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Ways to Use ReadyTalk
Friday, August 17, 2012 in Webinars
Does your carpal tunnel syndrome flaring up just thinking about
organizing and running a webinar? Do you already have a
headache from the barrage of emails and phone calls from your sales
team asking for a status on their prospects' attendance at your
last online event? As a salesperson, are you fighting chronically
painful and inefficient sales demos and having trouble tracking
your metrics? There seem to be many 'alternative medicines' to
alleviating these symptoms like Microsoft Excel rules,... Read More
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012 in Webinars
If you run webinars, host sales demos or conduct training sessions,
then you understand the value of having accurate and timely data
available in salesforce.com. You also know how time consuming it
can be to add and maintain this data. ReadyTalk for Salesforce
increases productivity and provides visibility into key
activities by automating the manual processes associated with
moving data. But that’s just one benefit: Accurate Data. Automating
the data exchange between ReadyTalk and Salesforce... Read More » »
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012 in Webinars
Everyone has heard the expression that companies should “eat their
own dog food.” Well, I have two dogs and the idea of eating their
kibble isn’t exactly appetizing. I prefer the alternative take of
“drinking your own champagne” – same concept, but much tastier.
While the “dogfooding” concept initially emerged as a way for
organizations to demonstrate confidence in their own offerings to
prospective customers, it has evolved into something much more
valuable. Regardless of which version of that... Read More » »
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Thursday, August 9, 2012 in Ways to Use ReadyTalk
Corporate philanthropy has been one of ReadyTalk's core values from
the very beginning. As part of our employee benefits package, each
year every employee is given 20 hours of volunteer time as well as
up to $500 in matching non-profit donations. In addition to those
benefits, our Charitable Contributions Committee manages up to
$20,000 per quarter in corporate giving to our employees favorite
charities as well as helping to facilitate group volunteer
opportunities open to our employees.Unfortuna...Read More » »
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Friday, August 3, 2012 in Ways to Use ReadyTalk
There are many challenges that a salesperson faces on a daily
basis...cold calling, learning the ins and outs of the product or
service they are selling, identifying new competitors in their
industry space, hearing 'not interested' for the third time that
day, finding (and speaking) to a decision maker. The list
seems endless. However, there is at least one task that should be
easy. Once you've got that person you want to talk to on the phone
and interested in your product, you want to show it...Read More » »
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012 in Webinars
Dreamforce is one of the largest technology tradeshows of the year.
It brings 50,000 people to San Francisco for a week of sessions,
exhibits, parties and keynotes all dedicated to the topic of
Salesforce. The event is crowded with geeks from every position –
salesforce.com administrators, marketing folks (like me),
salespeople (of course), developers and more. ReadyTalk gets a lot
of value out of exhibiting at Dreamforce. It’s a great opportunity
to demo ReadyTalk for Salesforce, our free... Read More » »
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012 in Webinars
Last week, I joined the Salesforce power users of the great state
of Nebraska to discuss our ReadyTalk for Salesforce application and
the benefits we could bring to their organizations and day-to-day
responsibilities. One of the most intriguing aspects of the
ReadyTalk for Salesforce application for the Nebraska Salesforce
User Group was all of the points of integration between the
ReadyTalk platform and Salesforce.com, which eliminate many of the
manual and time-consuming processes they... Read More » »
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012 in ReadyTalk for Collaboration
It's hard to believe it’s been almost a year since
ReadyTalk launched our application for Salesforce, and what a
year it has been! We continue to align with our varying customer
base so that our application serves several different use cases,
including marketing and training professionals that run webinars as
well as salespeople that conduct online product demos to their
prospects. So what have we added now? Polling Responses If you use
the polling feature during webinars to gather additional... Read
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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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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, July 10, 2012 in Webinars
Today, ReadyTalk announced a new partnership with SurveyGizmo.
SurveyGizmo is pioneering the way companies use surveys
online. After listening to their audience needs, they came up with
a very inventive way to use a survey methodology to gather
immediate feedback and improve engagement with customers. The
concept is relatively simple: allow customers to take a recorded
product demo, interview or webinar clip and embed it directly in
the survey. People can watch the recording without leaving...Read
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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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Thursday, March 29, 2012 in Webinars
ReadyTalk is excited to announce the availability of
ReadyTalk Mobile app for Apple iPad, now available for
free download on the App Store. With the release of ReadyTalk
Mobile, your audience can quickly and easily join and fully
participate in your webinar, training session or online meeting
directly from their Apple iPad, allowing you to engage your
audience on the go and allowing meeting participation to be truly
remote. Participants will be able to: Attend an online meeting,
webinar or... 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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Friday, March 16, 2012 in Ways to Use ReadyTalk
Google. Whole Foods Market. Zappos. Apple. Facebook. Patagonia.
What do these giants of industry first bring to mind? For me and
many other consumers, it’s a positive company culture and a
dedication to support that is unparalleled by their competitors. As
a member of ReadyTalk’s Inside Sales team, I work on the front
lines of our service, taking inbound calls from prospective
customers, hosting live demonstrations of our audio and web
conferencing services, and acting as a point person through... Read
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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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Wednesday, March 7, 2012 in Webinars
At ReadyTalk, as you would hopefully expect, there are quite a few
experts around our hallways that know how to put on the best
webinar possible. We’ve had some great posts already in 2012, so I
thought, time for a recap! Take a look at some of the great
tips we have already provided, and surely, there will more to come.
Simone, our in-house marketing demand generation manager recently
interviewed Wayne Turmal, CEO of Great Web Meetings, how to take
your webinar series to the next level. What... Read More » »
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Bo Bandy
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Paul Carollo
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Jason Collins
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Dan Cunningham
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Brandon Hess
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James Kenly
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Teresa Lawlor
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Mike McKinnon
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Michelle Nikolayevsky
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Beth Toeniskoetter
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Susan Ulrich
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Kelly Valdes
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Simone Verhulst
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Anita Wehnert