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How to use Microsoft Office Live Meeting tools to create meaningful data
If you are holding webinars or office meetings online (or plan to), Office Live Meeting Standard or Professional Edition from Microsoft Online Services can provide the help tools to collaborate and improve productivity. But once you get the attendees to come to the meeting, why not make the most of your audience while providing an interactive online meeting experience? Using Live Meeting polls it is possible to get live feedback from meeting attendees while gaining meaningful data that can improve business.
Holding meetings with colleagues can cut travel expenses and decrease the amount of time it takes to share and collaborate on key information and projects. For meetings that involve the entire corporation, there can be considerable benefit to gaining insight on ideas and input from each member. Businesses have the option to not reveal the poll data, but instead simply request everyone's vote if the topic is sensitive.
What makes poll data in particular useful when it involves the whole company is that it allows everyone to offer their input on something that might otherwise remain in the hands of only a few. An example poll that might be effective when everyone on the sales team is available is to find out which incentives are working best to keep customers: new products, coupons, free gifts, etc. Based on this information, new polls can be made on the fly to delve further into the insight of the team as a whole, providing new selling tools and ideas for others.
Another team that could benefit is the development team. If there are multiple developers that are working on the same code, but finding issues with versions or errors, they can contribute to the meeting ideas on how to improve the situation (such as new versioning software) and then create a live poll to gain a consensus on what is the best action to take.
Using Office Live Meeting amongst colleagues can provide a significant amount of insight and promote the spreading of ideas on how to continually improve business.
Customers do not always have the time or the patience to communicate with cold calls or e-mails. The best way to engage customers is to present your products or services in a way that provides information to them in a format which is less invasive. Creating webinars that offer advice, best practices, or improvements on a topic related to your product or service through a live webinar or online seminar can draw crowds while gauging customer interest.
Webinars can also be geared toward specific audiences, making the polls more ideal for obtaining demographic information. For example, if you offer services related to publishing and copyright, you can create a webinar on tips for marketing or creating a manuscript. You can gain valuable feedback through finding out what prices they would be willing to pay, how long they expect to wait for their book to publish, how many books they have already published, and other useful data from polls.
Polls also provide a unique interactive experience for users, letting them actively participate in the meeting presentation while providing input.
Live Meeting Standard and Professional Edition offer these meeting resources for low monthly subscription cost of $4.50 per user per month for Standard and $16 per user per month for Professional. Each "user" is a meeting presenter and is able to create a meeting for up to 250 attendees in Standard and up to 1,250 meetings in the Professional Edition Meeting attendees are free of charge for both Standard and Professional Editions. |