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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Ticket Desk Pro - Pre-Launch Nickel Sale Tomorrow

What can I say about Ticket Desk Pro?

In the 3 weeks or so that I've been using it, it's already saved me a LOT of time, and time IS money.

I'm just kicking myself I didn't use a help desk last year.  Instead I used email to do all my support, and that's a BIG mistake for any online business.

Why?

Well with email, they just don't make it through as well as they used to.  You've probably noticed yourself an increase on the amount of emails that don't get through to your customers, friends and family.

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From Ideas To Money

…the only thing that's holding you back from earning a comfortable living online is you.

All you need to do is work out what it is you'd like to create your first product about, what format you're going to do it in, and then do it.

You'll feel much better for having actually done something rather than just kid yourself you've done something by making a purchase.

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Ticket Desk Pro - When?  How Much?

I've been using my new support desk software recently to handle all my support issues.  It's made my life so much easier, and has actually allowed me to give better service to my customers.

One of the big deals for me when handling support by email was all those people who used email clients that threw away the previous messages.  What a painful experience that is.

So every time I received an email reply to a support problem from a customer, I had to go digging through other emails to find out what we'd been discussing.

If you've ever had to go through this yourself, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.  It's an incredible time waster.

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Check This Out

Check This Out:-
http://www.tony-shepherd.com/2008/03/09/other-peoples-lifestyles-fascinate-me/
I've long admired Tony's writing style, and this is excellent.  You need motivation to get out of the 9-5?  Then read that.
-Frank Haywood

The Truth About Ticket Desk Pro

Three of the more noticeable things that we did was to:-

#1 - Add in extra filters to the open tickets.  This is an incredible time saver over the original script.  Now you can also select by "Awaiting Admin Response" to show you only the open tickets that are awaiting an answer from you.

This is a godsend when your support desk becomes busy.  I really don't know if I could have kept my sanity without this one feature alone.  It was well worth all the testing and tweaking we went through to get it working correctly.

#2 - Allow the linking of multiple users to a department, and multiple departments to a user.  The old script took an "all or one" approach, you could either be responsible for all departments or one of them, but nothing in between.

Ticket Desk Pro now allows you to select and allocate multiple departments to a user, which is very useful if there's some parts of your support system you don't want everyone to have access to.

#3 - Add in Standard Responses.  Hallelujah!

You can now create a standard response, which when answering a ticket can be selected from a drop down and added to your answer just by clicking the "Add" button.

So you can either create complete answers to the same question, or create snippets of standard responses and add each one in turn to an open ticket until you've built a complete answer to the ticket.

I can't even begin to tell you how useful this is.  If I lost this one feature, I'd probably want to use a different script, it's that good.

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I'm Back In The Chair

After a little over a week of not feeling so good, and after having to withdraw a little from the hurly burly that's become my life, I'm back.

I've not been out of it altogether, I've been answering a few support questions using my new support desk software (Ticket Desk Pro) just to keep my mind active and my finger on the pulse.

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I'm Going To Come Clean About Ticket Desk Pro

…tomorrow I'm going to come clean about the background of Ticket Desk Pro.

Don't worry it has an excellent pedigree, but it has been released before under a different name.  Now it's been re-written, bought up to date, had several bugs squashed, had new features added and generally just shined up.

The original will be taken off the market shortly after Ticket Desk Pro goes on sale, but why worry about it?  You're getting in effect a new item of software at a rock bottom price.

Starting at $5 for an ultimately $97 item of software, it's what I call a no-brainer.

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"Since Saturday I've had 113 subscribers…"

"Since Saturday I've had 113 subscribers.  Is that good or bad?"

Was the question I was asked tonight.

At the moment, I can't tell you who said that, but he took my advice and started insisting on a name and email address before letting people download his free products.

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Nickel Sale Warning - Ticket Desk Pro

On Tuesday 18th March, it's my intention to pre-launch my help desk software Ticket Desk Pro.

There have been various changes to it made along the way.  I've been using it to handle support this last three weeks, and it's now at a point where it can be released.

David (the developer) has been working on it for 2+ years on and off, and has recently added all the new features I've requested - he's been working on the new bits since November 2007.  After the first release, there will be other releases every so often as we add requested features.

But right now, it's really nice.

In fact it's better than nice, it's excellent.

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Script Disappointment

There's software, and there's software.  There's coders and there's coders.

I've just had the misfortune to buy a complete piece of junk in the shape of a PHP script.

I'm so annoyed I've asked for a refund, which I think I've done maybe 4 times ever including this one.

The reason I'm so annoyed is because there's a guy out there who I respect for what he does, and he's had a brilliant idea, this is new.  The idea is so good I bought resale rights to the script and took out a domain to re-sell it through.

It's that good an idea, and I wish I'd thought of it myself.

The script though, is pure junk.

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