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Brand-Forward Leadership podcast. Episode 7. Filling Your Sales Needs with Richard Blank


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!
Gerry 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.
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


Episode 7 of the Brand-Forward Leadership podcast, titled "Filling Your Sales Needs with Costa Rica's Call Center," features an insightful conversation between host Gerry Foster and Richard Blank, the CEO and founder of Costa Rica's Call Center.
The episode highlights how businesses can leverage nearshore Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), telemarketing, and bilingual customer care teams to effectively meet their sales goals and expand their market presence.

Nearshore Outsourcing Advantage: Exploring why Costa Rica has become a premier destination for business outsourcing due to its highly educated, bilingual, and culturally aligned workforce.
Overcoming Telemarketing Stereotypes: Destigmatizing call centers by emphasizing high-quality training, empathy, and positive customer experiences.
The Entrepreneurial Journey: Richard Blank shares his personal story of relocating from Philadelphia to Costa Rica at age 27 to build a state-of-the-art telemarketing facility

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Transcript
00:00But no, no, no. They earned their stripes. And during COVID, there were times where people I expected to step
00:06up to the plate that disappointed me so. And some freshmen or people that were just amazing agents showed me
00:12character and resilience. And so they became promoted.
00:17But no, there's about a 10 to 15 to one supervisor to agent ratio. And amongst those agents, I find
00:24team leads because they are capable of being molded and guided into being future supervisors.
00:31And so a little bit, I will delegate a report, a training, a coaching session, maybe help me write a
00:37script so they can dabble in what it would be like to be an executive and to see what sort
00:42of feedback and work that they do.
00:44And it's done on merit, because I love promoting males, females, any age, you could be brand new first day
00:52or been with me for 10 years.
00:54But if you have the certain skill set that I'm looking for, I will put as much wind as I
00:58can in your sales and see how quickly I can promote you.

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