Going "Green" with AccuConference.

Audio and video conferencing are one of the hottest things going right now. Businesses are spending $100 to $1000 a month in usage. The cool thing that conference calling offers is that, it allows companies to continue business regardless of geographical location. They may want to conduct business separately, across the world, across the country or even across the city for number of reasons. And, one of the big topics right now for companies is the “going green” initiative. Conference calling is a huge benefit for companies that want to go green. There are obvious implications there: they don’t have to travel and contribute to the already polluted environment, let alone spend on plane tickets, etc.

One of the vendors that our company works with is AccuConference. The great thing about AccuConference is that they don’t have any kind of set-up costs; there are no monthly fees either. If you set-up an account with AccuConference and never use it you will not incur any charges at all. And there is also no commitment, they don’t require any long-term contracts, in fact, they don’t require any contracts whatsoever.

David Byrd of AccuConference says: “I talk to clients on a daily basis that asked me: ‘Ok, so what’s the commitment on our end or what’s the contractual agreement. Or I talk to somebody who is locked in to a high rate with a company and they can’t get out of that high rate, even if there are lower rates out there. That’s not fair for the client and we understand that. That’s our business model to be fair. So we don’t ask our clients to contractually commit to us. We keep them committed through superior service, through superior features and through superior product and we’ve been doing that for several years and continue to do so”

There are literally hundreds of features on the audio portion of AccuConference. They have developed features based on customers’ requests. “We are not a bunch of smart guys coming up with this stuff. We let our clients tell us what they need. We are smart enough to listen to them and develop those features”, David Byrd comments. So whatever our client needs, if it has to do with a telephone call even if it doesn’t exactly match conferencing per se they already have a solution built for them. Their pricing is extremely competitive in the market. The big telecom guys that sell audio conferencing offer a rate that goes between 10¢ per minute to 40¢ per minute. The structure that they have is 7.9¢ per minute. Which is an extremely competitive rate for audio conferencing and it also includes web conferencing!

You can’t get web conference service unless your company spends 30 to 40¢ per minute. The counter argument I get from client is: Well, it probably isn’t going to meet our needs since it’s so inexpensive. Byrne’s reply to that is: “I’ll tell you what: Try it out for your next meeting and let me know if it works for you. Our conference product will match any product out there”

The web conference part is so easy to use it takes about five minutes to set it up. And, there are several options. You can show PowerPoint presentations, Excel spread sheets or Microsoft Word documents and edit them right on line through the web conference. It’s like you are in the same room together even though you are in different states or even countries.

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