a day, Joey, why don't you make 89? [00:21:07] Why don't you take a couple extra minutes to do positive escalations to rake the call? I'm sure you like at least one, use these spikes and dips, or if you're just leaving a voicemail, take an extra 30 seconds to look at a LinkedIn profile or their website, so you can custom make that recording or that email. [00:21:27] These are the sort of metrics that I've seen increase by just custom making. If you're just going to carpet bomb this stuff, you become a print. You're not really a painting. You're a character, Joey. You're just not in character. Remember when you made your first podcast, remember when you started out how raw you were. [00:21:46] The essence of what it was to Joey to begin all this stuff. That's what I want the people to still have today. You can be polished. You can know your stuff and be well-rehearsed, but we need to talk about your dog or [00:22:00] about your trip to Costa Rica on your honeymoon with your beautiful wife, but when you were playing semi-professional baseball, which is cool. [00:22:06] These are things Joey, where we get to learn about one another. And share with each other and then at the end, that's when the contracts come in. [00:22:14] Joey Myers: I love that. That's great, there's a lot of science to that, and I can tell you're well researched when it comes to that whole science of from the beginning to the end of that conversation. [00:22:24] When you hire an agent, I know a lot of it is putting the right people in the right seat. Do you have a certain kind of filter personality tests, things like that? Are you filtering them at the beginning from that? Or are you coming in and you'd completely retrain them? [00:22:41] Do they already have what you need? And then you're nurturing that or are you taking them completely blank and bringing them in and retrain. What do you look for in hiring a call center agent? Do you start from scratch or are you looking for a particular personality? [00:22:48] Richard Blank: First, no pun intended on that blank moment, but that's why you have the best podcast, Joey, you really do ask the best questions. [00:22:57] Let me answer it in two ways for you. I can bring somebody in that has the experience. But once again, they could have terrible habits. I also agree in right bus, right seat. They belong at this center, but where could they be the best and where's their potential. Now, for me to scale, I may need to bring in a freshman. [00:23:17] It doesn't matter that they don't have call center experience. You and I could easily teach them how to use the CRM and a phone system that takes just one hour, they're very bright. They can do that with their hands tied behind their back, but I'm really looking for somebody that shows up on time, front row center, pen at the ready, instead of just absorbing, they start contributing during class. [00:23:41] I like kids like that. To me, I'm looking to delegate and to promote it doesn't matter if you're with me one day or 10 years, boy, or girl, young and old. I see somebody with that sort of spirit. I like to, as you say, nurture it. [00:23:54] For me, since I'm a guest in this country, Not saying it's better or worse, but I'm able to bring them [00:24:00] certain experiences I had in Philadelphia and in Arizona. Just by being a business owner. [00:24:05] Now, mind you this, being a business owner, you have leverage, you could make or break somebody. You could hire or fire somebody. You and I, as business owners, we choose the former. It's very important for us in this delicate stage in their life to break any sort of bad stereotypes of a boss would have because, fear is a morbid anticipation. [00:24:24] Something that hasn't happened yet. If they're afraid of me, they're not going to produce. I must put it in perspective immediately with them. Two things, first is I'm the only boss, pretty much that introduced myself to them. They always tell me that. And second, by learning another language. [00:24:39] It's 10 times harder than what they're about to do on the phone. I just want them to calm down for a minute. I'm going to walk them through it. I'll more than prepare them and hopefully I'll be the last boss that they ever have. [00:24:53] By telling them this, before they even walk into class, and this is when we're in the game room at recess before they even start training, I think I can reduce any sort of fear. [00:25:03] I can bring back any sort of apprehension and eventually somebody can just open and dare to make a mistake. If they're willing to not be vulnerable, but be coachable, there is no reason you and I can't create all stars. You understand that. Look what your coaches did to you when you were in the Pee Wee league and then in high school. [00:25:26] You had some amazing coaches in your youth that got you to division one baseball. I find that amazing that they believed in you. They got you there during the tough days when you didn't want to practice. If you struck out or missed a ball, it's pick yourself back up sort of time. I believe that this coaching that you and I received from athletics can be brought into business because it's the same sort of structure and discipline. [00:25:53] Joey's the same as what a dedicated practice my friend knew and I did when we were not with our teammates, practicing, hitting, and [00:26:00] catching with your buddies in the neighborhood, or just studying tapes or just reviewing it with yourself, with the ball against the wall, just catching it yourself. [00:26:07] I used to do that with hockey. I used to take shots on the net when no one was around, and I respect somebody that can invest time in themselves. If they do something like that, then all I want to do is to give them a little bit more structure to increase that sort of skill set and momentum. [00:26:27] Joey Myers: I love that. What's great with coaches is that you can learn a lot of good things. You take a lot of good things away from coaches, and then there are also some things that you learn how not to coach and that's from Pee Wee's all the way up through wherever, however high somebody gets, in any sport, doesn't matter. Hockey, like you mentioned you take, and you like, what was it, Bruce Lee said, you'd take what is useful, you adapt what is useless and then you discard the rest type of thing. [00:26:51] It sounds like we're on the same wavelength when it comes to whether it's managing people or coaching people or, whatever kind of word that you want to use. We're nearing in time here. [00:27:00] I did want to ask you, what kind of maybe top challenge or two challenges that you're experiencing in the business that maybe somebody in my network or myself could possibly help. What top challenge or two challenges are you experiencing in the call center business that maybe somebody in my network or myself could possibly help with? [00:27:12] Richard Blank: Since we do compete against Amazon, my largest challenge is natural attrition. I don't fire people. [00:27:19] People will leave me because of a scheduling conflict closer to their home or their boyfriend or girlfriend works there. I can't take it personal. I get disappointed more than I get angry because someone could be with me for years and suddenly, they peace out and don't give me a two weeks’ notice. [00:27:35] If you're going to start strong with me, be great that we just end a working relationship, but still have a normal mutual friendship. That's just one of the things that come up, but I'm used to it. That's part of the game. As I say before, if I treat them with dignity and give them all my resources, there's no reason why someone should leave in haste or to be angry. [00:27:55] I guess the second thing is the language skills. It's very rare, [00:28:00] but if there's a certain code red situation, cause a lot of the times things happen outside the call center, Joey, which may affect their performance here. I will allow someone to get off the floor to be able to discuss with us what's going on in their native tongue originally, so they can just get it out. [00:28:15] For my own clarification, I do ask them to speak in English, what they just said as well, even though I am bilingual. So just in case there's that 5% where it can blend and to make sure that we're on the same page and then I will do the same in Spanish and in English. [00:28:29] If it's super code red, I bring in a floor manager to speak for me. So, I just want to make sure when there's heightened emotion, that it just doesn't get out of hand. Somebody who's having one of the worst days of their lives, does something, let's say foolish, leaves when that really wasn't necessary or shouldn't have gone there. [00:28:49] I've realized that my Philadelphia way to motivate you and you in California and Fresno, it could be appropriate, but sometimes it may not be. [00:28:57] I'm just taking certain delicate situations in a certain way that I'm very careful in regards to my delivery, my message, and how I received their message and for the most part, my friend, as long as you, once again, listen, attentively, and you repeat what they say to make sure we're on the same page, you can pretty much reduce any sort of friction and resolve most of these issues. [00:29:20] Joey Myers: Good points. Richard so just nearing the close here, a lot of great, wonderful information. I think really any industry can take the advice that you've given today and can use that. [00:29:30] Your website, costaricascallcenter.com again, the S at the end of Rica Rica's call center, cause it’s possessive. Where can people find you if people wanted to reach out? Maybe if you wanted to put your email out there up to you, social media, where can people find you to get more info? Where can people find you if people wanted to reach out? [00:29:46] Richard Blank: You and your wife, you guys should grab a plane ticket, fly down here, and come visit me, that's number one. [00:29:51] If you want to give me a call 888 271 6750 or shoot me an email CEO@ Costa Rica’s call center.com. [00:30:00] Finally, and this is where you're going immediately. We have a very large Facebook fan page Costa Rica's call center. There's about 98,000 Ticos currently. It'll give you the pulse on what's happening here in central America during the day and at night. [00:30:13] These Ticos can't wait to meet you, Joey. I'm very much looking forward to putting our episode on there. [00:30:19] Joey Myers: It's a great community. Like I mentioned before, we got on this call and this interview on the pre call interview, my wife and I had 10 days spent there on a honeymoon trip where we were probably brought down the average age of our tour down to about 70 years old. [00:30:35] We were in our mid-twenties at the time, but we fell in love with Costa Rica and the different cities that we visited. I don't know how many times we said, boy, it'd be great to, to move here. [00:30:44] Like you said it's on the same Pacific standard time. It's like you said, an hour, or was an hour, did you say hour, two hours or so? Great food, great scenery, great people. It's all great. The only thing was is that we didn't have kids yet, as you can see in the background, we got our two right here. [00:30:59] We've got Noah and Grayson, and our handlers of handlers. So, our grandparents wouldn't have been able to pick up and move and go there either. We could have had Ticos and Ticas to help, but we wouldn't have had our own grandparents to help out. We were like let's do that first and then maybe someday we could head out there. [00:31:15] I command you, very honorable what you're doing with the business and the people that you have employed with you guys, sounds like you guys are doing a great job. [00:31:22] I wanted to thank you for your time today, Richard and we'll be in touch. [00:31:26] Richard Blank: Thank you so much, joey. Had a great time today. [00:31:30] Joey Myers: Thank you, sir. Lead Generation Strategies Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #leadgenerationstrategies https://open.spotify.com/episode/4O2zMe2WzMiBXHDptGt4C2?si=db99c9f6711f46f4 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/richard-blank-costa-ricas-call-center-outbound-lead/id1592401002?i=1000565417187 https://www.leadgenerationseoservices.com/richard-blank-costa-ricas-call-center-outbound-lead-services-provider-bpo-company-benefits-jobs-processes-examples/ https://www.leadgenerationstrategiespodcast.com/podcasts/lead-generation-strategies-podcast-lead-generation-seo-services/episodes/2147741223 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uQqAoFvduQ0 comments0
- Richard Blank Podcast Guest Appearances from Costa Rica's Call Center Mar 20 · 1h 1m The Do Zone Podcast. Reading the room in the dark episode with Richard BlankStarting a call center in Costa Rica as an American Ex-patriate, Richard has dissected hundreds of thousands of hours of sales conversations. In this episode, he breaks down a concept he calls micro-expression reading and how it can completely change the way you approach sales forever. If you’re a busy entrepreneur who’s looking to get more stuff done in less time, grab something to take notes with and follow along as we discover lessons from some of the world’s most productive small business owners. Discover how to overcome your fears and anxieties and take purposeful, impactful action. If you’re tired of being stuck where you’re at and determined to break through that barrier in front of you, this is the place to be. I’m Josh Thomas, a 15+ year, battle-hardened entrepreneur and small business consultant. I’ve spent my entire career constantly chasing after the ultimate balance of time and value. Join me and shave years off your timeline to progress and results as we discover how to become the most elite versions of ourselves. I’ll share every single insight, tip, trick, tool, and resource with you both from what has worked for me before, and what I discover anew. And along the way, we’ll each get to know some of the best in the business and learn from them too! The Do Zone Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #thedozone https://podbay.fm/p/the-do-zone/e/1654200180 https://www.audacy.com/podcast/the-do-zone-2e115/episodes/reading-the-room-in-the-dark-with-richard-blank-25dd5 https://lnns.co/1tn85BHrJ0o https://www.audible.de/pd/Reading-the-room-in-the-dark-with-Richard-Blank-Podcast/B0B32RFQBM https://open.spotify.com/episode/79JYV2Z8i7Zo4BccIVe7xi?si=5896a590734d4cdb https://thedozone.castos.com/episodes/reading-the-room-in-the-dark-with-richard-blank0 comments0
- The Brilliant Leaders Spotlight podcast. Empathy is the the smartest strategy for scaling. Episode 3 with Richard Blank.Brilliant Leaders Spotlight podcast host, Robert Clinkenbeard has been featured in 50+ podcasts. Robert has evident success in scaling businesses and coaching for service industries, primarily the landscape sector. Robert teaches how to develop a roadmap to achieve your ultimate vision. His mission is to evolve his client's visions and accountability in their businesses and also their personal life. Our 15 to 20-min podcast shares amazing founder stories that reveal the smartest strategies for scaling TODAY. Our audiences are not newbies. They're ready for their next phase of massive growth! Your host, Robert Clinkenbeard, talks with Richard Blank of Costa Rica's Call Center. Costa Rica's Call Center or CCC, is a BPO Telemarketing outsource company located in Costa Rica. They can handle any size BPO and are available to train every call center in Central America. All of their staff are highly trained and bilingual, giving you the same price as a local area but with higher quality staff. Brilliant Leaders Spotlight Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #brilliantleadersspotlight https://podyssey.fm/podcast/itunes1622256666/episode117098726-Empathy-Richard-Blank-Brilliant-Leaders-Spotlight https://podcastaddict.com/episode/https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.captivate.fm%2Fmedia%2F55605b88-34b8-4e79-892e-0e9cd2b67496%2FBLS-203.mp3&podcastId=3937997 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3-empathy-with-richard-blank/id1622256666?i=1000565138286 https://www.stitcher.com/show/brilliant-leaders-spotlight/episode/3-empathy-with-richard-blank-203737645 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/74c82e9e-c288-4740-8085-4d671c71c2e9/episodes/4e5aa31e-6e60-4243-a8aa-97d62ec62f08/brilliant-leaders-spotlight-3empathy-with-richard-blank https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-brilliant-leaders-spotligh-99732780/episode/3-empathy-with-richard-blank-99737935/ https://lnns.co/52Ilbt9zkfH https://player.fm/series/series-3345033/ep-3-empathy-with-richard-blank0 comments0
- The Brian Nichols Show 518: How Is this Old-School Retro Gamer Enhancing the Sales Experience!? We're all tired of the partisan politics. It's exhausting hearing the news with their blatant bias and narrative. People are looking for solutions to the problems they see in the world. Where to turn? At The Brian Nichols Show, we're solving those problems by interviewing noted entrepreneurs, elected officials, business executives, economists, and more by offering practical, liberty-based solutions; not rhetoric. As a sales and marketing executive in the greater telecommunications/cybersecurity sector, I've spent years working with C-Level executives to help them "future-proof" their company's infrastructure for an uncertain future. And at The Brian Nichols Show, I’m taking that industry experiencing and bringing it to the liberty movement. Instead of focusing on libertarians being right, we’re teaching the basic fundamentals of sales and their application in the world of politics, teaching you how to ask better questions to help change people’s minds. So, you ready to help change the world? Welcome to The Brian Nichols Show. Part of the We Are Libertarians Podcast Network. Brian Nichols Instead of focusing on winning arguments, we’re teaching the basic fundamentals of sales and marketing and how we can use them to WIN in both the worlds of business and politics; teaching you how to meet people where they're at on the issues they care about. When people are best friends with other people, they usually stay at a company. On today's episode of The Brian Nichols Show, I'm joined by Richard Blank (CEO of Costa Rica's Call Center) who give us some real, authentic means to enhance the sales experience for both the prospect AND the salesman. "Well, since I grew up in the 70s, and 80s, I loved going to arcades - and I'm a retro gamer. I don't have a PlayStation or an Xbox. I'm an old-school gamer. And so my passion turned into an obsession. And once I started making a little money and have the room here at the center, I started treasure hunting. And there are people down here with pinball machines and jukeboxes and a lot of toys that one man's trash is another man's treasure. And so call me Oscar the Grouch, I'll be willing to drive a couple hours to find myself a classic rock cooler, or a pinball machine. And so most of these games are older than the agents here, I created a happy neutral environment so people can meet others from different departments that can let off steam - they can recharge batteries. And imagine an environment where you can hang out and play some games together. And so, for me, I felt it was very important. It reduces attrition. When people are best friends with other people, they usually stay at a company." Take our audience survey for a chance to win a "Don't Hurt People, Don't Take Their Stuff" bumper sticker! Brian Nichols 0:03 focusing on winning arguments. We're teaching the basic fundamentals of sales and marketing and how we can use them to win in the world of politics teaching you how to meet people where they're at on the issues they care about. Welcome to The Brian Nichols Show. Now Happy Tuesday there, folks, Brian Nichols here on The Brian Nichols Show. And thank you for joining us of course on another fun filled episode. I am as always your humble host. Before we get things started today, we gotta go ahead and give a shout out to our awesome episode sponsor, the one the only expat money summit 2020 to watch for a week reap the benefits for generations join us November 7 through November 11 For this virtual summit five days 30 expert speakers hosted by the one and only McHale thorup Host of the expat money show interested to get your free I said it yes free tickets at the Brian Nichols show.com. Forward slash expat and grab your tickets. Today, folks, I am so excited for today's episode a little bit different of an episode. Yes, we're gonna go more towards the sales marketing approach. And we're gonna be talking more tactics, skills, all the fun stuff behind the scenes that actually leads to sales success. And joining us today he is the CEO of Costa Rica's call center. Richard blank. Welcome to the program. Richard Blank 1:24 So happy to be here today. Brian, thank you so much for having me a guest on your show. Brian Nichols 1:28 Absolutely. Rich, I'm really looking forward to this conversation because you have taken what was a 27 year olds opportunity to train a couple 1000 Folks, and you've turned it into fast forward a couple 20 years later, an amazing career. And you're at the point now I'd say you've probably trained 10s of 1000s of folks at Costa Rica's call center talk to us, what was the story that led to Richard bland going to Costa Rica of all places, and now having such an amazing career of success leading this amazing Call Center team? Richard Blank 2:01 Thank you so much for the great question. It actually starts back in Northeast Philadelphia. When I graduated high school back in 91, I doubled down on my favorite class, which was Spanish. Once you the University of Arizona was a Spanish communication major. And at 27, a very good friend of mine gave me an opportunity to come down just for two months, and train English at his call center. Well, two months turned into four years at his center. I currently in this country for 22 years. And I'm celebrating my 14th year of business running my own call center. And so when I was there, I was able to see areas in which to enhance the experience for the agent and for the client. And then in my mid 30s, I decided to throw my hat in the ring and start my own company. Brian Nichols 2:42 Let's talk about the enhancing the experience. And I'm reading that note down there because you brought up not just the experience of the customer, the prospect, but you also mentioned the experience of the agent, can you dig into that a little bit more Richard Blank 2:58 100% In fact, I didn't come into the call center space as a C level executive, I started off as an agent. And so for years, I was sitting amongst 1000s upon 1000s of Costa Rican bilingual Chico's that were on the phone speaking in English, getting positive escalations and converting calls. And so for me, I found it fascinating the artists speech, because most people today are just chatting and sending out emails. But to me, there's a beautiful connection you can make with somebody over the phone in regards to retention, upsell referrals, and sometimes even getting an exit interview back on areas to improve and to beat your competition. As I mentioned before, I saw certain soft skills in areas where I could give the agent their dignity, I can also show empathy. And a lot of the times they felt like numbers and robots that were expendable. And so as long as once again, I can fulfill their needs and give them a job that can be proud of chances are they're going to come back tomorrow and work as hard as they did today. Brian Nichols 3:56 Yeah, well, you hit the nail on the head there. And this is something so for folks who are maybe new to the audience, and are familiar with my history, so I lead a sales team in the greater cybersecurity telecommunications industry for a number of years. And my main focus was literally building up that team, training, teaching all the scripting, getting all the templates for emails, getting the actual technology in place, right. But when you go and actually hire a team, I think this is the most important part, they can't be just a cog in the machine, they have to be to your point that the person that they are you have to treat them with the love, the kindness, the respect that they not only they need they deserve. And I think we see too often. A lot of those entry level sales roles, the STRS, the contact center, call center agents, they're not necessarily looked at and treated as nicely as they should be. And I think if you're able, and I dare say I believe you're seeing this firsthand as you treat people the way that you want to be treated. The Golden Rule How dare we bring that into this conversation but no, truly if you treat people the way they want to be treated, they'll end up doing some pretty darn good work. Richard Blank 5:04 And Brian, you do know, when you're a CEO of a company, you have leverage, you can hire, you can fire, you can make or break somebody, you and I, the way that we were raised, we chose the former, my egos fine, I don't need to go on the floor and embarrass, somebody will make them cry, but I'm looking to do is to delegate promote from within. And in order for me to scale, sometimes I got to bring in people that have no experience at a call center. But they're coming bilingual which bears the mark of higher education, it gives you an eye the opportunity to mold them to coach them, they don't bring in bad habits, and we can have them grow with our own company culture. And so for me, everybody has the opportunity to grow with this company. And, you know, I also let them realize that by learning a second language is 10 times harder than any account that I'll put them on. So I have to put fear into perspective for them. And also, since English is their second language, I stress the fact of increasing their vocabulary. So we'll work with a thesaurus every day, look at similes, and find ways to be more diplomatic strategic, and to expand their vocabulary. So their message is perfect. And it reduces any sort of rabbit holes. Brian Nichols 6:13 So you're not only hiring people giving them a career, you're not only teaching people sales, and call center, etiquette and such, but you're also teaching them English, you're teaching them a second language. I mean, this is I mean, this is not all in one package. I don't know what is honestly, Richard. Richard Blank 6:31 But you've also with your sales team, and you were talking about writing scripts for bottles and the training manual, we also have a quality assurance quality control department. So we judge our agents on KPIs which are key performance indicators and certain metrics. So besides just qualifying a phone call, you and I are focusing on the soft skills? Are they using the name? Are they using the pronouns? Are they doing any sort of positive escalation after being transferred from a gatekeeper? Are they once again showing active listening for clarification questions. And so a lot of the times, the agent will be well too rehearsed, and they become commercialized, they become plastic. So I believe that somebody should still have that raw sense, they should have their essence and be more of a painting. So while they're on the phone with people, it's a little more of an engagement, they might be on the phone a little bit longer. But their conversion ratios be much better, because of the sort of relationship building that they're doing. Brian Nichols 7:28 Yeah, well, and I don't remember who it was I listened to but I firmly have embraced this mentality of your sales is both the art and the science, but it's also performance, I think, and you you have to be able to bring yourself over the phone. And this is something that the best sales reps can really do well is that they can transfer the emotion that they are trying to give their prospects in terms of getting them from point A to point B, that excitement, and they're able to do that over the phone. That is one of the the I'd say that the trickiest skills to master. But once you do, you can become unstoppable when it comes to either setting appointments, trying to sell something on the phone, if it's a you know, a b2b product, you know more of a quick SAS solution or if it's a b2c, you will become much more confident because then it's not a matter of trying to Finnick your methods and trying to make things work. And then to the point you end up becoming like that robot, right? And it's not real, it doesn't feel authentic. Whereas if you're able to come in your true 100%, authentic self, and bring that emotion, bring that energy I've found in my success, and in my training my team that yields the most positive results. Richard, what's your experience? Richard Blank 8:49 Well, I couldn't agree with you more. But once again, a lot of the times people will do desert pitching, or they'll talk for 10 minutes without an oasis where people can drink and rest. So I believe that let's say a 10 minute phone call could potentially have five checkpoints to I believe every conversation has an introduction, body and conclusion. And also along with that, that people have attention spans of 30 seconds to two minutes. So every time we make a point with somebody, we got to ensure that it makes sense or sounds good and that we don't need to explain it again and showing by active listening, they don't need to repeat it again. And so it's not a lecture and it's not crossing your fingers hoping they don't hang up on you and you get the appointment. It could be a non qualified appointment there just yessing you off the phone. So we do have a certain structure well as a conversation as moving forward, we are able to continue to qualify them and to be able to get from open ended questioning more explanations from them. And through deductive reasoning, I can focus on areas of what's important to you. And I cannot stress enough that if there are individuals that are assisting you prior to the transferred call or afterwards, that you do mention these individuals verbally and written we call those escalations. So, when I happened to call your company back, The Brian Nichols Show, anybody that might be answering the phone will then compliment me for mentioning them to the boss. And so these are the sorts of things my friend that will not compromise ethics, values and morals. And what you see on the big screen with the Wolf of Wall Street and Glengarry and boiler room, there are certain call centers that do that, but not every vertical sell stock. And sometimes it's not the profile the agents that we hire here. And so I'm in a very strict Catholic country, and it's a seller's market. So if I'm offering a certain position that the agents aren't comfortable with, they're not going to accept it. So that's why we're very, very selective of the campaigns that come into the center. Brian Nichols 10:44 So talk to talk to us about Costa Rica, right, you started to touch about the the cultural differences and I think there's a majority of the audience will probably Sydney here in the past 10 minutes or so they're going okay. But Richard, why Costa Rica. So Richard, why Costa Rica? Richard Blank 11:01 Well, if it wasn't for my good friend that was here in Costa Rica, I could have been anywhere. But once that barn door was open, that horse wasn't coming back, you, you know that I was planning on being an expat. I just needed the one in a million opportunity. But this is a beautiful culture here. We're north of Panama, south of Nicaragua. It's a democratic society. There's no standing army in Costa Rica. So there's a 95% literacy rate, they put all their money back into education. And you're gonna love this company, such as HP, Intel, Oracle and Amazon, are located here because of our workforce or scalability, proximity to the United States, and our skill set. And so Costa Rica in this beautiful eco tourism, Central American paradise, the moment I stepped off the plane in August of 2000, I wasn't going home, I am home. And so what I could recommend to anybody is not just to jump into any sort of entrepreneur business just on a whim, do your due diligence, maybe test it a little bit. But if you do have an opportunity, you definitely should take it. And so for me, I guess just it's like an 18th parlay. I just kept getting lucky and kept heading. And so for the past 14 years, I have my own company, I started it in my mid 30s, I, I needed some impulse control, maturity and a little bit of capital. But we started my wife and I, and here we are 14 years later with 150 seats. And I'm in a building right now that can house 300. So it was a slow and steady. We didn't do it with any loans or any sort of partners, it was just cash only. So did this so I could weather storms, I could sleep at night. And as I said, just the way that I was raised by my parents and grandparents, I did it the old school way. And fortunately for me, it's been successful. Brian Nichols 12:52 I mean, going from Philadelphia, which I actually I just moved from Philadelphia, which I thought was funny when you mentioned that, but to Costa Rica, that's that's a big jump over in life where more you started to where you are now. But to your point, it does matter where you end up, ending up, surrounding yourself with people who are focused on that same mission that you're focused on, and you've built a culture. And I think that's, that's so important in business and in life. I mean, my culture of the company that I work at, it's huge, good people bring out the good and people that is one of our top mottos at my company Stratus ip. So talk to us about the culture of Costa Rica's call center. And what's this idea of gamification. I've heard so much about Richard Blank 13:37 gamification. Well, since I grew up in the 70s, and 80s, I loved going to arcades and I'm a retro gamer. I don't have a PlayStation or an Xbox. I'm an old school gamer. And so my passion turned into an obsession. And once I started making a little money and have the room here at the center, I started treasure hunting. And there are people down here with pinball machines and jukeboxes and, and a lot of toys that one man's trash is another man's treasure. And so call me Oscar the Grouch, I'll be willing to drive a couple hours to find myself a classic rock cooler, or a pinball machine. And so most of these games are older than the agents here, I created a happy neutral environment so people can meet others from different departments that can let off steam, they can recharge batteries. And imagine an environment where you can hang out with LFA and play some games together. And so, for me, I felt it was very important. It reduces attrition. When people are best friends with other people, they usually stay at a company. And as I say before, if I have a training class and it starts at seven, not really start to 730, from seven to 730 We're in the arcade making friends and and enjoying ourselves. So when they enter the class on their first day, they're just not absorbing. They're contributing because of their comfort levels. And, and that to me is so important on a first impression with our company. Brian Nichols 14:57 Absolutely. Let's now let's use the The back half of this episode to focus on some actionable advice, because yes, there are a bunch of business owners sales pros who listen to this program, but also some folks who are just your average Politico's and they're interested in what's happening in the world, they'd like to take some tangible advice when they're going out and just talking to your average person, and talking about ideas or issues they care about and trying to get other people to care about them too. And a lot of the skills I'm sure that you teach your call center reps will translate into real life as well. So let's kind of walk through some of the the basics what are some of the key things that you would say are fundamentals that make a good call center rep as you would say, over at Costa Rica's call center. Richard Blank 15:39 Perfect. Before I give you an actual phone call tips and tricks, let's talk about leaving a voicemail, I believe something should be custom made, take an extra couple seconds to look at a LinkedIn or company website. So you can find something specific to separate you from others when you're leaving a message. Also on an email template, as I mentioned before, make sure it's customized. So it's not just boiler room. And then a second thing is when you're making outbound prospecting calls, and I know your company does business to businesses, others do as well. And you don't need to work at a call center, we just have certain infrastructure, a lot of people could be making and receiving calls or smaller companies. I believe in phonetic microexpression. Reading, I believe that also that we eliminate three of our senses over the phone or taste, touch and smell. So our hearing should be expanded. But people claim you can't see over the phone. I say quite the contrary, there is metaphysics, Image Streaming. And books are better than movies so you can use your imagination. And so when we're calling into companies, I believe that a company named spike is an excellent way to originally Introduce yourself through anonymity. Don't be anonymous, a whole call that shady. But if somebody answers the phone and say, Brian Nichols show, you say, Hey, how's Brian Nichols doing today? And you'll be asking about the company. First, the individual answering the call could be your gatekeeper, or filter. And they'll usually ask you a question, which I call buffer boomerang question. First question they might ask me is what my name is. And what I would love to do is capture and buffer the tone? I would say, Brian, that's an excellent question. My name is Richard blank. And so you could show the active listening buffer it bring it around and throw it back in a certain positive way. And so when we're on these sort of phone calls, you might be asked questions six to 10 times, don't say that's a great question every time, but there's a certain way to buffer it and bring it back and show active listening. And also, since it's a brand new phone call, there's a certain thing that once you see it, you can't unsee it. It's phonetic microexpression. Reading, not just micro expression, that's when you get to see somebody. But over the phone, people will give you a tell sign. In phonetics, there's four sections tone, rate, pitch and duration. My suggestion is to have a confident and empathetic tone that's consistent. But there's a mirror imaging technique, I want you to match someone's rate of speed and their speaking level. Because every 30 seconds to two minutes, they might have a spike or a dip. That's usually when you ask a tie down question if it makes sense or sounds good. And also, when you're explaining multiple things about your company, make sure to display it almost like a dessert tray, where you can get a positive negative reinforcement. After explaining everything and waiting in between to see if they react to it. You could rake it by saying I'm sure you'd like at least one. And so you can take something from a horizontal into a vertical and start stacking open ended questions. And then towards the end of the phone call, I like to repeat information in military alphabet. Because instead of ending a call immediately, we could be talking about Memorial Day that just passed and how proud we are of the people we know that have served in the military. And then when I do a follow up email to you, I will definitely in writing mention anybody that assisted me. So when I call your company back, the Richard circle is there for that individual to say thank you for the compliment. Let me retransfer the call. And so these are the sort of soft skills that you can do on these sorts of phone calls that won't compromise ethics, values and morals, it will increase your talk time. One other thing, since we are working from home, there is a chance you might hear a dog in the background for an example. And so I like to use the me to technique where I'm where, let's say a dog is barking and I will say hey, I love dogs, because you know you love your dog. But I'll be an excellent salesman and ask the follow up question. What is your dog's name? And Brian, you're gonna say the dog's name is Fluffy, fluffy. Sounds great. Obviously, he's barking so you get the head, put the dog outside, come back to the call. And this is where anchor you instead of trying to re pitch your clothes, you are probably going to talk about your dog for a couple minutes. And that's usually when you asked me what my name was again, and I say Brian, I'm so glad that you asked once again, my name is Richard blank. Now your name dropping me for the rest of the call. So just show active listening, ask follow up questions. There'll be times when a child Old a dog or some sort of distraction in the background? And if I can't hear you, I'm not going to say excuse me, Brian, could you repeat that? No, I'm going to fall on that sword strategically and diplomatically. I'm going to say for my clarification, Brian, was it ABC, or 123? For my edification. So what these will do is reduce any sort of ego defense, and eliminate any sort of rabbit holes. And once you do some dedicated practice, outside of the office, where you just practice speaking and recording yourself, then you'll be prepared. Because you and I make it look easy. Your audience does not see the amount of time and hours that we put into to prepare not only for our jobs, but for these podcasts. So as long as somebody puts in a little bit of effort, a little bit of extra outside of work, you will see the dividends when you return to the office, oh, those Brian Nichols 20:51 little tiny things you can do every single day that will add up into something huge, like I started, so I'll give you a real life example. So I was notorious, and I like sleeping in. So I decided to do was, well, I was running out of time to get my workout in at night. So I needed to get my workout in the morning. So what I started to do was, I would wake up 15 minutes earlier, every single day for the for one week. And then the next week out add 15 minutes earlier until fast forward, I'm now 4am Am up every morning. And I've been doing that consistently now for a few months, it has been great, I feel fine. Like I'm not tired. Like I thought I would be I all the worst case scenarios I built in my head ended up all getting taken care of all because I took those steps of doing it one step at a time getting to where I wanted to get to. And I think that for me, was one of the best feelings knowing that Oh, that was easy. Like it looks so difficult at the onset. But when you do take it one step at a time, it becomes so much more manageable. And I think this goes to the next part I want to focus on as we close in ironically enough, it is regarding closing I hear consistently time and again, one of the top issues that I run into is people saying, Brian, I'll get people on the phone, we'll have a great conversation. They'll love my presentation. And then I get to the point where I'm supposed to be either a setting a next step and getting something moving forward. Or we're supposed to get a decision, we're supposed to close and either a I get no decision or B, they ghost me. So what would be your advice to helping either maintain a relationship going forward to help continue the sale and actually get to the close? Or ultimately to it when you have them on the phone? Get that close right away? Richard Blank 22:33 Well, once again, I'm not sure exactly what vertical it is, and are they looking to do a cold call close chances are they left a door open, there might have been a certain area there where they could have done a follow up question or they might have rushed. Also, there's nothing wrong with building a pipeline, there might be a protocol to company where you might be just selling for time, before any sort of commitment. And so once again, I have to respect certain boundaries, a lot of the times it is a first time contact. So they might want to check your credentials out or see how you are prior to any sort of contracts. And that's why when I was mentioning positive escalations, and certain things in good faith, and and you know, good intentions prior to even pitching somebody that might separate you from somebody else, and let them take you into consideration. But as I say, before, individuals, they should be walking into every single phone call where strangers or friends you haven't met yet. And if they're going to be using a cookie cutter, boiler room template, just to pitch people, you'll get your results, but you'll never be an ace, every single, they're too well rehearsed is too much of a print. They're not a painting. They're not raw, they lost the essence of what got them there in the first place. And so thinking that you're going to cut someone else's price, or certain contractual terms that may assist you. But I believe that speaking about your dog, or doing some due diligence, and complimenting your company, or promotion and anniversary, as I say it's only going to increase your odds. And And finally, if I may, I'm not really a salesman, I take it, you know, as I guess a compliment, but I prefer from an educated point of view, somebody makes a decision. So as much as we get along well and want to work together, there might be some things on their end that don't qualify. I don't do 24/7 I'm not graveyard. We don't have certain languages outside of Portuguese, Spanish and English. I can't do a Chinese account. And I can't match certain offshore call centers like India and the Philippines with their price. So after 15 rounds and explaining everything and having them fall in love with me, unfortunately, I might have to pass on the opportunity because I wouldn't be able to fulfill their needs. And that's okay. As long as I'm able to once again go the distance and make my points. Brian Nichols 24:54 Yes, I know we talked about this with Tim walk on the program that no is sometimes the best Just answer because you can get because it means not no to you, but just not right now it could be a future opportunity to so put that in your tickler file and save it for a rainy day call them back in six months. And hey, you know, I would recommend he's trying to stay in touch a little bit more often than six months, but you never know we you just catch them on the right day when all of a sudden, the problem that you solve has been the top of mind issue because all of a sudden, whatever was caused a major headache, and now they're they're tasked with they're trying to figure out that solution on their own, or they know they're gonna have to spend hours sourcing that solution. So why not all of a sudden be that person entering into the conversation that they're already having in their own mind, and just happen to have the solution right there. I think that would be a much better approach than yes, the old 1990s smile and dial approach, which is so exhausting. And frankly, it just is like throwing it against the wall and hoping it sticks, it doesn't really yield too much positive results. So Richard, but that being said, we are unfortunately already hard pressed for time. So we want to make sure we give folks an opportunity to number one, continue the conversation. So we want to give you a chance to go ahead and give plugs but number two, give us an opportunity here to learn a little bit more of some maybe a leading words of wisdom and advice. What do you want the audience to take away from today's episode, Richard Blank 26:16 to be more self reliant and self confident to show empathy if you're a CEO of a company. And also, if you have certain dreams, I think you should follow them through so you can look at yourself in the mirror every day, I was very true to my 18 year old self in Philadelphia that started off learning Spanish and look where I am today. There might be some naysayers and great believers out there. And these are usually the people that love you the most, they care about you. But as you mentioned, they're N O means that they don't k n o w. Enough about your vision quest, about your spiritual journey. And so as I say before, I have nothing to prove to anybody is really about proving it to myself. And so you're really looking at a man that did this the hard way, not the easy way. And so if anything I could share with your audience is to hang in there. Don't quit, and go the distance. Brian Nichols 27:08 And of course, make sure if you are working for Richard go play a game of pinball, because that sounds like could be a lot of fun. Richard Blank 27:14 So you're working with me, my brother, no one works for me. We believe in synergy, where our parts work together for the common good of the whole. Brian Nichols 27:21 I love it no even better. Without that being said, Folks, please do you want to go ahead and continue the conversation. We will include all of Richard's links here in the show notes. So please make sure if you're a podcast listener, you go to your podcast catcher, click the artwork, it'll bring you to today's episode, those links will be there. By the way, we'll have the entire transcription of today's episode as well, plus all 515 Plus episodes of The Brian Nichols Show. And by the way, if you're an audio listener, did you know we have a YouTube version of the program? If not, while you're missing out, we head over to the Brian Nichols show.com And today's episode will include the link to the YouTube make sure you click the subscribe button and make sure you hit that little magic bell so you get a notification every time we go live and up. I'll make sure I include yesterday's episode right here. I'll see you over there. But with that being said, Folks, thank you for joining us on today's episode. It's Brian Nichols signing off for Richard Blanc. We'll see you tomorrow for listening Brian Nichols Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #briannicholsshow https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vYnJpYW4tbmljaG9scw/episode/NDBlMTJmMjgtZTZiMS0xMWVjLWIxM2MtNGYyZDZiY2ViMTJm?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwigv7Db2eP9AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ https://lnns.co/KmHwy6iNQST https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-brian-nichols-show-709489/episodes/518-how-is-this-old-school-ret-141372565 https://gaana.com/song/ep-519-proven-sales-marketing-strategies-that-work-feat-brian-nichols https://open.spotify.com/episode/3LbH4YiBfW0H9Bae3UQglf https://www.briannicholsshow.com/guests/richard-blank/ https://www.spreaker.com/user/cspangle/518-how-is-this-old-school-retro-gamer-e https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFGJQ_EFJ9I&list=PLD-t_zbjCbh-aveTNzUXqko1P7u9HA76v&index=4 https://www.briannicholsshow.com/518-how-is-this-old-school-retro-gamer-enhancing-the-sales-experience-w-richard-blank/0 comments0
- Messages and Methods Podcast. Shelley Carney and Toby Younis live interview. Episode recorded June 9th, 2022 with Richard Blank.What online entrepreneurs want is visibility, impact, and profit but they often get overwhelmed by the technology. We inspire excitement for content creation and marketing yourself and your brand while answering all your technology questions. Get actionable tips to consistently create and distribute content to grow your online community and position yourself as an expert in your industry. At AGK Media Studio, Shelley and Toby provide content marketing strategies and a content consistency framework so you can engage more clients every week. Messages & Methods Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #messagesandmethods https://fb.watch/jj7ldP5gOG/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SIYU8Tjb8k0 comments0
- Innovation in Compliance Network. Messaging through a great culture. Episode 251Innovation in compliance brings you interviews with industry leading experts who are changing the way practitioners approach compliance. Host Tom Fox, the Compliance Evangelist and Voice of Compliance is driving the conversation about compliance into the 2020s and beyond with his focus on innovations for the compliance practitioner and the compliance profession. If you want to learn how to bring business solutions to compliance problems to more fully operationalize compliance, this is the podcast for you. In this episode, I visit with Richard Blank, founder and CEO of Costa Roca Call Center on how he learned the business from the ground up, soft communication skills, effective, engaged training and the value of a VA. Richard Blank is the founder, CEO, and head bilingual trainer at Costa Rica’s Call Center, a business process outsourcing (BPO) telemarketing company. They offer outbound and inbound telemarketing solutions of the highest quality. Tom Fox welcomes him to this week’s show to talk about Costa Rica’s Call Center, how they help their clients, why he opened a call center in Costa Rica, and how to lead a successful call center in a foreign country. The Core of Costa Rica’s Call Center Tom asks Richard why he decided to open a call center in Costa Rica and how the term “Learning through the Proletariat” influenced his business model. Richard explains that as a CEO who works among people, you learn the importance of training and keeping your employees and customers. “One thing that I heard most sitting amongst people that are in a call center industry is that they feel expendable,” he tells Tom. To counteract this, he invests in his employees' careers by promoting them and teaching them English so that they have pride and security in their job. Additionally, he has several retro arcade game machines that allow the employees to meet colleagues from other departments, and to relax, “or even hang out with el jefe”. He explains that this creates a safe, enjoyable workplace culture and an atmosphere of trust and institutional fairness. BPO Telemarketing Outsource Company Tom asks Richard to define a BPO telemarketing outsourcing company. BPO stands for business process outsourcing, and it is done in several parts of the world, including the Philippines where it is known as offshore. However, since Costa Rica is so close to the United States, it is considered a near-shore outsourcing company. “[That] could be either a blended or mixed center where they work on multiple accounts; usually it’s for overflowing and answering service,” he explains. Every one of Costa Rica’s Call Center’s agents is assigned to and works specifically for a client. He explains why having a brick-and-mortar call center is more beneficial for them versus being completely remote: problems like Internet redundancy and electricity failure plague remote workers, while at the in-person center, there are multiple tools and resources to hedge technical difficulties. Nearshoring and Outsourcing Tom asks why Richard chose Costa Rica for a BPO center and what’s the difference in having a company in essentially the same time zone as the US. Richard describes Costa Rica’s ideal location, and that it’s a democratic society with no standing army. In addition, the country’s literacy rate is 95%, and it has the best infrastructure in Central America. They also have highly skilled and experienced workers, some of whom have lived in the US and have dual citizenship. Furthermore, clients like the fact that agents are attuned to the North American market. It is also a safe place to visit for tourism. The Innovation in Compliance Podcast Network Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #innovationincompliance https://lnns.co/YkKhEV6iL9N https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-h53qp-142d87e6 https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Innovation-In-Compliance-p1545681/?topicId=173150933 https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/innovation-in-compliance-with-635895/episodes/messaging-through-a-great-cult-143052248 https://podtail.com/en/podcast/innovation-in-compliance-with-tom-fox/messaging-through-a-great-culture-with-richard-bla/ https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1356603588/innovation-in-compliance-with-tom-fox/messaging-through-a-great-culture-with-richard-blank https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/innovation-in-compliance-with-tom-fox-21033/messaging-through-a-great-culture-with-richard-blank-1484037988 https://podcastaddict.com/episode/141742642 https://www.ivoox.com/en/messaging-through-a-great-culture-with-richard-blank-audios-mp3_rf_89043216_1.html https://www.audible.com/pd/Messaging-Through-a-Great-Culture-with-Richard-Blank-Podcast/B0B58CN28F?ref=a_pd_Innova_c1_lAsin_6_1 https://player.fm/series/innovation-in-compliance-with-tom-fox/messaging-through-a-great-culture-with-richard-blank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dO67gHr_DA https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/messaging-through-a-great-culture-with-richard-blank/id1356603588?i=1000567936137 https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/innovation-in-compliance-episode-251-90153/? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/messaging-through-a-great-culture-with-richard-blank/id1356603588?i=1000567936137 https://goodlifemagazineonline.com/innovation-in-compliance-episode-251-messaging-through-a-great-culture-with-richard-blank-thomas-fox-compliance-evangelist/ https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/innovation-in-compliance-episode-251-90153/? http://compliancepodcastnetwork.net/messaging-through-a-great-culture-with-richard-blank/0 comments0
- Make Careers Happen with Ishaan Haider. Guiding people to find fulfillment and rewards in their professional journey. Episode #2Make Careers Happen. A podcast with the main focus on helping people to find success in their careers. Make Careers Happen Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #makecareershappen https://www.audacy.com/podcast/make-careers-happen-8c197/episodes/episode-2-interview-with-richard-blank-d8f7e https://radiopublic.com/make-careers-happen-WzmvRY/s1!cd9df https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/episode-2-interview-with-richard-blank/id1621954796?i=1000565675673 https://open.spotify.com/episode/1zNaORYVdObXtM1FpQPfkt?si=5983b4ab1dd64b0f https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makecareershappen/episodes/Episode-2--interview-with-Richard-Blank-e1jmd24/a-a82uqhq https://anchor.fm/makecareershappen/episodes/Episode-2--interview-with-Richard-Blank-e1jmd240 comments0
- Richard Blank Podcast Guest Appearances from Costa Rica's Call Center Mar 15 · 29m The Adaptive Executive Podcast. Positive Call Center Culture with Richard Blank. Episode 19.Your host, Greg Ballard, talks with Richard Blank of Costa Rica's Call Center. Costa Rica's Call Center is a state of the art BPO Telemarketing outsource company that personally trains call centers across Central America. They are bilingual and professionally trained and they can do the same for your staff. The Adaptive Executive podcast host, founder, and CEO of Five C Consulting Greg Ballard is based in Northern Virginia. Greg has 25+ years of extensive experience in management and leadership development for start-ups, corporate, entrepreneurial, and faith-based enterprises. Five C Consulting works with a diverse set of clients ranging from mid-size tech companies, large government agencies, military, and non-profits to radically improve strategic investments and organizational performance. Greg has led and managed over 300+ business units and has mentored more than 225 leaders. Listen in on “The Adaptive Executive” where they share stories from leading executives and discuss how to keep yourself and your organization adaptive and your employees engaged. In this episode, Greg Ballard and I discuss applying the mindset of being both adaptive as an executive and being innovative at the same time when working though organizational development processes and opportunities. Also hear why asking great questions can really have an impact on your team and the innovation in your organization. Check out the episode now! The Adaptive Executive podcast host, founder, and CEO of Five C Consulting Greg Ballard is based in Northern Virginia. Greg has 25+ years of extensive experience in management and leadership development for start-ups, corporate, entrepreneurial, and faith-based enterprises. Five C Consulting works with a diverse set of clients ranging from mid-size tech companies, large government agencies, military, and non-profits to radically improve strategic investments and organizational performance. Greg has led and managed over 300+ business units and has mentored more than 225 leaders. The Adaptive Executive Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #theadaptiveexecutive https://gaana.com/song/19-positive-call-center-culture-with-costa-ricas-call-centers-richard-blank https://podbay.fm/p/the-adaptive-executive/e/1656522000 https://www.audible.com/pd/19-Positive-Call-Center-Culture-with-Costa-Ricas-Call-Centers-Richard-Blank-Podcast/B0B5FD7X2W?ref=a_pd_item-n_c1_lAsin_1_4 https://open.spotify.com/episode/4RPq6Iec6Br0GB6T2WAXnG?si=0a24f728268149da https://lnns.co/JG9wHMnovqd https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/19-positive-call-center-culture-with-costa-ricas-call/id1600558228?i=1000568134724 https://player.fm/series/the-adaptive-executive/ep-19-positive-call-center-culture-with-costa-ricas-call-centers-richard-blank0 comments0
- weTHRIVE Podcast. An entrepreneur in Costa Rica has what it takes. Episode 45Every day, entrepreneurs around the world wonder if they have what it takes. What it takes to put food on the table, keep clothes on their back, keep a roof over their head, build a successful business, and even if they have what it takes to create and be a part of something bigger than themselves. During each episode, Casey Clark, founder of C Clark Consulting, interviews other entrepreneurs to learn more about what it means to them to thrive, how they’re using their business in creating an impactful legacy, and what has tried to get in their way. These stories will resonate with your soul as they inspire you to manifest your vision! Casey Clark interviews Richard Blank, CEO of Costa Rica's Call Center in episode 45 of the weTHRIVE podcast. We Thrive Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #wethrive https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-wethrive-podcast-72330182/episode/wethrive-episode-45-richard-blank-98174743/ https://www.stitcher.com/show/wethrive-podcast/episode/wethrive-episode-45-richard-blank-203957370 https://thrivewithc3.com/wethrive-richard-blank/ https://lnns.co/oKAnvq1ZOsf https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/wethrive-podcast/wethrive-episode-45-richard-qsYuvpNV_dU/ https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/wethrive-podcast-2146136/episodes/wethrive-episode-45-richard-bl-141642558 https://www.audible.com/pd/weTHRIVE-Episode-45-Richard-Blank-Podcast/B0B3S9N9H3?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp https://open.spotify.com/episode/1dQT0La7jNyPZ72DpuQUlW https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wethrive-episode-45-richard-blank/id1541469704?i=1000566014350 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdAZ9zGereY https://cclarkconsulting.com/wethrive-richard-blank/0 comments0
- On Another Track Podcast. Emigrate to Costa Rica to become a ‘Pinball Wizard’! Episode 66David Wilson shines a light on how people have changed up their lives and what was involved in getting themselves On Another Track! Welcome to the 66th episode of my podcast series that shines a light on how people have changed their lives and what was involved in getting themselves On Another Track! When you first meet Richard you are blown away by his clarity and amazing energy. Having been involved in call centres since the age of 27, what Richard doesn’t know about empathy and having a downright good time in the workplace, is not worth knowing. Don’t get me wrong, he’s no pushover as he competes with the likes of Amazon but at the same time he manages to keep 150 local people employed in this Caribbean paradise. David Wilson is "On Another Track". It's been the story of my life and many other people that I have met. That is the motivation behind this podcast series. I want to take you on a journey, exploring people and places from around the world. I'll take you to places you have never been and to places where you might not want to go! My Dream. I want to leave a legacy not only for today but for people searching for a future to life, the universe and all that! Sounds big? It is but guess what? There are so many people out there have great stories and advice. Are they willing to share it with the world? Let's find out, lets get "On Another Track!" Being an army "Brat" for 25 years of my life has allowed me to be confident at meeting and talking to people around the world. Friends would often say "have you had your interview with David yet?" to the people I had just met.Coming from a Celtic, Glaswegian background, being a shrinking violet was not an option. You were in danger of being thought aloof if you didn't converse and pass the time of day. Especially if you were on a Glasgow bus! Fast forward to my start in broadcasting in the 1980's. Leaving Germany and arriving in a small market town called Devizes in Wiltshire (20 miles north of Stonehenge) in the UK, I was looking to do something with my spare time. I happen to open the local paper to see an advert for "new presenters required at Devizes Hospital Broadcasting Service". That was it. I was off to the races!It was more than spinning records and sounding good on the radio. It was the old school way of learning to talk to people. I spent 15 happy years in broadcasting. Who would have thought it would hold me in good stead in the 2020's? I now reside in Canada but still broadcast back to the UK via the wonders of the world wide web and also host my weekly talks podcast series On Another Track. On Another Track Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. 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- No Pressure No Diamonds Podcast. Mastering Verbal Tell Signs. Episode 38 with CEO Richard BlankExcited to have Richard Blank, CEO of Costa Rica’s Call Center, on the the show today. Check out Richard’s Full bio on www.npndpodcast.com So easy to get distracted these days.With the world going through such a drastic shift how do we keep our focus? In this podcast you will hear from host Alex Rose and co-host Thomas Solano, fellow entrepreneurs that have dealt getting distracted and learned how to pivot to gain traction in their lives. This podcast is for the up and coming entrepreneur, work-preneur, that is hungry and wants to hear from someone ‘growing’ through DISTRACTION. No Pressure No Diamonds Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #nopressurenodiamonds https://podbay.fm/p/no-pressure-no-diamonds/e/1654520430 https://www.ivoox.com/en/ep-38-mastering-verbal-tell-signs-with-ceo-richard-audios-mp3_rf_88504424_1.html https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-no-pressure-no-diamonds-89686308/episode/ep38-mastering-verbal-tell-signs-with-97963659/ https://tunein.com/podcasts/Entrepreneurship/No-Pressure-No-Diamonds-p1922911/?topicId=187695497 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nopressurenodiamonds/episodes/EP-38-Mastering-Verbal-Tell-Signs-with-CEO-Richard-Blank-e1jcfvv?utm_source=listennotes.com&utm_campaign=Listen+Notes&utm_medium=website https://lnns.co/8W274XHpa-A https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npndpodcast.com%2Fep38-mastering-verbal-tell-signs-with-ceo-richard-blank%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1WljEYGOD39JGFQMBJKmNlw_FGMGHsjF6x0WciNVN-Yp-aOi52eZjA_sc&h=AT1dNQODdhGSTciHe9SbQGRCJCDFv738XRj_tj3JSbMiV-R6E1V502alf4taktb057zvzABNl6qwzEDAV6xGtIfsOz6XnvNk03QIyzCtjQXITBHslyq6wydmIloRLAQm-A&__tn__=H-R&c[0]=AT1wzCQaYCurNs0owYbiCEx-veBR4j_xNhYVQsMWjoDZTJdjLtnJgp8oS6eEOOUPQyEzyop7IcucTE2ELMr7Xo9MwG_NPSrPwM3EqTz7hTlyg_3lgacOZ2SlUtiMnGP0vsc-ekibZPNK9hj74G1HaYtNKXSMPg https://www.npndpodcast.com/ep38-mastering-verbal-tell-signs-with-ceo-richard-blank/ https://www.stitcher.com/show/no-pressure-no-diamonds/episode/ep-38-mastering-verbal-tell-signs-with-ceo-richard-blank-203798762 https://open.spotify.com/episode/1CmgpNCQ0oy5BYhEFL38fj?si=4984b600f3be4d62 https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yODZlMTU3Yy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw/episode/NDZkN2I4MDgtNWE1Ny00YzQ1LTllMDEtNTQzMWY4NDRkMTQz?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiA85j0_dH9AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-38-mastering-verbal-tell-signs-with-ceo-richard-blank/id1538527398?i=1000565367441 https://www.npndpodcast.com/ep38-mastering-verbal-tell-signs-with-ceo-richard-blank/ https://blackpodcasting.com/ep-38-mastering-verbal-tell-signs-with-ceo-richard-blank/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ep-38-mastering-verbal-tell-signs-with-ceo-richard-blank0 comments0
- Not Your Average CEO Lifeline. Are You Communicating Successfully? with CEO Richard BlankNot Your Average CEO Lifeline is a podcast that provides vital insight to growing, enhancing and managing your business. Listen in to hear how to grow your business, expand your knowledge base, master the art of delegation, navigate the virtual space, save money and much much more! On today's episode of Not Your Average CEO Lifeline, we are joined by CEO, Richard Blank. Richard is the CEO for Costa Rica's Call Center and has been since 2008. He brings some amazing advice on how to turn employee morale around, keep motivation up and how to communicate successfully. Be sure to listen in to learn more about leadership, strong corporate culture, some outsourcing tips and how to become successful in the call center world! As a Fractional Chief Operations Officer, Nicole possesses advanced operation abilities with the experience and talent to enhance business growth and profitability. Superior organizational skills that comes with two decades of executive experience. She is an extremely detail-oriented and systematic executive with the agility and initiative to lead a large or small team.Nicole's passion is for helping business owners succeed by providing them with the skill sets and long-lasting operation processes to maintain a thriving dynamic business.The educational background held by Nicole has allowed her education to be extremely diverse and well-rounded with a strong emphasis on science and mathematics. Conducting atmospheric and meteorological research in her spare time places her at the forefront of weather forecasting and climate change.This unique combination of business and science makes for a rare talent in strategic and operational planning. Not Your Average CEO Lifeline Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #notyouraverageceolifeline https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-not-your-average-ceo-lifel-94834337/episode/are-you-communicating-successfully-with-ceo-98413828/ https://radiopublic.com/not-your-average-ceo-lifeline-G7OmDe/s1!271da https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy83MmE1ZjQ0OC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw/episode/NzA1NGI3ZWItYzgyZi00ZWQ4LTgwYWEtZGY2OTliYjVlNDE4?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjwp8q398r9AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ https://castbox.fm/episode/Are-You-Communicating-Successfully--with-CEO-Richard-Blank-id4853852-id505884908?country=us https://anchor.fm/notyouraverageceolife/episodes/Are-You-Communicating-Successfully--with-CEO-Richard-Blank-e1k1sbc https://podbay.fm/p/not-your-average-ceo-lifeline/e/1655403413 https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TKrtN2ZjhW0o4gOrRiuPU?si=493c05f8c8684fa90 comments0
- Big Boss Show. How to Build a 150 Person Call Center and Train Telemarketers with Richard BlankBig Boss Show includes topics like how to make money with merchant cash advance, how to sell merchant cash advance, and how to avoid mistakes as an entrepreneur. Davron Karimov is a merchant cash advance broker and the CEO of Funderhunt. Funding America is a show that follows the team at Funderhunt as they try to fund merchants.24 Year Old Business Loan & Merchant Cash Advance Broker, Business Owner. In this sit down with Richard Blank, we discuss how to train telemarketers, even if English is not their first language. Timecodes: 0:00 Introduction 2:55 Learning Another Language 4:08 Contact Richard Blank 4:48 Costa Rica Demographic 5:48 Training New Telemarketers 7:43 Dealing with Conflicts 9:24 Teaching Phonetics 11:10 Keeping Employees Motivated 13:14 Benefits of Outsourcing 14:44 Final Thoughts 17:10 Outro Big Boss Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. 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- Richard Blank Podcast Guest Appearances from Costa Rica's Call Center Mar 7 · 1h 7m The Living Numbers Podcast. Call Center Culture & Successful Phone Call. Episode #47 with Richard Blank The podcast where amazing people tell their stories through laughter and life lessons for all to enjoy. Everyone is interesting if you ask the right questions. Tony Rambles had interviews with doctors, psychologists, lawyers, pastors, financial advisors, community advocates, voice actors, authors, scientists, veterans and many different kinds of people from various backgrounds. Everywhere he goes, Tony is a teacher. Tony Rambles adds value to people in whatever way he can. Richard Blank lends his expertise in communication and business to the show to explain how communication, empathy and being true to yourself are the keys to winning at life. 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. 0:00 Pre-show 4:24 Intro 6:32 Mr. Telemundo In Costa Rica, Old School Convertible 16:49 Tri - Letter Athlete, Winning Mindset 27:15 Empathy, Gamification & TikTok 39:45 Top 5 Arcade Games 44:20 Synergy w/People 50:55 Double Down During Covid 54:58 3 Whats!? Unpopular Opinions, Life Changes & Advice 64:00 Where To Find Richard Blank The Living Numbers Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #thelivingnumbers https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Episode-47-Richard-Blank-lends-his-expertise-in-communication-and-business-to-the-show-to-explain-how-communication-empathy-and-being-true-to-yourself-are-the-keys-to-winning-at-life-Podcast/B0BBTK2BJY?ref=a_pd_The-Li_c1_lAsin_4_2 https://player.fm/series/the-living-numbers-podcast-with-tony-rambles/episode-47-richard-blank-lends-his-expertise-in-communication-and-business-to-the-show-to-explain-how-communication-empathy-and-being-true-to-yourself-are-the-keys-to-winning-at-life https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yM9yupu6wq4 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-47-richard-blank-lends-his-expertise-in-communication/id1555773183?i=1000567052054 https://anchor.fm/thelivingnumberspodcast/episodes/Episode-47-Richard-Blank-lends-his-expertise-in-communication-and-business-to-the-show-to-explain-how-communication--empathy-and-being-true-to-yourself-are-the-keys-to-winning-at-life-e1jr9g8 https://open.spotify.com/episode/2KSBsfjSL6ToSXPRjJ5MNR?si=KYlRXryPTeuu_eyV3C0pJQ https://www.tiktok.com/@thelivingnumberspodcast/video/7112454857302396206 https://www.tiktok.com/@thelivingnumberspodcast/video/7111374288707456299 https://youtu.be/U-jvRvDGnoc0 comments0
- Learning Reinvented Podcast - Setting Up Business Within a Different Culture. Episode #45 with Richard Blank.Welcome to another edition of the Learning Reinvented podcast, brought to you by The Learning Effect Team. In this episode host James Poletyllo speaks to Richard Blank. Richard is the CEO of Costa Rica’s Call Center. He joins us to talk about his journey which has taken him from his childhood roots in Philadelphia to running a call centre business in Costa Rica. Along the way he has shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers. He shares with us the approaches he uses and advocates, the lessons he has learnt along the way and his philosophy on leadership The Learning Reinvented Podcast aims to bring a variety of new and different voices to talk about the current and future state of learning at work. We want our conversations to be though provoking, useful and real world. We appreciate your thoughts and feedback to help achieve this. About The Learning Effect The Learning Effect’s vision is to help companies create purposeful, consumer grade learning experiences which help you deliver your business goals and your team realise their potential. If you are looking to change your companies learning or for new learning technologies we should be your first call. The Learning Reinvented Podcast brought to you by the team at The Learning Effect. This podcast is based around all things learning, but with a difference. We've designed the podcast to provoke conversation and help drive change in the world of learning. We won't be speaking with the usual suspects, instead will be speaking with innovative players in the learning space, as well as those who are new to it. In addition to this podcast, we also have a Community aimed at learning professionals to collaborate and share best practice. The Learning Reinvented Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #learningreinvented https://youtu.be/7Oe0FBq8nMM https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rkm1EI0AgUoBhGFjRDIk0?si=2e80405f53f84a56 https://lnns.co/2lt1YUMhjwR https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/learning-reinvented-podcast-episode-45-setting-up-business/id1536345055?i=1000567345586 https://player.fm/series/the-learning-effect-learning-reinvented-podcast/learning-reinvented-podcast-episode-45-setting-up-business-within-a-different-culture-richard-blank https://thelearningeffect.podbean.com/e/learning-reinvented-podcast-episode-45-setting-up-business-within-a-different-culture-richard-blank/0 comments0
- Legacy Digging Two Native Sons Podcast. Are you Creating an Environment Others Want to Join? Featuring Richard BlankEmbrace the experiences as those times help develop the gift that you're meant to share. If you're not embracing the experiences, who are you missing out on to impact? Within this episode, Scott and Patrick had an amazing conversation with Richard Blank discussing the unlikely journey of being able to impact the lives of others as a result of tapping into the uncommon. When you understand the power of what you possess, you can create major impact in the lives of others. In this episode, Scott, Patrick, and Richard talk about: •Approaching from an inside out perspective. •Power of connecting and plugging in. •The need for relationship building. •Realness and journey scars you possess. •Understanding levels and growth. Memorable Quotes “....To me the 1st draft is the best draft.” “I'm really only as stable as my foundation....” You have a story that others need to hear, but how deep does your story run and what impact will that create? We are all planting seeds in a garden that we will never see, but how are you viewing the seeds you're planting? The power of your legacy and the depth of the impact is something many don't consider or focus upon. Life isn't about us, but the lives we impact. Scott and Patrick are finding ways to introduce the stories of others, the view on the legacy of others, and what others are working on that many don't know. They are driven on helping others find their heart story and what makes them unique. What's your view on legacy and your heart story that's central to your core? Let's go! Legacy Digging with Two Native Sons Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #LEGACYDIGGING2nativesons https://lnns.co/a_cUsjrLO6q https://open.spotify.com/episode/50j5DnUy2pLsM5sycG103u?si=34375f5570044591 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/are-you-creating-an-environment-others-want-to-join/id1569763319?i=10005675168200 comments0
- Street Smart Business Leaders - Understanding today's consumers through rapport building. Episode #16.On Street Smart Business Leaders, your host, Michon Ellis, encourages entrepreneurs and business leaders to share their expertise and stories of adjusting to ever-evolving consumer habits. We cover topics like business challenges, client success stories, and of course, how and what products our guests are passionate about. We also let our guests share on the subjects they’re well-known for. No matter the topic, you’ll be hearing real stories from real people. Your host, Michon Ellis, talks with Richard Blank of Costa Rica Call Center. Costa Rica Call Center is a state-of-the-art BPO telemarketing outsource company. CRCC's crew is bilingual and capable of handling any size BPO while offering expansion or staying in contact of customers without stress or added time to hire and train telemarketers yourself. Street Smart Business Leaders Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #StreetSmartBusinessLeaders https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/16-rapport-building-with-costa-rica-call-centers/id1594749113?i=1000567405112 https://www.listennotes.com/zh-hant/podcasts/street-smart/16-rapport-building-with-AGSJYyXTzfg/ https://gaana.com/song/16-rapport-building-with-costa-rica-call-centers-richard-blank https://open.spotify.com/episode/0BsIHPHzSu0PEyne2O5yR0?si=eb552fd8f6b94106 https://player.fm/series/series-3005426/ep-16-rapport-building-with-costa-rica-call-centers-richard-blank0 comments0
- The Innovative Journey. A Podcast For Entrepreneurs. "Fortune Favors The Brave" with Richard BlankTake a journey with different entrepreneurs and inventors on their path to startups and small businesses to hear their ups and downs, their successes and failures, and how their journey has been on the startup road. Fortune favors the brave. Those who take risks often reap great rewards; those who are courageous are often the most successful. Take a chance in order to get what you want. The Innovative Journey Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #theinnovativejourney https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9YUUQzUnFiOA/episode/ZDc1NjA3NDUtZTZkZC00MmYyLWI2MDktZTAyMzgzYTIzZGU4?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwi4mNLBiMr9AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ https://radiopublic.com/the-inventive-journey-GAz3nZ/s1!51f0a https://open.spotify.com/episode/7GxSuqUw9ntgh6E4zWyxdx?si=c2e9d21856634454 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24788996/ https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/the-inventive-journey-35164/fortune-favors-the-brave-the-podcast-for-entrepreneurs-w-richard-blank-1487851424 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fortune-favors-the-brave-the-podcast-for-entrepreneurs/id1499417283?i=1000568273443 https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/episodes/Fortune-Favors-The-Brave-The-Podcast-For-Entrepreneurs-w-Richard-Blank-e1j9e0m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEhvXhkdd0s0 comments0
- The Dirt Podcast. Grow Your Business With the Power of Positive Escalation. Episode #17Have you ever wondered why other podcasts ask the same questions over and over again, expecting the same answers? And have you ever wondered why you only ever hear the same answers...? Not on THIS show! The Dirt is about getting real with businesses about the true state of their companies and going clear down to the dirt in solving their core needs as a business. Dive deep with your host Jim Barnish as we uncover The Dirt with some of the world's leading brands. Bootstrapping his way from just a desk and a single account to a large successful call center in Costa Rica, Founder and CEO Richard Blank joins Jim Barnish on this episode to share his insight on effective communication strategies, investing in his teams, and the power of positive escalation. With a track record for successful sales and training programs, Richard walks us through his key communication strategies that are beneficial not just for landing a sale, but also for every relationship in life. They discuss soft skill training instead of just hitting the sales goals; his “buffer boomerang technique” that keeps conversations constructive; “positive escalation” that builds relationships and pipelines, and boosts morale among teams; and how to hone your listening skill with “phonetic, micro expression reading.” Join their conversation on reducing attrition by helping people grow, and in turn, growing the business. 3 Key Takeaways Invest in your teams not as a means to an end, but as individuals who will pay it forward in the organization for years to come. Have faith in your people. Use effective communication techniques that will not only land a sale, but build relationships that will last. Positive escalation is the practice of building (real) relationships with everyone in the organization that you speak with. Do this right, and you will stand out from every other person calling that company. Orchid Black’s X-factor multiplier is its people. We use our collective business intellect, insights and experience to interpret client company data and give it insight. Then, with this knowledge, our operators clear a path to alignment, healthy growth and results-driven success. The Dirt Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. 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- Richard Blank Podcast Guest Appearances from Costa Rica's Call Center Mar 6 · 57m Brand-Forward Leadership podcast . Filling Your Needs with Costa Rica's Call Center's Richard Blank. Episode #7Gerry Foster Branding, CEO and Brand-Forward Leadership podcast host, Gerry Foster has been in the strategic branding field for over 30 years. He's helped over 100,000 small businesses in 600 different industries with their branding. He has been podcasting for three years and has been on more than 200 podcast and media guest appearances.Our 30 to 45-min podcast shares amazing founder stories who reveal the smartest strategies for scaling TODAY.Our audiences are not newbies. They're ready for their next phase of massive growth! Your host, Gerry Foster, talks with Richard Blank of Costa Rica's Call Center. Costa Rica's Call Center is a state of the art BPO Telemarketing outsource company that personally trains call centers across Central America. They are bilingual and professionally trained and they can do the same for your staff. Brand Forward Leadership Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #brandforwardleadership https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-brand-forward-leadership-99729175/episode/7-filling-your-needs-with-99737263/ https://www.audible.com/pd/7-Filling-Your-Needs-with-Costa-Ricas-Call-Centers-Richard-Blank-Podcast/B0B5HCS946?ref=a_pd_Brand-_c1_lAsin_2_1 https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Brand-Forward-Leadership-p1872580/?topicId=183707703 https://podcastaddict.com/episode/https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.captivate.fm%2Fmedia%2Fa5869737-9013-4fd8-8217-215605f10b49%2FBFL-207.mp3&podcastId=3967427 https://rephonic.com/episodes/okqex-brand-forward-leadership-7-filling-your-need https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/7-filling-your-needs-with-costa-ricas-call-centers/id1636563252?i=1000571270360 https://player.fm/series/series-3352390/ep-7-filling-your-needs-with-costa-ricas-call-centers-richard-blank https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Qh3VIQ56cDWywbL6Dve74?si=27ed4e84d6064a300 comments0
- (I.T.B.) In The Biz Episode #60 Interview with “The Sales Extraordinaire” Richard BlankIn The Biz is the premier service industry podcast where we share our stories and teach people about the ins and outs of the service industry. Along the way, we also interview the best in the biz.In the service industry, we keep the world moving and nobody knows us like US. We aim to help you navigate the industry so you can make some extra cash and keep your sanity while doing it!If you like this video, subscribe to the channel and make sure you hit that notification bell so you won't miss another video. Richard Blank “The Sales Extraordinaire” joins the show! He shares some of his expertise in the world of sales. He was also kind enough to give us a peek into the brand new restaurant he opened for his staff members! What a boss!! Check out the episode today! Tany Mujikwa created this Podcast to be outlet for anyone that works in the Service Industry! We may not always have the opportunity to speak our minds when we are on the clock, so this podcast is our opportunity to kick back and let loose (Without getting fired!). In this Podcast we discuss current events and day to day, through the lens of the everyday folk. Your bartenders, your strippers, cooks, etc.... we represent You! In the Biz Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #inthebiz https://tunein.com/radio/In-The-Biz-p1566904/?lang=es https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/in-the-biz-podcast-2154218/episodes/itb-in-the-biz-episode-60-inte-143694139 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-in-the-biz-podcast-88939605/episode/itb-in-the-biz-episode-60-99073419/ https://www.audacy.com/podcast/in-the-biz-podcast-6e2c8/episodes/itb-in-the-biz-episode-60-interview-with-richard-blank-105d2 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5sY4Zkl6s1JKXRj9hfMZL3 https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/In-The-Biz-p1566904/?lang=es&topicId=173321989 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-t-b-in-the-biz-episode-60-interview-with-richard-blank/id1595767225?i=1000568913584 https://anchor.fm/inthebiz/episodes/I-T-B--In-The-Biz-Episode-60-Interview-with-Richard-Blank-e1krdjn/a-a879k9e0 comments0
- The Sheri Kaye Hoff Show. How to Improve Leadership, Sales and Culture? Special guest CEO Richard Blank will share some secrets.Learn more about Sales, leadership, strong corporate culture, telemarketing outsourcing, and becoming successful in conflict management strategies with clients with CEO Richard Blank. With a mix of motivational public speaking styles backed by tactful and appropriate rhetoric, Richard shared his knowledge and trained over 10 000 bilingual telemarketers and became CEO of Costa Rica Call Center in 2008. It doesn’t matter what size business you have or the type of business you have. You can always improve your communication skills. Listen to my super fun and educational interview with Richard. The Sheri Kaye Hoff Show for Living Joyfully in your Biz and Life. Create More Freedom, Happiness, and Success. Sheri is a business coach, consultant, mindset mastery expert, and personal development, expert. She is a best-selling author of transformational books and a near-death survivor. She is a noted radio show guest, keynote speaker, and workshop leader. Sheri uses a coaching approach that is action-oriented, intuitive, inspiring, and energy-boosting. She lives in beautiful Colorado and is married (for over 25 years) with three children, three step-children, and four grandchildren. Sheri loves inspiring happiness, family dinners, dancing, football, golf, wine, the beach, and the mountains. You can also listen to the podcast by saying “Alexa, play the Sheri Kaye Hoff Show” This podcast is syndicated globally including your favorite podcast player and is available on youtube Sheri Kaye Hoff Show Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. 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- Sacrifice to Success. The Forgotten Art Project episode 25 - Richard Blank on starting a business abroadThis season is called Sacrifice to Success. We cover a wide range of topics such as balancing work and life, challenges of growth, lessons learned and sharing expertise that our guests are thought leaders in.The Forgotten Art ProjectIn this episode your host, David Weaver, talks with entrepreneur Richard Blank, Founder & CEO of Costa Rica's Call Center. We believe that every person has a unique message which can positively impact the world. We let our guests share on the subjects they’re well-known for. No matter the topic, you’ll be hearing real stories from real people. During this episode Richard & David discuss Richard’s journey into entrepreneurship, what inspired him to start his business, while providing insight on how he built his business from the ground up. The Forgotten Art Project and Sacrifice to Success podcast host David Weaver is looking to help successful, growth minded CEO's/Owners drastically reduce stress and burnout while creating time freedom and balance.Our 20 to 30-min podcast shares amazing founder stories who reveal their journey of important lessons they've learned as well as what has helped create their success.Our audiences are not newbies. We get our hands dirty with you. Let's inspire others to create an amazing life and business with your story! Sacrifice to Success Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. Come and see for yourself why call center outsourcing in Costa Rica is a perfect solution for your growing company and a powerhouse in the BPO industry. https://costaricascallcenter.com/en/outbound-bpo-campaigns/ #RichardBlank #CostaRica #CallCenter #Outsourcing #Telemarketing #BPO #Sales #Entrepreneur #B2B #Business #Podcast #Leadgeneration #Appointmentsetting #sacrificetosuccess https://theforgottenartproject.podbean.com/e/25-richard-blank-on-starting-a-business-abroad/ https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-forgotten-art-project-2264591/episodes/25-richard-blank-on-starting-a-144112259 https://open.spotify.com/episode/1SUquqcOK4sZEhDWZvppcy https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/25-richard-blank-on-starting-a-business-abroad/id1384580470?i=10005695418380 comments0
- The Global Marketing Show. Telemarketers and Jukeboxes in Costa Rica. Episode 84The podcast for global marketers to hear experts talk about opportunities and challenges in increasing multilingual lead gen and revenue. Explore the highs and lows and then delve into best practices for strategies, technologies, processes and quality for translation, transcreation, localization and more. Rapport International provides written translation, spoken interpretation and multilingual communication services for local and global companies. What makes them different? With their 100% satisfaction guarantee, expert advice and devotion to people-first communication, you get the highest quality results every time, so you can thrive in your market. Richard Blank, CEO of the Costa Rica’s Call Center regales stories about pinball machines, jukeboxes, and how empathy all contribute to building a successful culture for his business.Yet, as the conversation continues, he explains how learning to read micro expressions and body language can help you understand what’s going on even if you don’t speak the language.We also discuss criteria to look at when thinking about off-shoring or near-shoring for employees. Wendy Pease has experience and expertise in global marketing and language services. She helps companies align their multilingual communications with the corporate strategy and provides the services to help them grow internationally. Welcome back to another episode of The Global Marketing Show, it's gonna be another good one. But before we get going I wanna remind you that the podcast is brought to you by Rapport International, a company that connects you to anyone around the world in over 200 languages with high quality written translation spoken interpretation services. They're always happy to do a introductory call with you to find out what you're working on and figure out the best way to do it. So they're known for their tidbits. So let's do one, today and often words sound similar in different languages, but have very very different meanings, "exquisito" in Spanish means just what you'd assume it's as similar as it is in English, it means exquisite. Yet in Portuguese if you tell somebody that they're "exquisito", you better be careful because in that language you'd be calling them weird. So before you start adding O's to words, be careful, make sure you're saying the right thing and that's what a quality translation firm does. So, today's guest he's got a really interesting story. He has a specialty call center, he has the largest collection of restored American pinball machines and antique Rockola juke boxes in central America, making gamification a strong part of CCC culture. He is the chief executive officer for Costa Rica's Call Center, that's the CCC, since 2008. So welcome Richard. I don't know if we wanna talk call center, pinball machines or juke boxes? July 20, 2022 Richard Blank, CEO of the Costa Rica’s Call Center regales stories about pinball machines, jukeboxes, and how empathy all contributed to building a successful culture for his business. Yet, as the conversation continues, he explains how learning to read micro expressions and body language can help you understand what’s going on even if you don’t speak the language. We also discuss criteria to look at when thinking about off-shoring or near-shoring for employees. The Global Marketing Show Podcast has accepted Richard Blank's invitation to join the audience for a solid discussion regarding starting a company from scratch in Costa Rica as an expat. Topics discussed with Richard: advanced telemarketing strategy, conflict management, interpersonal soft skills, customer support, rhetoric, gamification, pinball machines, employee motivation, phonetic micro expression reading. 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. 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. We encourage you to visit one of our call centers on your next personal vacation or business trip to Central America’s paradise, Costa Rica. While you are here, we would recommend taking an extra day of your trip to visit breathtaking virgin beaches, play golf next to the ocean, try your luck at deep sea fishing, explore tropical jungles, climb volcanos or just relax in natural hot springs. 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