David Byrd - Articles

Communication That Saves Time

With more technology come more options, and many more choices. If you want to communicate with someone you can send an instant message, an email, a text, a page, a phone call; even start an audio conference or video conference. If any one of these isn’t enough to do the job alone, start a web conference. It nicely combines the best of most of the above, and does so in an easy and impressive manner. Read

By: David Byrd | 31/07/2009 | Networking

Body Language and Video Conferencing

What kind of information do we give away during a video conference, even if we don’t speak? What can people deduce about us if they simply watch our gestures? Read

By: David Byrd | 20/06/2009 | Networking

5 Ways Audio Conferencing Can Help Sales

The ability to look a person in the eye while they are in another country is invaluable and vastly cheaper than going to meet them in person. But there are other, more subtle ways audio conferencing and webinars can help your business. Read

By: David Byrd | 02/05/2009 | Business Ideas

Meeting for Success

Small, daily meetings are a vital part of doing business, but what about the large company-wide or all-franchise meetings? Do they still make sense in our current economic situation? Read

By: David Byrd | 19/03/2009 | Management

5 Tips for Improving Webinar Attendance

When you host an audio conference call, web conference, or video conference, you are engaging in an interactive dialogue with your participants. This reveals a weak point: if you conduct the best webinar in the world, but without any participants, do you make a sound? Read

By: David Byrd | 10/02/2009 | Networking

5 Tips for Improving Webinar Attendance

It’s when you have a list of leads and a superb webinar to show them that you need to be a bit creative, or at least unique enough to get people to become participants. Here are some suggestions to use emails, registration pages, and eBooks to increase your webinar attendance. Read

By: David Byrd | 24/01/2009 | Networking

6 Ways to Enhance Sales With Video Conferencing

Far from being a gimmick, video conferencing enhances your sales process by allowing you to show your smile to the customer and look them in the eye, even from half a world away. Here are some other ways that video conferencing can enhance your sales. Read

By: David Byrd | 14/01/2009 | Sales

4 Ways Video Conferencing Can Improve Sales

What may work getting a single person to buy a car, will not work getting a small business to purchase a new computer system. The tactics for building a long sales relationship are almost completely opposite those used for a one-time-sale. Read

By: David Byrd | 15/12/2008 | Sales

New Hire Video Conferencing

As an employer, when you really take the time to find and hire the perfect match to a position, your work is only half done. Now you must train the new employee and integrate them into their job and your company. If you fail to do this properly, their work and your business will suffer, no matter how perfect an employee was for the job. Read

By: David Byrd | 10/12/2008 | Networking

Memorable Messages

Even if you are giving a small presentation, you need to have one phrase or word that your audience can take away with them. Not only will they remember the general message, it will make your presentations stand out from other speaker’s and your own. Read

By: David Byrd | 19/11/2008 | Presentation