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11 Best Practices to Ensure Excellent Quality of Service

By SolarWinds MSP
- 27 August, 2020
Establishing an effective Quality of Service for customers requires significant planning on the part of your MSP, from network assessment to categorization of data flows.
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Properly Registering Hardware and Software

By Karl Palachuk
- 14 June, 2016
Making sure your customers have properly registered hardware and software is not just good housekeeping, it’s beneficial to their business, says Karl Palachuk.
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Are you managing your customers' expectations on response times

By Karl Palachuk
- 19 April, 2016
As an MSP your customers will probably always want things fixed yesterday, so managing expectations on response times is essential says Karl Palachuk.
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How do service requests get into your system?

By Karl Palachuk
- 13 April, 2016
So you’ve moved from break/fix to managed services. Now you need to understand – and equally importantly get your customers to understand – how to get a service request into your system, says Karl Palachuk.
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How to ensure you deliver the perfect service call every time

By Karl Palachuk
- 6 April, 2016
Few things are more important to an MSP than delivering consistent and good quality service on site. Karl Palachuk provides a step-by-step guide to make sure you’ve got everything covered.
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MSP Business: Clients Using Your Service Desk

By Richard Tubb
- 10 March, 2016
The personal touch is always a good thing, but when your business grows you can’t have your clients calling you directly all the time. Richard Tubb looks at how to move your clients to a Service Desk.
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The secret to good customer service in your MSP business

By Richard Tubb
- 9 December, 2015
If you're not properly acknowledging your clients then the chances are you setting yourself up for a customer service nightmare, says Richard Tubb.
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Welcoming the next generational shift in IT services

By Alistair Forbes
- 9 September, 2015
After more than a decade of working in the IT sector Alistair Forbes is genuinely excited about the future of MSP service delivery. Here he explains why the influence of LOGICcards will be truly transformative.
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Why Break-Fix and Managed Services can live together

By Dave Sobel
- 11 June, 2015
Dave Sobel shares some reasons why a hybrid Break/Fix and Manage Services business model could be right for you

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