To this very day, spoken conversations are still by far the best form of communication. And while communication is very much seen as a soft skill, being able to provide information clearly and precisely is an absolute imperative for busine… Read the rest
Uh-oh, you thought a ‘conference call minute’ was just the same as a regular minute? No, unfortunately not, but you’ve just made an assumption that many make. And it could be a costly one.
A conference minute, while stil… Read the rest
Coming to the close of 2018, there’s never been a better time than now to take up conference calling as part of your business strategy – from adding to your Corporate Social Responsibility, to mew lines of international dialog… Read the rest
Surprise! If you’re in the beautiful Abu Dhabi for the first time and you’re trying to connect with your business back in the UK, you may have just realised that your Skype isn’t working – that’s because VoI… Read the rest
Look around your office right now. If needed, stand up and go in to each departments room. What are the sales guys doing? Busy talking, lots of noise, right? Customer service, probably the same. What about the developers and creatives ̵… Read the rest
iOS 12.1 brings Group FaceTime and new emoji to iPhone and iPad
First, with the positives! iOS 12.1 is bringing some mainstream conference call abilities to this ‘group’ FaceTime feature, such as:
- Automatically detects act
If you’ve created a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) policy out of nothing more than a box ticking exercise, then stop reading now. However, if you’re really pushing for a positive change with your CSR policy, then tele… Read the rest
Whether you are dealing with corporate or family law, there are, more often than not, times when you will need to jump on a call with a client, rather than face to face. Instead of simply having a 2-way call, 95% of the top 200 law firms in the UK ma… Read the rest
To this day, we are still hearing scary stories of ridiculously high priced per minute conference calling services. But look, the fact of the matter is simple and that is: you should not be paying anything more than 3p per minute at the very ma… Read the rest
Highfive & Lifesize thinks the business world is ready for video conference calls, but are we?
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First of all, it looks beautiful and wouldn’t look out of place in the business environment. Well, in face, it may look out of … Read the rest
Our recent poll has shown that there’s nothing more infuriating for conference calls users than when a providers service is down or severely degraded, but what can be done about it?
i. Check the status of the provider
Does the confe… Read the rest
The 070 35 99 94 phone number is a Belgium based phone number owned by PowWowNow. This will be on your phone bill because you or someone else had dialed the number to join a conference call.
Most people land on this article because they’… Read the rest
We’re just getting over the RMT Southern Rail strike and now we are heading head first in to a Eurostar strike that will cause issues on 15th & 28th August – coinciding with Bank Holidays in Europe and the UK. So, are you ready … Read the rest
So, the RMT Southern Rail strike action has now begun and will be with us for the full week, making it the longest strike action since the 1968. Are people happy about it? Absolutely not, but what can you do, hmm? It has certainly rubbed up payin… Read the rest
Recent studies have shown that up to 80% of those that take time off for a summer holiday hinder their time off due to thinking about or actually doing work. While some CEOs will be blowing their horn for those members of staff that go ‘ab… Read the rest
With the pound plummeting to record lows which have not been seen for the past thirty plus years, now isn’t the time for politics. Now isn’t the time for who’s right and who’s wrong when it comes to which way you vote… Read the rest
While there are the endless features, levels of service and oh-so many different ways to connect to a conference call, we’ve found that over the years, the biggest concern when it comes to comparing conference call providers is when … Read the rest
Skype, Google Hangouts, Slack conference call services are all underpinned by the same technology; WebRTC. Oh, and that’s where the problem lays.
Problem 1: It’s not you, it’s me
No Skype, Hangouts, Slack or a multitu… Read the rest
Thanks for visiting our article about conference calling for non-profits. We’re going to take a look at what you need to look out for (good and bad) when sourcing a conference call company to partner with.
What do you need from a confer
… Read the restSo, you’re fed up with your current conference call provider or, perhaps you’ve used Skype in the past on a personal basis and thinking this may be a good idea for your business to now use for conference calling? Hold your horses… Read the rest
Google Hangouts is free – YAY! But, if you’re a business – you’re probably more worried about…
Quality
Poor audio quality and numerous issues that continuously pop up are intrinsic with such a free SAAS … Read the rest
Who is it that’s managing your conference call service provider, internally? Are you aware of how much your service provider is costing you?
Cost Centre Control
For any business that has more than one department, you typically star… Read the rest
You need time off. Your staff, inevitably need time off, but as we all know, in most businesses, everyone having the same period of holiday as everyone else in the business just does not work. So, what happens is, is that half the business take … Read the rest
Meetings. Love them or hate them, the majority of meetings could probably be skipped altogether, but if you’re stuck in a business, or you’re a business owner that insists your staff go out on the road to have meetings, make sur… Read the rest
Whether your business is booming, or you are going through a period of stagnation, clever business cost reductions should always be at the heart of every business strategy as it’s a huge contributing factor to end of year profits.
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… Read the restStarting a new business is not an easy matter. Every year, many new start-ups appear and last less than a year before, then the money runs out and they fail. One way to help a new business start-up to survive is to reduce costs, especially at fir… Read the rest
A teleconference can be defined as a meeting of two or more people that involves technology that is more sophisticated than a telephone. It is simple and cheap way of conducting a meeting between people who are not able to meet face to face.
It … Read the rest
So, you’ve heard about it. But the BIG question – What is it?
Teleconferencing is simply conducting your conferences on the telephone (Did you go “Duh!” ?)
There are a lot of companies that provide teleconferenc… Read the rest
Working in the sales market will often be one of the most competitive and progressive industries that you can work in, and getting every advantage on your side in order to make the most of your resources. When it comes to getting the most ou… Read the rest
When it comes to international communication in the modern world, there are many options that are available to you, but fewer if you want to communicate with more than one person at a time. Of course you could send group emails, or discuss … Read the rest
When you are trying to set up a conference call, you are not looking for endless forms to fill in, constrictive regulation to the length and the number of people that can join your call, and no additional options to help the call to go smoothly.… Read the rest
If you are running a small business, then one of the most valuable commodities that you can have is time, and finding ways to maximise that time will always be a great tool in the running of the business. One of these factors that can help you … Read the rest
Once your business has really started to grow into a mature company, and management is starting to look to keep developing the company, then you will likely be trading over longer distances and for higher volumes. It will not always be po… Read the rest
When it comes to finding the best conference call provider, there are many things that you should be looking for in the service that is provided. If you think about the time that can be lost for everyone if you have technical problems or if o… Read the rest
For the managers of retail chains, ensuring good communication between the different branches of the chain can often be a laborious process, and require endless visits to each branch to brief the individual staff at each site. However… Read the rest
Ensuring users of their PAYG, SELECT and BUNDLES conference calling services never miss a call, Meetupcall is first low cost teleconference provider to offer Microsoft Outlook toolbar as standard.
Meetupcall, a leading low-cost telec… Read the rest
A professional conference call is nothing but a business call where the main discussion on the call revolves round the business. This call usually involves business associates and colleagues who are all part of the conference call. It is n… Read the rest
The conference call is the demand of the time to grow the business, training, interview and education. These are a few important uses of the conference calls. The conference calls increase the productivity and save lots of time. Moreover, … Read the rest
One of the most commonly used and effective ways of improving the business is holding conference calls free of cost. This helps you earn their trust and therefore an addition to your loyalty. However it is not necessary that your calls have t… Read the rest
Conference calling came as a revolution in the world. It became quite a rage the moment it entered the market. Not only family and friends were happy, the people in business took it as an opportunity to improve their business methods. They we… Read the rest
The way in which this method of calling affected people was in the matters of business. It just came out to be a boon to the people who do business for now they were given a better way to talk to each other and that too with a group at one time. Now the… Read the rest
