Web Conferencing Programs
Interactive online conferencing is starting to be an excellent solution for business men and women who want to save time & money. Although meeting people live will never be replaced, online conferences allow participants to communicate with each other using options such as desktop sharing and document sharing, chat, sound, and video. The more features you add to a program, the more you are going to have to pay.
Web meeting solutions are, these days, very easy to use, which is important when you want to want a meeting to run smoothly. They also have very few technical issues. If you want to use a web conferencing program for your business you’ll have to pay more if you want, say, 30, rather than only 15 people in a meeting. You can expect to pay around $50 per month for a web conferencing program.
The two most popular web conferencing products are Gotomeeting and Webex, with Webex having a little more popularity. Both are rivals. Although Webex costs more, it allows you to have 10 more people within each meeting (25 instead of 15). Because you are charged a monthly fee with each of these services, you can use them as many times as you want.
A web conferencing program can be fun to use. However, you should buy it with break even in the back of your mind. Will the $500 yearly cost pay for itself in travel expenses and opportunity cost? Can you get by, just by using free options such as Skype web conferencing or Yugma?
Aside from looking at the features of a program, when shopping for one, pay special attention to how many users can be in a meeting and how difficult (or easy) it is to set up for users of the meeting.
In the end, what web meeting program you utilize depends on what you need. If you need to show clients a lot of detailed artwork files, Fuze Meeting is worth a look because it specializes in sharing files or documents with a high quality format. If you desire many nice features, Microsoft Live Meeting is worth looking into. If you want to communicate with only several clients without sharing files, Skype would be a good choice.