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Building a Modern Collections Tech Stack
No one wakes up excited to replace a core collections platform. It’s expensive. It’s disruptive. And it’s rarely on the roadmap at a “good” time. Yet that’s exactly when many leaders are doing it, right in the middle of uncertainty. Compliance questions piling up. Costs rising. AI everywhere. Consumers are harder to reach. Teams stretched…
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Software Buyer’s Guide
A Practical Framework for Evaluating and Selecting the Right Software Partner Purpose:Identify the specific event or realization that made you aware that the current system/process isn’t sustainable. Without a clear catalyst, it’s difficult tocreate urgency or leadership buy-in. Action Items: Reflect on what specifically triggered the need for change. Was it: Anticipated Challenges: Outcomes of…
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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Technology Adoption
Adopting new technology can revolutionize your business, boosting efficiency, enhancing customer experience, and solidifying your competitive edge. However, when poorly executed, technology implementation can lead to wasted resources, frustrated teams, and unmet expectations. Industries such as call centers, financial institutions, debt collections, and insurance companies are particularly dependent on technology to handle high customer volumes,…
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Forecasting with Contact Center Conversation Intelligence Software
Contact centers are at the forefront of delivering exceptional experiences to customers. Being constantly involved with customers via phone, chat, or email, you would expect that contact centers are up to date with the latest trends and technology. While some are… most are far behind. This means many contact centers inaccurately forecast or spend too…
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Everything You Need To Know About Conversational Intelligence Software
Just as the title says. Everything you need to know about conversational intelligence software. Our last blog which had everything you need to know about real-time call coaching software was a hit. So we thought… Why not do the same thing for conversational intelligence software? Luckily, the conversation intelligence market has depth and a lot…
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Lessons learned starting Abstrakt
Lately, I have realized that even at the size we are now the story of why the company started and how it got here are both already starting to experience some dilution. We are just barely into the double-digit employee numbers, and the question of “why did you start Abstrakt?” is having to be asked…
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Using Inoculation Theory and Ego to explain resistance to Real-Time Sales Coaching
Inoculation theory is a social psychological/communication theory that explains how an attitude or belief can be protected against persuasion or influence. What does inoculation theory and sales coaching have in common … Old school sales coaching Sales coaching, up until now, has focused on memorizing and ….
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How to be a top 1% Sales Rep
Diving into what I’ve … in sales in hopes to help you become a top 1% sales rep. 1. Work Smarter, Not Harder …. 2. Be Willing To Do … In order to be a top 1% sales rep, basically do the opposite of what the majority …
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Overcoming Call Reluctance
Call reluctance happens to all of us. But most reps come up with these excuses …. Make sure that your team is optimized and efficient at your current number of connections per day before increasing it exponentially.
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The Antonym of Sales Enablement
… That is the problem with these tools, it’s doing nothing to enable sales reps in the moment. When stress, friction, distractions, bad hair days, faulty zoom settings, and dogs barking in the background are … Are you faced with a competitive situation? Well in 0.2 seconds, you will be directed to
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Don’t be a boiling frog
As a sales leader or sales rep at any company (but especially B2B software sales), living in the trenches everyday it becomes ….. This is because the pain of initiating change at that moment, outweighs the ….
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J.A.R.V.I.S.
One of the most common objections we face here at Abstrakt is something to the effect of “Wont my reps get annoyed by Abstrakt helping them?” We simply remind them of ….










