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Tuesday, February 12, 2013 in Partners
While webinars are a valuable part of the marketing mix, your
webinar platform is inherently isolated from other critical systems
– CRM, marketing automation, and third-party registration.
This disconnect presents a number of challenges including less
accurate data, more manual work to move data between systems, and
delayed follow up. Good thing many business-critical systems can
now be integrated with webinar platforms to eliminate these errors
and manual tasks. Tune in to this AMA TV episode... Read More » »
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Monday, February 11, 2013 in Webinars
Today's post is provided by Jerry Rackley, Chief Analyst, Demand
Metric. Jerry will be presenting on the ReadyTalk Webinar Series on
2/27 on "Beyond the Slide Deck: Creating and delivering great
presentations. Register today. Content Marketing is a marketing
strategy with a lot of cachet these days, and for good reason: it
is effective in helping attract and retain customers.
Webinars are certainly a strong plank in the Content Marketing
platform, but how strong are they? The 2013 B2B Content...
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Monday, February 11, 2013 in Audio and Web Conferencing
A few months ago, we told you about Feature Frag. This
three day innovation challenge provided our engineering team the
ability to design products that would enhance the ReadyTalk product
base. While all the projects were pretty sweet, there were a
handful that made it to the ReadyTalk service…a few of which we
will explain in a series of posts. A big kudos to all participants
for their time and energy, and stay tuned for future product news!
Request Control is a simple but incredibly useful... Read More » »
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Friday, February 8, 2013 in Customer Quotes
ReadyTalk is great, simple to use and easy to access. The customer
services team is always very helpful. This is a great service
and makes communicating across the nation very smooth and
easy. Plus, this conferencing service is affordable.
ReadyTalk makes it generously available on TechSoup for a discount
to non-profits like ours. Thank you for that! Merry
O'Brien, National Identity Theft Victims Assistance Network Project
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Thursday, February 7, 2013 in Tips & Tricks
You may have heard recent news about security vulnerabilities in
Oracle’s Java plug-in or experienced issues launching ReadyTalk as
a chairperson or co-presenter. We’d like to address some of the
concerns you may have as well as lay out some options for you as
our customers. Our number one priority is getting you and your
co-presenters into ReadyTalk meetings as fast and easy as possible.
What’s going on with Java? In response to a warning issued by the
Department of Homeland Security regarding se... Read More » »
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Thursday, February 7, 2013 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Every holiday at ReadyTalk we send our customers a gift to show our
appreciation for their loyalty and usage of our audio and web
conferencing service. Gifts each year have
included things like a wireless mouse, a thermos, noise
cancelling headphones and much more. Needless to say these are all
branded with our logo and shipped directly to our customers. This
past holiday, in response to the damage to New York and New
Jersey from Hurricane Sandy, we encouraged our customers to
choose from one of... Read More » »
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Face-to-face interaction is no longer required for a
businesses to succeed in this day and age. In fact, more and
more businesses are moving away from the traditional office setting
and outsourcing their work to remote workers in other cities,
states and countries. Telecommuting is one of the most cost
effective ways to grow a business; and despite many misnomers,
telecommuting doesn’t disconnect a worker from the office.
Many businesses are using helpful communication methods to
keep track of... Read More » »
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Learning to leverage new technologies is one of the
intangibles that enables one business to survive while another
flounders. One of the latest tech advances that is separating the
risers from those falling flat is the ability to hire and maintain
remote workers. Being able to hire people from across the country
and across the globe makes it possible to hire the perfect
candidate for a position regardless of the physical location. This
allows businesses to create the most effective staff...Read More »
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Thursday, January 31, 2013 in Audio and Web Conferencing
There are many reasons to setup and host a web conference. If
you require a meeting on short notice and participants are not
located in the same city, this is an ideal format. It reduces
costs and improves productivity and you will discover that it is
very effective and efficient. There are of course drawbacks to
holding a web conference. Keeping the audience engaged and
captivated is one of the hardest obstacles to overcome.
Listed below are some tips to ensure you have a successful
web...Read More » »
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Beginning today, ReadyTalk’s new video conferencing feature is
available to customers in a beta format. Make your collaborative
meetings more productive with integrated video conferencing.
ReadyTalk video conferencing features include: 4 simultaneous video
conferencing feeds shared by chairpersons, co-presenters, or
participants. Up to 25 participants are able to view the video
feeds. Participants viewing feeds can share their own when a slot
becomes available. Chairpersons and co-presenters can... Read More
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Friday, January 25, 2013 in Customer Quotes
We’ve used a number of other web and phone conferencing tools in
the past. After a trial of ReadyTalk some years ago, we were more
than happy with the reliability and breadth of features and have
been using it since. Michael Morrison, Solution Soft Read More » »
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Effective communication has never been easier for small businesses.
Web conferencing is no longer the sole domain of chatty teenagers,
large companies and corporations. Small businesses are jumping into
the waters of virtual discussion at increasing rates for good
reason. In the U.S. alone, small businesses account for 64
percent of the work force and technology does not intend to
slow itself down. The days of brick-and-mortar office work and
meetings are dwindling, continuously replaced with... Read More » »
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Monday, January 21, 2013 in Audio and Web Conferencing
With an estimated 53% of senior managers and CEOs moving
toward increasing their remote worker capabilities, web
conferencing services are becoming of greater importance in the
business world. Collaboration is necessary for maximum output
on projects and web conferencing allows this simply and
cost-effectively. Choosing the appropriate web conferencing
software will increase both your productivity and your bottom line.
Conferencing Service Makes Collaboration EasyHiring remote
employees and... Read More » »
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013 in Audio and Web Conferencing
American companies are not alone when comes to solving the
enigma that is a productive meeting. In Europe, companies lost $41
billion (or $26 billion pounds) in 2011 through wasted time in
meetings. When you do have meetings, studies have shown, that more
than half of your employees will take the meetings as an excuse to
daydream. Meetings last too long and happen too
often. Meetings equal time and money, so when you have them,
here are some tips on making them count: Consider Email
Instead How... Read More » »
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Friday, January 11, 2013 in Customer Quotes
At Hope Partnership, we use Ready Talk for our committee and board
member meetings. It provides members who are not able to attend
meetings for various reasons to still be a part of the
conversation. We also use it for full committee meetings
especially when gathering a group is difficult. We use
the audio conferencing services and we find it to work very well
for us. Everytime the conversation is crystal clear.
Connecting via Ready Talk is so easy for us and for all those
calling in. Barbara... Read More » »
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013 in Webinars
It’s become so common for Twitter users to report live events
through their tweets that there’s now a phrase for it—‘live
tweeting’. Companies have also started live-tweeting webinars and
other events in order to give followers a taste of what’s going on
and to entice them into signing up for the next event. Here’s how
to live tweet a webinar in a way that will have people lining up to
attend the next one: Advertise beforehand. Just as the actual
webinar will be promoted in the days leading up to... Read More » »
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Friday, January 4, 2013 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Today's guest post comes from Michael Morrison, director business
development and marketing, at Solution-Soft. Solution-Soft is
a leader in date and time testing tools as well as data storage and
fil transfer. Micahel has been a ReadyTalk customer since 2008 and
today he shares his experience with ReadyTalk's audio and web
conferencing services. At Solution-Soft, we use ReadyTalk
for many of our web and phone conferencing needs. We use it for a
number of reasons but the greatest is that our... Read More » »
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Meetings are meant to be opportunities for people to come
together and work collaboratively, but they aren’t always so
productive. This is often due to a lack of accessibility,
communication, engagement or all of the above. Web conferencing
services are the ideal solution to these issues. Here are a few
reasons why: Everyone Can Join Virtual workforces are all well and
good, but it's hard to get a team together in one meeting room if
that team includes remote workers who live on the other side of...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Reliable customer support is important. And it’s more than just
having a question or needing to troubleshoot. When choosing a
conferencing provider, consider their customer service. Save your
organization time and valuable IT resources, by selecting a
provider who values this as much as they value their product.
Reliable customer support is comprised of a number of things. A
conferencing provider should have a dedicated team of customer
service representatives, professional services for larger... Read
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Friday, December 28, 2012 in Audio and Web Conferencing
Let’s face it. If you’re a speaker for a webinar, you probably
don’t have time to learn the conferencing platform on which you’ll
be presenting. And often, all the features that you’ll learn
on a technical tour just aren’t applicable. What you need to know,
and quickly, are the bare bones basics: how to push slides, how to
manage chats, and how to share your desktop or applications. You
probably will not need to know the more advanced features, as
someone will either be doing those for you, or... Read More » »
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