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 The BPOS suite of services offers multiple ways for businesses to cut costs and increase revenue. One way to not only cut costs and increase revenue but to obtain a new way to sell your services is through Live Meeting Standard (see also Live Meeting Professional Edition for Enterprise Customers).
Live Meeting standard has many of the online conferencing features that organizations need to stay productive while communicating with a dispersed workforce. Using the “Meet Now” feature, meetings between colleagues can be created on the fly with unique meeting codes and security. Office Live Meeting 2007 offers rich user-friendly tools that allows businesses to see results in improved organization communication and collaboration.
Uniting the workforce through improving collaboration and communication with Live Meeting can significantly save organizations time and money from travel expenses and lack of knowledge to key information. On top of cutting costs, Live meeting can serve as a way to increase traffic and customers to your website through promotion webinars about your business’ products or services. 1) Up to 250 meeting attendees with anywhere access to the meeting can train, collaborate, and share important information in a timely, organized manner. 2) Meetings can be stored online up to 90 days for reference and also saved on a local drive for future reference. 3) Interactive tools such as polls, desktop and program sharing, whiteboards, chat features, and more allow businesses to engage customers and employees during Live Meeting sessions. 4) “Meet Now” or “Scheduled Meetings” are both available, allowing businesses to have controlled weekly meeting times or on-the-fly presentations. 5) It is a cost-effective solution that cuts the costs associated with travel for training and meetings. Microsoft Online Services Live Meeting Standard is only $4.50 per user per month, with each user able to invite up 250 attendees to a Live Meeting Session.
Online services businesses should weigh in with Office Live Meeting Standard
 Office Communications Server and Office Communicator R2
The Office Communicator R2 is a free tool that is used in conjunction with the Office Communications Server. The R2 allows users the ability to “Meet Now” and share desktop or other presentation material to colleagues and clients, while offering presence and unified communications technology. While the Office Communicator R2 is not as ideal for companies that would like to use Live Meeting for training and other more collaborative purposes, it does provide some similar functionality through its unified communications technology.  Office Live Meeting Professional Edition
For mid-size to enterprise customers (or even in many cases small business owners), Office Live Meeting Professional Edition is an ideal and inexpensive tool that allows businesses to engage larger audiences and train an expansive workforce. Live Meeting Profession is ideal for businesses with the following needs: 1) Large numbers of dispersed sales teams, development or other colleagues that need training or meetings to stay in-the-know to key organization information. 2) Businesses that wish to engage as many as 1,250 attendees at a time for webinars, sales presentations, or product tutorials. 3) Ability to create events that require registration with custom question and answer fields with automated calendar invitations via Outlook, with the choice for automatic or manual registration approval. 4) Easily export customer data from webinars into Excel to upload to CRM database. 5) Robust meeting and event tools that allow for powerful user engagements.
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