Friday, January 2, 2009

Meet Clients and Customers Online with Web Conferencing

By Caressa Waechter

Holding a meeting via the Internet is also known as web conferencing. A web conference can involve just two people, or a small group meeting online to hold a business meeting. Web conferencing allows businesses to interact with customers, regardless of where in the world they are, without having to travel to the customer's location.

As a fairly new business idea, web conferencing is a still under utilized means of increases a business' efficiency. By bringing businesses and customers together without the need for travel makes web conferencing a win-win technology. It is also much more collaborative than most one-sided presentation techniques.

Sold as a service, and hosted on the vendors servers, web conferencing is conducted purely online and via desktop computers connected to the Internet. Web conferencing is an incredibly inexpensive customer relations tool, with services starting at just $39 per month for unlimited use.

Web conferencing allows you to conduct meetings with people that are located across the country, or around the world from where you are at. It also allows you to meet with coworkers that are at a different location than you, and is a great solution for companies that have employees working from home.

With web conferencing, you have a far superior tool to the conventional video conferencing product. Some of the features web conferencing offers includes the ability to take notes on your presentation materials, being able to change meeting presenters at any time, and easily demonstrate your company's latest products online.

Because web conferencing enables affective communication between businesses and clients, as well as amongst fellow employees, it can be a very cost effective tool. It allows you to streamline your work by allowing you to stay at your home or office, yet lets you meet with anybody, located anywhere in the world.

Web conferencing allows you to share a PowerPoint presentation, demonstrate a new product, meet for any reason with anybody, and collaborate with team members. You can converse via a phone or video connection, allowing seamless conversations regarding the matter at hand.

By using a web conferencing solution, you can reduce your amount of business travel while still being able to meet with your clients and business associates. Web conferencing offers an extremely affordable solution to both small and large businesses, for the problem of expensive business travel. - 15485

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