Benefits for Meeting Service Vendors

Benefits for your Customers

Here’s how iConvene's platform reduces your expenses and increases your ROI...

1. Serve as your 24/7 Sales Person.  iConvene is always ready to take your customer's order...day or night.  You control what services are available for purchase and when someone can buy them.  You can even schedule a price reduction (sale!) or increase to happen automatically on the days you select!
    
2. Serve as your 24/7 Marketing Person.  iConvene's technology works 24/7 to market your services to the entire world.  It also has Search Engine Marketing (SEM) features which help get your services seen by people searching for them on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search sites.
3. Increase Efficiency & Reduce Paperwork (RiP RFPs!).  With iConvene, your customers can book their meeting services by themselves, saving you countless hours of answering phone calls, responding to simple RFPs, and processing orders.
    
4. Business Intelligence.  Know WHO, HOW MUCH, and WHEN your services are being booked by running reports on your business.  This will allow you to make strategic decisions for promotions and staffing.
    
5. Online Scheduler/Calendar for your Meeting Rooms.  iConvene includes an Outlook-like calendar so you can easily manage your rooms from any Internet browser.
    
6. Interact with your customers.  You can use iConvene’s built-in Blogging tool to talk about upcoming events, stories/pictures about past events, new services...whatever!  You control the conversation and what comments can be seen.
    
7. Easily keep your site updated.  iConvene’s easy to use interface allows you to change your content, prices and polices when you want…without having to pay someone else to do it.
    
8. Competitive Advantage!  Having a nice web presence and an easy way to purchase your services will go a long way to differentiate your facility from the one down the street.
    
9. Position your business for the future!  The trends are inevitable, customers enjoy the power and convenience of shopping online.  iConvene's technology enables your business to do this at an affordable price point.
   

1. Huge Time Savings. Finding, researching, and booking meeting service vendors can take days. With iConvene's technology, all this just takes minutes. No calls, No RFPs, No Phone Tag. When customers checkout, the meeting is booked!
    
2. 7x24 Shopping.  Your customers can book your services whenever they want…just like when you shop online.
    
3. Easy to Browse and Check Availability. iConvene presents all the available choices for meeting services in one place, making it easy for the customer to shop and check availability. This means the customer doesn’t have to work so hard to purchase your meeting services...and they can shop 24/7.
    
4. One Stop Shopping. Since iConvene supports many types of meeting services, your customers can purchase what they need in one portal, thereby increasing convenience and loyalty to your company.
    
5. Familiar Shopping Experience.  Shopping on iConvene's platform is very similar to Expedia and Travelocity...so they will not have a problem with understanding how to work it.  Given that more and more non-meeting professionals are the ones booking meetings, it gives you the competitive advantage.