Showing posts with label conference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conference. Show all posts

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Leading an Effective Conference Call


     A conference call is designed to make it easier to the two participants of the call to involve more people to the conversation. They are usually used as a replacement for personal meetings when people cannot gather together . This method of guiding a meeting is cheap and reachable way to short the range between colleagues. Because of common usage of conference call they become more and more widespread, productive and successful.



Instruction
      1. Make sure all of the parties are acquainted with the information about the call, via email or fax.
      2. Start the conversation by asking each participant to introduce itself, by saying his name, position and location.
      3. Ask the participant to close there doors and windows and make certain that there will not be any disturbing noise during the conversation. Turn off your phone, do not drink or eat. Do not type on your laptop or computer to take notes, use pencil and paper instead.
      4. Engage participants with statements, do not ask open ended questions and
      5. Make curtain that the participants stick to you written agenda.
      6. Intrude upon a conversation if several participants attempt to speak at the same moment.
      7. Make sure that participators will not lose interest during the conference call. Try to involve all of the people in the topic you are discussing. There might be some shy people, so make sure they will take part in the conversation, by asking them for their opinion.
      8. Finish the meeting by making a short brief of the conversation. Do not forget to give your phone number and email in case participants have further questions or comments. Thank them for their time.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Basic Information About ISDN – Rise and Fall

The competition between conference call providers is increasing each day. They all are doing their best to fit your needs and budget. This has hurt the popularity of the ISDN.
ISDN has been designed for video conference call. The system is created of independent computer network and it is thought to be secure. Of course you should be always careful about hackers, viruses, etc. You are able to install ISDN almost everywhere, and the monthly service fee is often lower then of the other services, so it is a good choice.
ISDN downstream
The selection of the provider depends on the budget. Many things could cause system damage – the lack of security, hackers, viruses. If some of these problems appears your connection and transmission of files could be ruined and it could take time to be established again. It is possible to lose information, too. The only thing you could do in such case is nothing but wait to be repaired the connection.
Unfortunately, ISDN has always have bad reputation. This has caused the fall of the system and many clients have refused to use this technology. The support staff rarely succeeds to prevent the technical problems and usually start to resolve them later. There is no trouble free service available. And it happens often that clients have to help to the support team to repair the connection.
However, ISDN is trying to improve their project and to resolve the problems. The new idea of IP ISDN is to communicate with other systems. They are doing their best to avoid technical problems. If these things change may be the service will be better, but also more expensive. But this is known only by time.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

If you want to make a beneficial business...

If you want to make a beneficial business, give your clients a toll free conference, where they can order and discuss matter with you absolutely free.
The price of the call depends on the number of the participants and the numbers of the minutes, too.
You should be very careful when choosing a provider, because toll free conference is not the same as free conference call. In the fist way the charges are paid by the host. However, in the second way the charges are paid by both the host and the members. Usually, the participants do not like the fact they should pay some charges, especially when is up to calls abroad.
When you are going to make a toll free call, you are given a number. Of course there are some differences between the services. The best service is this, which is easy to manage to, it is first-rate and convenient, with good sound quality. You should not have any connection problems during the conversation. And it has to be easy to anyone to join in, no matter what kind of phone he is using.

Do not trust only to the toll free conference provider. You will have some staff to do, too. For example, let everyone to be directed by a memo. Every member should know his role before the start of the conference. If you have planned everything strictly in advance, you won’t be forced to use extra minutes. So, if you want to stay in touch with your clients and colleagues, give toll free conference call.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Facilities Provided By Conference Call Companies

Providers of conference call services have a lot of services to offer their clients. Most of them offer the facility to record your conference. It is a really convenient service, because you are able to take note of the conference at any time later. Nowadays the conference call services are great variety and the user has multiple options to choose from. And it is obvious that this service is going to increase its popularity more and more, because of the effective communication is very important part of doing successful business. Another facility provided by conference call companies is that of sending emails to the call attendants prior to the free conference call. It is very useful facility, because it allows appointing the meeting up to schedule.
If you are going to use conference call services in UK, you should be aware that each participant should be asked in advance of their ability to take part in the conference call. It is also good to state the passwords, schedule and discussion topic of the conference to all expected participants prior to the start of the conference.
Your choice of conference call services may be made via Internet, because it is a way to secure your choice. The thorough search in Internet makes it possible for you to find the most suitable deals on the market. Furthermore, thanks to Internet it is very easy to find services with discounts and deals with more flexible terms and conditions. Prior to making a final choice you should be very well informed about the cons and pros of each service. This will help you not to choose unnecessary ones.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Conference calls great way to reduce stress

The conference call technology is already a fact and become an integral part from the business. More of the companies are using it as a way to reduce costs and to increase the level of sells. Even though this sounds too naive few years ago, nowadays the technology is already used in almost each business sector. The advantages that it is offering to the company sells department are more than visible especially when it comes to indirect sells over the phone of direct sells connected with a lot of business trip. More of the annalist are making researches about the advantages for employees about using this technology. The results from all of them are showing that the except the positive effect they have on the reduce of the expenses using conference call are helping in reducing the stress could by the work. There few main directions that the effect may be recognized mostly connected with the psychical condition of the employees. First it is reducing the amount of stress caused by the hundreds of business trips, packing and unpacking luggage and moving from point to point. Second not less important is the levels of tiredness from those trips. Never the less the telephone sale are very successful when you put a face to the voice the effect is much higher and the sales person is more convenient in his own abilities. So review all the advantages of the conference call technology we can also add stress reducing to.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Conference call-solution for different situations

"One of the most used business tools is the telephone conference call , no matter if we are talking about sales, negotiations or trainings. This is a cheap and effective way for making business, which saves you a lot of time and money.
Conference calling is possible due to the conference bridges. This is like servers, which could establish  many calls at the same time. Nowadays conference calling allows not only to talk, but to see the other person and share files.

If you are allowed by the provider you can record the call and use it for later purposes. This will let you avoid misunderstandings in the communication. You can use these records for evidence when it comes to agreements or contracts, and also eliminates the need of taking notes during the call.
Call records are useful for trainings of employees, too. There are many other services which makes conferencing so profitable – call waiting, call ID, call alerts, etc.
Well, as you can see this is a real revolution in the business sphere. It avoids travel expenses and if any of the participants could not join, because of the time zone, he could receive all the conference as an audio file.
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