Sign Up for Free Conference Calling

You may have a conference calling feature on your current phone system, but often the sound quality seems to diminish with every person that joins in.  Further, it is just difficult to do and embarassing when things go wrong.  Why not at least sign up for a free conference calling service.

There are plenty out there, but based on recommendations for other contacts, we have signed up for an account at www.freeconferencecall.com.  When you sign up, you are given your own host conference call phone number and host access number and participant access number.  Pretty simple, just notify everyone involved of the meeting and provide them with the call in and access numbers.  Give this information to everyone in your firm and now it is quick and simple to be the host of conference calls.

In addition to the basic conference call as described above, there are many other great reatures that most conference call services.  Here are a few that www.freeconferencecall.com provides:

• Conference call recording
• Conference call playback through an access number provided, including fast forward, rewind and pause
• Mute
• Count – gives a current count of the number of participants
• Listen mode – host controlled muting of participants

My only gripe about the service is that your account is only valid for 120 days.  So, every three months you have to sign up for a new account and distribute the information to your staff.  But other than that, I think having a conference call access number is a convenient service that projects a professional/technical image to your clients and coleagues.

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