What are the benefits of conducting an online meeting?
no travel time, so less wasted time as one or more parties have to travel to and from the meeting point. depending on you comms costs can be cheaper, no need to provide additional facilities including computer facilities, catering etc, no need to book special rooms there are possible benefits in terms of pretend ‘green’ policies (ie reduced carbon cost), however if the call is about sales not clisng the sale can cost the company far more than the notional carbon cost the meeting can be unobtrusively recorded and used at a later date for legal or other contractual purposes compared to a telephone you can see peoples reactions, humans are visual creatures, you can pick up a lot more information if you see the person as well as hear the person (you can spot their body language). You have a better impression of the person, they can often have a ‘telephone’ voice which may distract or mislead the other. the downside is that unlike a face to face meeting the customer cannot actually touch th
