Saturday, October 20, 2007

Conference Calling... Not Just For Business Anymore

By Michael Fedeli, Sat Dec 10th

We need to schedule a Conference Call! Not to long ago thatstatement was only uttered in the CEO's office or in the boardroom. But now, thanks to the phenomenal drop in long distancecalling costs, conference calling is affordable to almost anygroup or organization that wants to get together to discuss theimportant issues.

While conference calling is now relatively inexpensive there isstill a per minute per participant cost. Conference callingshould only be used when the cost of the call would be cheaperthan gathering all of the participants together on one room. Forexample if your entire group resides in the same city, why makea conference call when you could just schedule a meeting. Ifyour group is spread Statewide, or has members in other Statesor Countries then conference calling is the way to go.

Just think of the expense, time and hassles that can beavoided. Travel time, airfare, hotel bills, rental car fees andgas costs. Now, sometimes groups just have to meet face to facefor important events and meetings. In these instances conferencecalls can be used as Gap Filler meetings to pass along importantinformation and updates.

1 comment:

Nicky Paul said...

A phone call is a phone bring in which somebody converses with a few individuals in the meantime. The telephone calls might be intended to permit the called gathering to take an interest amid the call, or the ring might be set so that the called party simply listens into the call and can't talk. It is now and then called ATC (sound video chat).
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