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Prepare for Disasters with Audio Conferencing Services

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

First of all, all of us at Zip Conferencing want to convey to all of our friends in Japan our sympathies over the recent disaster in your country and our thoughts and prayers are with you. It has made all of us think again about how prepared or in many cases unprepared for a similar disaster we are here in the United States. The key to surviving any disaster is preparedness and having audio conferencing services in your disaster kit will help you communicate quickly and effectively. And the fact is that many of us may never experience a disaster on the scale that the Japanese people are going through right now. But having audio conferencing services for even a small disaster will really help you in any situation.

  • Earthquakes – Audio Conferencing Services come in handy in the case of a large natural disaster like an earthquake because you can quickly assemble a team of people and communicate the same message all at once.  If you have a location in the disaster zone and you have prearranged audio conferencing services people would know to call in and you can quickly assess the situation.  Instructions can be given to multiple people at once and discussions can be made on the best course of action.
  • Flooding – Flooding can occur at any time in many places in the country and audio conferencing services allow people to communicate that are unable to get to your office for instance.  Here in New Jersey the recent flooding prevented a customer from getting to their office building.  Audio conferencing services allowed the company to communicate an effective approach to the situation and keep their business going.
  • Storm Damage – Whether it is a large snow storm or wind damage that affects power or worse yet a tornado having audio conferencing services will allow you to meet with a group of people even if your building is without power or you are somehow unable to get to that location.
  • Technical Outages – Even without external damage from weather or other natural disasters having audio conferencing services and a plan to meet with a team ahead of time can shorten a major technical issue affecting your business.  Your technical staff may be scattered across the country or around the globe and audio conferencing services will allow you to meet at a moments notice from anywhere to resolve the issue.

A conference call is convenient because you can meet from any phone anywhere in the world.  Audio conferencing services are also inexpensive in that you do not need an equipment or even pay for anything.  You can simply have an account with Zip Conferencing and use the service whenever you need it.  No need to schedule ahead of time or pay for a service you are not using.  Setting up an account for audio conferencing services is free and you will not be charged for our Pay As You Go service unless you use it.  So get set up with audio conferencing services now just in case you ever need it.

  • Family Emergencies

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Conference Calls for Non-Profits

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Working in the conference call service business as long as I have has exposed me to many businesses and industries.  And all of the businesses I have encountered and used my conference call services have benefited by saving time and money.  One of the areas which really benefits using conference calls to save both is a non-profit company.

Sure, there are non-profit organizations out there that have a lot of money and their CEOs make more money than most of us, but that is not the norm.  Most non-profit orgranizations have a very limited budget and need to squeeze every last penny from their budget in order to make ends meet.  But they also need to have meetings, solicit donations and so forth.  That is where the conference calls come in handy.  In fact, in some cases the non-profit organization doesn’t even have an office to hold an in person meeting if they wanted to.  A conference call is the only way to get their employees or volunteers together.  And it does so less expensively than any other method.

The non-profit organizations need to solicit money from donors and sometime they will hold a seminar for a number of potential donors at the same time.  They find that holding a conference call with multiple donors actually helps their overall success.  Getting their entire team of employees and volunteers on the same page is done more efficiently with a conference call.  And if they are a national organization, the ability to hold regular meetings with a widely dispersed team is easy to do and very cost effective using a conference call. 

The cost of the conference calls is very important to a non-profit organization as they can use the money for other means if they save money.  And being more productive by not travelling to a meeting and doing a conference call instead is also very helpful.  Just like any for profit company, a non-profit can take the money they save by doing conference calls and put it right on their bottom line.

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