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We are former TV producers and we produce virtual conferences like in-person conferences.
We give your attendees the same experience as going to an in-person conference while saving your company money.
CFOs are going to get a shock in 2023 when they look at the in-person conference budgets from 2022 and 2023 that many of their teams have been using after the pandemic.
When CFOs compare virtual conferences and in-person conferences the numbers don’t make sense.
Here are five reasons why CFOs are considering virtual conferences instead of in-person conferences.
Zoom is still a popular video conferencing platform in 2022 even though many have returned to the physical workspace. According to Zoom from data they collected from November 1, 2021 – October 31, 2022, we may have learned a thing or two in 2021. Let dive into some fun Zoom stats.
As a business owner, entrepreneur, or employee, you can often feel like you are on the hamster wheel of content creation.
There’s always a list of content to write, produce, film, or edit.
But have you ever thought, “There must be a better way?”
We want to share with you an effective technique to creating multipurpose content that can maximize your time and effort.
Taking the time to plan out your next video production project can save you time, effort, and money.
Planning ahead allows you to organize yourself along with your filming and editing team, making sure to capture the look and feel you want in your video.
One of the most critical steps of video production planning is to begin with the end in mind; meaning, what do you want the final production to look like.
The following article and checklist will get you “TV Ready” for your next Zoom conference, meeting, or event!
First we cover nine easy steps to ensure you’re TV ready.
After that, we provide our top recommendations of hardware you want on hand to have a TV-quality Zoom production.
Finding the perfect natural lighting can be a challenge.
After all, you don’t get to decide where your windows are or how the overhead light in your office is positioned.
Although, who ever said that your lighting had to be natural?
Nobody sees your lighting set up through your screen, they just see how well or poorly it reflects off of your face.
We’ve come across a lot of lighting kits and fortunately, we have a few worth recommending.
The number one piece of advice that we can offer you for your home studio is to treat it as an investment.
The more you invest in your home studio, the more you will get out of it, too.
It’s essential to present anything from a 1:1 consult to a webinar with 1,000 guests in a way that conveys professionalism and quality.
The good news is that setting up a home studio with great audio and video tools is not nearly as expensive as it used to be.
Effective presentations all have at least one thing in common, a solid microphone.
Contrary to popular belief and luckily so, you don’t need a $500 microphone to sound professional.
In fact, you can have an unbelievably strong audio presentation with a microphone that costs under $100.
Out of the hundreds of microphones we’ve tested, these three microphones were the most impressive overall.
With Zoom Events, you can take your virtual experiences to the next level.
Whether it’s an important sales meeting, webinar, an internal event, a trade fair, or a corporate summit, Zoom Events has everything you need to successfully plan, organize, and manage a virtual or hybrid event.
In this day and age, everything people do is virtual. Meetings, seminars, conferences, classes, and the like are now happening with just a click away thanks to video conferencing platforms like Zoom. With the rise of the pandemic, virtual events are now trending worldwide. If you host a live event, you probably want to make it virtual. No worries, Zoom got you covered!
Zoom recently held the 'Zoomtopia 2021,' which drew over 33,000 people in this annual user conference. This is their 5th time and it’s getting better every time. Eric S. Yuan, Zoom's CEO, and Oded Gal, the company's Chief Product Officer, presented updates. These updates will enable users to interact globally in the future years. Zoom's team develops innovative methods to work more efficiently, reach and serve customers more effectively, and communicate better throughout the platform.
Organizations had to adapt to the ever-challenging times. Teams realized the need to be closer virtually and learn how to collaborate and communicate in the digital space. This new landscape requires an easy-to-use tool and Zoom provides interactive, feature-filled whiteboarding and annotation.
Finding ways to improve engagement, enhance the experience, and maximizing the available technology can make a big difference in the virtual space.
Zoom has made sure to cover every aspect of providing a unique virtual experience to its users especially with the seamless breakout rooms feature.
Virtually connecting with friends and family during the pandemic is more important than ever. It’s a necessity to have someone to talk to and have fun together with them.
Zoom played a major role in bringing people together through their Zoom meeting platform. These virtual meetings let us connect and bring closer to our loved ones and others were able to reconnect to old friends. It gives us the feeling that we are all in this together and together we can overcome this trial.
Virtual meetings are the new face-to-face, in-person meetings. Zoom is a major part of this digital transformation. Over the course of 19 months, online meetings became the new normal.
This was a way to sustain business operations and to continue client interaction. It was easily accepted as a tool for collaboration and networking.
During these virtual meet-ups, it’s important to consider how you present yourself and how others will see you.
It may not be obvious for the attendees but those meeting hosts, moderators, facilitators, and presenters faced several challenges during these virtual meetups which primarily revolves around engagement among participants.
The good news is, Zoom keeps on finding ways to promote engagement during virtual meetings. A great feature to capture the attention and encourage more participation among attendees is the breakout rooms.
Security is a major component of the Zoom platform. They take it seriously due to incidents of Zoom bombing in the past.
Let me guide you through some settings and tips you need to secure your meetings.
Zoom has great features when it comes to screen sharing including the sharing of sounds and videos. Chances are you are not using it to the fullest. Learning these additional features can bring your virtual meeting and event to the next level.
Participants are now turned between attending virtually or live. Travel restrictions, health, and safety considerations keep people from participating in an in-person event but some are more than eager to attend.
All of these considerations can be addressed by a hybrid event. The Zoom platform can bring them together to a whole new level of experience.
From in-person, location-specific events to limitless virtual events that can tap countless people around the world as long as they have an internet connection, and now the trend is hybrid events. So what are hybrid events?
Hybrid events are a mix of actual in-person participants and virtual attendees.
Is this something you are going to consider in organizing events?
Let me tell you a few of the many reasons why hybrid events are the future.
With the effort of Zoom to provide a complete and wide range of unique virtual experiences to its avid users, they introduced this summer its all-in-one solution called Zoom Events.
Instructors, teachers, coaches, speakers, performers, and other service providers can generate income from the tickets charged for the sessions, webinars, presentations, and performances they offer using the Zoom Meetings and Zoom Webinars.
Most of the time people don’t care to explore and take time to check the features of Zoom as long as they can easily join and start a meeting.
This is going to be exciting whether you are a plain attendee, regularly host a meeting, or are a seasoned presenter. You’ll surely have some fun playing and getting yourself around with these top features of Zoom.
Have someone efficiently manage your virtual events to make them more fun, engaging, and seamless. This is the role of a Zoom Producer. They run the virtual event at the back end.
Maybe, at this point, you are not totally sure if you’re going to need one. Here are some of the many reasons why you should have a Zoom producer in your virtual meetings and webinar.
It is a great idea to record your Zoom meetings and webinars especially if you’re hosting an important event or a training session that you want to use later for marketing purposes. Zoom has a recording feature in which your meeting or webinar is saved in the cloud or local device.
Today we are going to show you Zoom’s native recording and our 4K recording sessions.
Whether you are using Zoom Meetings and Virtual Conferencing tools for one client, external shareholders, or a big internal sales team, you need to make them engaging. The technologies used for remote work have exploded in popularity and that means there’s room for mistakes too.
Here are a few of those mishaps that you’ll want to avoid:
The pandemic may have forced you to take your conference virtual. If you are an individual or business that’s needed to pivot from a physical event to some kind of online digital form, these best practices can help:
With more employees working from their homes and more meetings online, getting virtual conferencing setup and etiquette right is more important than ever.
Here are a few ideas that will make any conference both memorable and professional: