How to Improve Customer Support Using Help Desk Software

Mary, John, Fiona, and Alex work as a support team. They use email to manage communication with their customers. When Mary, the team leader, receives an email from a customer, she forwards it to one of the team members.




Mary, John, Fiona, and Alex work as a support team. They use email to manage communication with their customers. When Mary, the team leader, receives an email from a customer, she forwards it to one of the team members. Today, one of their clients called asking to find out the status of an email he sent a few days ago. Mary had no way to track it in her email software. So she had to tell the client that she would check it and get back to him. When she looked into the matter, it appeared that the email had been forwarded to Alex. But that day, Alex was busy with other emails and phone calls, and also had had a fight with his girlfriend. Because he forgot to throw away the trash. So, he skipped the client’s email. And didn’t respond to it. Once she found out what had happened, Mary had to go back to the client and apologize for the fact that his email had been ignored. The situation was very embarrassing for both Mary and Alex. And the client was very angry that his message had gotten lost in the shuffle. Now let’s meet Jane, Bob, Crystal, and Mark. They work as a support team and Jane is their support team leader. They use Elementool’s Help Desk software to manage their customer service emails. When a customer sends an email to their support email address, the email is stored automatically by Elementool in their Help Desk account. The new support ticket is assigned to Jane. And she also receives an email notifying her that a new support ticket has been created. Jane then logs into Elementool and assigns the ticket to one of the support team members. They also receive an automated notification about the new ticket that has been assigned to them. And they can start working on it right away. Elementool allows Jane to define a reminder for each ticket. So if the case is not closed within two days, a reminder is sent to her and to the person who is assigned to the issue. Elementool enables Jane and each of the other team members to run reports and see how many open tickets are still in the system, a list of tickets that are assigned to each team member, and the correspondence history of each call that was submitted by the client. It’s a very efficient and very easy to use system. And it can keep you from having the kind of embarrassing client service disasters like Mary and Alex had in our earlier example. If you already use Elementool, I would like to offer you the opportunity to start using Help Desk, for only $29.99 a month, with unlimited users. If you’re new to Elementool, you could start using Help Desk for only $89.99 a month, also with unlimited users. Just click on the button below now to sign up.


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Today one of their clients called asking to find out the status of an email he sent a few days ago. Mary had no way to track it in her email software, so she had to tell the client that she would check it and get back to him.

When she looked into the matter, it appeared that the email had been forwarded to Alex. But that day Alex was busy with other emails and phone calls — and also had had a fight with his girlfriend because he “forgot” to throw away the trash. So he skipped the client’s email and didn’t respond to it.

Once she found out what had happened, Mary had to go back to the client and apologize for the fact that his email had been ignored. The situation was very embarrassing for both Mary and Alex, and the client was very angry that his message had gotten lost in the shuffle.

Now let’s meet Jane, Bob, Crystal, and Mark. They work as a support team and Jane is the support team leader. They use Elementool’s Help Desk software to manage their customer service emails. When a customer sends an email to their support email address, the email is stored automatically by Elementool in their Help Desk account. The new support ticket is assigned to Jane, and she also receives an email notifying her that a new support ticket has been created.

Jane then logs in to Elementool and assigns the ticket to one of the support team members. They also receive an automated notification about the new ticket that has been assigned to them and they can start working on it right away.

Elementool allows Jane to define a reminder for each ticket. So if the case is not closed within two days, a reminder is sent to her and to the person who’s assigned to the issue.
Elementool enables Jane and each of the other team members to run reports and see how many open tickets are still in the system, a list of tickets that are assigned to each team member, and the correspondence history of each call that was submitted by the client.

It’s a very efficient and very easy-to-use system, and it can keep you from having the kind of embarrassing client service disasters like Mary and Alex had in our earlier example.

If you already use Elementool, I would like to offer you the opportunity to start using Help Desk for only $29.99/month with unlimited users.

If you are new to Elementool, you can start using Help Desk for only $89.99/month also with unlimited users.

Just click on the button below now to sign up.

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The #1 Reason Why Projects Are Late



Meet Hank. Hank is a professional scope creeper.
Hank is very successful at making projects late.
He causes confusion and frustration everywhere he goes. He’s been selected as the number one reason why projects are delayed five years straight. The secret to his success is hidden in his title– Scope Creeper.
Hank just can’t stand seeing a team working and finishing tasks on time. He waits for them to create their project schedule, and then when they begin working on their project, that’s when he starts sabotaging it.

The reason why Hank is so good at project disruption is because he slips under the radar. He adds a small feature here, a minor change there, and before you know it, the project is out of control. But don’t worry, there are effective ways to fight Hank and prevent scope creep. One basic way is simply saying no to change requests when the project is in development. But it’s not always possible to just say no, because sometimes changes to the project are necessary. In that case, you must find a way to keep Hank the scope creeper in check so that he can’t run amok and ruin your project. The best way to do this is to make sure that change requests go through a well-defined process that updates the project plan accordingly and keeps everything under control. We explain how to do that in more detail in our book The Project Management Formula– The Five Steps to Complete Your Project On Time, written by Elementool’s founder and CEO, Mr. Yaron Sinai. The book is a result of years of project management experience and in-depth research. It will explain the different steps of project management, and show you the five simple steps for running successful project management processes from start to finish. Get the book for free right now by simply clicking on the bottom below, and I will send it to you by mail.
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He’s been selected as the #1 reason why projects are delayed 5 years straight. The secret to his success is hidden in his title, “Scope Creeper”.

Hank just can’t stand seeing a team working and finishing tasks on time.
He waits for them to create their project schedule. And when they begin working on their project, that’s when he starts sabotaging it.

The reason why Hank is so good at project disruption is because he slips under the radar. He adds a small feature here, a minor change there, and before you know it, the project is out of control.

But don’t worry, there are effective ways to fight Hank and prevent scope creep.
One basic way is simply to say “No!” to change requests when the project is in development. But it’s not always possible to just say no because, sometimes, changes to the project are necessary.

In that case, you must find a way to keep Hank the Scope Creeper in check so that he can’t run amok and ruin your project. The best way to do this is to make sure that change requests go through a well-defined process that updates the project plan accordingly and keeps everything under control.

We explain how to do that in more detail in our book “The Project Management Formula – The 5 Steps to Complete Your Project on Time”, written by Elementool’s Founder & CEO Mr. Yaron Sinai.

The book is a result of years of project management experience and in-depth research. It will explain the different steps of project management and show you the five simple steps for running successful project management process from start to finish.

Get the book for free right now by simply clicking on the button below and I will send it to you by mail.

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