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Mobility, The Cloud

How an Events Company Reinvented Themselves When Their Industry Came to an Abrupt Halt

Posted on June 1, 2020

When you are a branded merchandise company helping clients to get their brands into their customers’ hands through logoed merchandise at business events, what happens when social distancing forces the entire business world to cancel these events with little warning? That’s the challenge that Shelley Stewart, CEO of Red Promotions, faced when the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world in March 2020.

Mobility, The Cloud

How a Healthcare Company Kept Patient Care Uninterrupted Even While Shifting Their Entire Work Environment

Posted on June 1, 2020

When the COVID-19 pandemic prompted most of the population to shelter in place to prevent risk of transmission, the healthcare industry was faced with significant dilemmas – namely how to maintain the continuity of quality patient care while minimizing the risk of physical contact with patients and between workers.

Intermedia Unite, The Cloud, Voice and Unified Communications

Switch to Cloud-Based Phone Systems and Reap These Benefits

Posted on May 28, 2020

Every business understands the importance of communication. While there are many channels in which to do this, phone systems are still the most vital. Upgrading to cloud-based phone systems can provide your company with substantial benefits.
Contact Center

Tracking Contact Center Performance Without Missing a Beat: How to Monitor KPIs When the Team is Working Remote

Posted on May 26, 2020

Contact center managers regularly monitor their teams to ensure the utmost productivity in delivering fast issue resolution for customers with a friendly, approach. But what happens when the team, who may typically sit in the same office environment, suddenly becomes 100% work from home.

AnyMeeting

Integrate Live Q&As into Your Webinar

Posted on May 21, 2020

Webinars are a powerful tool for connecting with your audience. They offer a platform for sharing ideas, driving discussions, and facilitating audience education. They are also an effective sales tool. According to InsideSales.com, 73 percent of marketing and sales leaders say webinars are one of the best lead generation tools. But, in order to hold your participants’ attention for the full duration, integrating live Q&As into your webinar is key.
Intermedia Unite, Mobility

How UCaaS Enables Greater Employee Mobility

Posted on May 20, 2020

The idea of flexible work has become a competitive advantage in business. This flexibility facilitates employee mobility, supported by technology. Now, it’s likely that most of your workforce must be mobile. That’s due to not only the shift to required remote work but also because work doesn’t happen between 8 and 5 anymore. Further, employees use their mobile devices very often to communicate and collaborate.
Contact Center

Is Your Remote Contact Center Properly Staffed? Learn What Metrics Can Help You Understand Peak Volume

Posted on May 19, 2020

To ensure your remote contact center is able to handle peak volume times, you need to always have the right number of agents ready to answer calls. Adequate staffing is essential for providing callers the best possible customer experience. You also don’t want to make the mistake of overscheduling and wasting resources. So, what metrics should you look at to understand peak call volume?
Mobility, The Cloud, Voice and Unified Communications

Preparing for the New Normal in Business

Posted on May 15, 2020

Drastically increased remote working and the need to ensure flexible and adaptive communications isn’t a temporary COVID-19 problem. It’s the new normal in business. How your organization responds to this new way of collaborating and communicating will determine its future level of success, both directly after the coronavirus and in the long term.
Contact Center, The Cloud, Voice and Unified Communications

Your Phone is Now Your Front Door

Posted on May 13, 2020

For many companies, in as little a few days, business models shifted from tried and true operations to everything happening over the phone. We are all in uncharted ground, where distancing has become the prime directive and in-person interactions are by necessity curtailed. Phone call volume has soared to unprecedented levels, resulting in widespread busy signals, and the demand seems unlikely to abate any time soon.

Intermedia Unite, Mobility

New Study Finds More Than Half of U.S. SMB Owners Believe Working Remotely is Here to Stay Post-Pandemic

Posted on May 12, 2020

Embracing remote work has been a love-hate relationship for many small and medium-sized business (SMB) owners. With new technology allowing workers to work from wherever and whenever more than ever before, employers have had to balance this reality against having the peace of mind that frequently comes from being in the same physical space as your employees. As owners try and adapt to this new tech reality, more and more companies have been adopting a hybrid approach—offering the option for some remote work but not fully committing.
AnyMeeting, Intermedia Unite

How to Manage Live Attendee Chat During Webinars

Posted on April 28, 2020

Webinars are golden opportunities for sharing knowledge and connecting with your audience. They’ve become a vital marketing tool that transforms interested leads into customers. They provide an interactive way to present information and get real-time feedback through live attendee chat. However, it can be a huge task to manage chat during your webinar. You want to engage your attendees and encourage their questions and comments, but you have to keep it under control, ensuring the conversation stays on track.
Intermedia Unite, Mobility, The Cloud

Remote Work Is Here to Stay: What Lies Ahead for Businesses Tomorrow?

Posted on April 14, 2020

The new normal has settled in on the business world. To accommodate for the current environment and public health emergency, workers have shifted to work from home mode. This significant change will forever impact the way people work as companies realize that remote work is productive, cost-effective, and efficient.

AnyMeeting, Security

Best Practices for Safe and Secure Meetings with Intermedia AnyMeeting

Posted on April 10, 2020

Here at Intermedia AnyMeeting, we’re dedicated to providing users with a safe and secure video conferencing experience from their office, home, and anywhere in between. Read this blog to learn how to keep your meetings secure.

AnyMeeting, Intermedia Unite, The Business Cloud

Salespeople Working Remotely: How to Maintain Client Relationships

Posted on April 8, 2020

Remote work has been embraced by many sales departments, as these roles are typically on the go. Now that travel has come to a halt, you may be concerned about how you’re going to maintain client relationships as a salesperson working remotely. Transitioning to a remote sales force can certainly have its challenges. With the right strategy, tools, and technology, you can ensure that you are cultivating connections and continuing to close deals.
AnyMeeting, Mobility

Why Video Conferencing Is More Productive than In-Person Meetings

Posted on April 7, 2020

Whether you’ve been working remotely for years or are transitioning, virtual meetings can encourage better engagement and collaboration. Being in the same room with someone doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll have a fruitful meeting. In fact, there are lots of stats and data that support the idea that video conferencing is more productive than in-person meetings.
Contact Center, The Cloud

How the Second Largest Healthcare Municipality in the U.S. Scaled Their Patient Communications to Battle the COVID-19 Pandemic

Posted on April 2, 2020

Many healthcare institutions are faced with a sudden and dramatic increase in patients without the help of additional resources. They have the same number of doctors and nurses on staff but are now dealing with hundreds of thousands of inquiries due to the pandemic. So how do you streamline your operations to handle this increase, all while enabling remote care teams to provide telehealth services? L.A. County Department of Health Services faced this very scenario and knew they had to scale their contact center fast in order to meet demand.

Mobility, Support

How to Support Customers Virtually

Posted on April 1, 2020

In a changing world that’s forever transformed how we work, you may be worried about how you’ll continue to provide support without a physical contact center. The good news is that technology and contact center software offer you the ability to support customers virtually. For an inside scoop on how to successfully support customers virtually, we’ve gathered some tips from our own customer support leads.

Contact Center, The Business Cloud

Answering the Call: Are Your Healthcare Communications Ready?

Posted on March 30, 2020

The new paradigm isn’t coming – it’s already here. Across North America, caller volume to hospitals, clinics, and health services lines is spiking to record highs. The influx exceeds most estimates, often overwhelming available resources and causing long wait times, unanswered calls, and frustrated patients.

AnyMeeting, Intermedia Unite, Mobility, Voice and Unified Communications

Top 10 Tips for Keeping Virtual Meetings Engaging

Posted on March 26, 2020

If you want to keep your conference call from being the epitome of a meme, then you need to reinvent the way you think about virtual meetings. Online meetings can be interactive and effective with the right technology and strategy. If you want to keep remote meetings engaging and on track, then use these 10 valuable tips.
AnyMeeting, Intermedia Unite, Mobility

How to Look Great on a Video Conference Call

Posted on March 23, 2020

Working remotely doesn’t mean you have to be isolated. That is what’s so great about video conferencing platforms. Face to face communication is now possible without being in the same place. The same connection can be created even if you’re thousands of miles away. While it’s very easy to set up in theory, you always want to look your best and a little prework is needed to do so.
AnyMeeting, Intermedia Unite, Mobility, Voice and Unified Communications

Top 10 Tips for Working at Home Effectively

Posted on March 19, 2020

With recent events, a lot of people are working from home for the very first time. Workers who shift from an office environment to a home set-up quickly realize that the two are not the same and that a few changes are needed to achieve the same level of success had at the office.

Cloud best practices, Intermedia Unite, Mobility, Voice and Unified Communications

The 9 Must-Have Tools for Remote Working

Posted on March 16, 2020

With an unprecedented number of businesses encouraging or mandating personnel to work from home, both business leaders and employees are suddenly faced with the challenge of operating effectively as a distributed workforce. Suddenly there are a lot of questions about what it takes to support remote employees.
Contact Center, Mobility

Should You Remote-Enable Your Contact Center?

Posted on March 13, 2020

Contact centers that embrace the “remote-enable” paradigm aren’t bound by geographic restrictions. Cloud contact centers can have agents not only in different rooms – but in separate buildings, cities, states, or even different countries.

AnyMeeting, Intermedia Unite, Mobility, The Cloud

Remote Work – Be There Without Being There

Posted on March 10, 2020

Even in light of recent travel concerns, businesses have increasingly been looking for opportunities to cut down on the travel of their employees, while at the same time maintaining the level of collaboration and important sense of connectedness that face-to-face meetings can afford. The advent of new, affordable communications solutions – such as cloud-based video conferencing, cloud voice, and file collaboration – over the past several years has helped to user in a new era of the way people work; addressing both the cost and productivity interests of employers, and the ever-increasing desire/expectation of employees to have greater flexibility of where they work.
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Intermedia is a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and business cloud email provider hyper-focused on delivering easy-to-use and secure communication and collaboration solutions to SMBs and the partners that serve them. Intermedia's broad yet tightly integrated suite of cloud applications is managed through one intuitive point of control and is backed by a 99.999% uptime service level agreement (SLA) and J.D. Power-certified 24/7 support. Offerings include cloud voice, web/video/content sharing and conferencing, chat, presence, file backup, sync and share, business email, identity and access management, security, archiving, and more.