The last few weeks have been chaos for many businesses. As a result of the no-fly through Europe, key staff have been stranded away from work, and important client meetings have not happened.

All of this is bad news for your bottom line, so we thought we’d try and give you some good news:

We’ve launched a new section on our website showing how businesses like yours have saved time and money by using Yuuguu – the easy to use, low-cost tool that gets people communicating better. We’ve got testimonials from industries as diverse as Construction, Software, Interactive Media and Call Centres to get you working smarter.

By cutting back on travel, you can claw back some of the sunk costs of the last month. Don’t wait for the airline to reschedule your customer meeting – just hold it on your laptop, using Yuuguu’s voice, text chat, screen sharing and remote control tools.

Find out how Yuuguu can help you save money today.

Got a great story about how Yuuguu has helped your business? Let us know!

When you work in an office, it’s easy to see who is at their desk to work with. But that isn’t true when your team is spread across a large building – or even across the globe.

Or is it?

Yuuguu’s Presence indicators allow you to do just that – see at a glance who you can work with, no matter where they are. This video shows you how.

Turns out there are many good reasons to want to avoid air travel – not least the expense. But what can you do when you simply have to work with your customer, right now?

One of Yuuguu’s best features is how easy it is to add people in to a screen share that is already running. It’s a bit like shouting a colleague over to your desk in an office.

Here’s how it’s done.

Today is a very special day for the Yuuguu team as we launch Yuuguu Corporate.

We’ve built on our existing services: Yuuguu Free, Yuuguu Plus and Yuuguu Teams to now address the web conferencing needs of larger companies as well as sales teams.   Our new Yuuguu Corporate service provides a simple to use instant web conferencing service, combined with instant messaging and presence to create a real time online collaboration platform.

We’ve aimed to address the issues that our users tell us have inhibited use of web conferencing to date: such as complexity to use, cumbersome scheduling, lack of branding options and cost of licenses.

So what did we do?  We’ve resolved some major irritations including: the need to go to a third party web conferencing provider’s website to host a web conference, complicated call scheduling and annoying participant downloads.  

Through Yuuguu Corporate, web conferences can be started instantly (no participant download) for improved team working or interactive sales calls, and scheduled sessions are easy to set up using any existing calendar such as Outlook, Google or Lotus Notes.  What’s more, users can host web conferences on their own websites as Yuuguu Corporate can be embedded into the host’s website, so allowing sessions to be branded.

With companies entering 2010 still looking for value for money, we’ve created a pricing package to help – we’re fixing costs across your organisation!  Yuuguu Corporate provides an instant web conferencing, instant messaging and presence service, across an organisation and with key partners and suppliers, for less than any of the major players.

Actually, we’re unique in allowing unlimited invited external participants, for no extra charge, so extending collaboration to all the people you need to work with.

We’re really looking forward to your feedback, so get in touch.

And finally a big cheer and thank you to everyone for all the hard work involved in making this happen.  Virtual beers are on me!

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