Guide to Credit Card Chargebacks for Collection Agencies

Guide to Credit Card Chargebacks for Collection Agencies

Every business comes with obstacles. A high-risk operation like a debt collection agency is full of especially unique team management and compliance challenges. Along with industry-specific rules, collection agency owners and managers must also comply with Regulation E, understand PCI compliance rules, and maintain a compliance management system as a whole. While balancing these responsibilities, agencies need to keep a …

Guide to Emailing Model Validation Notices

Guide to Emailing Model Validation Notices

If your debt collection agency doesn’t use email to talk to consumers, you’re never going to reach your full recovery potential. Phone calls are less effective than ever in making consumer contacts and traditional mail can be costly. Sending the model validation notice by email: Encourages more consumer engagement Is a compliant option Saves money Is faster than mail Still, …

Accounts Receivable Collections Best Practices: Handling Late Payment Excuses

Accounts Receivable Collections Best Practices: Handling Late Payment Excuses

Every employee will encounter late payment excuses in accounts receivable collections. Greg Ruffino, a successful coach and trainer in the accounts receivable industry, is well-versed in the difficulties a consumer’s payment stalls and objections can cause. Ruffino shared his knowledge on the subject, including common excuses for late payments consumers give and effective debt collection techniques to overcome them.Payment Excuses …

DAKCS Connect: Digital Strategies for Collection Success

Webinar - DAKCS Connect: Digital Strategies for Collection Success

Learn about the advantages of integrating digital strategies into your collection processes through your DAKCS Beyond platform. Discover how to create, schedule, and manage text and email communications with DAKCS Communication Service and integrated Flow services.

How to Plan for Your Best Tax Refund Debt Collection Season

How to Plan for Your Best Tax Refund Debt Collection Season

For many consumers, a tax return is the perfect opportunity to take control of outstanding debts. That’s why tax refund season is one of the busiest times of the year for debt collection agencies. Does your agency take advantage of tax refund season to boost revenue and close more accounts? Lots of companies might want to establish a tax time …

A Strategic Approach to Debt Settlement Campaigns for Tax Season

A Strategic Approach to Debt Settlement Campaigns for Tax Season

Debt settlement campaigns are initiatives where debt collection agencies offer a discount to consumers to boost collection on old or unresponsive accounts. Tax refund season is the best time to consider a debt settlement campaign within your debt collection agency. A debt settlement campaign can help your agency: liquidate inventory more quickly increase revenue for you and your clients increase …

Understand and Develop Conversational Intelligence in Debt Collection

Understand and Develop Conversational Intelligence in Debt Collection

“Privacy works flexibly. It’s scalable. And it’s unique to every situation we’re in.” This is a quote from Leslie Bender, Senior Attorney of Health Privacy and Consumer Financial Privacy during her presentation at Collector Live, a yearly event hosted by Mike Gibb of AccountsRecovery.net. The virtual conference for frontline and upper management debt collectors hosted several experts including debt collection …

Setting Up a Successful Debt Collection Validation Notice Email Campaign

Setting Up a Successful Debt Collection Validation Notice Email Campaign

Most modern debt collection agencies are starting to use email for collection, or have it on the roadmap to implement soon. Consumers like the convenience of email and companies prefer advantages like: The cost savings of using email compared to traditional mail The possibility to reach consumers you otherwise wouldn’t Faster collection on accounts Even with the positive aspects of …

How To Market a Debt Collection Company: Expert Advice

How to Market a Dect Collection Company Expert Advice

Marketing any business can be a challenge. Marketing in a niche industry such as debt collection can be even more difficult. Sometimes it’s hard to reach prospective clients. Sometimes it’s because you have a shoestring budget to cover your efforts. Yet, marketing your debt collection services is important to your agency’s growth. How should you focus your debt collection marketing …

Data-Driven Debt Recovery: A Proven 5-Step Email Strategy

Data-Driven Debt Recovery: A Proven 5-Step Email Strategy

Email for debt collection is more popular than ever and there are good reasons why. A thoughtful debt collection email strategy: Makes right party contact faster and easier Drives more traffic to self-serve channels, freeing up employees to do other work Saves money on operating costs by reducing postage costs Gives you more visibility into consumer engagement In an era …

Text and Email for Debt Collection: Reaching Consumers Where They Are

Text and Email for Debt Collection: Reaching Consumers Where They Are

In a recent PDCflow sponsored webinar on accountsrecovery.com, a panel of digital collection experts sat down to discuss the differences they’ve encountered in text messaging and email for debt collection. Shawn Farris, Brandy Rouselle, and Chris Repholz discussed which channels they each prefer and the strengths of each. They also covered how using SMS messages together with email for debt …

Digital Operations Impact on Debt Collection, from Team Structure to ROI

Digital Operations Impact on Debt Collection, from Team Structure to ROI

Justin Franklin, Vice President of Global Strategy and Execution at Cedar Financial recently sat down for an interview with PDCflow’s Dawn Updike. They discussed how digital operations impact team structures and revenue, measuring ROI and more.Like other Accounts Receivable professionals, Franklin found his career by accident when he accepted a collection job after college in 2005. He has a wide …