Conference call services allow you to reach out to more people across boundaries. It not only saves time but also saves your money.




Conference Call Services - Various Types and Ways to Select One

Conference call services can be one of the cost effective way to establish a communication. Establishing contact with more than two people simultaneously, irrespective of the geographical location at anytime, has made conference calling one of the most sought after communication solutions. It not only saves time but also money (spent on traveling, accommodation, establishing multiple meetings and many more). Moreover, it is very important to select the right kind of conferencing services from the numerous service providers in the market. Thus, the different types of conferencing services available and those who are familiar with would be compliant with your requirements.

Various Conference Call Services

Conference calling started with phone conferencing, where a speaker could call up more than one listener. However, with the advent of technology and internet, conferencing has upgraded to various formats.

Phone conferencing

In a meeting if there is no need for any kind of visual interaction phone then conferencing is the best and cheapest solution. Most phone conferencing vendors offering this facility lets their clients to pay in accordance with the usage. There are two kinds of services available, broadcast and question & answer conference. In case of broadcast conference, the listeners can only listen to the speaker with no interaction. While question and answer service allows the participants to interact.

Video conferencing

In this service more than two people communicate from different locations via audio and video through two-way transmissions. It is also known as video teleconferencing. For data transmission internet is utilized.

Web conferencing

In this conferencing facility, one can conduct various kinds of meetings (ranging from presentations, online training sessions, online seminars or webinar) live shows and play recorded videos. In this mode of application each one of the participants can interact with anyone present in the session. Various tools and software are available to enhance and equip people to undertake these conference call services. The attendees of the conference are sent an email containing the link with which they can access the conference session.

How to select the service?

Since there are so many options available on conference call services, here are few ways how you can select the ones that would suit your needs.

Audio or Visual

Audio conferences are easier and less expensive, while visuals often pose hindrance with streaming of the videos, slow chat sessions and many more. However, video conferencing lets the client and other attendees to put forth a point or a data in a more comprehensive way.

Billing

Flat rate plan - a sum of money is asked from the clients irrespective of the duration or the number of people joining the conference.

Another one is based on number of people joining the conference. The vendor charges according to that.
Time plan is based on the duration of the conference; the client is billed on per minute basis.

Reservation or non-reservation

If you hold regular conference at a specific time with large number of people, it is always advisable to have reservation conferencing. For this you need to have a planned conference, where the operator will help you as well as the attendees. While in non-reservation conference you have your freedom.

Free conferencing

There are many online services that allow free conferencing. However, when faced with problems there are no operators to help in the conference.

One just needs to conduct a research and select conference call services to save the money while benefiting from it.

Hope Dever is currently associated with a renouned online conference call services provider. His knowledge would help people to select a conference calling service.

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