‘Here at Powwownow we totally agree that meeting face to face is a great way of doing business, but we also live in the real world and know that SMEs simply can’t afford to fly everywhere. It’s expensive for them and costly for the environment. Instead of worrying people into taking unnecessary flights, we thought we would do something positive and offer free conference calls with absolutely no hidden charges’ comments Andy Pearce, CEO at Powwownow.
Powwownow decided to take on the aviation industry after BA flew Boris Johnson business class to New York back in September, where he told an assembled press conference that video conferencing didn’t work http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Powwownow dually responded: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
This was followed by a campaign by Flybe called ‘Business is Better Face to Face’. Adverts appeared in the national press urging businesses to fly to meetings and proclaiming that ‘Conference Calls Don’t Win Business’. Powwownow now felt that this was a very irresponsible and issued a response about the real cost of airtravel (http://www.powwownow.co.uk/
and actually said ‘sure we use conference calls’ !
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Powwownow (http://www.powwownow.co.uk ) was founded in 2004, offering customers low-cost conference calling facilities with the ethos of no booking, no billing, no fuss. (The customer does not need to book a conference room and never receives a bill from Powwownow, just the cost of a 0844 national rate call added to their bill). Turnover for 2009 is expected to reach £7m. The company operates in 15 countries including the US and major European markets.
Powwownow employs 32 people and is based in Richmond, London.
