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Adding Teleconferencing to Your Business

04.02.2009 · Posted in Home and Garden Articles

If you daydream of not having to go to the office to work, you might be interested to hear about the idea of telecommuting. This is where you stay home and do your work, but check in via phone or internet. New technology allows telecommuting to be much easier than it once was. If you have a personal business and have virtual employees using teleconferencing software is a great way to communicate with them and hand out assignments. nnIf you want to add employees to a current business there is a lot involved. You have to advertise, and do interviews. Finding the right candidate can be tough, when you are looking to hire a virtual employee it can be even more complicated. nnA small business owner who is working from home, has a few employees or has outsourced some of his work to others can be greatly helped with teleconferencing software. This software will allow you to build a virtual office, where you can have contact with your employees or outsource workers. You can speak to them through this conference call or you can even do video conference calling and show them exactly what you want through your computer screen. nnSetting up a virtual office with teleconferencing software is a lot easier than you think You will be given a phone number if you choose to do audio teleconference calling. Alternately you can choose to do a video teleconference. You will be given an online room which you can lock and unlock. Your employees, no matter where in the world simply log in to a specific web address and are present for you meeting. nnA typical virtual office meeting would go something like this. The boss unlocks the virtual office. The employees log in to the meeting using usernames or their real names depending on how you’ve got it set up. The people in the meeting can see the host’s computer screen. This allows the “boss” to walk people through steps of a project. The audio element also allows people to talk back and forth and for the boss to hand out instructions for whatever people are currently working on. You can even hand over control of your computer to others on the call, which makes this a great way to callaborate. nnTeleconferencing software will allow the host to stay in the room as long as they want. This means you could keep the conference room open all day long for questions. If your employees have questions or the people you have outsourced work to need clarification they can easily get in touch with your via your online conference room. You will be able to show them through your computer screen or explain through the audio on the conference room how to solve the problem and get them moving again. It may seem outlandish to think of setting up a virtual office, but with the technology currently available it can be an excellent option.

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