Sales Gnosis

If you have a large sales force, spread out over wide distances, or if you have a small staff in various locations, then video and web conferencing is an ideal way to train, manage and support your team. In case you are wondering what online conferencing has to do with managing and training a sales force, here are a few ways to utilize this new technology.

1. Hold Virtual Online Sales Meetings

Instead of calling all your representatives to one physical point, you can set up a web conference and meet with them online. Your sales people only need a computer and a broadband connection to the Internet and they will be able to take part in the online sales meeting. The newest conferencing systems have a real time notepad allowing online brainstorming.

2. Hold Meetings More Frequently

Whenever your organization holds a physical meeting, then you have to pay a cost in terms of travel as well as in time lost from normal work. For this reason meetings have to be scheduled carefully and not too frequently. When the meetings are held online, the “opportunity costs” of your meetings are reduced because no one has to leave his or her location in order to attend. This should make it possible to hold your sales meetings more frequently, and take advantage of improved communication with lower costs.

3. Show Your Staff How to use Video Conferencing to Sell to and Support Customers

As you get more accustomed to online conferencing with your staff, you can use these meetings to train your staff in online conferencing skills so that they in turn can reach their contacts, clients and customers using the same online conferencing technology. Your sales people can meet a contact “face to face” online, demonstrate products and even perform after-sales service without leaving their offices once they become familiar with online conferencing. Your regularly scheduled online meetings offer a great opportunity to impart these skills to your staff.

4. Get Valuable Feedback From Your Team With Online Conferencing

Meetings do not have be a one-way street where only the organizer or presenter gives information or instructions to the attendees. Rather, online conferencing makes it possible for the executives to get valuable feedback from the field. For example, you can take a poll of your organization or get information via an online survey using the new instant polling and survey features of the newer web conferencing systems.

5. Inspire Your Team With Guest Speakers and Special Presentations

Once you have your online conferencing system set up, you can announce and hold meetings whenever you like. Use this channel of communication to educate and inspire your staff with the best speakers in your particular field of activity. Your guest presenters do not even have to come into your office, they too can participate online which will save you a lot of money in transportation and lodging costs.

Once you get the hang of online conferencing you will probably be able to add to this list and come up with even more ideas on training and supporting your sales team.

Dan Richmond is Co-founder of MegaMeeting.com. MegaMeeting provides Web & Video Conferencing services for individuals & businesses. For more information, please visit www.MegaMeeting.com. or call 818.783.4311.

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Now there’s a surplus of online music venues or stores where there’s no problem finding the songs that we have grown to love. We download them upon our computer or mp3 players and presto, we have everything! If you decide to leave and come back, your songs should be completely downloaded and ready to be played. No need to rummage through music CD’s in stores for your hits anymore. Online music videos are here to help!

But carefull, YouTube, of obviously does not support saving MP3 files. It doesn’t even support saving video files.

Other site than Youtube are offering easy downloads of videos. The well known Amazon.com has a section where you can download music for no cost (MP3 files) from many well-known artists. MP3.com is perhaps the largest online music community where you can download music for no cost like MP3.

Music Download are Exceptionally Convenient – you have direct access to countless music downloads from all over the world, all it takes is an Internet connection and media file players like Real One Player or Windows Media Player and the likes.

Kazaa.com, the former famous pirate P2P websites has gone legal now and bases its technology on Peer-to-Peer file sharing; the same technology used in most sites that let you download music for no cost. But the one that I prefer is eMusic. It is one of the largest online sites that sell music. Their MP3 files are not copy-protected.

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As technology progresses, so do communications processes. Communications media is one of the aspects in the field of communications that has been improving greatly, enabling people to have access to information at an exponentially faster rate. Internet, satellite television, online social networks, instant messaging, video streaming, VOIP, and wireless news broadcasts are just a few of the many efficient mediums of communications media. If utilized fully, a company can stand to make enormous amounts of profits, especially in the global market. Also, one cannot ignore communication media’s major role in influencing various audiences on an international scale.

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