Conferencing and Communications Blog

Avoiding the Swine Flu - Hold Meetings on the Phone and Web

Dave Roitner — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:31:24 +0000

Using Web and Audio Conferencing to Avoid the Swine Flu

I know it's not the most pretty picture, but many kids get into a lot worse. If you're a parent you know what I am talking about. I just hope the parent didn't encourage this and it just happened before they could do anything about it.

If you are concerned about the swine flu and want to avoid it. One thing you can do more of is holding your meetings via phone or web conferencing. Not only will it help avoid getting sick, but you might also find you become more productive, save time and reduce costs. Not to mention saving the environment a little. Check out some of the options here on our site.

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How One Company Saved $800,000

Dave Roitner — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:43:47 +0000

A large financial services corporation saved $800,000 by shifting to a virtual technology solution for their annual sales meeting.

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Many organizations are weighing in on a change in strategy for their face-to-face sales meetings throughout the year: The annual sales kickoff. The monthly sales training sessions. The quarterly sales strategy meetings. All of these events are critical to a sales team's success yet hit the corporate budget as one the most expensive line items.

Have you ever thought of taking your sales meetings virtual. It's never been easier to bring your entire sales organization together to share and educate. And, at the same time, you can accomplish your goal of saving money.

Virtual Meetings offer can offer;

Interactive, rich-media presentations using audio, web, and video collaboration services
Pre-event promotions via email, text, voice, and fax
Role-playing, Q&A and polling sessions over the Web
Recorded sessions in advance that easily integrate into the program mix

We can provide all of this to you as a one stop solution. Give us a call today at 1-888-843-5778 (250-585-2232) or use our contact us form.

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A White House Conference Call Get Nasty

Dave Roitner — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:44:57 +0000

Here is a great way to messs up your entire phone or web conference. Had out the wrong number to everyone. I did this once for a small conference many years ago and I won't forget it. I sent out the wrong conference call dial in number to about 10 people. I miss typed the number while sending the email. It's a good thing they did not end up getting a nasty surprise like these reporters did for this conference call.

Check out this story.

White House conference call gets ‘nasty’

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Is Fax Dead?

Dave Roitner — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:34:44 +0000

I know some of you wish it were the case, but for most of us it just won't go away.

If you're still stuck with fax and a fax machine, here's something that can save money and make life easier.

It's Fax2Mail, a Fax to Email service? It's real simple, your faxes now come to your email inbox. Use you're existing fax number or get a toll free number.

No more fax machines, paper, toner, lost faxes, etc…
Prevent sensitive documents from being lost or exposed on a fax machine
Log all documents for easy tracking and confirmations
Convert paper documents to electronic files
Send documents from your desktop - eliminate the need to print, collate and fax
Receive and print documents while you travel, from laptops and PDA's

Read more about using Fax2Mail as your Desktop Fax Machine. It's only about $8 a month.

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Web Conferencing Made Simple

Dave Roitner — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:05:55 +0000

Netpoke for Web Conferencing is very simple to use and is a great way to get your message across to one or one hundred people complete with visuals in real time. Your can present a PowerPoint slide show or share out your desktop to really show what you mean.

Web Conferencing Made Simple

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ReadyConference Features and Demo of Web Based Host Controls

Dave Roitner — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:27:22 +0000

ReadyConference is a conference call service that is great for those business conference calls where it's crucial that everything goes right. With the web based host controls you can easily manage your calls with up to 125 participants. The web based host controls allow you as the moderator to to have much better control over the call as opposed to only using the phone keypad. Yes, you can still use the keypad for your conferencing shortcuts, but the web based control panel takes it just that one step further. Watch the demo in the video below and you'll see what I mean.

Another handy feature for those big calls is the ability to record your calls on the fly, simply by pressing *22 (star 22) on your keypad.

ReadyConference Pricing

ReadyConference Features

ReadyConference Codes and Shortcuts

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The Entrepreneurial Rollercoaster

Dave Roitner — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:59:23 +0000

Tim Ferris published an outstanding post on the entrepreneurial rollercoaster. This is not only for the entrepreneurs of the world, this apply to many things that are going on in your life.

Check out the Chicken Little video too.

Your find his post here.

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Reduce Your Corporate Travel Costs

Dave Roitner — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:17:59 +0000

What is the real cost of traveling to a business meeting? Regardless if your meeting is local, across the country or overseas we all know the cost of travel has gone up substantially over the last year or so, due to the increased fuel costs. You now need to ask yourself, is this travel really necessary? Can I still hold this meeting without hopping in my car or in a plane?

You can save a lot of money buy using web and audio conferencing tools. Have you tried some of these tools before and spent some time trying them. It's been proven time and time again that Web Conferencing tools like, Netspoke, WebEx, Microsoft Live Meeting and Adobe Connect work great for replacing in person meetings. Not only will you reduce your corporate travel costs, you can also make your business more productive.

Many companies now have whole sales teams that are using Web Conferencing to sell large enterprise deals. I'll give you an example of this on a later post.

Give it a fair try, refine your presentations for the web and use this for a month or two and see what happens. You will be surprised with the results.

Besides not only will you save money, be more productive, but you'll help save the environment. Give us a call for a demo of our Web Conferencing products and we'll show you how much you can do with these tools.

Call 1-888-843-5778

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Trading Places with Indian Outsourcers

Dave Roitner — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:31:38 +0000

There seems to be a lot of concern over outsourcing toÂ India and other overseas counties these days. I just watched a most inspirational video on a man from the USA who lost his job as a computer programmer to andÂ Indian company. He traveled toÂ India to get his job back.Â After watching the entire video it made me realize what great opportunities we have here in the US and Canada and how well we have it. Check it out.Trading Places with Indian Outsourcers.Â Â

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Nanaimo Toastmasters Web Site

Dave Roitner — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:55:43 +0000

Would you like to improve yourÂ communication andÂ publicÂ speaking skills?

Worried about your next big presentation?

How confident are you?

Â Do butterflies attack your stomach whenever your asked to speak before a group? Can you confidentally express your thoughts and ideas? Do you have the nerve to ask your boss for a raise?Â People who get ahead in life are those that who can communicateÂ effectively. Wouldn't you like to develop this priceless skill? Now you can!

These are some excerpts from some of the Toastmasters promotional material. I have been a member ofÂ Sunrisers Toastmasters in NanaimoÂ for about 1.5 years and can easily say that all of the above is true. Being in sales I have done many presentations over the years. I always thought I did a fairly good job at them prior to joining Toastmasters. I now know my presentations and public speaking skills have improved many many times over. When I started I used to say "umm" and "ahhh" a lot and never realized it. I now can easily get through a speech orÂ presentation with ever saying "umm" or "ahhh" once.Â There are many other improvements I have noticed. I'll update you with more on a future post.

If you are in the Nanaimo area and want to know more about Toastmasters and what is can do for you please visit our club web site atÂ Sunrisers ToastmastersÂ or visit the new web site dedicated to all the clubs in Nanaimo,Â Nanaimo Toastmasters (www.nanaimotoastmasters.info)Â