The New Year - A New Way To Connect

Ahhh, it’s that time again. New Year’s brings on New Year’s resolutions. So it’s time to clean the slate and get ready for the new you. But resolutions are daunting and hard to maintain. Well, 6Connex has one that’s easy and all you need to get started is your smartphone, tablet, or laptop. Its virtual events is all the rage when it comes to learning, sharing information, maintaining branding, and connecting.

Easter Eggs for Christmas, now that would be a surprise. And every now and again we get a request from a client to surprise their Virtual Audience.

When you hear the words “Town Hall”, you may think of a space that is dedicated for local citizens to discuss and vote on issues of importance to their communities. In the physical sense, Town Halls are typically used for meetings, community events, recreational activities, and even minor offenses court. If the town has representative government, the town council will meet in the building. Other officials may be located there as well.

If you work in a large enterprise, you know how hard it can be to engage the right supplier for just about anything – from a design agency who understands your brand to an approved recruiter for your line of business.  If you happen to be in procurement, you know how tough it can be to manage a process that keeps both vendors and internal stakeholders on point.

While it’s possible to invite select suppliers to meet with specific internal teams, it’s quite challenging to provide broad access that keeps everyone informed.  And it’s often hard to create a central directory that’s both easy to access and easy to navigate.

The Dodo was a flightless bird living on the island of Mauritius, but is long extinct. In this blog post we are reviewing why a particular Virtual Event Platform never took off (much like the Dodo)…

Digital Dodo – Second Life for Businesses

Second Life was a once-hailed platform where businesses would conduct meeting and meet their stakeholders. Large blue-ship companies spent large budgets on building campus, meeting places and holding meetings inside the 3D world.

An association’s ability to thrive is dependent on the community it creates. Any organization knows that advertising key events and providing members with supreme content, is worth its weight in gold. So wouldn’t it be great to be able to reach the most influential group of industry leaders and decision-makers and share important information with those members without having to invest an extraordinary amount of money in travel costs? Virtual Event solutions provide just that – an online destination for association members to connect with industry experts. In addition, they receive training while association executives spread awareness about their organization and gain potential sponsorships.

Any event planner knows that foot traffic is the big draw when it comes to physical trade shows, conferences and other similar events. But are the attendees that show up at these events really connecting with your company? There’s a lot of valuable time, effort and potential cost put into motion when it comes to creating a memorable event, whether it’s a physical or a virtual one. With technology being so readily available and portable, companies are finding it hard to quantify the costs of coordinating a physical environment and users are reaping the benefits of not having to travel or lose valuable work time. So the question is – How is an online user’s experience different than that of a physical event attendee? And does one produce better results than the other?

With travel becoming more expensive and less convenient than ever and technology becoming more savvy, companies are using virtual destinations to create intricate corporate events that mirror live hosted ones. Sales Kick Offs in particular, are becoming more streamlined into virtual events. There are many advantages to choosing a virtual SKO over a physical one. Cost and effortless collaboration and communication are just a few that come to mind. Delivering, maintaining, and extracting valuable information that your sales team can easily retrieve is icing on the cake. 6Connex can make any configuration of your virtual sales conference happen by offering all of this and more through a 100-percent cloud virtual environment platform and the support of its passionate team.

If your company’s fiscal year starts January 1, it’s a good bet your sales team is under the gun to close out the year strong.  At the same time, sales leadership is already thinking about how to kick off 2015 with a bang, with sales training, goal-setting and lots of team building – very likely with a Sales Kick Off.

The traditional Sales Kick Off (SKO) is an in-person affair.  If you know salespeople, you know there’s no replacement for connecting face-to-face, sitting down and sharing a drink with colleagues.  While we couldn’t agree more, we also know adding a virtual component to your SKO (a Virtual SKO) will allow you to be more inclusive to your organization while ensuring your content lives long after your reps leave Las Vegas.