Boost your sales with specialized
customer support
"Our teams of customer support professionals
represent you and your company on-line the way you
deserve to be represented. Our scalable HelpDesk client
support system and our on-line HelpDesk staff personnel
handle all the front end questions and answers, and
assist your clients with personalized, friendly service."
We specialize in customer support for
marketers who understand that customer support is more than
just "copy and paste". If done right, customer support
is the most important "back-end" selling machine
you have in your sales arsenal. It is just as important as
the sales page, because once you've made a sale, keeping your
customer happy means that you get to keep the money you made
from the sale.
After all, what's the point of making
a sale if you lose it because you aren't properly supporting
your customers?
Our goal is to make you more money by
helping you...
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Gain new customers |
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Retain existing customers |
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Improve customer relationships |
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Decrease refunds and chargebacks |
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Encourage client loyalty and satisfaction;
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Increase your sales revenue by
encouraging
your customers to buy more from you |
Our job is to free your time so you can
do what you do best. By providing your customers with the
highest quality of client service professional support, you
can focus your attention on developing new product lines or
marketing your existing products and services.
All customer support representatives
that we work with speak English as their first language,
are well spoken, use proper spelling, and are highly literate.
We carefully train and screen each
agent to ensure that you will never suffer the embarassment
of bad customer support. You deserve to be represented
professionally!
We handle everything so you can do what
you do best...and focus on being a business owner.
Customer inquiries, pre-sales questions,
refunds, unsubscribe requests, technical support, anything
and everything that your customers need help with will be
handled by the team, promptly and efficiently.
How it works...
We assign your help desk to at least
two people who familiarize themselves with your business,
inside and out.
Each desk has two or more customer support
representatives who work as a team to handle your support
needs. They are supervised by our Customer Support team manager
who ensures that everything is running smoothly and that all
your customer support operations are being handled professionally.
There are three main phases in getting
set up with professional customer support...
Phase One: Decision Making
The first step we take towards setting
you up with your customer support is to determine the best
system for your needs. Each client is unique and have very
different needs.
Some only need email handled. Others
need phone support as well. Either way, we will customize
your customer support solution to match your need.
As soon as you sign up for an account,
our Customer Support Manager will contact you to confirm your
specific needs and make sure that we plan according to what
will best serve your customers.
Phase Two: Help Desk / Voicemail
Setup
Once we determine what your needs are,
we will set up the email and/or voicemail system for you.
This process can happen very quickly, usually within 2 - 6
days.
Phase Three: Learning About Your
Products and Customers
As soon as the system is set up, we immediately
relieve you of your customer support and begin immediately
responding to your customer's questions. We handle a wide
variety of common questions right away, without needing to
consult you further. For less common issues, we will contact
you directly to determine how you want us to handle them.
In the first few days and weeks, expect
that you will hear from us more often, as the team will be
spending that time learning about your company, products,
and customers. But within a few short weeks, questions from
our team will dwindle to nearly nothing, as we quickly learn
and adapt to your needs.
We build a knowledgebase as we work,
ensuring that not only is your customer support being handled
professionally, but the customer support desk can easily be
handled by anyone on the team. We don't leave your customer
support to chance, and make sure that our representatives
can easily fill in for one another on a moment's notice.
Customer service billing is economical and simple...
The most common
question asked by new online helpdesk customers is "How
much can I expect customer support to cost?"
Our billing structure
is simple...and extremely cost effective! We charge our clients
a scaled flat monthly fee, which is determined by how much
time we need to spend working on your desk.
No two customers are alike, and no two
email messages are alike either. We do not bill you according
to email volume alone. This would be highly costly for you,
and that isn't what we want for our customers. Customers who
have a high volume of emails do not necessarily need a lot
of support. In many cases, high volume is a result of high
spam hits.
Warning! If a
company charges you according to email volume,
they will be likely charging you for spam as well.
We bill according to how much time (on
average) it takes to answer all your customer's questions
each day.
At minimum, we check for new help desk
questions three times each day, more if your unique situation
warrants it. We respond to all messages within 12 hours or
less, 365 days a year.
We believe in total accountability and
this commitment to you is reflected in our help desk service
invoicing and billing system. After setting you up with your
client service account, we watch your account carefully to
determine the average amount of time our team needs to spend
each day, and then set up a monthly subscription for the baseline
average.
This way, you can be certain of exactly
how much you are paying for customer support each month.
We have two types of customer support
accounts. To find out how much
we charge for customer support, please select the option
that fits your needs...
General Customer Support:
For anything of a general nature (most of our customer support
accounts are general), click
here for regular customer support billing rates.
| If the time spent each day
is an average of... |
You pay... |
You get... |
| < 1 hr |
$ 450 / month |
2 customer support reps |
| 1.5 hrs |
$ 675 / month |
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| 2.0 hrs |
$ 900 / month |
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| 2.5 hrs |
$ 1125 / month |
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| 3.0 hrs |
$ 1350 / month |
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| 3.5 hrs |
$ 1575 / month |
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| 4.0 hrs |
$ 1800 / month |
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| 4.5 hrs |
$ 2025 / month |
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| 5.0 hrs |
$ 2250 / month |
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| 5.5 hrs |
$ 2475 / month |
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| 6 - 7 hrs |
$ 2925 / month |
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| 7.5 - 8 hrs |
$ 3400 / month |
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| 8.5 - 9 hrs |
$ 3900 / month |
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| 9.5 - 10 hrs |
$ 4300 / month |
3 customer support reps |
| 10.5 - 11 hrs |
$ 4800 / month |
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| 11.5 - 12 hrs |
$ 5200 / month |
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| 12.5 - 13 hrs |
$ 5700 / month |
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| 13.5 - 14 hrs |
$ 6000 / month |
4 customer support reps |
| 14.5 - 15 hrs |
$ 6500 / month |
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| 15.5 - 16 hrs |
$ 7000 / month |
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| 16.5 - 17 hrs |
$ 7500 / month |
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| 17.5 - 18 hrs |
$ 8000 / month |
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| 19 or more |
* customized billing plan |
Technical Support: If
you need us to handle more advanced technical support issues,
like for web hosts or advanced software of a technical nature,
click
here for technical support billing rates.
| If the time spent each day
is an average of... |
You pay... |
You get... |
| < 1 hr |
$ 750 / month |
2 technical support reps |
| 1.5 hrs |
$ 1125 / month |
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| 2.0 hrs |
$ 1500 / month |
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| 2.5 hrs |
$ 1875 / month |
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| 3.0 hrs |
$ 2250 / month |
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| 3.5 hrs |
$ 2625 / month |
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| 4.0 hrs |
$ 3000 / month |
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| 4.5 hrs |
$ 3375 / month |
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| 5.0 hrs |
$ 3750 / month |
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| 5.5 hrs |
$ 4125 / month |
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| 6 - 7 hrs |
$ 4900 / month |
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| 7.5 - 8 hrs |
$ 5700 / month |
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| 8.5 - 9 hrs |
$ 6400 / month |
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| 9.5 - 10 hrs |
$ 7200 / month |
3 technical support reps |
| 10.5 - 11 hrs |
$ 7900 / month |
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| 11.5 - 12 hrs |
$ 8700 / month |
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| 12.5 - 13 hrs |
$ 9400 / month |
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| 13.5 - 14 hrs |
$ 10200 / month |
4 technical support reps |
| 14.5 - 15 hrs |
$ 10900 / month |
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| 15.5 - 16 hrs |
$ 11700 / month |
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| 16.5 - 17 hrs |
$ 12400 / month |
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| 17.5 - 18 hrs |
$ 13200 / month |
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| 19 or more |
* customized billing plan |
Monthly Reporting
We provide
monthly reports with accurate and detailed information about
the average email and/or call volume in any given month, and
the average response time associated with each email or call.
No hidden fees, no hidden costs, no surprises!
Our Customer Support team manager is
ultimately responsible for the quality of your customer support
and for reporting each month. You will only ever need to communicate
with one person...your very own customer support manager.
This one person will handle all the details.
Our Help Desk Technology Makes It Easy...!
We use a unique online help desk system
that makes it easy for you to switch your customer support
operations over to us. Setup is easy, and you will only need
to perform one step to redirect your customer service email
over to our online helpdesk. No tricky code or forms for your
customers to fill out.
If you already have a web based help
desk system installed, we can work with anything you've got.
We've worked with Kayako, as well as a wide variety of help
desk platforms.
But after much trial and error on a variety
of help desk platforms, we've found the one that works best
for all our customers, and to make sure that you get the best
service possible, we are even willing to pay for the hosting
of our preferred help desk.
On-line staff training, responses, customer
support, trouble ticket history and email volume tallying
all happens in one online system, so we can manage and assign
1, 2 or even 50 on-line client service professionals to one
client email help desk! The system is completely scalable
to the trouble ticket email volume your help desk receives.
The primary client service help desk
technology we chose is designed for total accountability.
This ensures that you will only ever be billed for the work
we do for you. It takes all the guesswork out of customer
service, and our customer support representatives are always
aware that their responses and billable time is completely
trackable.
The system tracks daily trouble ticket
volume, to give us an accurate picture of how many client
service emails you receive each day.

The help desk system tracks overall statistics,
so we always know the total volume of client service emails
that have been processed.

Each incoming customer support email
receives a unique trouble ticket number, and the helpdesk
relational database capabilities allow us to track customer
support history for any email address, making personalized
customer support simple and helpdesk information available
at-a-glance. This feature helps us retain the image of "We
are familiar with you and know you by name", which has
become our trademark service for our own customers.

Speed and accuracy is ensured with the
help desk Knowledgebase feature. As we learn about your policies
and your company services, we create a series of modifiable
templates within the helpdesk system. With many customers,
there are common questions, and our trouble ticket templates
system allows us to respond quickly and efficiently, without
having to retype the same information for each customer service
request. This is a major cost saver for you! By pre-programming
the helpdesk templates, we ensure that all customer service
representatives respond to all client support requests in
the same way, with pre-edited and spellchecked help desk templates.

These are just some of the highlighted
features in our help desk technology. After reviewing hundreds
of help desk solutions, we chose Cerberus as our primary client
service solution for all our helpdesk customers. However,
if you are currently using a different trouble ticket system
and would like us to continue using your customer support
system, we are certainly flexible. Just let us know!
Getting Started...
Step One:
Deposit your retainer
and setup fee by clicking this button:
We require a deposit of
$2,000 which is a retainer to cover your first few weeks
(or months) of customer support. This retainer will be applied
to your account according to the rate
schedule, based on the daily average. We also require
a non-refundable $200 setup fee to get started.
Your equal billing rate
plan will determined once we analyze your account activity,
based on the average number of hours our team needs to spend
handling your customer support. As soon as your retainer
is depleted, you will be placed on an equal billing subscription
plan to cover the monthly customer support fees.
Our customer support manager
will contact you to work out the details of how we should
set up your customer support agents, collect all the information
we need to set up your help desk platform and/or voicemail
system, and get an understanding of your products and services.
Step Two:
We will handle all the
setups required for your email and/or voicemail.
We work with you closely,
learn all about your company and product/service offerings,
online client service policy and train with you so we can
effectively communicate your business to your customers.
We will begin to create the knowledgebase as soon as your
emails are redirecting to us, and ask you questions as required
to make sure we are dealing with your customer support requests
effectively.
Step Three:
We assign one of our professional customer support representatives
to your company as the primary online help desk support
rep and at least one or more customer support backups. We
create standardized help desk responses for the majority
of possible customer service questions, to decrease the
amount of time spent dealing with common client service
trouble ticket isues to generate client loyalty and satisfied
customers.
The Team Manager stays
on your account at every stage. All recruitments, training,
supervision and project quality control is handled by our
customer support manager, with proven experience in their
field. Customer Support is handled daily and effectively,
and it is our goal to always repond to customer support
requests within 12 hours or less.
Result:
You work with one person only...your Customer Support Manager.
This is your primary contact. You express your needs to
one person, and our team seamlessly carries out your customer
support, without the fuss of working with multiple contractors.

Frequently Asked Questions About This Service
Do I work directly with the freelancers?
No. That is one of the many benefits
of retaining our services. Your communications will be exclusively
with one of our highly trained managers. The manager is responsible
for ensuring that your needs are met and that we choose the
best freelancer(s) to work on your projects. Our company takes
full responsibility for the quality of the work done for you.
Freelancers communicate directly with
the manager. The manager performs quality assurance checks
on the work done. If you need changes, you tell the project
manager and it is our responsibility to make any necessary
revisions, until you are completely satisfied.
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