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Service and Support Professionals Service April 20, 2004 
SSPA PERSPECTIVE Upcoming Events
Your Future is Savannah
by Bill Rose
As Executive Director, I’m ultimately responsible for directing the content for our conferences and publishing efforts. Right now, I’m spending a lot of my time thinking about the content for our conference at Savannah scheduled for October of this year. 

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Field Service 2004
May 24-26, 2004
Hyatt La Jolla, San Diego, CA



Interlog2004
June 14-17, 2004
Hyatt Huntington Beach, CA



Call for Speakers
SSPA Conference @ Savannah
October 2004

 

Resource Directory

A Top Initiative for 2004: Knowledge Creation
There are a number of possible sources of Support Knowledge Base (KB) content. The problem many support organizations face is not the creation of content, but the creation of high value reusable knowledge. The processes and practices for support knowledge creation are often overlooked and under funded, yet can yield significant return on investment.

The following article suggests the sources and practices required to develop and administer an effective support knowledge base.

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o Primus Knowledge Solutions Develops award-winning software that enables companies to provide a superior customer experience via contact centers, help desks, self-service, and electronic communication channels. Primus received “Strong Positive” ratings, the highest, in Gartner’s recently published 1H04 MarketScope Reports for Web Self-Service and Email Response Management Systems (ERMS). VIEW Gartner MarketScopes Now.

Features

Industry Insight from SoftwareCEO
How to price subscription software—and how salesforce.com does it
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eSupport Tip from Citrix Online
Have you proven your help desk to be invaluable yet?
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Benchmark Benefits from Service 800, Inc.
How to Maximize the ROI for Your Service Satisfaction Measurement and Benchmarking Efforts (article 2 of 5)
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Industry Articles Industry News

  • Managing an Outsourcer: 6 Steps to Success › full article

  • What Is Content? Part 1 of 2 › full article

  • Should Support Reps Fear Being Replaced by a Knowledgebase? › full article

  • Measuring the Success of Online Customer Service › full article

  • What If Your Business Was a Restaurant? › full article
  • SSPA Announces WebStar Service Award Winners
  • Participate Systems Announces Significant Momentum and Product Updates
  • SSPA Award Winners to be Announced at San Diego Conference
  • Featured – "Unlocking the Secrets to Profitable Strategic Services: Four Paths to Greatness"
  • "Organizational Development Workshop"
  • "Professional Development Workshop"
  • "Definining & Delivering World-Class eSupport"

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    Certification Center

    SCP Community Discusses Evolution of Certification Program

    Service Strategies was pleased to host two SCP Development Roundtables in March and early April. The sessions were designed to provide a forum for discussing issues that affect the evolution of the Support Center Practices (SCP) Certification program.

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    Question of the Week Technology Spotlight

     

    I am looking for industry standard Service Level Agreements and Service & Support Plan Templates and examples. Can anyone help me?

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    SSPA CONNECT

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    Support automation significantly improves the speed at which technical problems are solved and dramatically reduces the resources required by empowering support technicians and customers.

    Learn more about Control-F1's support automation solutions by attending our next webinar: "Support Automation: A Technical Briefing"

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    Consultants Corner
    Meaningless Measures of Mediocrity
    by James A. Alexander, Ed.D. and Mark Hordes, Partners/Alexander Consulting

    How do you define success for your professional services organization? We all know the final scorecard: Hitting your revenue targets at acceptable levels of profitability. Good enough.

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