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How Webcasts can improve your marketing reach and reduce your costs

The globalised internet economy has effectively reduced barriers to markets in all parts of the world. It is now possible to converse with partners, suppliers and customers seven days a week, 24 hours a day with practically no time and distance barriers.

As a result conventional methods are no longer sufficient to reach potential customers. Companies must adapt their marketing methods to include communication tools, such as VOIP, opened up by the Internet.

One very powerfull method of reaching customers and prospects is organising regular Web Events in the form of live online presentations and seminars, also called Webcasts or Webinars.

With the technologies that are now available on the Internet, you are now able to present content in a compelling way by using audio, video, animation and graphics. This cannot be matched in any way by printed materials or a phone call.

The advantages are obvious. In comparison to Trade Shows, locally held Training Workshops and Seminars, a Webcast is set up in a shorter time span, with much less reliance on resources and manpower, resulting in a improved cost effectiveness.

By repeating the Webcast at various dates and times you also allow your prospects and customers to choose a presentation which can better fit their schedules. It will also allow you to reach more potential customers.

A positive side effect, is the use of audio and video recordings to enable you to reach other prospects once the Webcast has been held. By posting the recording on your website, you can further profit from the Webcast. For example, you can use it as an on-demand product to build an opt-in list, improve your customer service or even to generate an additional profit stream.

Now consider the choice you offer your customers and propects. By just comparing having to travel to an event location and waste precious time in traveling, as opposed to attending a Webcast at your own PC, at a time they can choose, the latter choice wins everytime.

This means you are able to reach a targeted audience and interact with a maximum number of people regardless of time zone, location or other restrictions you would have, by traveling or meeting the person face to face. You are able to do this at a fraction of the cost that a normal event would incur.

At Conferentia, we use our VOIP Conference System to host regular Webcasts to show our prospects just how they can use Conferentia to do the same with their own products and services.

We have found that once the Webcast concept is set up, with a little practice, people easily slip into the role of moderator and presenter. Someone who is used to doing live presentations has no problem with the change to using Conferentia.

You can practically take your PowerPoint presentation, generate HTML-files out of it. Put it online and you can use it in your Conferentia VOIP conference room within minutes. You send an e-mail to customers and prospects and can have them attending your Webcast within the first 24 hours. It is easier then you think.

I recommend you visit one of our Webcasts and see for yourself. You will be surprised at the ease of use and I am convinced you will be planning your first Webevent within minutes of being online with us.

Michael Holdcroft is the owner of Conferentia VOIP Conference Systems. He has been in the IT industry in Germany since 1982. He also runs the Crime Online blog.

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Michael Holdcroft is the owner of Conferentia VOIP Conference Systems. He has been in the IT industry in Germany since 1982. He also runs the Crime Online blog.

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Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation

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Public perceptions of mental health issues have changed dramatically over the last fifteen years, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the rampant overmedication of ordinary Americans. In 2006, 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in the United States, more than any other class of medication; in that same year, the United States accounted for 66 percent of the global antidepressant market. In Comfortably Numb, Charles Barber provides a much-needed context for this disturbing phenomenon.

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Customer Review: Not a Mind Numbing Read.....

If you think pharmaceutical companies, drug distributors, pychiatrists, phsychologists, therapists (both real and armchair), and family physicians who urge the widespread use of brain altering medications for their patients are on the right track, this book isn't for you. If, however, you believe that our nation is becoming increasingly over-medicated, especially for mild "psychiatric disorders" that one could easily take care of with proper nutrition, exercise, and therapy, this book is a must read. Barbers' arguement is simple: psychiatric drugs are not necessarily the proper treatment for most patients; in fact, more minor psychiatric "disorders" such as depression, anxiety, etc. should be controlled, if possible, by cognitive behvaior therapy or lifestyle changes. Psychiatric drugs are advertised second only to vehicles on television, and there are more lobbyists for big Pharma than there are member of Congress, according to Barber. Drug Companies hire attractive women to pawn the "latest miracle pill", (regardless of whether or not their college degrees are in medicine), to promote what often ammounts to "feeling good" rather than effectively trying to treat mental illness. Listen People: We are not biologically put together to always "feel good." Human are hard wired at times to feel jealousy, anxiety, selfishness, fear, anger, and yes, even depression. It simply goes with the territory.

While Mr. Barber is extremely respectful of serious mental illness (bi-polar, schizophrenia, personality disorder, etc..), and does state that in some cases psychiatric drugs help considerably, they do NOT necessarily help treat milder patients, and in many patients only create more problems than to begin with. (Such as suicidal thoughts, drug dependency, weight gain/loss, and so on).

Having recently read a staggering article in our local newspaper regarding the ever rising ammount of psychiatric drugs in our waterways, Barber's book is an eye opener. With around ten percent of women in our country on some form of psychiatric drug and around five percent of men and with the numbers increasingly rising, we are in trouble. We are literally intaking mind altering drugs with or without a doctor's prescription. I found it difficult to pour a glass of water after reading this book and will most likely have to resort to calling Culligan just to keep my neurons in order. As the human brain is seemingly infinite and perhaps more complicated than the universe itself, we need to protect ourselves from the onslaught of big Pharma telling us to feel more "happy, well-rounded, thin, pretty, sexually charged" just by popping a pill. Remember, the scientific data surrounding medications for mental health are so insignificant it's laughable. Trust your gut instincts. Hate to tell you, but Prozac isn't going to make you that charming, anyway. After you're comfortably numb you'll still want the English Bulldog, and the new Nordic Trak, and the Volkswagon with Big Ten and Ivy League stickers, only to wake up and realize that you still feel like a loser. Most positive change, (most), comes from within.

A Psychology student in college, I found this book both well-written and insightful. Barber's writing is fluid and informational without bogging itself down in medical terms and rendering itself unreadable to those interested in the topic. Definitely recommended.

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