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- Live Webcast: Increasing Leads with Web Conferencing
- There was a time when many were predicting the Internet would make sales representatives completely obsolete. We now know that just the opposite is true. With so many product choices so readily available online, the role of a sales rep to help differentiate their products and services from...
- Tags: Web, Webcast, Web Conferencing, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Sales Force Management, Internet, Sales, Marketing
- Webcasts 2008-04-24
- Technology Firm Reduces Travel Time, Cuts Costs With Web Conferencing Solution
- MobileFrame, a small company based in California, specializes in mobile applications technology. Because the company had expanded its business to the East Coast and as far away as the Middle East, it wanted to find a way to meet with customers without incurring costly travel expenses. In addition, the company...
- Tags: Web, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Web Conferencing, Microsoft Office, Internet, Office Suites, Software
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- Human Resources Consulting Firm Saves 77 Percent Using Web Conferencing Service
- To complement the worldwide travel involved in making sales presentations and staging marketing events, Development Dimensions International (DDI) conducts a significant portion of its sales, marketing, and employee communications using Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2003. DDI uses Live Meeting 2003 not only to demonstrate its services, but also to attract...
- Tags: Web, Human Resources, Development Dimensions International, Web Conferencing, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Office, Marketing Research, Sales, Office Suites, Software, Marketing
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- Large District Gains Huge Time and Cost Savings With Online Meetings and Training for 12,000 Teachers and 650 Administrators
- The School District of Palm Beach County is the tenth largest school district in the nation. It spreads across an area larger than some states. When principals and other school-based personnel from its 167 schools attend on-site meetings with others in the district, many need to drive two or three...
- Tags: District, Administrator, Online Meeting, Training, Web Conferencing, E-learning, Workforce Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- ReadSoft Trials Collaboration Landscape and Chooses WebEx
- For more than a decade, ReadSoft has been supplying customers across the globe with innovative software for document automation. In 2001, ReadSoft identified web conferencing as a way to remotely communicate with its customers and partners while retaining its close relationships and eliminating unnecessary travel costs. The service ReadSoft had...
- Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Collaboration, Web Conferencing, Internet
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- e-Collaboration Tools: Not Just for the Big Boys Anymore
- Until recently, only large companies could take advantage of on-line collaboration tools (also known such as e-conferencing or Web conferencing solutions) and their associated benefits. Prohibitively high technology costs and the hurdle of complex implementation have kept smaller companies from taking advantage of the benefits of Web conferencing, which include...
- Tags: Inter-Tel Inc., Web Conferencing, Benefits, Internet, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Open Solutions Inc. Utilizes Linktivity's WebDemo and WebInteractive
- Open Solutions Inc. (OSI), a leader in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) had been searching for a simple, cost-effective way to pre-qualify customers. Company executives were spending a lot of time and resources on travel to visit potential customer locations, but not closing a sufficient amount...
- Tags: Linktivity, Inter-Tel Inc., Web Conferencing, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Servers, Internet, Sales, Software, Hardware
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- Financial Software Company Cuts Travel by 60 Percent With Web Conferencing
- XRT provides financial software solutions designed to assist corporations in maintaining and controlling their cash flow operations. As a company with 10 offices around the globe, Web conferencing was fast becoming an invaluable means of communication for the company. Its North American headquarters relied on another Web conferencing vendor to...
- Tags: Web, Financial, XRT Inc., Web Conferencing, Internet
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- Mass Mitec Makes an Impact With HP Virtual Classroom
- Mass Mitec is a developer and provider of collaborative communications solutions. They needed a Web conferencing solution that was easy to use and very robust. The company realized thee need to develop innovative solutions for collaborative communication, meet broadcasters' needs for technologies that help ensure audience capture and participation and...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mass Mitec, Web Conferencing, Internet
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- Insurance Giant Aviva Sees Business Travel Cost Reductions, Paralleled With Increased Productivity, Thanks to the Global Roll Out of WebEx
- Aviva is the world's sixth largest insurance group and the leading provider of life and pensions products in the UK. The company needed to ensure that the business units were trained up on how to use the product and they needed to make sure there was adequate support in place...
- Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Cost Reduction, Aviva Plc., Insurance, Web Conferencing, Internet
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- How to Design for the Live Online Classroom: Creating Great Interactive and Collaborative Training Using Web
- The growing prevalence of Web conferencing has led many trainers to look closer at the ideas behind live online learning. Also referred to as virtual classrooms, synchronous learning, or Webinars, all of these terms mean basically the same thing: content delivered live over the Internet to geographically dispersed participants. This...
- Tags: Web, Training, Classroom, E-learning, Web Conferencing, Channel Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
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- Teleflex Incorporated Boosts Productivity With Linktivity's WebDemo and WebInteractive
- Teleflex Incorporated, a chief, global supplier of engineered products, had been searching for a conferencing solution that would streamline company-wide training and develop a cohesive sales force. With offices around the globe from Mexico to Germany to Asia, Teleflex was spending a lot of time and resources on travel to...
- Tags: Linktivity, Inter-Tel Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Workforce Management, Web Conferencing, Sales, Human Resources, Internet
- Case studies
- Software Company Deploys Web Conferencing Solution Globally, Boosts Lead Generation
- Since 1998, MarkMonitor has been offering solutions to help global corporations safeguard their intellectual property assets against fraud. The company's 120 employees are located in San Francisco, London, Boise, New York, and Washington, D.C. With so many offices - and customers located around the world - MarkMonitor needed a more...
- Tags: Software, Web, Web Conferencing, Webinar, Microsoft Corp.
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- National Park Service Saves Money, Expands Training With Web Conferencing Solution
- The National Park Service (NPS), the largest agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior, operates and protects the United States' natural resources and manages national parks, monuments, and recreation areas while educating park visitors about park safety, geography, culture, and history. Its 500 IT specialists are scattered across 388...
- Tags: National Park Service, Web, Web Conferencing, Training, Workforce Management, Human Resources
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- Why One Distance Learning Company Has Fully Embraced its Web Conferencing Platform
- Download this case study to find out why distance learning pioneer ULiveandLearn selected Macromedia® Breeze™ Live for its Web conferencing platform. The paper details how the virtual education company used Breeze to produce an extremely complex, eight-hour Web seminar for WHYY-TV in Philadelphia and the Hospice Foundation of America. Find...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Distance Learning, Web, Philadelphia, Macromedia Breeze Live, Web Conferencing, E-learning, Channel Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
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- Web Conferencing Helps Slash Costs of Sales and Services by 80 Percent
- Neulogic, which provides Web design, hosting, and content management services for nonprofit organizations across the United States, is using Web-based virtual meetings to slash the cost of marketing and delivering products and services by up to 80 percent - while retaining profit margins. The virtual meetings are conducted using the...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Web Conferencing, Microsoft Office, Content Management, Internet, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software
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- Software Company Increases Communication, Efficiency With Web Conferencing Solution
- Wanting to enhance the effectiveness of its product demonstrations, software developer ScriptLogic Corporation deployed a solution based on Microsoft Office Live Meeting and audio conferencing from BT Conferencing. Instead of multiple employees spending time on generic one-to-one presentations, a single systems engineer now can handle 30 weekly technical demonstrations, while...
- Tags: Web, Customer, Microsoft Corp., ScriptLogic Corp., Web Conferencing, Sales Tools, Microsoft Office, Marketing Research, Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Internet, Sales, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Management
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- Software Supplier Cuts Costs, Improves Collaboration With Switch to Live Meeting
- Softchoice Corporation is a leading technology supplier that sells software and hardware products to customers throughout North America. To stay connected with employees while enhancing its reputation as a "Trusted technology advisor," Softchoice uses Web-conferencing technology for company-wide meetings, weekly sales training sessions, customer demos, and Web seminars. However, the...
- Tags: Sales Training, Collaboration, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Web Conferencing, Microsoft Office, Sales, Internet, Office Suites, Software
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- Web Conferencing Helps Improve Business Processes and Save $80 Million Annually
- Like employees at most companies, Microsoft employees are asked to perform at a higher level each year. To meet increasingly challenging goals with fewer resources, employees across the company are turning to the Microsoft Office Live Meeting Web conferencing service. Office Live Meeting enables Microsoft employees to communicate more effectively...
- Tags: Business Process, Web, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Web Conferencing, Microsoft Office, Operational Planning, Internet, Office Suites, Software, Business Operations
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- Web Conferencing Saves Software Developer and Customers Millions Per Year
- Only one month after deploying a Web conferencing service, Chicago-based Fieldglass realized that it needed a more robust, easy-to-use solution. The company decided to switch to Microsoft Office Live Meeting, using it in every business unit to save resources in everything from internal meetings and sales demonstrations to customer training....
- Tags: Developer, Web, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Web Conferencing, Microsoft Office, Sales Strategy, Internet, Office Suites, Software, Sales
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