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Wednesday, December 5, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
In an Aug. 28, 2012, digitaltrends.com published an article
on smartphone trends. According to the article, smartphones are
expected to account for approximately 54% of global cellphone sales
in 2013. People are increasingly turning to mobile devices to
accomplish the same tasks they could only do on desktop screens
before. One of these tasks is mobile web meetings and online
meetings. Unlike a laptop, a smartphone or tablet is truly mobile.
This means it can be used literally anywhere there is... Read More
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Thursday, November 1, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Global communication is a critical part of business today.
Organizations must communicate effectively with international
customers, partners and colleagues in today’s global economy. With
fully integrated international audio and web conferencing,
ReadyTalk makes it easy, convenient and cost-effective to share
ideas and conduct business around the globe. Some of trends that
continue to support web conferencing services for global business:
Reducing travel costs. We've all heard that... Read More » »
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Thursday, October 25, 2012 in Ways to Use ReadyTalk
In the last few years, web conferencing has been inserted more and
more into the conversation around the idea of the remote workforce.
Whether you call it telecommuting or
working remotely, the conversation has changed from whether
the telecommuting trend is real and into studies showing that 70%
of employees surveyed regularly work out of the office in
2012. As telecommuting becomes more and more adopted by
businesses,a recent survey regarding remote collaboration by
Wrike.com showed collaborati... Read More » »
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
When I started my career in PR, I spent countless hours on the
phone with clients reviewing press releases. I’d send the latest
press release via email and they’d open it and call me with
changes. Over the phone we’d review changes line by line, each of
us looking at our own versions. We’d hang up, I’d make a few more
edits and send it back. It was a process that was sometimes
repeated two or three times. It was far from productive. Today,
thanks to internet conferencing, reviewing... Read More » »
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
If you haven’t checked out ReadyTalk’s video clip playback feature
you’re definitely missing out. It’s a great way to add an engaging
or informational element to your webinar, training, or sales
presentation. Many of our customers have already shared their use
cases with us and it never gets old to hear about creative ways its
being used. For those of you already utilizing this great feature
we’ve honed in on some very helpful best practices we’d like to
connect you with. 1. Use 1 - 3 short...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Imagine you are in a ReadyTalk online meeting, everyone is ready to
go but you are waiting for that last person to join the audio
conference. Instead of emailing or calling them on your cell
phone to 'gently' remind them to join your audio and web
conference, you can can dial them directly into the audio
conference using our Dial-Out feature. The ReadyTalk
Dial-Out feature is an easy and quick way for a chairperson to
connect people directly into an audio conference. Just
follow these easy... Read More » »
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
The season is upon us – you can feel it in the air. No, not fall.
Dreamforce season! It’s all the buzz. I mean, if you’re a
Salesforce user, this is the event. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sir
Richard Branson, reporting, campaigns, contact records – it doesn’t
get much better. But does it? Really, if you live and breathe in
Salesforce then there are a few things that could make your life
better beyond sitting front row listening to Tony Robbins (no
offense, Tony). Seriously, just stick with me. How... Read More » »
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Monday, August 27, 2012 in Best Practices
You have dotted the i's and crossed the t's so that your audience
can hear your presentation, now it is time to implement strategies
to encourage them to LISTEN to your presentation! Today's post is
about engaging your audience to ensure that your presentation makes
an impact -- whether the webinar is for sales lead-generation,
marketing, training, updating or entertaining. What follows is an
overview of features of the ReadyTalk platform that you can use to
engage your audience and realize the... Read More » »
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Friday, August 17, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
There are some online meetings and audio conferences that need to
be treated more like a black tie, invitation-only event rather than
a laidback, holiday, open house. For those important calls,
ReadyTalk can be your security at the door, checking names again
your exclusive guest list. Here are some of the features
built into ReadyTalk to make your next online event more secure:
Security passcode: Set a security passcode that participants
will be required to enter before they can join... Read More » »
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Recently, ReadyTalk signed up for Spiceworks – and no, this is not
a habanero pepper eating competition! Spiceworks is essentially a
social network for the information technology professional world.
Think Facebook, but it revolves around the IT industry. Spiceworks
is made up of over two million users called “Spiceheads” who
utilize the platform to chat about the latest and greatest
software, product reviews, ratings, how-tos as well as random
off-topic subjects. Personally, I refer to myself as...Read More »
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Last week, I spent two information-packed days in steamy
Philadelphia. Wainhouse analysts shared their vision for the
future of UC (unified communications) and collaboration and IT
leaders from companies like Facebook, Pfizer, Mayo Clinic, and
Depository Trust described the challenges they are facing in the
real-world application of these technologies. Here are the nuggets
that stood out for me … Make it Work Together, Damn It! One
loud-and-clear message was that interoperability... Read More » »
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
According to a Frost and Sullivan study, web conferencing
has the highest usage of any other communications tool. This makes
the risks high for IT departments tasked with choosing a
conferencing provider. Few tools and services touch an entire
organization like conferencing. Many of our customers selected
ReadyTalk as their provider after having bad experiences with other
vendors—poor audio quality, unexpected costs, no global support,
etc. Deciding it’s time for new conferencing service is the... Read
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Thursday, July 12, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
In todays world of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) offices, multiple
operating systems work environments, and a plethora of personal
browser and media platform preferences it can be an IT nightmare to
support it all. This makes it all the more important to bring on
SaaS solutions that can support it all and remain consistent across
all platforms. ReadyTalk prides itself on providing a
solution that is truly platform agnostic with no
downloads necessary. ReadyTalk supports: Operating
Systems: Micros... Read More » »
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Last week, I attended the SiriusDecisions 2012 Summit in
Scottsdale. While the weather was hot (102 degrees) the emerging
trends for B2B marketers were even more so. I sat through
several impressive presentations including ones from Adobe and
Citrix regarding content marketing and predictive analytics
(yikes!), which basically debunked the myth that marketers plan
parties and design cool logos and reinforced how much of marketing
is now a science. The 4 key concepts that were discussed during...
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Thursday, May 31, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
In the past few months, there have been several discussions on the
ReadyTalk blog about using social media, and other outlets, to
expand the reach of your potential webinar attendees. Simone
Verhulst, our Marketing Demand Generation Manager, recently
gave several ways (34 ways to be exact!) to reach new audiences,
which included tapping into user groups and online communities,
while Anita Wehnert, Director of Product Marketing, pointed out the
various promotion tools that ReadyTalk offers to...Read More » »
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Webinars can be a major investment for any company, from both a
time and dollar perspective. In order to maximize the return on
your investment, we always recommend using ReadyTalk’s easy-to-use
recording and playback tools to extend the conversation with your
audience after the live event is over. We have added an additional
metric to the playback recording report in Conference Center that
displays the amount of time a participant views a recording
playback. So what
does this new metric... Read More » »
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Monday, April 23, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
ReadyTalk's video clip playback feature is now publicly available.
Video clip playback gives your trainings, sales demos, and webinars
a more engaging, personal feel by incorporating a short video clip
into the live presentation. Your meetings will never be the same
and your participants will thank you for incorporating rich video
content in your presentations. With video clip playback you can:
Upload and store up to 10 video clips to your access code. Playback
video clips during your meeting for... Read More » »
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Monday, April 2, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
ReadyTalk is constantly working on providing more value to our
customers by improving our products. Today, we are releasing an
upgrade to ReadyTalk for Salesforce. Through integration with
Salesforce, the ReadyTalk application allows sales reps to schedule
and start demos right from Salesforce. Demos and meetings are
automatically captured as Salesforce activities, freeing sales reps
to focus on selling and arming management with valuable insight
into performance. The new ReadyTalk for Salesforce... Read More » »
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Last week, I attended my first Salesforce conference, Cloudforce
2012 in San Francisco. I'm wondering why I haven't been to one
before because Salesforce puts on a great event for their customers
and partners. I enjoyed the mix of attendees at the conference,
from Salesforce admins, developers, sales managers, to partners
like ReadyTalk. It was amazing to learn how different organizations
are leveraging the platform. At the show, ReadyTalk was busy giving
a sneak peek of our latest update to Read... Read More » »
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Monday, March 19, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
What is one of the best ways to improve your next webinar? Ask for
feedback! We currently offer customers the option to display
a post-event survey after a meeting has ended. Prior to the start
of the meeting, the chairperson can modify the messaging that
precedes the survey, add custom questions, attach files, or even
direct participants to a 3rd party survey tool. But what
happens if a participant leaves the webinar early, or if the
chairperson doesn’t immediately end the meeting? In the...
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