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Digital Nomad 101: Your Guide to Working Outside the Office

Greetings from Thailand! Over the past two weeks I’ve discovered firsthand why Thailand is the object of so many culture buffs and resort seekers affection. The country’s natural beauty, low cost of living, unbelievable cuisine and welcoming locals make for a soft place to land for any traveler, but what about those in search for [...]

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Is Your Workspace Set Up for Virtual Meeting Success?

Your physical working environment sets the tone for virtual meetings. Are you making that first online impression count? In this blog I’ll share 7 ways savvy sales reps can use their physical environment to improve online meeting performance. Over 70% of industry average organizations don’t maximized their use of video conferencing technology, according to Aberdeen. [...]

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Collaborating Gives Rise to Pioneers like John Glenn – Celebrating a Historic Flight

On the morning of February 20th, 1962, millions of Americans collectively sat on the edge of their seats in anticipation of one man’s exploration into the great unknown. Within a tiny cramped space capsule that was as aesthetically pleasing as a garbage can, astronaut John Glenn embarked on a journey to renew America’s national morale [...]

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Where is the Love in Your Office? Find the Answers in the PGi February Newsletter!

Where is the love in your office! In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we help you transform your cubicle, train station or coffee shop into a workplace to love with these handy dandy advice and tips, including cubicle decorations, the best technology for your workstyle and the etiquette of coworking spaces. Also this month: Must-have [...]

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PGi is a Proud Sponsor of Bert’s Big Adventure

PGi was delighted to attend this year’s 10th year Anniversary send-off celebration for the amazing kids of Bert’s Big Adventure. Each year, Bert’s Big Adventure provides a spectacular five-day journey to Walt Disney World where children with chronic or terminal illnesses can connect with others facing similar issues, experience events that otherwise could not be [...]

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PGi Awarded Frost & Sullivan’s 2011 Product Line Strategy Award

We are proud to announce that Frost & Sullivan, a global leader in research and analysis, has recognized PGi as their 2011 Product Line Strategy Award winners. This prestigious award recognizes PGi’s accomplishments in delivering industry-leading products and solutions that advance videoconferencing software as a service. iMeet and GlobalMeet were designed with the user in [...]

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Give Yourself a Gift for Valentine’s Day: Love Your Office, Wherever it is

The Work from Anywhere revolution is upon us, with an estimated one-in-five workers telecommuting across the world. With cloud technology, mobile devices and virtual business applications, workers and employers are seeing the benefits of flexible work arrangements, including reduced costs, improved worklife balance and a healthier planet. Today’s new business environment has digital nomads traipsing across the globe, teleworkers in pajamas and [...]

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Get your customers to love you

We all want our customers to love us. But here’s a question for you: How can you love someone you have never meet or seen? If you really want your customers to say and mean they love you, you need to let them see you. That means getting face-to-face. Ditch the cold call. Turn on [...]

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Digital Nomad Tip #27 – Go Mobile or Go Home

2011 Was a good year for the mobile phone. Coldwell Banker went so far as to name 2011, “the year of mobile” in their recent whitepaper, The State of Mobile, Last year, the compact little guys made their way into the hearts (and pockets) of nearly three quarters of the world’s population leading to a tipping point [...]

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GlobalMeet Web Conferencing Makes Online Meetings Simple

Web conferencing is so much easier with GlobalMeet web meetings. Check out PGi‘s new video, showing how GlobalMeet innovates web conference call technology with: Effortless screen share Seamless audio integration Amazing mobile app No guest downloads Webcam video and more!

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The Power of Collaborative Mobile Notes

Have you ever accidentally spaced out during a meeting and missed hearing an important decision or action item? Or returned to your desk only to find that the notes that you took really don’t make a lot of sense? If so, you are not alone. Most of us have sat through a meeting either thinking [...]

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Welcome to the PGi Universe

Simple. Personal. Mobile. This is the story of how one company forever changed the world’s meetings.

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Overcome sales objections better with video

In today’s busy world it’s harder and harder to get time with prospects. Decision-makers are more difficult to reach. The sheer volume of options on the Internet has killed the sales pitch. Unfortunately, when you finally connect with prospects on phone or email, it’s hard to gauge their true reactions and respond appropriately. A face-to-face [...]

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Digital Nomad Tip #26: Is Your Team Teleworker-Friendly?

Greetings from Singapore! Today I find myself in one of the world’s smallest but strongest countries in our global economy. Singapore has been a welcomed stop on my yearlong journey to PGi’s EMEA and APAC offices. Nowhere on earth can you find a higher concentration of 5-star shopping, gourmet street food, or award-winning gardens. Since we [...]

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Super Bowl 2012 Commercials Rival iMeet’s Caesar-inspired World’s Greatest Meetings Success

For many of us, the Super Bowl commercials are almost as good as the Sunday game every year. In honor of Super Bowl 2012 and the New York Giants vs. the New England Patriots frenzy, here’s iMeet’s most popular commercial, which garnered over 900,000 YouTube views since Super Bowl XLV — all thanks to Brutus, [...]

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Virtual Jury Duty? I wish! Video Conferencing in the Courtroom

This week I received my first summons for jury duty, a rite of passage for this Millennial. While a mandatory excuse from work might appeal to some, forced time off to sit in court isn’t exactly what I would call an enjoyable break from a job I actually do enjoy. However, if I could serve [...]

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Don’t Let Your Call Get Hijacked: Follow These Stay Safe Tips for Conference Security

Ever since I was a college student interning at PGi, security has been a really big deal. Before my interview, I signed confidentiality forms in the unlikely event that I would overhear client information while walking by our Operators on calls. Of course I didn’t hear anything, but that form spoke a very loud message [...]

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iMeet Presents Dropbox with Best Cloud Service Win at Crunchies Awards

PGi was honored to sponsor last night’s TechCrunch Crunchies Awards — the Oscars of the tech world. We were even more thrilled to present Dropbox with the award for Best Cloud Service in a revolutionary way — on the big screen and in the cloud. The fifth annual Crunchies Awards, co-hosted by GigaOM, VentureBeat and [...]

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5 ways to create trusting relationships online

With so many tools available to connect with anyone, anywhere, there are many options to build trusting relationships online. Buyers trust online relationships more than ever, according to this eMarketer study. Here are five tips to help you make sure you’re doing it in the right way: 1. Turn on the webcam. Face-to-face meetings are [...]

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For the Love of Travel: Top Tech Products for Today’s Road Warrior

If there is one thing I love more than travel, it’s shopping for travel. Lately I’ve been enthralled with the overflow of tech gadgets and travel products recently released into the market. As a fine purveyor of almost all things, I enjoy researching what’s new for the avid traveler and will occasionally allow myself to dream of life-made-easy with clutz-proof netbooks, noise-cancelling ear buds and [...]

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