Feb 12
| In this time of credit crunch a lot of companies are trying to cut their costs which is completely understandable. A major source of out goings can be travel costs. Most companies have travelling salesmen, guys who move around from place to place for a one hour or two hour meeting, which basically consists of a short conversation and a demonstration of the software they are trying to sell (obviously I am only talking IT salesmen here). With that in mind one of the most obvious ways to cut the travel costs is to look into doing online demos of the software linked with video conferencing. That way your sales guy can sit in the office and hold demos one after the other, not only cutting travel but also increasing the number of demos possible in one day. |
| There are quite a few payed for offerings out there that allow you to share you screen with multiple people over the web, take for instance Cisco’s WebEx. But if you are like me and don’t want to pay for it there are quite a few open source/free alternatives available if you do a little digging. With this in mind I thought I would look at some of the examples I have found: |
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