RollCall Business Conferencing Blog
View into the World of Teleconferencing, Web collaboration, and Webcasting
The virtual workforce is growing—in a big way. And that paradigm shift is changing how companies connect and share with employees. The folks from wireless network iPass shared this infographic, Mobile Darwinism, which provides insight into how remote workers’ tech and data consumption is evolving.
Has your company integrated technology, like sharing content in HTML5, to enable workers to learn, connect, and share information? Feel free to share your comments below the infographic.
“Going global” seems to be a catchphrase of big business lately. Global economies and global markets are shaping products, pricing and practices. You may be wondering how your small business can compete against bigger competitors. By integrating creative use of web conferencing, you can make your small business look larger and compete in national and international markets.
Sustained Web Conferencing Growth
According to a TechNavio analysis reported by Business Wire, web conference use is expected to grow almost 20 percent in the next few years. This growth is spurred by the integration of high-speed internet technology in businesses throughout the world as well as the growing availability of mobile devices that can connect to the Internet. As businesses compete in an increasingly competitive market, video and web conferences provide efficient and cost effective communication solutions.
Web Communication Evens the Playing Field
Because web, video and audio conferences are available to businesses of any size at relatively low cost, they even the playing field. A 10-man team in South Dakota has an equal ability to meet virtually with international business partners as a Fortune 500 corporation in Atlanta. This multilevel access is allowing small businesses throughout the world to become major players in a variety of industries.
Instant Communication Stretches Your Resources
When a business partner has a problem, wants to draw up a launch plan or needs your expertise, the use of web conferencing provides a way to stretch your resources without disrupting your budget. When you send staff to physical locations, it becomes easily apparent how small your organization actually is. A person can only be in one place at a time. With virtual meetings, a small and dedicated staff can handle multiple relations each day. You can avoid hiring additional staff, cut back on travel costs and use the savings to fuel your business.
Although web conferencing is a valuable tool, you should ensure you come across as genuine and engaged during all communication. For more information on how to use virtual meeting spaces for the best results, speak with a trained web conferencing representative at RollCall today.
For sales pros, face-to-face meetings have been the traditional way to connect with prospects. They provide an in-living-color way to create the relationships that, ideally, yield sales. But sometimes face-to-face just isn’t possible. Whether you’re trying to slash travel costs or it’s simply not practical to make the trek, you may find yourself using a conference call to meet with the prospect. Here are tips for mastering the sales call, conference call style:
Remember to use a reliable conference calling service, too. At RollCall Business Conferencing, we offer professional-level, no reservation required teleconferencing services for start-ups, multi-national corporations and everyone in between. Talk with our team to learn more.
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Whether you write a blog or connect on Twitter, you and other business pros know how valuable social media is for engaging with clients, investors, employees, and reporters. Social networks, like Facebook and LinkedIn, are affordable, efficient, and encourage sharing among others who may be outside your own network, making these tools an ideal way to generate interest in your webinar. Here’s how:
Invite: Some social networks, like Facebook and LinkedIn, provide the ability to create and promote events. And while most professionals use these tools for events of the face-to-face variety, you can leverage them for virtual events, like webinars, as well. For example, LinkedIn allows an attendee to share that he or she is attending a virtual event, plus it will post the webinar attendance in a status update after “I’m attending” on the event page is checked.
Tweet: Promote a webinar in a short (but tweet) way by using the microblogging social network to tweet links to a registration page or an event web page. Keep promotion consistent because tweets tend to have a short life span. Remember to create a hashtag to help followers stay up to date, and include that hashtag in all other promotional messages, whether it’s an email blast or a Facebook post.
Promote: If you’re like many owners, managers, or entrepreneurs, you have a host of social media channels already at your fingertips. Log onto those company social network accounts and promote the event in posts and status updates. Also recruit internal brand ambassadors (the employees) to share event news on their company profiles, whether it’s on Facebook or LinkedIn.
Blog: Write a blog post about a topic pertaining to the upcoming webinar. It might be a brief preview of one of the main points or info reminding potential attendees why the virtual event will be worth their time.
For a range of affordable and scalable webinar platforms, contact RollCall Business Conferencing. To learn more about using social media to build revenue, gather intelligence, engage customers, and manage online reputation, contact the team at our partner company, Social Strategy1.
Project management isn’t easy even under the best of circumstances. Team leaders find themselves dealing with everything from shifting deadlines to sparring co-workers. Now, many project managers find themselves charged with an added challenge: managing the distributed team. And while using tech to communicate can increase team diversity and reduce costs, it also creates challenges, from cultural differences to organization-related snags. Here are tips for project managers using teleconferences, web conferences, and other platforms to connect:
Project management can be a challenge, especially when working with a distributed team. And while they can’t do a thing about those team members who fight like reality show stars, the right tools, like teleconferences and web conferences, will make your job easier and your team’s workflow more efficient. Contact RollCall Business Conferencing to learn more about our suite of tools that give project managers the power to communicate securely, reliably, and affordably.