Get a Famous Speaker for Your Webinar
Concerned that you¡¯re not going to be a big turnout for your upcoming webinars? There are many tricks that will help entice more members of your intended audience to attend the event that has required a great deal of your time and energy to put together. One great trick is to get a relatively famous speaker from outside of your organization to keynote the event. Someone from the outside can add credence to the content that you¡¯re presenting and is certainly more interesting than a company insider. If you have the budget, you can get almost anyone to lead your webinar, but once speakers hear what an event¡¯s about and learn of the size of the intended audience, they will often speak for a radically reduced price, or even for free! So make a list of exciting speakers, call them up, and watch your webinar audience balloon in size.
Affordable Hosted Web Conferencing
Want to improve your online collaboration but don¡¯t have a fancy IT staff to help host the conferencing internally? Then you need an externally hosted web conferencing solution.
Chances are, if your IT staff is small then you¡¯re probably a small to medium sized business, and therefore might not have the money to blow on top-of-the-line, bells and whistles web conferencing services.
AT Conferencing provides more affordable web conferencing and phone conferencing hosting through the web at about half the price of other industry leaders. Participants don¡¯t need any special software and can log in from any web browser to participate. If you need or want to put together an online meeting in a hurry and on the cheap, this is the easiest and best way to do so.
Use More Online Collaborative Techniques
Trying to find a way to keep your expanding organization feeling close-knit? In the age of the Internet, the best way to keep everyone working together is through various means of online collaboration. Just about all organizations have come to rely heavily on email, and some even utilize internal instance messaging services such as Sametime, but there are many other very effective ways to keep your team closely linked, such as web conferencing, having an online meeting, or even by sponsoring webinars for employee training. If you¡¯re having an increasingly hard time keeping up with what different employees and groups are up to and are unsatisfied with simply sending out organization-wide memos, then looking to expand the ways you¡¯re using online collaboration can greatly increase your company¡¯s internal communication and therefore its overall competitive edge.
Host Your Own Web Conference
Looking for a quick, easy to use web conferencing solution that allows you to host your own web conference or online meeting?
There are a number of self-hosting web conferencing products out there, but WiredRed offers one of the easiest to use and advanced solutions. Its product allows your own computer to host an online conference involving video, sound, text, and basic desktop sharing.
If you¡¯re expecting a large audience, however, it might be best to outsource the hosting of the conference to WiredRed itself for more bandwidth.
Online Collaboration and Skype
If you want to enable your employees and clients to throw together a quick online meeting anytime, then you should check out Skype.
Skype offers free VoIP¡ªvoice over IP¡ªservices from anywhere in the world with a broadband connection and, for a fee, can even be linked to an actual phone line, allowing people from around the world to make an internet phone call to your mobile and costing neither party any expensive long distance charges.
What¡¯s more, multiple parties can be invited to and dial into the phone conference, and those who are sitting in front of computers can illustrate their point in chat windows by typing or pasting in relevant information to the conversation.
IT groups from around the world are discovering that Skype greatly enhances their online collaboration, so it¡¯s well worth checking out, especially with its $0 price tag.