InstantPresenter now offers a Pro Package for our customers.  The Pro Package is a compilation of all our web conferencing features wrapped together with our seating plans, delivered in a lower price.  We still offer our traditional web conferencing pricing with all of our features individually, but the new Pro Package allows you to have all the paraphernalia necessary to delivering a professional webinar.

Our Pro Package includes Video/Audio/Power Point Presentations, Recording Hosting, Registration, Survey, PayPal Integration, Screen Sharing, etc.  The plans are broken down into the number of seats in a room.  Our plans begin with 5 seats and go all the way to 1000 seats.  Each plan comes with the ability for up-to-6-presenters, Audio and Video broadcasting, polling and instant file uploading during your presentation.  A traditional 15 seat video plan is $39, and to add Recording Hosting and Paypal would put the price over $79/month.  The Pro 15 seat plan costs $59 with no additional cost because all features are included.

If you would like to sign up, upgrade your current plan, or get more information, please contact our sales team at 1-800-706-6762 or through the contact page on our website.

I found this article on www.insidecrm.com written by John Edwards illustrates how Web Conferencing can save your company money and resources during these trying times.  This article reiterates the importance of thrifty and essential business decisions and practices.  Enjoy!

As the recession deepens, businesses are tightening their belts. In these tough times, travel is out and virtual meetings are in. Web conferencing can help businesses reach out to the world while keeping employees working productively at their desks. Here are 10 reasons why your company should embrace Web conferencing now:

1. Spend less on travel. The biggest and most compelling reason for adopting Web conferencing is the ability to slash an array of major travel expenses, including airline, car rental, dining and accommodation costs. The technology also spares companies from lost productivity as employees don’t lose work time moving from place to place.

2. Extend your company’s reach. In today’s challenging business environment, Web conferencing helps organizations work with new customers in global markets to augment sagging local and regional sales. At a relatively modest price, the technology provides a powerful and persuasive sales tool that allows conference participants worldwide to interact; deliver or view presentations; swap documents and files; and perform a variety of other meeting tasks as quickly and effectively as if everyone were sitting in the same room.

3. Increase internal business process efficiency. Web conferencing enables on-site employees to be more productive. Departments ranging from HR to marketing to product development can use the technology to interview jobs candidates, hold sales meetings and interactively collaborate on projects in a fraction of the time it would take to organize an in-person meeting.

4. Encourage brainstorming. New ideas lead to innovations that can help a business prosper in any economic environment. Web conferencing lets any company hold interactive meetings with idea-generating experts in fields such as marketing, technology and finance regardless of their location or availability to travel.

5. Enhance customer satisfaction. With a growing number of companies watching sales nosedive, customer satisfaction and retention is becoming an increasingly important business goal. Web conferencing helps keep customers happy by providing personalized sales, training and technical support — all at the same quality level regardless of the distances involved.

6. Unite geographically dispersed work sites. Employees working at satellite sales offices, remote manufacturing facilities and other off-site locations often feel left out the loop when it comes to participating in mission-critical meetings. Web conferencing has the power to put all stakeholders on equal footing without driving up travel costs or upsetting work routines. Regular Web conferences can lead to a more motivated and productive remote work force.

7. Speed project completion. Discussion and planning are vital to all business projects. Yet important initiatives can drag on without resolution as in-person meetings are scheduled, canceled and rescheduled, and as important participants miss vital sessions due to other commitments. By eliminating scheduling conflicts and enabling participants to replay past meetings and distribute documents at any time, projects can get planned, approved and set into motion faster.

8. Spread important news and information. Web conferences allow businesses to inform sales prospects, train employees and customers, introduce new products to the world and even hold income-generating Webinars without requiring anyone to leave their office. All of these capabilities lead to increased customer satisfaction, better educated employees, a higher company profile and potential new revenue for businesses that are willing to share their knowledge with interested parties.

9. Close deals faster. Web conferences tend to be more productive than in-person meetings, where key stakeholders may be unavailable to render important decisions. Busy managers and executives have fewer reasons to miss a virtual meeting, since the event is literally delivered to their office. This means that agreements can often be finalized on the spot, rather than delaying action until a missing decision-maker finally signs off on the deal.

10. Provide fast IT support. Employees with malfunctioning computers clearly have diminished productivity. Some Web conferencing vendors offer tools that allow IT support experts to remotely access user desktops and fix a wide range of computer problems, including virus infections and misconfigured software, without wasting time traveling from office to office.

Reducing travel is one of the first places businesses look when they need to make cuts in their overhead budget. As the US and global economy tightens amidst a bear market and predictions of a recession, many businesses are cutting back on their travel expenses. However businesses still need to maintain relationships with their customers, suppliers and remote employees and video and web conferencing services are filling this gap. Growth in the web and video conferencing market has been significant in recent years, and is predicted to continue to steadily grow through 2012. While more and more collaboration services enter into the market, competition drives down prices, so while the industry sees growth, the overall revenues may flatten.

When it was first introduced, video conferencing was seen as a neat feature that many companies had for occasional use and as a high-tech novelty. However, video conferencing is becoming an essential business tool for thousands of small to large companies. The video conferencing market is expected to increase from $923 million in 2007 to $1.9 billion in 2012. The largest growth area for the conferencing markets are users of desktop video conferencing. While new technologies such as telepresence are impressive and have a high “wow” factor, most users need a lower priced solution and are willing to have slightly lower video quality in return.

In this tightening market, companies may think twice before spending large sums of money on expensive telepresence solutions. However, vendors and service providers are being smart about how they sell video conferencing and are now offering the tools to demonstrate their return on investment.