Sunday, March 2, 2008

Impact Your Bottom Line By Using Conference Call Services

If you work for a company that is trying to cut back on costs, while maintaining quality products and services, then conference call services may be your best alternative to regularly scheduled face-to-face meetings.

For example, instead of having your sales employees travel to a central location for an area-wide sales meeting, you can schedule an online conference call where all employees will meet and discuss pertinent issues of your business. By doing this you will save thousands of dollars in hotels, cabs, rental cars, food and lost time.

Conference call services involve creating an online meeting with 3 or more people using audio and/or video conferencing. Many different features are available for conferencing services, such as using online Powerpoint presentations, charts and more.

There are big advantages to using conference call services for your business.

  1. Save on expenses. Impact your bottom line. The major advantage is that you can impact your bottom line by reducing your expenses. Traveling is very expensive for today?s businesses. Airline tickets, gas prices, food prices and hotel prices have increased in price dramatically over the years.
  2. Save on time. Impact your bottom line. Not only will you save on the expenses involved with traveling, you will save time. Your employees can just stay at work and go to a meeting without having to spend hours in airports, traveling to destinations.
  3. Call a meeting quickly and easily. Also impact your bottom line. Do you have an urgent matter about your new product release and need to meet with your marketing people spread throughout the world? Online conferencing will get the job done.
  4. Live, real time discussions. If you communicate via group Emails or chat, there can be some delays in getting and sending responses. Make it happen live with online conferencing
  5. Flexible meetings. Do you have a Powerpoint presentation that you need to present to your sales force? Conference call services now offer flexibility in what you can use during your online meeting.
  6. Meet with as many people as you need to. Some services will allow you to meet with as many people as you need to, even up to thousands of people.
  7. Train your entire sales force, marketing department, etc without ever leaving your office. Are you used to traveling to multiple locations for training purposes? With conference call services, this is no longer necessary.
  8. Low costs. The price for conference call services is very competitive and you can even find online sites that offer it for free.
In short, if you want to impact the bottom line of your business, then conference call services may be the best choice for your next meeting. Just add up all of the expenses you incurred during your last meeting and calculate maybe 5% of that amount (costs for conference call services will vary depending on the features that you need) . How much money will you be saving?

Perriann Rodriguez is the founder of Bulls Eye Conference Calls, an online resource center for audio and video conference call services. Visit http://www.bullseyeconferencecalls.com for the best rates and deals in conferencing.

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