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ReadyTalk Launches Productivity Tools for Online Meetings
iPad application, Quick Launcher and Outlook integration increase productivity and facilitate access to online meetings, webinars and training sessions
DENVER – March 29, 2012 – ReadyTalk, a provider of audio and web conferencing and webinar services, today announced the availability of ReadyTalk Mobile, an iPad® application that gives people the flexibility to participate in an online meeting, webinar or training session from anywhere. The App joins a suite of recently launched features designed to streamline the start and join experience and maintain the workflow of meeting attendees and organizers.
“We are all tasked with doing more with less time, which is why making the online meeting process as efficient as possible is so important,” said Scott King, vice president of sales and marketing.”Enabling employees, customers and partners to connect without interrupting their workflow is essential to that efficiency. If they can schedule and start meetings without...
ReadyTalk Relocates Denver Headquarters and Doubles Space to Support Growth in Business
New building to better meet the needs of the audio and web conferencing provider and its customers
DENVER – March 1, 2012 – ReadyTalk today announced that the company will relocate its Denver headquarters to support continued growth of its audio and web conferencing business. The company, which is a leading provider of audio and web conferencing and webinar services, will remain in Denver but move to 1900 Sixteenth Street where it will occupy two floors.
ReadyTalk, which is currently located at 1598 Wynkoop, has experienced tremendous growth during the past 11 years. The company currently employs 140 people and plans to expand to nearly 200 employees by the end of the year.
“Moving to a new location enables us to better serve our customers by giving us the space to hire additional talent and provide employees with a unique, modern workspace,” said Dan King, CEO, ReadyTalk. “Staying in the LoDo-area was extremely important to us. Colorado continues to grow as a national tech hub and LoDo is at the heart of...
ReadyTalk Integrates with Pardot to Improve Webinar Processes
Marketers can increase accuracy and move leads through the marketing funnel faster by integrating marketing automation and webinars
DENVER – November 14, 2011 – ReadyTalk today announced the availability of the Pardot Connectors for ReadyTalk , which help customers who use webinars as a key component in marketing campaigns share webinar data more quickly and accurately between software platforms.
Adam Blitzer, COO at Pardot, worked closely with ReadyTalk to build the integration using the ReadyTalk API, whichallows customers and third-party software vendors to integrate key business applications with ReadyTalk’s audio and web conferencing and webinar services.
The Pardot Connectors for ReadyTalk improve the effectiveness of webinar programs by enabling marketers to:
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October 24, 2011 – Following last year’s successful launch of integrated social media tools, ReadyTalk, a leading provider of audio and web conferencing and webinar services, today announced new social sharing features that provide customers with additional tools for promoting webinars. ReadyTalk continues to be the only webinar service provider providing robust, integrated social media tools.
In a recent survey of nearly 1,500 people, Frost & Sullivan found that nearly three-fourths are personally using social media tools, and almost two-thirds do so as part of their day-to-day jobs. Overall, 60 percent of companies are using social media for marketing and customer support purposes.
“Today’s meeting planners cannot afford to ignore the presence of social media in people’s lives,” said Melanie Turek, industry director, enterprise communications, Frost & Sullivan. “To ensure a webinar is a success, companies need to market the event using social networking sites, and engage attendees in an ongoing conversation using new technologies.”
With just a few clicks, ReadyTalk’s newest features allow customers to:
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ReadyTalk, a provider of audio and web conferencing and webinar services, today announced that for the fifth consecutive year it has been ranked on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. ReadyTalk ranked 251 this year, growing 353% percent during this period.
ReadyTalk’s chief executive officer, Dan King, credits product innovation and maintaining a culture that is equally focused on employee engagement and satisfying customers for the company’s growth.
“ReadyTalk is committed to building a sustainably great company that is known for great products and outstanding customer service,” King said. “We continue to provide an easy-to-use service for daily collaboration and product demos while also meeting increased need for large-scale webinars and high profile web events.”
“ReadyTalk, like all 2011 Technology Fast 500™ companies, has excelled in fostering innovation and channeling it into spectacular growth -- against the backdrop of one of the most challenging economies in history,” said Eric...
ReadyTalk First in Industry to Offer Conferencing Subscriptions that Include Toll-Free Audio
New offerings include fixed-priced bundles for audio and web conferencing
DENVER – October 18, 2011 – ReadyTalk today announced new subscriptions that bundle audio and web conferencing services, giving customers an all-inclusive solution at a fixed price. The new offerings—Web Meeting Pro and Webinar Subscriptions—are designed to meet the needs of customers who host frequent collaborative meetings and customers who host large-scale webinars.
For companies that host team meetings, sales demos, training sessions or small webinars, Web Meeting Pro offers unlimited web conferencing and includes toll or toll-free audio conferencing bundled minutes. ReadyTalk is the only conferencing vendor to include toll-free audio as part of a web conferencing package.
“Companies that regularly collaborate internally and externally will find the new Web Meeting Pro Subscriptions to be a cost-effective solution for meetings that require reliable, high-quality toll-free and toll audio,” said Scott King,...
Customers can now save time by automatically capturing registration and attendance data in salesforce.com
At Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference, ReadyTalk announced it has launched ReadyTalk for Salesforce on salesforce.com's AppExchange 2, helping to accelerate the market shift to Cloud 2, the next cloud computing paradigm. By integrating its audio and web conferencing platform with salesforce.com, ReadyTalk automates the manual processes associated with managing webinars and online training and exposes these programs to others in the organization.
With ReadyTalk for Salesforce, marketers and trainers can:
- Eliminate time-consuming spreadsheet work by capturing registration and attendance details directly in salesforce.com.
- Increase visibility across the organization and provide sales, support and others the ability to invite customers and prospects to important marketing, training and sales programs.
- Speed sales follow up by providing immediate access to attendance data.
“For our training department, who are power users of both web conferencing and Salesforce, this integration...
Integration eliminates time-consuming tasks, improves data accuracy and speeds sales follow-up
ReadyTalk today announced the availability of the ReadyTalk API, which allows customers and third-party software vendors to integrate key business applications with ReadyTalk’s audio and web conferencing and webinar services.
Webinars have become a heavily relied upon tool for marketing and lead generation; however, the success of webinars really depends on a marketer’s ability to quickly deliver accurate information to the sales team. The ReadyTalk API enables other software applications to programmatically share data with ReadyTalk so moving data from one platform to another is efficient, manual tasks are reduced, data accuracy is improved, and the participant experience is streamlined.
“Webinars are a key component of our marketing strategy. Our objective is to make it as easy as possible for our community members to register for these events," said Bradley Kravitz, marketing operations manager, Ryma Technology Solutions. “By integrating our online community with ReadyTalk using the API, we...
ReadyTalk, a provider of audio and web conferencing and webinar services, today announced it has been recognized by Inc. magazine and Winning Workplaces as a winner of the 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces competition—an annual contest that recognizes the nation’s best small and mid-sized company work environments.
Every year since 2003, Winning Workplaces, an Evanston, IL-based nonprofit organization, has recognized those firms that attribute much of their business success to their commitment to exemplary people practices and outstanding workplace cultures.
“ReadyTalk is committed to building a sustainably great company that is known for great products and outstanding customer service,” said Dan King, CEO, ReadyTalk. “We understand that engaged employees are the key to our company’s success, so we work hard to make sure that ReadyTalk is a place where people enjoy their work, are engaged and feel appreciated.”
ReadyTalk’s downtown Denver office offers a collaborative and innovation friendly environment for employees to work. Employees enjoy a rich benefits package that includes 100 percent employer-paid healthcare for...
ReadyTalk Integrates with Eloqua to Streamline Webinar Processes
Marketers can leverage the customizability of Eloqua and the reliability of ReadyTalk to run more efficient, effective webinars
DENVER – May 17, 2011 – ReadyTalk today announced the availability of the Eloqua Cloud Connectors for ReadyTalk, which increase the accuracy of webinar-generated data and move leads through the marketing and sales pipeline faster.
As the leading provider of revenue performance management solutions, Eloqua worked closely with ReadyTalk to meet the needs of customers who use ReadyTalk’s audio and web conferencing and webinar services as a key component in marketing campaigns and lead generation programs.
In a recent study, 92 percent of marketers surveyed indicated that webinars are the second most effective means for generating high quality leads and one of the most affordable tools available. Additionally, a...