Small business voice conferencing

How many of my readers own a business? Or work in senior management within a corporation? I'd love to know because I get regular search engine traffic for business services and information about franchising. I think it all stems back to the posts I've written in my small business category, so for those people, here's another business related post.

Let's talk about Voice Conferencing today. Getting a bunch of people together for any kind of meeting can be prohibitively expensive if they aren't all in the same geographic location. Even sales meetings or branch manager meetings within the same city take a lot of organizing.

And this is where the advantages of using the phone really comes into its own. A simple email giving your colleagues a time to make the call is all it takes, and the costs are minimal if you're using a toll free service.

Here's how it works. There's no need for expensive dedicated phone lines, you're assigned a toll free number, your colleagues call it, and when the call is over that's it, back to business again. No more paid travel time, no more delayed meetings because of traffic problems.

Its totally risk free and gives complete flexibility to manage your conference calls. With a good provider you simply answer the call and start talking. I think that's probably the greatest innovation for small business that has ever been invented, the ability to schedule meetings with staff on the fly, get critical uptodate info out to your colleagues, and because you're speaking to them you can assess their understanding far better than if you just sent a fax or email.