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EXPERTS SHARE TIPS ON CORE COMPONENTS OF SUCCESSFUL TRAINING PROGRAMS
- The manner in which employees are trained is the foundation for their work at a collection agency. The training process teaches them the ins and outs of the job — what they can and can’t say on the phone — but a successful program also teaches them how to be empathetic and persuasive at the same time while also indoctrinating them in your company’s culture. A panel of experts assembled last week to share their thoughts and insights and we were lucky enough to record it.
NEW REPORT HIGHLIGHTS MOST LITIGIOUS CONSUMERS AND THE ATTORNEYS THAT REPRESENT THEM
- For most people, Oct. 12, 2016 was a normal Wednesday. But for Craig Cunningham, who takes filing lawsuits against collection agencies to a new level, it was a very busy day. Cunningham filed lawsuits in three different federal courts. The three suits were just a few of the three dozen that he filed against collection agencies in 2016, and with 82 total suits filed, that makes Cunningham among the most frequent filing plaintiffs in the business, according to a report issued last week by WebRecon.
UTILITY SENDING MAN 30 COLLECTION LETTERS … A DAY
- Don’t let this be you … A man in the United Kingdom is the unlucky recipient of some kind of glitch in the systems at a utility company and is receiving up to 30 collection letters per day. The utility thinks the man’s house is the headquarters for a housing authority and is sending him the notices for people who live up to 100 miles away. The most outrageous part of this whole story? This process has been going on for 18 months.
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The Daily Digest is sponsored by TCN, a leading provider of cloud-based call center technology for enterprises, contact centers, BPOs, and collection agencies worldwide.