Taking our conversation online led to opportunity, collaboration, and friendship.
My good friend and co-worker Matt Sweet wrote a blog here on Active Rain last January about Vyew.com. We discovered this great web conferencing application back in September of 2008. Since then we use it regularly for meetings of every kind.
We hold marketing meetings and training sessions with our Ticor Reps across Washington and Oregon. We join in virtually for presentations and meetings with clients. It's also a great collaboration tool. Matt and I use it all the time when we're working on a project and are physically in different locations.
After the post, Matt did a few tweets and included one to drive some traffic to his new blog entry. Meri Walker, The Virtual Meeting Coach, happened to see that tweet and followed the link to Matt's blog. Long story short, she was fascinated about why a couple of 'title' guys up in the Pacific Northwest would use this web app and called Matt.
One thing led to another and soon we were collaborating on a 3 part web interview with Meri Walker (theVirtualMeetinCoach), and her friend Tom Carroll (RadioNLP) aka: The Learning Guy. We all had a wonderful time putting these shows together and learned alot from each other. Through this project we shared visions of the future, humanity, technology, and possibility.
Meri Walker, René Fabre
Since then we've realized many more ways to collaborate and have enjoyed numerous other people joining in with us who share their endeavors, their passion, friendship, and business opportunites.
Vyew.com as I see it is a very efficient way to save time and money. As a Realtor, it's a great way to conference with out of town buyers that want a property presentation.
We met with Meri Walker in Ashland, Oregon 10/21/2009. She spent some time coaching our sales and marketing staff about holding virtual meetings. Meri's written a great little book titled, "The Coach's Short List." It's a wonderful tutorial on how to plan and manage successful virtual meetings.
None of this would have happened if Matt had decided not to write his blog about Vyew.com and follow up with a tweet.
Meri Walker interviews with Matt Sweet and René Fabre.
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René Fabre is well known for his innovative marketing programs. He is a sought after speaker and motivator known for his knowledge, keen interest, and insightful approach to contemporary marketing ideas and technologies. His obvious passion for the subject is well known and contagious. He frequently gives workshops and round table conversations on Internet Marketing, Social Media Marketing, and Lead Generation.
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