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Thursday, March 15, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
I know this sounds ridiculous - what's the point of meeting in
person if everyone will be staring at their computer screens the
whole time? Using web conferencing while we are all in the same
room something we do all the time here at ReadyTalk (and not just
because we're a web conferencing company). There are many benefits
to meeting this way, here are a few of my favorites: Better quality
meeting visuals than trying to project: Have you ever held a
meeting where you are hoping to project some... Read More » »
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
At ReadyTalk, we are constantly looking for new and various ways to
make our products and services easy-to-use while providing
excellent customer service and support. So what have we come
up with now? A new and improved online request form for
operator-assisted services! How does this benefit you (and the
ReadyTalk Events Team a bit too?) Requesting a Gold or Platinum
Webinar package? Or operator-assisted audio? Now there is a
single form for all your Event Services needs A step-by-step
and... Read More » »
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Monday, January 23, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
I’m a marketer. I’m used to fire drills in the midst of planning.
It’s a new year and not-surprisingly, many critical pieces of the
marketing puzzle have changed. Rapidly. For most marketing
campaigns, preparation is key. Yet, how do you plan for something
if you’re unaware that process may have to be altered? Sometimes
you must adjust in order to gain the greatest return on your
investment. Let’s talk specifics – specifically events: virtual,
live, or even a hybrid of the two. Marketing... Read More » »
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Today we are excited to announce the beta of our pre-recorded video
playback feature. Pre-recorded video playback gives your trainings,
sales demos, and webinars a more engaging, personal feel by
incorporating short video clips into the live presentation. Your
meetings will never be the same and your participants will thank
you for incorporating rich video content in your presentation. With
pre-recorded video playback, you can: Upload pre-recorded
video clips to your access code Playback video... Read More » »
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011 in Audio and Web Conferencing
In the past couple of weeks, there has been a lot of
attention around Adobe’s decision to use HTML 5 for mobile
applications and games rather than use Flash. This announcement has
led to speculation on what this means for web conferencing vendors
that use Flash. You can read Ken Molay’s thoughts on it, Is This
The Death Knell For Flash-Based Web Conferencing? At ReadyTalk,
we’ve designed our service to support both Flash and Non-Flash
computer environments. Flash will be around for a long timeWh...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Verizon has gotten amazing mileage out of its “Can You Hear
Me Now?” campaign. I think it has stuck around because we can all
relate; there’s nothing worse than having a conversation with a
friend and having their line cut in and out. Unreliable audio is
acceptable among friends. When it comes to business, it’s another
story. This week, I was on an audio conference with a vendor
who sells content marketing solutions. Since we’re mapping our
content and identifying next year’s content marketing... Read More
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011 in Audio and Web Conferencing
ReadyTalk has made significant enhancements to our application and
desktop sharing feature. If you are not familiar with this feature,
it can be used to share your entire desktop or specific
applications with everyone in your web meeting. Sometimes
application and desktop sharing may appear slow and blocky in the
participant view of a web meeting. We have made significant
advancements in the way we deliver this content to eliminate this
blocky effect for participants. Instead of painting the... Read
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Thursday, October 27, 2011 in Audio and Web Conferencing
This week, we rolled out some new hold music on ReadyTalk's audio
conferencing bridges. You would think choosing the perfect hold
music would be an easy task. Just pick the music that fades
into the background, annoys people the least, and sounds
neutral...right? That's not always the case. Picking hold music is
tough. There are limitations around music available to us. There's
a world of musical tastes, general annoyance around being on hold
in general - the decision of what hold music to choose... Read More
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011 in Audio and Web Conferencing
The world of conferencing continues to change. First, it was
bringing small groups of employees across various office locations
together on the phone, followed by the need for web conferencing to
show others what you were working on. Now, those groups are
no longer small, or limited to your own organization. The use
of audio and web conferencing has grown to much more than a way to
cut down on costs, but as a successful way to generate leads
through webinars, or train users on your product....Read More » »
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Friday, October 14, 2011 in More from ReadyTalk
Accidents happen. At ReadyTalk we’re committed to helping
our customers prevent accidents and mistakes. Each month,
ReadyTalk’s Account Specialist Team shares a recent accident and
tips for how to avoid it in the future. On the web
conferencing interface, a chairperson can maintain and control the
audio conference by muting and un-muting the conference or more
specifically, muting, un-muting, disconnecting, and renaming
individual audio lines. In smaller conferences, many chairpersons
will... Read More » »
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 in Webinars
When setting up your event, you know you have various
options available to you as to the ‘type’ of event you will hold.
Today, I would like to review some of the benefits of an
operator-assisted event. Probably the foremost benefit to this type
of event is the fact that you have support throughout your event in
the form of an operator – not automated, pre-recorded – a real,
live person! If you anticipate a particularly large audience, you
have enough that you need to take care of during the... Read More »
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Thursday, October 6, 2011 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Like most companies, at ReadyTalk, we have a lot of
meetings. We even have the dreaded “meeting about an upcoming
meeting.” A typical meeting in the marketing department means that
most of the participants are in a conference room but one or two
people are usually working from home; and there’s always a launch
plan being discussed and it’s usually an Excel file. Obviously, we
use ReadyTalk’s web conferencing service to share the document and
make changes. Even though we are all around... Read More » »
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of ReadyTalk Quick
Launcher - a tool available on your desktop that makes it easier
and faster to start, join, and invite others to meetings. This tool
will be a favorite for people who would like a quicker, persistent
way to connect to their ReadyTalk accounts. If you are tired of
logging into ReadyTalk through the browser to gain access to your
account then this is definitely the tool for you. Quick Launcher
gives you the ability to: Start an... Read More » »
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011 in Audio and Web Conferencing
While we knew that marketers and trainers were tired
of the hassle of getting webinar data into their CRM system, we
were surprised by the great turnout at yesterday’s webinar on the
value of integration. If you had a chance to join us, we hope you
found the event worthwhile! Many thanks to Helena Brito from
Mandiant, Jill Myers from OverDrive, and Pat Buchanan and Dave
Kornegay from SchoolDude.com for speaking on the event. Each of
them shared fantastic insight into how the integration has... Read
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Friday, September 23, 2011 in Webinars
Part two of this three part blog series is a review some of the key
takeaways from our webinar, “Movin’ on Down: The Funnel,” and a
deeper look at some additional best practices for optimizing your
sales and marketing funnel. It can take a fair amount of planning
to avoid confusion between sales and marketing teams after an event
has taken place, whether it be a webinar or tradeshow. When you
have taken the time to assess (and re-assess) your marketing
funnel after each of your campaigns, you... Read More » »
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Have you been looking for a quick and streamlined way to send a
ReadyTalk On-Demand meeting email invite? With the ReadyTalk
Scheduler for Outlook you can quickly and easily send a customized
email invite through Outlook. Your ReadyTalk account credentials
are stored in the scheduler giving you a one click experience to
email and invite your participants. With the ReadyTalk Scheduler
for Outlook you can: Send a custom email invite for a ReadyTalk
Audio, Web, or Audio/Web meeting Start an On-Demand... Read
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Thursday, September 8, 2011 in Webinars
Accidents happen. At ReadyTalk we’re committed to helping our
customers prevent accidents and mistakes. Each month, ReadyTalk’s
Account Specialist Team shares a recent accident and tips for how
to avoid it in the future. When scheduling an upcoming
meeting in Conference Center, John set up his meeting for web and
audio. For the audio portion, he selected Operator Assisted instead
of On-Demand because it was an important, high profile webinar and
he wanted it to be flawless. When you select the... Read More » »
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Monday, August 29, 2011 in Audio and Web Conferencing
In a previous life, I was the director of marketing at a small IT
analyst firm in Boulder, CO. A large percentage of our leads came
from webinars that highlighted our research studies and positioned
our analysts as thought leaders. We also hosted dozens of webinars
each year to help our technology vendor clients meet their own lead
generation goals. On average, my small team of three was running
two webinars a week in addition to handling all of the other
marketing activities for the firm (PPC...Read More » »
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Friday, August 19, 2011 in Audio and Web Conferencing
We’ve all been on a conference call with distracting
background noises and colleagues who forget to use the mute option.
This week, we polled our Twitter Followers and Facebook Fans to see
what the most annoying things to hear on a conference call: 10.
Someone eating 9. People typing (and clearly not paying attention)
8. ECHO…Echo…echo… 7. Wind noises / Calling from outdoors 6.
Someone taking a call on other line and hearing their hold music 5.
Heavy breathing4. Food being unwrapped right next... Read More » »
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Friday, August 19, 2011 in Audio and Web Conferencing
For many people public speaking is very intimidating. You would
think that speaking to an invisible audience on a webinar would be
much more approachable; I’m here to tell you it’s not. Right before
going on a live event last month I found my mouth dry, my palms
sweaty and my heart racing and I was sitting in an empty conference
room. Does this happen to you? I can’t think of anything harder
than speaking to an audience I can’t get feedback from. Sure,
there’s a chat stream, but you’re so busy... Read More » »
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