Case Studies

ReadyTalk's customers are using web conferencing with great success. Gather ideas for your organization by browsing through these case studies.

• FASTSIGNS: After using ReadyTalk for software training sessions, FASTSIGNS cut their costs by $12,000 and eliminated the hassle of travel!
  
  
• Catalyst Repository Systems: John Tredennick, CEO of Catalyst Repository Systems, discusses how ReadyTalk makes it easy to conduct legal negotiations among teams distributed across the country in an article from Law Practice Today.
  
  
• Wright Medical Technology: Wright Medical Technology Inc., adds productive sales time to each day using ReadyTalk's "desktop sharing" to inform network distributors of their newest products.
  
  
• Trout Unlimited: ReadyTalk's "one-click recording" feature has allowed Trout Unlimited to create a captivating and dynamic website, attracting more publicity and volunteers.
  
  
• Small Business Administration: Because of ReadyTalk's high participant capacity, Small Business Administration now enables business centers and offices to all meet together once, eliminating the hassle of setting up multiple conferences.
  
  
• ServiceMaster Clean: ReadyTalk saved ServiceMaster Clean 3 months in traveling and gave them the ability to accelerate their training process.
  
  
• MediaMixNet: MediaMixNet has utilized ReadyTalk's audio and web conferencing tools to maximize their leads for an inexpensive price compared with their former service.
  
  
• United Way: ReadyTalk has partnered with United Way to help unite and strengthen communities by enabling them to communicate effectively with board directors and colleagues for less time and money.
  
  
• Liberty Travel: Liberty Travel uses ReadyTalk's "application and desktop sharing" feature to train employees 9 weeks faster and thousands of dollars cheaper than previous methods and services.
  
  
• InsureWorx: ReadyTalk's simple and seamless service has allowed InsureWorx to present solutions to their non-technical clients from a secure and reliable server and to look like a "hero" to their customers!
  
  
• Montana Nonprofit Association: As Member Services Director of the MNA, Brad Robinson works hard to help Montana's nonprofit organizations. According to Brad, ReadyTalk "gives small organizations with a board that is geographically dispersed the opportunity to have board meetings with much higher representation and attendance."
  
  
• MissionFish: Heather Hanson, Community Coordinator for MissionFish, is responsible for teaching all the nonprofits that MissionFish supports how to effectively promote themselves. Thanks to ReadyTalk's simple infrastructure, Heather doesn't have to take the time to train her clients to use ReadyTalk before each conference. "I have never had any complaints about ReadyTalk. Everyone understands it and we actually get...feedback that it's great and easy to use."
  
  
• Helping Hands: Julianna Farella, President of Helping Hands Initiative, started implementing audio conferencing through her telephone provider two years ago but found it very unreliable and costly. Julianna explains that ReadyTalk "is a lot more convenient and a lot more cost effective." ReadyTalk allows Julianna the convenience of only paying for the minutes she uses thanks to ReadyTalk's "pay-per-use" pricing option.
   
• Mercy Corps: Mercy Corps is one of the leading nonprofit organizations assisting in emergency relief efforts and helping initiate sustainable economic development. During the recent crisis in Lebanon, Mercy Corps was able to rely on ReadyTalk's reliable and clear audio conferencing for daily audio conferences with staff stationed in the Middle East.
   
• Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network: As the Director of Programs for the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN), Holly Ross works hard to help nonprofits use technology to achieve their goals. Educating the NTEN's diverse and geographically dispersed member base is a challenge, so the organization started holding webinars with ReadyTalk to reach out to the community.
   
• Carpet Network: Several years ago, Carpet Network graduated from audio conferencing to web conferencing with ReadyTalk. Since then, Carpet Network has used web conferencing to convene its Franchise Advisory Council, to present to franchisee candidates and, especially, for education and training. CEO Larry Rankin says that with ReadyTalk, says that franchise candidates "can have some interaction with us and the information. This creates much stronger excitement among candidates."
   
• Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (NPCC): Established in 1984, the NPCC has defined the art of doing more with less. With only a team of 4 full-time staff, they serve more than 1500 members throughout the 5 boroughs and 3 counties surrounding New York City. Program Director Craig Weinrich says "we like to offer our membership innovative services and benefits that will help them cut costs and allow them to raise funds, and ReadyTalk is the perfect fit."