Virtual Business As Usual in Costa Rica

Sunny blue skies and ninety degree temperaturesanywhere in the world)
seem to be the routine here at the Los Suenos• Custom landing pages for your web seminar
Marriott Ocean & Golf Resort in Costa Rica. Afterregistration and virtual waiting room
a morning workout, and before our Los Suenos• Automatic registration for your web seminar,
Rainforest Canopy Tour, I Skyped a few of myselecting required or optional registration fields
contractors. They will help me run a web seminar(name, email, phone might be required, but city,
for over 100 attendees in North America thisstate and zip code are optional)
afternoon. One of my sales agents submitted a• Detailed registration and attendance reports
proposal last night and copied me in on the• Record the presentation and audio for
ensuing email thread. Our appointment setters hadtraining, future presentation use or load onto your
a banner day yesterday on behalf of our clients,web site for viewing
and we are preparing an extensive new prospect• Real time collaboration (sharing) of information
list on behalf of one of our longstanding clients.- work on the same document at the same time
From time to time, I check in via email, Skype,- from anywhere in the world
GoToMeeting or via cell phone. In part, the virtual• Ability to view other attendees PCs (they can
model is feasible for small businesses because ofshow you anything they like on their PC)
the cloud computing solutions now available, whichThe internet and cloud computing allow many
can be used from essentially any location yourbusiness to operate from any venue at essentially
travel pursuits dictate. These solutions areany time. This model allows me to travel
powerful and inexpensive, and in some casesextensively while maintaining my thumb on the
entirely free. For example, I can host unlimitedpulse of my business. Recent vacations included
conference calls, unlimited web meetings andjaunts to Moscow, Paris, Santa Barbara and Costa
unlimited web seminars for less than $3 per dayRica. Virtual is a powerful model, it's a flexible
from anywhere in the world, including my currentmodel and it's a more profitable model. Virtual
Costa Rican virtual venue. Let's look at what thisbusiness is here today, virtual business is here to
means to any business:stay, I'm living the virtual life - at the moment in
• Unlimited conference call #s are generated atCosta Rica -you need to go virtual too. It's
the touch of a button (phone or PC basedbusiness as usual in Costa Rica, or for that matter
access)anywhere in the world I can find an internet
• Unlimited Web Seminars (show anything onconnection.
your PC to as many as 1,000 other people -