Travel Less, Hangout More: Web-Conferencing Programs Offer Ways to Conduct Your Law Firm’s Business Without Added Stress
Frequent travel can pack on extra pounds, stress and the associated health problems. It can also run up your law firm’s expenses – not something that is welcome in today’s economy.
A recent Wall Street Journal article entitled Business Travelers Pack Extra Pounds, Insomnia, Stress stated that frequent travelers who travel extensively for business use are 92 percent more likely to be obese than counterparts who travel less frequently. They also are more likely to have higher diastolic blood pressure and to experience high stress levels, sleep deprivation, sleep disruption or insomnia.
Several years ago, I traveled extensively and experienced all of these symptoms. To make it even worse, I often had to ask other team members to travel with me – increasing the expenses and disrupting schedules. Some of our law firm clients have told me that they had the same experience.
What is the answer?
Planning, exercising and eating properly are helpful. Fortunately, technology has provided additional answers. Products such as Acrobat Connect, GoToMeeting and WebEx will save your lawyers and staff considerable time and money.
We use Acrobat Connect several times per week to connect our offices in North Carolina and Kentucky and our remote employees. We also conduct weekly presentations and meetings with numerous clients and prospective clients. I recently traveled to another state to to meet with a law firm. I flew to the firm’s office and Web-conferenced individuals from our content, design and marketing teams into the presentation. Each of our team members joined me in giving a portion of the presentation. The conference (pictured) proved to be very effective.
To save even more money, Consultwebs.com and our clients have started using Google+’s wonderful Hangout feature. Google+ is free and allows up to 10 individuals to have a Webcam meeting. To see a photo of us using Hangout and to learn more about it, please see our Google+ article.
We hope you find our article helpful. If we can provide additional information, please contact us at marketing@consultwebs.com or 800-872-6590.
