How long should a meeting be?

When scheduling a meeting most people do not give too much thought to how long the meeting should take. When you create a meeting in Google Calendar or Outlook the default is one hour and many people just leave it at that. Since some attendees tend to show up late,...

The Importance of Following Up on Meetings

How often have you found yourself back in the same meeting that you were in a few weeks ago discussing the same problems and having a strange sense of déjà vu? Unfortunately this is a very common problem that occurs with meetings, especially when tasks are not...

How to Have an Effective Sales Call

Sales calls are the lifeblood of any sales person’s job. Handling sales calls well means the difference between securing business for your organization and failing to close a single deal. Getting organized in advance and prepared for important sales calls can help...

How to Run an Effective Sales Meeting

Meetings can sometimes feel like a bit of a drag, but meetings are also an essential component of a smooth running business. Sales team meetings in particular are essential to the sharing of key information that helps the business to achieve its revenue targets. Team...

How to take meeting notes during a meeting

Users often ask us “what is the most practical way to take notes during the meeting?” These tips will help you take better notes. If you use these meeting note taking tips in combination with the MeetingKing meeting minutes software, your meetings will be more...

Sharing meeting templates

If you work in an organization it is great to standardize certain meetings and information. Sharing meeting templates is a great way to do this. You can create standard meeting templates for your organization for: Team meetings Personnel reviews Store/restaurant...

10 Tips on How To Run an Effective Board Meeting

We have all at one time attended board meetings or at least heard of them and consequently we admit that a number of them are often so boring that our minds wander away to other things. Most people cannot wait for the meeting to end due to the monotony of the agenda...