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Do you know enough about videoconferencing to make an intelligent decision?
Did you know that over 60% of face-to-face communication is non verbal? How about the fact that inefficient communication methods cost businesses an estimated $297 billion each and every year?
Can Audio & Web Conference Calls Help save The Environment?
From a business meeting perspective, one way to accomplish this is to hold less face to face meetings and schedule more audio and web conferencing. With web and audio conferencing you can share and collaborate on documents, share PowerPoint presentations, share single applications or your entire desktop.
Think You Know What To Look For In A Conference Call Company?
Not long ago, the prospect of conducting an effective business meeting with participants thousands of miles apart was so unrealistic as to be laughable. Today, conference calls have become such a common way of doing business that providers not only have to compete on price, but on a host of teleconferencing services and amenities unheard of even a few short years ago.
The business wonder tool you didn’t even know you had
Let’s hear it for the benefits of the corporate conference call. It turns out this obvious business solution—long chosen for its ability to eliminate travel expenses—not only slashes meeting costs. The venerable conference call seems to also have the power to reduce lead acquisition costs, speed up decision making, facilitate agreement and encourage group participation.
Why Wall Street Is Bullish On Conference Calls. And Why You Should Be Too
Today, one of the most efficient, if not the most efficient, way for publicly-held companies to relay earnings information is via an earnings conference call. Most companies hold four so-called "earning calls" a year. Investors call in to a special number and get to hear management’s take on earnings that quarter. Analysts also participate, looking for signals of future performance.
It’s not just a conference call, it’s an event. Are you ready for it?
Sometimes a conference call is no big deal. You pick up the phone, dial in, have your conference and it’s over. Other times, a conference call is a true event. And like any event, it takes planning, coordination and follow-up to pull it off.
It’s Amazing What You Can Do with a Telephone These Days
Phone conferencing, the ability to hold a "meeting" with participants who would otherwise have to travel to attend, has become, over the last decade or so, a common business tool not only for its inherent cost efficiencies, but for the unique communication advantages "group calling" allows for.
Have you discovered teleconferencing tool businesses are adopting that works without reservations?
It’s probably already happened to you. You’re at a business meeting. A question comes up and you need to conference in your client in Duluth and your sales guy in Dallas. In the old days you’d have to make a reservation—making spur-of-the-moment conference calls almost impossible.
Why it seems likes everyone in America is on a conference call
Technology has finally caught up with the future. Today anyone, whether you work at a small company or a Fortune 500 giant, can take advantage of the enormous cost-efficiencies afforded by audio and web conferencing. Conference call meetings whether by phone or on-line, not only eliminate travel costs, but the meetings themselves tend to proceed faster than traditional face to face gatherings, saving time, increasing productivity. and reducing "meeting burnout" among participants.
Do You Know What To Look For In A Conference Call Provider?
If you’re looking for a conference call provider chances are you already know the advantages that teleconferencing confers to businesses in search of efficiencies and greater productivity. Reduced travel costs, broader participation in meetings, and quicker decision making are just a few of the results you can expect from a well-executed conference call. Who relies on conference calls today?
Don’t Get Up. We’ll have the meeting on your desktop
Web conferencing—holding a meeting over the Internet—is gaining fast in the arsenal of weapons businesses have at their disposal for cost-effective communication. A web-conference gives you all the cost-efficiencies of a conference call (the savings in travel alone make it worthwhile) combined with the power to share information right on particpants' desktops.
Do you know enough to make a smart decision about teleconferencing?
The explosion in teleconferencing services has made life much easier for businesses but arguably harder for people needing to choose between all the new services and features available from the average conference call provider. Reservationless or operator-assisted? Subconferencing? Call monitoring? You don’t want to pay for services you don’t need. But what if you do need them? What if not splurging for the Roll Call Monitor made it impossible for you to report back on attendance? |
