How to Use Teleconferencing Conference Calls With Your Downline

Teleconferencing is one of the fastest growing ways for an upline consultant to communicate with her downline, whether it be training, kickstart sessions, or party brainstorming. Particularly when consultants are recruiting online and could have consultants throughout US and Canada, teleconferencing can save time by only making the phone call once, rather than multiple times. It also allows your downline to share ideas amongst themselves, conduct brainstorming sessions, and discuss the latest products and offers from your direct sales company.

They also work for training, new product sessions, and even for "new recruit" or "potential recruit" information sessions.

You should always plan your conference call agenda ahead of time, and have it written down infront of you. This will avoid the all to common "oh no, I forgot!" three seconds after you complete the call. If appropriate, you can forward a copy of the agenda to those who will be in attendance.

If it is a downline meeting, coordinate the most convenient time for all those invited, and take time zones into consideration. You might prefer to host your call at 9pm, but if you are on the west coast, midnight will likely be too late for those on the east coast. And ALWAYS state the time with the time zone in either Pacific Standard Time (PST) or Eastern Standard Time (EST) or both. Often, people might not remember if Central Standard Time (CST) is one or two hours ahead of or behind PST or EST. You want to make it as easily as possible for all involved. Of course, if it is a meeting for those just in your state, and all those invited are in CST or Mountain Standard Time (MST) using your own time zone would be appropriate in those cases.

When you are hosting a conference call, it is important to say who you are - even though people know who you are, they might not recognize your voice, even if they have talked with you on previous occassions. It is a courtesy, and will help to avoid callers feeling unsettled because they can't figure out who is speaking.

Always arrive a little early. If your call is set for two o'clock, you should arrive a few minutes early, since no one ever has their clocks set at precisely the same time as anyone else.

If your phone has call waiting service, be sure to turn it off before you commence your conference call. The beeping will be annoying for you (especially if the same caller tries again and again to reach you). And many phones will relay that beep as dead space over the phone, meaning your words will be broken up with a second or two of silence every single time the call waiting beep sounds.

Use a land line for your conference call. While a cordless or cell phone is convenient, the static and interference can be quite annoying to others listening in, so always use a corded phone. If you think you might need to move around during the conference call, have your cordless handy so you can switch easily if you need to, without having your listeners wait while you put the phone down and run to another room for the cordless.

Always have a list of those in attendance in front of you, and any nicknames you might also know them by, that way you can address them properly during the call. You might only know Sue Turner as "mommyof3kids" on the message boards, and you certainly don't want to refer to her as "Mommy of three kids" during the phone call.

When the call is over, be sure to thank everyone for their time and for phoning in.

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