Don't Neglect Face-to-Face Meetings

Lisa Constance · June 23, 2011 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/1bf5

(6/23/11) Today in Small Biz: News, Tips & Information for Your Small Business Success

Have you cut back on business travel and therefore aren't able to have as many face-to-face meetings? Today, we're saturated (perhaps oversaturated) with social media, soundbites, instant information, etc. ad nauseum. It's become a click-happy world with a tendency to undervalue or overlook actual human contact. 

But did you know that it takes on average five video conferences, ten phone calls or 20 emails to get accomplished what you can get done in just one face-to-face meeting?

Perhaps that's why business travel has been picking up lately, as many small businesses are remembering the power of a good ol' handshake.

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