When profits go down, the first area in which a small business may want to save money is its help desk. This type of frugality has its costs, however, in the form of long call backlogs, angry customers, and eventually even lower profits. A better option would be to improve the efficiency of the help desk in order to ensure even better service at a lower cost. One of the best ways to accomplish this task is by purchasing help desk software to streamline operations.

There are a variety of help desk software packages on the market. Among the most popular are Support Wizard, Parature, and FootPrints. Help desk software can assist the small business owner in comprehensive, adaptable problem resolution including generating and tracking tickets, responding to requests, and automating communications using outlets such as through calls or email. Help desk software is particularly useful for small businesses in which key personnel often travel, because it can allow access to the help desk over the Internet.

In case you think it’s too expensive, consider the costs to the customer of a software-less help desk:

o Time wasted deciding where to go for help.
o Time wasted on hold for customer support personnel.
o Time wasted reading through dense product manuals.
o Time wasted through poor procedures and practices.

Ultimately time wasted for the customer will result in dissatisfied customers and poor business performance. Direct costs to your business may include:

o Lower employee productivity when staff is called away to assist.
o Duplicated support efforts.

Nevertheless, be prudent when considering the purchase of help desk software, because not all packages are appropriate for small businesses. Some packages include hidden charges such as frequent updates, so it would be a good idea to find out what updates are expected and how frequent they occur. Nevertheless, think carefully before going to the other extreme and using free help desk software available on the Internet – these packages usually have serious limitations and are appropriate only for very small operations. Nevertheless, small businesses should choose software with a relatively small number of features. Keep it simple because it’s unlikely a small business will need every feature of a complex product, so why pay for it?

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http://www.articlesbase.com/management-articles/help-desk-software-for-small-businesses-121380.html

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In the world of computers being used for business, it is essential to have quality software regardless of the type of business you offer or the size of it. While technology is a great thing, it can be complicated especially when it comes to the issue of software. You don’t want to purchase general applications that are difficult to use and maneuver. You also don’t want to have additional features that you will never use. This is why custom software development is often a much better choice.

Custom software development starts with identifying your goals and the needs of your business. In many cases custom software development is less expensive than a general application because it is designed to meet your business needs. You also don’t have additional programs and features that you will never use. You will also get the software to do exactly what you need it to do, saving time for yourself and the other employees who may use the software.

It is important to choose a software programmer or developer who has taken the time to understand the type of business you conduct and what you want the software to do for your business. Check their references and that they are credible. You will want to find out about training, customer support, and a refund in the event you are not happy with your software. There are many reputable software programmers you can find in the newspaper, the yellow pages, and on the internet. It is a good idea to get an estimate for the work, what the software functions will be, and the completion date. You also should discuss what guarantee they offer. Some companies will make changes until you are satisfied, or in some cases, there may be a third party to enforce the contract terms. All of this information as well as the training time and customer support should be in writing before you pay any money for services.

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Would you rather buy a product from a company with a reputation for having a great Support organization or a great Sales organization?

Join the crowd if you answered Support; survey after survey shows that it is one of the strongest factors influencing sales, and every company has strong self-interest in doing it right.

It’s no secret that software is a necessary component of an efficiently run Support organization. There are dozens of different solutions out there; taking the time to choose one that gives you the flexibility you need and the power to automate business processes will not only save you time and money, but allow you to shift your focus to improving your quality of service.

So why is Support so often perceived as broken?

The answer is that effectively managing a Support organization for even a simple product is difficult, and managing support for a complex product or service is as tough as it gets. This paper discusses the challenges involved in managing a sophisticated support organization and the key strategies for dealing with those challenges.

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1. BE ADAPTABLE

If you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.
– Scotty Bowman, Winningest coach in NHL history

If history has proven anything, it’s that winners are adapters. Evolution itself is rooted in this idea, and companies, like creatures in nature, must adapt to thrive. There are countless success stories of companies bucking expectations and making real profit from adaptation.

The Solution

Over time, your business will grow or shrink, shift focus, adapt new technologies, meet new challenges, and discover new opportunities to reduce costs and improve performance through automation. A system that adapts as you do will save your organization money, time, and a good deal of frustration.

Life would be easier if you knew what changes were coming nine months in advance, but new challenges can surface almost overnight, so you need a system that will adapt quickly, under your control, and at a reasonable cost. The following paragraphs explore this issue in more depth, with an emphasis on support systems.

Configurability

The ideal product starts as a good fit, adapts to your requirements, and gives you freedom to automate new business processes as needed. It doesn’t force you to change your business processes to live inside hard-coded functions.

Probe the limitations of each potential software solution. Good questions to ask include: Can you define custom fields, tables and table relationships? Can you create custom business rules, workflows, charts and reports? Can you define custom access permissions or are you limited to a set of pre-defined roles? Do custom tables and workflows behave like the native ones? Does the product provide an API for customization and integration with other systems? It’s impossible to predict future requirements, but adaptable software will handle the changes as they come.

Adaptation Time

After choosing an appropriately configurable solution, determine the ease of modification. If it takes assistance from dedicated IT staff to modify the product or you need to depend on the “common sense” of programmers to make your desired changes, you may end up waiting for a long time and paying a lot of money for a disappointing result.

The easiest way to find out how long it takes to adapt software to meet your challenges is by observing it firsthand during the demo – keep some of your requirements in reserve so that you can tell the vendor about them during the demo itself. Ask that they be implemented while you watch and then request access to the resulting system so that you can test the result. A good question to ask is “Could I or my staff have made such changes, or will we be dependent on expensive consultants?”
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2. MAKE IT PERSONAL

People want to feel that suppliers give care and attention to their individual needs. So high-worth individuals are assigned “personal bankers”, doctors at HMO’s are taught “bedside-manner” and marketers at Apple strive to make the entire company seem “personal”. This section describes how you can provide personal service without raising costs.

The Basics

Find out the customer’s name during the first 10 seconds of a call, then use it immediately and thereafter. This technique is obvious and basic, but highly effective. For example a call might start: “Hi, what is your name…”, “John, how can I help you?”

Take responsibility and follow up. Customers care that you care and are much happier if they get a follow up – even if it is just to say “John, I am sorry, but I followed up with Kathy and we just cannot do what you want.” You can automate this by setting a flag such as “Follow-Up Required” that automatically reminds your staff to follow up with the customer and escalates the issue if they fail to do so.

Listen with an open mind. Ask open-ended questions and get the facts before offering a solution. In many cases, the customer needs to vent a bit before they will even be willing to listen to a solution, especially if the problem is their fault.

Remember What You’re Told

Your customer may communicate with multiple individuals from multiple departments through voice, email, chat or online forms. Whatever the format, the information they convey should be captured and available during the next interaction so that they do not have to repeat themselves.

You can achieve this through web-forms tailored for each interaction type, integrated with email and online chat, by capturing these interactions in a central database, with access controlled through precise security permissions.

Acknowledge Immediately

By configuring your system to generate an immediate response to incoming emails, together with a tracking number that can be used in future communications, you are letting the customer know “I hear you”. It costs nothing and improves the efficiency of future communications.

Satisfy SLAs

The only way to ensure that your company keeps its Service Level Agreement promises is by automating the process. The software infrastructure needs to monitor activity, notify the appropriate individuals to ensure that SLA requirements are met and escalate issues before you are out of compliance. Automatically ensuring that promises are kept not only burnishes your reputation, it saves you time and money.
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3. MEASURE THE RIGHT THINGS

“There are lies, damn lies, and statistics”
– Benjamin Disraeli

Statistics that reflect the wrong metrics can drive the very worst decisions. The peril is illustrated by the following real-life example.

Joe was consistently closing 15 issues per day while Mary only managed 7. Who should get promoted?

Happily, Mary got promoted and Joe got fired. Although he was closing over twice as many tickets, he was not actually solving the customer problems and over 80% of them had to submit a new request. This came to light when the helpdesk manager put in place a CRM system that tracked customer satisfaction for each support representative.

Incidentally, it was later estimated that Joe had cost the company $250,000 in lost customers.
It is not enough to measure; you must measure the right things.
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4. HIRE THE RIGHT EMPLOYEES

By far, the most effective way to be a great manager is to hire great employees. Of course, the problem is finding the few great candidates in a sea of resumes, so that is what this section is all about: a process for finding employees that is more effective and takes less time than the traditional process. But first, let’s clear up a couple of myths.

Myth 1: Interviews are effective.

The exact number depends on the interviewer, but researchers have found that typical interview accuracy rates are only 30% better than random selection. Further, there is almost no correlation between how good someone thinks they are at interviewing and how effective they are. If you have never hired a dud employee, congratulations! If you have, read on.

Myth 2: Talking to references and evaluating past experience can ensure you make the right decision.

Not only are many employers too afraid of lawsuits to give bad references, some will even give excellent references to help rid themselves of problem employees. In general the only thing harder than finding a good employee is finding a bad reference.

Prior experience is an excellent indicator of how much money employees will want, but a poor indicator of how well they will actually perform.

Of course, interviews, reference and background checks are an essential part of the hiring process, but they should not be the sole criteria. Here is a more efficient process:

• Create custom web forms for each job opening and set up business rules to prioritize and/or auto-reject candidates based upon information provided in the form. For example, you can ask them to take a quick online test and include the result in their application. Appropriate rules can eliminate 70-90% of the candidates without any effort on your part.

• Conduct a ten minute telephone interview with the remaining candidates and ask them to take an online aptitude test for that specific position. Only consider candidates who score in the top 10-20%, depending on the position.

• By this point, you will have eliminated about 95% of the applicants and can afford to schedule in-person interviews for the remainder with each member of the team.

• Only hire candidates who achieve unanimous buy-in from team members. Immediately make a job offer, contingent upon reference, credit and criminal background checks. Do not keep them waiting or another employer may step in.

A disciplined, automated hiring process can not only free up your time and ensure you find the best possible candidate, it is objective and can be audited to demonstrate an absence of bias.
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5. BE PROACTIVE

To provide proactive support you need to recognize and resolve issues before they become problems. This section describes how you can obtain early warning signs of pending issues and either resolve them in advance or reduce the severity from a disaster to a minor blip.

Answer Before Asked

Once a question has been asked and answered by one customer, why not make it available to all the others?

Provide an FAQ at your website so that customers can get answers to common questions 24/7 without even asking your staff. The FAQ should be tightly integrated with the ticketing system so that you can publish the best answer to a new question with just a mouse click.

Plan for the Unexpected

Even with redundant power supplies, RAID hard drives, and ECC memory, any given server will eventually fail.

If you are hosting your support system, deploy hotswap redundant servers so that service is automatically transferred to the other server. If you are using a SaaS service, check that their SLA guarantees 99.5+% uptime, backed by a money back warranty. An SLA that just provides a pro-rata refund is worthless.

No matter how carefully you test, your own product and infrastructure will have problems.

Set up automatic monitoring and notify your customers of critical problems in other areas of your product infrastructure, before they call. When possible, include the resolution ETA.

Early Alerts of Changes

You need to have the right number of staff to handle an ever changing flow of new issues.
Do not just track the number of open issues, track the rate of new arrivals with a weekly trend chart.

Plan for a flood of new problems when a new product is released.

Handle Issues in Order

Service reps may try to inflate their closure rates by picking the easy issues to work on. This hurts both customers and other staff.

Use round-robin assignment or skill-based assignment of each issue to an individual rather than simply leaving it in a pool.

Make it easy for staff to open and work on the next issue in their queue.

Improve Staff Morale

Customer support is a tough job at the best of times and it is made even more frustrating by having to answer the same questions time and again.

Allow customers to self-register and submit problem reports or requests over the web 24/7, thus freeing your staff from manual data entry.

For customers who do call or submit problems, create a library of standard solutions that your staff can import into the ticket. This not only saves time, it helps prevent mistakes.

Anticipate Staff Changes

Staff vacations, sick-leaves and changes should be transparent to customers.

Make sure that your support system supports the rapid re-assignment of issues and can automatically re-assign issues that have been dormant for too long.

Survey Your Customers

Seek feedback on your support interactions.
Implement surveys that go out to the customers based on “types of issues” to stratify your data. You can find out what about a product the customer doesn’t like, why they cancelled, etc.
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6. BECOME A PROFIT CENTER

The easiest way to justify a bigger budget is to generate more revenue, and Support is superbly positioned to do exactly that – customers call Support far more often than they call Sales. Here are some simple steps you can take to exploit that opportunity.

• Review tickets and consider which of them might be addressed by other goods and services that your company offers.

• Gather information in ticket submission forms that will indicate which customers are good prospects for other products.

• Train your staff on how to up-sell customers and incentivize them to do so, just like salespeople.

• Coordinate with Sales. You want their active assistance, not a turf war.

• Directly measure the monetary value of Support staff up-sells and assign value to new leads and other intangibles. Use these numbers to make a stronger case for the Support organization.

• Don’t let Support staff forget the bottom line! First priority should be to respond promptly and thoroughly to customer concerns before thinking about sales.

• Use live chat for quick turn-around of common billing issues, such as credit card updates, address changes, and shipping questions. Live chat can decrease checkout abandonment and up-sell other products.

• Use specific hyperlinks or any distinct identification in your communications with customers to identify when Support staff generate an up-sale.
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7. UTILIZE THE WISDOM OF YOUR USERS

Facilitating communication between your users can significantly offset the burden placed on first responders.

An effective Support organization utilizes all resources at its disposal and seeks to balance the support load as efficiently as possible. To most organizations this means appropriately assigning tasks to staff, but many forget to use the enormous pool of knowledge and labor that exists in the user base.

• Provide a centrally located, public, and prominently featured forum for discussion and communication between users. Integrate it as much as possible with your existing infrastructure to streamline the user experience.

• Encourage users to refer to the forums as an additional line of support. Users can post issues and collaborate online 24/7, even outside of business hours.

• Have your staff scan the forums regularly to get an idea of common problems, post quick solutions, and see what workarounds customers devise.

Utilizing the wisdom of your users reinforces the core message of the Seven Secrets, urging you to make the most of what you have. Each secret you employ provides real benefits: Be Adaptable, Make it Personal to increase customer satisfaction, Measure the Right Things to accurately reflect how well your organization is doing, save time by automating and monitoring the process of Hiring the Right Employees, Be Proactive to stay one step ahead of surprises, Become a Profit Center to increase resources, and tap the mental energy of the crowds when you Utilize the Wisdom of Your Users.

Have your own ideas for how to better manage a support organization? Let us know at the EnterpriseWizard forums!
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ABOUT ENTERPRISEWIZARD INC.:

With headquarters in Silicon Valley and resellers worldwide, EnterpriseWizard, Inc. is the leading provider of powerful, affordable, and easily deployed 100% web-based business process automation (BPA) solutions for organizations of all sizes.

Our company has attracted customers from industries with vastly different needs, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies such as Chevron, Merrill Lynch, and NEC since we were founded in 1991.

Based on its award-winning predecessor product SupportWizard, EnterpriseWizard CRM is a top-rated, out-of-the-box J2EE solution for issue tracking, helpdesk, customer support, sales, email, and marketing automation. Organizations can get up and running quickly with its default templates, and easily enhance and extend the application through an intuitive browser-based interface. Clients have adapted the system for Sarbanes-Oxley and Government Regulation, Project and Time Management, Change Management, and other specialized applications.

Adam Smith
http://www.articlesbase.com/management-articles/white-paper-seven-secrets-for-effectively-managing-a-support-operation-672485.html

Originally posted 2009-12-12 11:01:23. Republished by Blog Post Promoter