Keep Your Meetings Despite Travel Hiccups

The recent disruptions in air travel, with planes grounded for inspections and a couple low-cost carriers suspending operations, should remind travelers that having a fall back plan to keep appointments can be pretty easy. While meeting with prospects and customers face-to-face is important, web conferencing provides a way to still keep a meeting when getting on a plane just isn't going to happen. Given how hard it can be to get on some people's schedules, web conferencing also gives travelers a way to connect even if they can't get to their destinations.

March through May usually make for easy flying -- much of the country enjoys reasonably good weather after the winter snows and the coming summer vacation rush has yet to begin. With these current disruptions in mind, this might be the perfect opportunity to perfect web-based training and web-touch sales skills for those planning summer travel for training and sales initiatives. Since summer travel usual involves over-booked flights and thunderstorm-induced airport gridlock, honing web collaboration skills now could pay dividends in the near future.

Michael Caton, Collaboration Evangelist, WebEx