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Wednesday, November 7, 2012 in
ReadyTalk Recruiting is working in full gear to fill the open seats
we have in our brand new building in Downtown Denver! We are very
excited to announce the 3 new employees we have joined us this
week. Rick Rothenberg and Jim Reed will be joining our
Engineering Team and Patrick Zeiher will be joining us on our
Account Executive team. If you would like to be the next new member
of the ReadyTalk family, we are looking for new ReadyTalkers on the
business AND Technical sides of the house. Here's... Read More » »
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Monday, November 5, 2012 in Best Practices
You were asked to present a webinar and you agreed -- now what?
Maybe you have presented at conferences before but never for a
virtual audience, or maybe your only presentation experience is
your annual gift of a "Cute Cats" calendar for your mom's birthday.
Presenting a webinar is not rocket science but it does deserve some
time and attention. ReadyTalk wants to help you make the most of
that effort by providing 10 tips for presenting a valuable webinar!
If you're reading this blog then you are... Read More » »
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Friday, November 2, 2012 in
Next week, ReadyTalk will be heading to Orlando for Eloqua’s annual
user conference, Eloqua Experience. We’ll be hands-on showing off
some new features of ReadyTalk for Eloqua. This set of Cloud
Connectors helps marketers understand prospects' buying behavior
and move leads through the pipeline faster by integrating webinar
data directly with Eloqua’s marketing automation platform. We’ve
added some new features/functionality around webinar recordings, so
if you’ll be there stop by booth #226 for... 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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Wednesday, October 31, 2012 in Best Practices
The month of October leading up to Halloween is scary enough for
me, the last thing I need is to be haunted by ghosts of
webinar mistakes. Here are a few things to avoid. Should you
happen to make these mistakes, I've included the witches brew
remedy to cure you. Some of these are my own "worst practices" and
others are remedies I learned from communications expert Sharon
Burton’s webinar called, “Getting the Response you Want:
Promoting your Webinar.” DO NOT promote your webinar with
a... Read More » »
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012 in Featured Post
We are quickly approaching the end of 2012, and if the Mayans were
right, then we won't have to worry about budgeting for next year.
However, I've heard that they did not account for the leap years
and therefore the majority of marketers will still have to decide
how they will divvy up their marketing budget for 2013. As you
begin to examine what kinds of programs should be included in your
budget, you may be wondering "What’s working for my peers? What
isn’t? How do you get the most out of your... Read More » »
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Monday, October 29, 2012 in
Today's post is provided by account manager Abigail Wall, who works
with customers daily to help them get more from their ReadyTalk
accounts and improve their meetings. We often hear questions about
changing the beeping audio entry announcement that you hear when a
participant joins your call. We go over this in our free live
trainings, which if you haven’t had a chance to join yet I highly
recommend attending one! A full schedule of our upcoming trainings
can be found on our website. Our... Read More » »
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Friday, October 26, 2012 in More from ReadyTalk
So what exactly is a Feature Frag? It's an event focused on feature
development; it's quick, it's competitive and we want the best
ideas and prototypes to be left standing when the dust
settles. Let me shed some light on this newly minted term for
you, dear reader. Here in the halls of ReadyTalk Engineering, there
are a few things that are part of who we are. Video gaming happens
to be one of them. Many of our engineers grew up playing 8-bit
video games or spent more quarters at the local arcade... Read More
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Friday, October 26, 2012 in Featured Post
ReadyTalk was started 11 years ago by two very
entrepreneurial brothers, Dan and Scott King. You can read more
about our history on our website. Since founding the company, the
King brothers have remained extremely committed to supporting other
entrepreneurs and the Colorado technology community. They aren’t
alone in this commitment to Colorado’s startup and entrepreneurial
communities. A new campaign has recently begun to take shape.
Colorado Entrepreneurial by Nature is a grassroots effort to...
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Thursday, October 25, 2012 in Webinars
We’ve all been on a webinar before. We’ve all checked our email,
edited a paper, sent a text, even answered an incoming call while
on a webinar. This happens for two reasons: 1) the speaker is awful
so the audience zones out and does their own research on Google or
2) the audience realizes that they signed up thinking the content
would answer burning questions but after 45 minutes the speaker
hasn’t shared anything insightful. #Webinarfail. Why not have a
webinar where all of the questions come...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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Tuesday, October 23, 2012 in Webinars
Your webinar speakers are set, playbooks studied, twitter
promotions sent, you’ve practiced until perfect, attendees have
been reminded of the webinar time. And now, it’s game time! Even if
you routinely conduct webinars, a pre-event checklist is extremely
helpful and almost essential. Since many people are not list
makers, I’ve created a diagram comparing getting ready for a
webinar to getting ready for a football game to help you remember
the small, yet important details prior to your web... Read More » »
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Monday, October 15, 2012 in Featured Post
You're ready to host a webinar. You've checked off all the boxes on
your project plan: Determined a topic found a great speaker,
Integrated this event into other lead generation campaigns you have
running, Aligned with your sales team on how to help promote and
what you'll need from them for follow-up, Scheduled emails, social
promotions, written a blog post ...and the list goes on and on. You
did all those things, right? And that's just before your event,
wait until you see the rundown for post-event... Read More » »
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012 in Featured Post
If you occasionally scroll through our blog, it's obvious that
ReadyTalk places a strong emphasis on the marketer. Webinars
continue to be a cost-effective way to reach new audiences, but are
usually just one piece of the pie in overall lead generation
strategy. More and more, our customers are turning to marketing
automation platforms, like Marketo, to manage all of their lead
generation and nurturing efforts, which can include email campaigns
to targeted prospects, tracking activity within...Read More » »
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Friday, October 5, 2012 in More from ReadyTalk
When Outside Magazine votes you the best place to work in the
country and your CEO is the World's Fittest CEO, you likely work
with a group of people that don't spend a lot of time on the couch.
Kelly shares an example of a group of ReadyTalk employees recently
spent a Saturday. I owe a huge thank you to my fellow ReadyTalk
marketing team members Mike McKinnon and Simone Nabers for making
ReadyTalk’s 3rd Annual Climbing Day a huge success. ReadyTalk
families and rock climbers of all ages and... Read More » »
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012 in
If you're like, me you're still sorting through YouTube videos,
Chatter postings, whitepapers, hand-outs, and business cards from
this year's Dreamforce conference. With so much excitement leading
up to it, I can't help but feel a little sad it's all over so
quickly.The overriding theme for this year's conference was without
a doubt "business is social." Salesforce's introduction of the
Marketing Cloud spoke directly to managing the social side of
business. Tools for enhancing social engagement,...Read More » »
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012 in Featured Post
ReadyTalk continues to add to its' list of partners and
integrations as we extend the capabilities of our API. Last
week, we announced our newest connector with Acteva, a cloud-based
platform that offers ticketing, registration and payment solutions
for in-person and virtual events. Marketers and trainers
host several types of events to expand the reach of their
programs, and engage with new audiences. Until recently, Acteva
provided access to various options for in-person events only as
well...Read More » »
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012 in Featured Post
Continuing my posts on sales enablement tools, Data.com is another
tool we implemented internally for our sales team. There were
several problems we wanted to solve with the implementation of
Data.com: Eliminate (or lessen) list building for the operations
team and (as an extension of that) lessen the amount of list
scrubbing Give our account executives a way to prospect an account
and gather the necessary roles and contact information Keep our
database as clean as possible with regard to... Read More » »
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012 in Webinars
More and more, recorded content is becoming just as important as
live webinars and meetings. As schedules become busier and as
we become more on-the-go than ever before, the ability to view a
product demo or learn about the latest best practices for our
respective industry on our own time is imperative. ReadyTalk
has provided robust recording, editing, and playback tools for
quite some time now; however, getting that detail and data out of
ReadyTalk and into Salesforce has been a manual task...Read More »
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