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"Free Conferencing" Yeah Right!

I know a lot of you are always looking for the best deals out there in the conferencing industry.  Here is a great article on why "free conferencing" is not really free.  Click here for article.  It amazes me that some companies will entrust their vital meetings and communication with clients utilizing these organizations.  The problems they have range from busy signals (not enough ports), static or poor sound quality (cheap VOIP bridges), NO customer service (it's free after all, what can you complain about), dropped calls (cheap VOIP bridges), and many more.

If you are looking for a conferencing company that won't embarrass you, and that you can rely on for your important collaboration requirements then please visit us at www.ganconference.com or call us at 1-877-GET-GAN1.

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Discover How Web Conferencing Can Benefit You Today!

QuickVisuals from Great America Networks Conferencing can help your business accomplish the following:

• Increase Sales
• Decrease Expenses
• Increase Efficiencies
• Reduce Travel

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Looking for a new laptop?

This article describes the new Apple MacBook Air.  If you're in the market for a stylish and thin notebook then you might want to take a look at this article.  I'm not a big fan of Mac's but I have been looking at getting one to use from an R&D perspective.

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Web Conferencing For the SMB Market

Wainhouse Research recently released a new study on web conferencing and its impact on small businesses. Wainhouse Research had over 1,500 survey participants, of which 75% worked at companies with less than 500 employees. A majority of the small businesses leverage web conferencing as a competitive advantage to drive revenue, penetrate markets, and expand territory reach with minimal resources. Most even stated that web conferencing has become such a vital part of day to day business that they could not conduct business without it.

Pure VOIP Through PC Only Communication

For those of you who know me personally, you already know what a big fan I am of Virtual Worlds and Online Role Playing games.  One important aspect of these communities are that they require a high level of constant communication.  Most of them utilize chat messaging as their "core" communication type, however the move towards VOIP audio is starting to become more prevalent.

Collaborate Across The Globe

We all hear the news.  Companies are struggling to reduce expenses and continue to do more with less.  This is true whether you are a one-man-show or a corporate goliath.  The requirements for communicating in today's business world have changed drastically.  The speed of communication has changed for the better.  Have you been keeping up with the options available to you?

Let's go through some different examples of how people need to communicate on a daily basis:

Increasing Sales With Conferencing

• Daily Sales Meetings - Utilize our easy to use QuickConnect Reservationless Conferencing Service.  You receive a Toll-Free Number and a Moderator passcode, your sales reps receive the same Toll-Free Number and  Participant passcode.  You dial into the number, enter your secure passcode and seconds later you are now conducting an effective sales meetings with your reps whether they are located in the same city as you or scattered across the globe.  Simple, Quick, and Reliable. 

Why GANC For Your Virtual World Needs?

Quite simply, there is no company in Second Life that can offer the variety of services and products that we do.  Our technical infrastructure is built around a server farm and audio conferencing platform that would cost millions of dollars to recreate.  We are a full service provider of audio, video, and web conferencing services to leading businesses throughout the world today.  Where our competitors in Second Life offer conferencing via Skype, and utilizing only the existing Second Life parcel land streams, we take those models 10 steps further.  Here are some examples:

Virtual World Pricing Announced

Pricing Options for Second Life Conferencing Events

Audio conferencing................................$3.60/hr/user
Web browser conferencing...................$8.40/hr/user in SL
Audio & Web browser conferencing....$10.00/hr/user in SL
Audio Streaming..............................$1.50/hr/connection (note the SL Parcel Stream is 1 connection)

1 hour min required

Bringing Business Communication To the Virtual World

Is your organization ready to experience the transition from a life of constant travel and the associated expenses associated with attending meetings across the globe?  Are your employees constantly flying throughout the country, spending an hour to get to the airport, an hour waiting for their flight, 5 hours on the plane, another hour to get to their hotel room and yet another hour to travel to the meeting location,  to then sit in a meeting room with colleagues or clients for a ONE HOUR MEETING?  If this is a frequent scenario for your organization, then you will be glad to know that there is an alternative.

Collaboration in a Virtual World environment will allow your organization to achieve all of the results from that same face to face meeting, without all of the wasted time, effort, and expense.  Imagine this scenario: