| Sunny blue skies and ninety degree temperatures | | | | anywhere 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. After | | | | registration 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 my | | | | selecting 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 this | | | | state 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 had | | | | training, 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 of | | | | show you anything they like on their PC) |
| the cloud computing solutions now available, which | | | | The internet and cloud computing allow many |
| can be used from essentially any location your | | | | business to operate from any venue at essentially |
| travel pursuits dictate. These solutions are | | | | any time. This model allows me to travel |
| powerful and inexpensive, and in some cases | | | | extensively while maintaining my thumb on the |
| entirely free. For example, I can host unlimited | | | | pulse of my business. Recent vacations included |
| conference calls, unlimited web meetings and | | | | jaunts to Moscow, Paris, Santa Barbara and Costa |
| unlimited web seminars for less than $3 per day | | | | Rica. Virtual is a powerful model, it's a flexible |
| from anywhere in the world, including my current | | | | model and it's a more profitable model. Virtual |
| Costa Rican virtual venue. Let's look at what this | | | | business 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 at | | | | Costa Rica -you need to go virtual too. It's |
| the touch of a button (phone or PC based | | | | business as usual in Costa Rica, or for that matter |
| access) | | | | anywhere in the world I can find an internet |
| Unlimited Web Seminars (show anything on | | | | connection. |
| your PC to as many as 1,000 other people - | | | | |