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5 ways in less than 5 minutes that show how to save your business money!<br />

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Video meetings are quickly becoming more popular in business. <br />There are a lot of reasons why, and businesses are finally starting to appreciate the benefits. There are five main reasons why videoconferencing is such a great tool for business, so let&apos;s take a look at them.<br /> <br />

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It can reduce the need for business travel <br />One of the more obvious financial benefits of videoconferencing is the reduced need for business travel. Petrol and oil prices are rising rapidly, which is inevitably going to make all forms of travel more expensive. If you have a choice of flying a dozen salespeople into your main head office for training, as an example, or setting up a videoconference, it&apos;s easy to guess which is going to be more cost effective. You can use videoconferencing for training, business meetings, client presentations, interviews, client updates, and so on, all at a fraction of the cost involved in moving people around the country.<br /> <br /> <br />

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You can videoconference from home <br />Broadband access is getting cheaper all the time, and although it&apos;s not essential for videoconferencing, it certainly helps to make it a lot less expensive. Currently, over 85% of businesses use broadband to connect to the internet, and that&apos;s only going to increase in the future. So as most businesses already have the broadband technology available at the workplace, hooking up a videoconference is made much simpler and cheaper. More than 60% of homes now have broadband too, this means you and your employees can easily join a videoconference from home.<br />

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Webcams are becoming more powerful <br />and of a higher standard. You can now pick up an inexpensive webcam and still be able to transmit a picture of a reasonable quality. This is helping videoconferencing become more widely used, as it&apos;s become so much simpler for you to join a group of people together using webcams. Only a few years ago this wouldn’t have been possible, because the quality of webcams was so poor. Now the images are much clearer, which helps make your videoconference a success. Webcams are easy to find, with computer and electronics stores as well as department stores having them available for less than ten pounds right through to hundreds of pounds but very good quality ones are available for less than £100.<br /> <br /> <br />

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Improve the productivity of your business! <br />If you use it correctly, it CAN vastly improve the productivity of your business. Yes, you save money when people don&apos;t need to travel, but also an enormous amount of your time can be saved. Consider the time taken when you drive to the airport, have to go through security, wait for your flight, fly, pick up your baggage at the other end, and drive to a hotel.... half a day or more of productive time is lost. With videoconferencing, as soon as the meeting is over you can get back to work in your office, and not have to spend another half a day travelling.<br />

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Bring the problem to the expert not the expert to the problem! <br />Thanks to videoconferencing, an expert can normally spare an hour of their valuable time to talk to a group of people to discuss the solution to a problem, without disrupting the day extensively. Previously, the expert may have had to put aside half a day to get to and from the meeting, which would make the idea of talking to a group less appealing from the aspects of cost and time availability.<br />

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They were only 5 of many ways videoconferencing can save your business money!<br />

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Let us show you even more ways to save your business money!<br />We will give you your OWN webcam FREE with every confirmed order in December ‘09 and January 2010 <br />

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Here’s how you can contact us now!<br />steve@centralcommunications.co.uk<br />