As part of a special promotion, Encounter Collaborative is offering unlimited toll conference calling for up to 15 attendees at a flat rate of just $40 a month with an annual contract. Plus, you pay only 2.5 cents per minute for toll-free conference calls.

The service is called Flat Rate Express Audio. And because it's reservationless conference calling, there's no need to schedule your calls in advance. With Flat Rate Express Audio, each user is assigned an individual toll-free number with a PIN number for the presenter and one for participants. Presenters simply dial the toll-free number and enter their PIN to activate the teleconference call. Participants use their PIN to join the call.

If the bulk of your conference calling occurs in the evening hours, then take advantage of Express Audio P.M. A flat monthly rate of $20 a month with an annual contract gives you unlimited toll conference calling for up to 15 attendees when you call between the hours of 3:00 p.m. - 3:00 a.m. Pacific time. And for toll-free conference calling, you pay just 4.0 cents per minute per participant.

With Flat Rate Express Audio and Express Audio P.M. you also get:

• 24/7 availability. Call anytime, day or night. There's no extra charge
• No set up fees, no minute requirements and no limit on the number of calls you make
• Integrated dial-out capability if you're using Live Meeting web conferencing software.
• Free ShareItNow web conferencing for up to 15 attendees.

Feel free to call us at 1.800.290.5900 to learn more about Flat Rate Express Audio.

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Enhanced Audio

Encounter customers currently using Broadcast Audio now have the option of greatly enhancing the sound quality of their conference calls by upgrading to Enhanced Audio.

Enhanced Audio's volume control automatically increases the volume of soft voices and decreases the volume of very loud voices. So whether speakers use a handset, headset, speakerphone or cell phone, listeners will get clear and uniform volume throughout the conference.

Sometimes what's going on in the background of a speaker's call can intrude on your conference, making it hard to hear or understand what's being said. Enhanced Audio can minimize or remove some background noises without diminishing the speaker's voice.

With Enchanced Audio there's nothing extra for the presenter to do or worry about. Once you upgrade your account to Enhanced Audio, studio quality sound is automatic and immediate. You and your attendees can start hearing the difference on your very next conference call.

If you currently use Broadcast Audio for your conferences and would like to learn more about Enhanced Audio, call us at 1.800.290.5900.

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Creating New Sales Without Cold Calling

November 02, 2005

Nicholas "Coach Nick" Papadopoulos believes that the "best sales-people never make cold-calls." In this dynamic presentation, Coach Nick will provide you with innovative ideas to market and promote yourself within your industry and field, without you ever having to make another cold call again

By learning new networking and presentation techniques, you'll be able to generate new sales opportunities that you previously thought were impossible. You'll also learn to effectively organize the value proposition you offer your existing contacts in order to successfully receive new referrals, without even asking for them.

In this seminar, you will explore the four cornerstones essential to creating value for your sales career. Attend this seminar and you will learn how to:

• Create new sales opportunities based on the value that you offer and provide your existing contacts
• Develop effective ways to "stand out" at networking events in order to enhance your competitive edge and image in your specific marketplace
• Leverage existing contacts in order to turn them into advocates so they voluntarily introduce you to new contacts and companies
• Solicit referrals so that you never have to cold-call again  

Each area can contribute significantly to creating outstanding business results and increase the impact of your performance. Come to this seminar prepared to think, learn and explore your sales and contact alternatives. Leave with fresh ideas for increasing new business results for your company, yourself and your entire team. Packed with thought-provoking sales strategies, you'll take away ideas that you'll be able to implement immediately.

About our speaker:

Nicholas "Coach Nick" Papadopolous is Founder and Chief Sales Officer of Sky's The Limit, a consultancy that helps sales professionals and sales organizations to develop their sales plan in order to drive higher revenues. Coach Nick conducts individual sales coaching and team training workshops that focus around managing others, goal-setting, negotiation and communication techniques, account management, strategic selling strategies, presentation and closing techniques.

Prior to founding Sky's The Limit, Coach Nick was responsible for the management of several large national sales forces. Most recently, he was Vice President of Sales for e-Media, where he was responsible for growing and managing the national sales force. eMedia was acquired due in part to its strong sales performance. Prior to e-Media, Coach Nick served as Vice President of Sales for Raindance Communications (formerly Evoke Communications), a publicly communications service provider. He was responsible for overall sales performance and oversaw a staff of more than 275 sales professionals.

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Predicting and Preempting the Corporate Heart Attack

November 16, 2005

Did you know that a 20% decline in the operating dynamic of a company leads to a 40% decline in profits?

Long before a crisis hits, and long before trouble shows up in financial statements or key performance indicators, the signs of trouble are there. The good news is that early on these signs can be identified, they can be quantified and they can be transformed. What are the results from early detection? The bottom line is restored and growth is renewed.

In this environment of intensifying global competition and increasing interest rates, senior executives know:

• How easily and silently their companies can slip into decline
• How urgent "proactive adaptation" has become
• That waiting to take action is never the right thing to do and seldom truly successful
• Early diagnosis is crucial  
• Preemptive action is what is needed
• That preparedness for significant growth begins in the operating dynamic of the company

Recently, detection of the earliest stages of trouble – or health – of a company was neither feasible nor possible. However, developments over the last few years make early identification of corporate trajectory – growth or decline – both possible and easy. Attend this webinar and learn:

• The full spectrum of the corporate decline process
• How to identify the three signs of decline - hidden, subtle and overt
• When to use the measures (Financial, KPI, performance driver)
• The key measures of the hidden phase of decline
• What the full corporate decline curve looks like

About our speaker:

Tom FitzGerald is a bottom-line oriented, business catalyst, and consulting management engineer. Specializing in performance prediction, corporate renewal, and pre-emptive turnaround and effecting major and sustained improvements in profitability, performance and growth. Tom has worked with CEOs, COOs and managing officers of more than 200 organizations in the US, Canada and Europe ranging in size from start-up to Fortune 500.

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Reader'sResource

Fire in the Corporate Belly
by Tom FitzGerald

Our guest speaker, Tom FitzGerald, is a regular contributor to national and international business magazines like American Banker, CEO Refresher, Corporate Finance Review, The Journal of The Turnaround Management Association, Association Management, The Forum and others. His book Fire in the Corporate Belly received one of the Best Books of the Year designation from the CEO Refresher (2004). The following is the book preface:

Quite simply, this book is about corporate results. It is about significantly enlarging profits, about improving performance, about increasing competitiveness. And doing so quickly. It is about Turnaround. Not late-stage or work-out, but Preemptive and Early Decline Turnaround when the resources of companies are still substantial and credit still available. It is about changing the innate trajectory of organizations—that part of corporate performance that is independent of the economy or the competition—long before financial crises hit. And it is about Corporate Renewal, about creating new beginnings.

You can read more about Mr. FitzGerald's book at his website, managementconsultants.com.