Telepresence Opportunities for Your Business

More business is being conducted across the country and overseas, as our technology allows for more networking opportunities. In gaining new clients and business partners, you can either create a telepresence or get more travel responsibility. Taking part in an important meeting to make critical decisions is something you can’t miss. Yet, when the budget belt is being tightened, work trips are suddenly on the chopping block.

Modern technology gave you the opportunity to build up a global business and it’s the same technology that can also help you conduct that business, face to face, from your own office. Creating a telepresence, which allows you to carry out web conferencing, can put you in the position to be completely involved without stepping foot on a plane.

Benefits

· Less money spent on travelling, risking travel delays and expensive accidents.

· More time to get work done, eliminating hours of travel time.

· Less time away from home, family and the office.

· More time to interact with important clients who may be a plane ride away.

Downsides

While having a telepresence suite would certainly cut unnecessary expenses, it can be expensive to set up and maintain in itself. It is widely debated whether the savings are worth the costs you’ll end up with.

· It is necessary to purchase the high end equipment in order to have functional meetings. Less than HD quality monitors won’t be worth using. Any lag time in the connection will disrupt the rest of the meeting.

· You may need to up your current bandwidth, as teleconferences use much of your internet’s power, especially for longer meetings.

Possible Interactions

Establishing your Telepresence makes room for many possibilities within the company. Once the suite has been created, you can find value in a number of ways.

· Working with business partners, suppliers, and clients.

· Hiring and training potential employees.

· Conducting large companywide conferences.

· Recognizing hardworking employees who may be in another country.

How to Start

There are various components in getting this process off the ground. It’s an effort that both you and your business partners or clients will need to invest in.

· You need to find a service that fits your needs: price, available features, extras, continued technical support and set up.

· If the service does not provide the monitors you’ll need to have your conferences. It can be expensive, but it’s important to remember the money you will be saving in the end.

· If having large meetings, you’ll need a conference space that can be your telepresence suite.

Once the suite is set up, you open your business up to many more networking possibilities. When considering working with another company, you can have preliminary introductory meetings. This eliminates the need to spend valuable time and money on expensive flights, delays and hotels for a quick introduction.

As with all technology, telepresence is slowly growing into an affordable, widely used way to connect with business partners, clients, employees and companies across the globe. For a company who simply wants to cut out unproductive time spent travelling, but has a significant budget, this will be a valuable substitute. For those looking into savings, it might not be the ideal option. With this technology, going with the cheaper end of equipment and service would end up being a waste of money.