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Monday, 30 January 2012

Help Desks: Not Just for IT Anymore

Posted on 10:56 by Unknown
New businesses are emerging all the time and struggling to stay ahead in competitive industries. It will come as no surprise to regular readers that it’s our conviction that one of the primary components in determining which of those businesses will succeed is the quality of customer service they provide. Regardless of the industry, organized and personal customer service is the key to getting and keeping customers.

Imagine a young professional, straight out of school, starting a new graphic design business. Employing the winning combination of talent, hard work and attention to friendly, personal customer service has helped the business to grow, in spite of these hard times. With the excitement of watching business take off, the graphic designer has come to the difficult realization that it’s becoming harder and harder to maintain the level of attentive, organized customer support that helped the company find success to begin with. In order to preserve their business’s hard earned reputation, the graphic designer must figure out a way to continue providing quality service to a higher volume of customers.

The above hypothetical could apply to businesses in any number of industries. With greater success comes greater difficulty in keeping up with the expectations of a growing customer base without letting any of the customer service touches that set a company apart begin to slip. How does a busy company maintain its positive relationships and keep up its brand? Whether offering goods and services in graphic design, accounting, marketing, retail or any other industry that involves customers, the same answer applies: Mojo Helpdesk.

Until recently, online help desks were largely associated with providing IT support. Increasingly, other industries are realizing how useful of a tool an online help desk can be for customer support in any number of industries. The hypothetical graphic designer can use the tickets in Mojo Helpdesk to track a multitude of design requests without losing sight of the needs of any one customer, stay in frequent communication with each client and solicit feedback once a project is complete. The whole process is documented and can be easily consulted when relevant to future customer interactions, saving time and improving service in the long term.

A marketing firm can use it to document the history of ideas and conversations that have transpired with each customer, making it easy to return to old ideas for inspiration, revisit client responses and track the general success of each campaign. A payroll department can utilize it to handle all payroll queries and help keep careful records of all issues that arise and the solutions used to resolve them within a secure environment. A retail business can keep up with a high volume of customer requests and easily pull up the history of repeat customers to check on their personal preferences and past experiences.

It would be impossible to cover the many, myriad ways Mojo Helpdesk could be put to use here; the possibilities are endless. Any business that works with customers, feels a need for greater organization or desires a better way to document interactions can quickly see an improvement in business operations with the use of a help desk. While IT businesses were the first to embrace the increased simplicity and efficiency of implementing help desks into their operations, other companies and departments would be remiss not to consider how they can contribute to making the lives of employees easier, while improving the relationships the company has with its customers.




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Wednesday, 24 August 2011

How Should a Small Business Determine the Best Help Desk?

Posted on 06:30 by Unknown

Virtually all businesses have employees that use a computer for some task or another. Computers make a variety of jobs easier, and in today’s tech rich world, they are almost a necessity. Just like with all things technical, computers malfunction or simply outwit their users. For these and other reasons, companies have help desk services to aid their employees in solving IT related issues. Small businesses must determine what the best help desk program should be for their needs based on the activities of their employees, the complexity of the network as well as the budget allotted for the system.

Who, What, Where and When?

Many software packages are great for dedicated computers and even laptops that rove around a building. Many businesses however, have employees that work remotely or perform tasks from mobile devices or laptops in places other than the company campus. The help desk software that a company chooses should be equally as mobile and flexible enough to handle requests coming in from devices other than computers. Employees working remotely will still need occasional assistance with devices and will need answers quickly.

Multi-tech environments

These days, employees may have the option of choosing from different machines, such as PC’s or Macintoshes. They may also be running differing versions of operating systems on these machines, as well as various types of software, depending on their job descriptions. This can make solving issues incredibly complex and downright confusing for help desk solutions. Ensuring that the software a company purchases can handle multi-tech environments such as these is crucial to its success.

Price

Of course price can be a driving factor in a poor economic climate even when businesses do not want it to be. Help desk programs generally charge for the license to use the product, which can be anywhere from a few hundred dollars to several thousand. Just because a system is expensive, however, does not mean that it is better for your company’s particular needs. The best help desk will be a combination of what works for the company at a competitive price.

Computers and other technology that we use in our daily work lives seem to be a mainstay. Although these machines make a lot of tasks much easier, they also tend to need fixing or expertise that a user may not have. Help desk software helps users by tracking issue requests and acting as a knowledge base for IT related problems that employees face.


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