CREDIT BASICS
CREDIT DAMAGE
DIRECT CARD/CREDIT CPR
OBJECTION HANDLING
ZENDESK & SCENARIOS
100

This is the U.S. credit score range.

What is 300-850?

100

Late payments and collections usually remain on a credit report for this many years.

What is 7 years?

100

Direct card issues this type of card.

What is a Reserve Credit Card?

100

Agents should use this tone of voice when handling objections.

What is warm, confident, and empathetic?

100

This ticket status is used when the call is fully resolved.

What is Solved?

200
This factor makes up 35% of a credit score. 

What is payment history?

200

When a lender writes off a debt as unlikely to be collected, it is called this.

What is a charge-off?

200

The Direct card approves this amount as a credit limit.  

What is $300?

200

This closing method assumes the customer is ready to move forward.

What is the assumptive close?

200

Internal customer documentation/notes should go in this section of Zendesk.

What is Internal Notes?

300

To maintain healthy credit utilization, your balances should stay below THIS percentage. 

What is 30%?

300

Applying for multiple credit cards creates these types of notations on a credit report.

What are hard inquiries?

300

This is the minimum FICO score to apply for a Direct Card.

What is 450?

300

When a customer says “I need to think about it,” agents should do this.

What is ask what specifically concerns them?

300

Agents click this button to begin receiving inbound calls.

What is “Available to take new calls”?

400

A Chapter 7 bankruptcy stays on a report for this long. 

What is 10 years? 

400

Illegally changing the date of an old debt to make it appear newer is called this.

What is re-aging?

400

The 1st step of the Direct Card to Credit CPR sales sequence begins with this step.

What is card activation?

400

Credit CPR’s main guarantee is this.

What is the 90-day / 25-point improvement guarantee?

400

There are 3 AUX states in Zendesk that an agent should use. 

What is Online, Away, Offline?

500

This law gives consumers the right to dispute inaccurate information. 

What is the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)?

500

This federal law protects consumers from abusive debt collection practices.

What is the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA)?

500

Before activation, the agent should smoothly begin with this first.

What is the Credit CPR pitch?

500

Agents should NEVER tell customers to do this with their accounts.

What is stop paying their debts?

500

A bureau has this amount of time to investigate a dispute.

What is 30-45 days?

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