{"id":2604,"date":"2013-11-06T15:43:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T15:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2013-11-06T15:43:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T15:43:30","slug":"collect-more-cash-with-predictive-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/collect-more-cash-with-predictive-analytics\/2604\/","title":{"rendered":"Collect More Cash with Predictive Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"The economic changes of the past five years have had a major impact on the collections industry. Collectors traditionally viewed customers in black-and-white classifications of having either \u201cgood credit\u201d or \u201cbad credit.\u201d As the economy declined, the latter category devolved into the more negative descriptions of \u201cbad credit\u201d and \u201cvery bad credit.\u201d Now it is much more difficult to distinguish between customers who have simply fallen behind in their payments and customers who plan on staying behind. Just as many of the traditional characteristics of debtors no longer apply to the industry, the tools previously used are far <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/collect-more-cash-with-predictive-analytics\/2604\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economic changes of the past five years have had a major impact on the collections industry. Collectors traditionally viewed customers in black-and-white classifications of having either \u201cgood credit\u201d or \u201cbad credit.\u201d As the economy declined, the latter category devolved into the more negative descriptions of \u201cbad credit\u201d and \u201cvery bad credit.\u201d Now it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[191,192,193,194,195,610],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-collection-software","tag-collection-technology","tag-data-security","tag-debt-collection","tag-dialers","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}