Top 10 Conferencing tools for Small and Medium Businesses

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Are you one of such professionals who have to travel a thousand miles for demonstrating presentations? Are you the one having a small or medium business and trying to reach out more clients, no matter what their location is? If yes, then technology has brought a revolutionized way to meet people. Now you don’t need to imagine and think about ‘is it possible?’. VoIP and web conference are the solution for your difficulties and there is a huge list of such software tools that help you to meet online from anywhere.

‘Time is money’ and ‘Customer is king’ are thumb rules primarily for small and medium sized business. Thus, conference tools are based on your business demands and the end user’s convenience. The tools save your time and travel cost. You can schedule a meeting, add a presentation, use visuals and animation, share files as well as your desktop screen and interact face to face and much more. Such tools boast technically best features to make the meetings more productive and an outstanding experience. Certainly, the way you do conference within a team or with clients increases efficiency.

Besides all benefits, a conference can be used for training a new employee and remote support to end customers. You can record a meeting and use it for multipurpose.

Which conferencing tool would be the best for your business? The question is simple, but to answer is tough since many software’s are available in the competitive environment. It depends on specific demands of your business that which would be the best. However, the tools are categorized on the basis of some key features such as user’s capacity, audio and video quality, recording, screen sharing, collaboration, mobility support, and security. Pricing is taken into account for analysis, too.

Product	Details
	GoToMeeting is a web conference service provided by Citrix. It is so professional and simple to use that any business can work with it seamlessly. A free trial is for 30 days thereafter one will not even think about switching. Decent service!
	WebEX provides more users capacity to collaborate with each other and to induce meetings more productive. The service is available on mobile also.
	Skype is well-known and most popular service integrated with Microsoft apps. The service is cool when set up the conference. Paid version is suitable for business use
	Adobe Connect is a web-based service better suited for small business. Its stand out features are commendable and services are reliable. One can give a try for 30 days free of cost.
	Fuze meeting is widely used service in business class. HD video streaming and VoIP are catchy features. Free trial available for 30 days for up to 3 participants.
	Google Hangout is tightly integrated with Google apps. It allows users to make a voice call, video call and instant messaging. Free to use, but no desktop sharing and collaboration.
	AnyMeeting is the best conference service for business class for its built-in VoIP and presentation sharing capabilities. The service seems very fast and strongly integrated with other apps.
	TeamViewer provides better exposure to users for remote support and online meetings. It allows up to 25 users simultaneously work on projects. It offers great usability and availability on mobile.
	ClickMeeting has all the must-have features for a conference as a convenience for all sized business. It’s been used by various enterprises. The drawback is it does not provide mobile support.
	Mikogo is the web-based conferencing service tailored to meet business presentation requirements. The service is very fast and easy to use.