WebHelps Announces New Extreme Support Plans

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Bellevue, IA — WhatHelps?, Inc., a global provider of hosted social networking and online community web services, announces the introduction of two new Extreme Support Plans provided through its web site at WebHelps.com. In addition to WebHelps free support plans, Standard and Extreme Support, customers may now upgrade to Extreme Plus or Extreme Total Support. The new plans, Extreme Plus and Extreme Total Support, add priority service, HTML Help, Advanced Help, Direct Email Support, and Direct Phone Support to WebHelps existing support services, which include a support ticketing system and Live Help support chat. Depending upon the plan chosen, customers can get help building their web site, wiki, and/or online community, including assistance with integrating 3rd party offerings.

There are multitudes of web site designers/developers who will create a client's web site for a fee. And there are an equal number of providers of free web sites with online site builders that claim little or no HTML skills are needed by customers to build their sites. What has been missing, until now, is a company that provides customers with help building their own sites. Customers often need assistance with integrating the templates, scripts, tools, and services so readily available to do-it-yourselfers, but so often requiring HTML knowledge above their skill levels. Far too often, people signup for free web sites that are supposed to be easy to build, only to discover they cannot make a decent-looking page, let alone a site that actually "does" something. WebHelps, with its Extreme Support is filling this void in support left by traditional web design/development firms and web services companies.

Site designers/developers are finding WebHelps to be a valuable partner in developing sites for their clients, particularly when custom features and/or applications are needed. Through its Add-A-Feature Service, WebHelps enhances its Extreme Support plans by providing customers with a way to affordably add features to its portfolio of interactive web tool add-ons, online community, and wiki webware. Customers can have WebHelps develop custom forms, programs, applications, scripts, and databases for their sites, online communities, and wikis.

"In providing Extreme Support to our customers, we have found a small team approach allows us to deliver the level of personal service customers need, no matter how large the customer base grows," said Tracy Russett, WhatHelps? Chief of Support. "Each Support Team is comprised of a team leader, support liaison, programmer, web designer, and billing specialist. At signup, a customer is assigned to the Support Team with the most experience working with the Web Tool or Package the customer will be using. This ensures customers receive support from those most knowledgeable in the area most important to them. It also allows customers to build rapport with Support Team members, out of which strong personal relationships often evolve."

At most companies, customer service is a job relegated to the least experienced, lowest paid people in the company. Customer service is an expense, which they are constantly trying to lower. At WebHelps, they take a totally opposite approach. The most experienced, most highly paid people are on the Support Teams. If you are a chat room customer and you report a problem with your chat room, it is likely that a programmer who worked on the development of the chat room software will be one of the people who help you.

"Our customers count on us to provide reliable, feature-rich tools and webware. But that is not all they need or want. Our customers need help integrating those tools into their site, setting up how they function, customizing how they look, and possibly changing or adding features. Often, our customers need help with things outside the scope of our services, such as help setting up a merchant account, help creating email forms, and/or help adding a 3rd party script to their site. They want us to proactively make recommendations, explain things in an understandable manner, and provide custom options they can afford," said WhatHelps?, Inc. CEO, Michelle Wilbers. "This is why we developed our Extreme Plus and Extreme Total Support plans. Our customers told us they needed a type of support that is different from anything else they could find on the Web. We simply did what we were asked."

About WhatHelps?
WhatHelps?, Inc., co-founded by CEO, Michelle Wilbers in 2000, is headquartered in Bellevue, Iowa. WhatHelps? provides its communication-oriented tools in packages of web site add-ons, or as individual web tools, on a subscription basis. For most small businesses and individuals, the cost of purchasing, installing and maintaining these types of tools is cost-prohibitive. By providing tools in a unique, shared hosting environment, WhatHelps? makes even the most expensive and complex tools affordable and easy to use. Should a particular tool not fully meet a customer's needs, WhatHelps? offers an Add-A-Feature service, which, for a reasonable fee, provides customers with the option of changing and/or adding features.

Through its policy of free upgrades, WhatHelps? customers are assured of always being able to offer their users up-to-date web site services. Extreme Support ensures customers will get the help the need setting up, customizing, and maintaining their tools. By offering two levels of paid advanced support, Extreme Plus and Extreme Total, WebHelps provides customers with help and assistance that goes beyond the tools it sells. This unique service matches customers with highly qualified and experienced support personnel to help customers setup the many facets of their interactive web sites, including tools/features provided by other sites and vendors.