How much revenue is lost amid downtime hours? Could employees use their time better to help business growth? Can something be done to reverse the time-lost fortunes of business travelers? Yes.
The introduction of media resources and recording devices presents added business opportunity. Executives assign travelers a number ways to keep busy while en route and to complete at final destinations.
Mile-High Training
Flights may take a few hours from destination to destination. Add an hour or two for layovers, and there's hours of downtime or ample time for training videos. Business has embraced video technology over the last decade, creating industry-specific libraries of information. Whether mile high in the sky or idly waiting for upcoming flights, training videos ensure business travelers are making the most of business hours.
Podcast Carpooling
Classroom teachers leverage a number of media options, stimulating varied senses and addressing different methods of retaining information. After an in-flight video, trainees and employees can relax to the soothing sounds of business podcasts. Rather scan rental car radios or make awkward chatter with cab drivers, travelers can tune iPods and browse web pages for pragmatic sound bites.
Candid Cameraman
What does it take to be a videographer given today's technological tools? Any smart phone transforms to a video camera, making each moment a possibility for shooting a candid business video. Give travelers the assignment of collecting video clips of tradeshow insights or have them interview of number of seasoned veterans in attendance.
Employee Diary
What's it like to be an employee at a company? What are the challenges and unexpected benefits of particular roles and assignments? Candidates searching for new jobs research a number of potential companies. Rather than bland 'about us' pages, businesses may create robust libraries of employee diaries, creating first-hand views of what it's like to work at a particular company.
Home Work
Those who stayed home sick from school were not dismissed from assigned work. Teachers regularly assigned 'study buddies,' other students who would take diligent notes and bring needed books and assignments home for others. While travelers are away, in-house teams may leverage video and other recording resources, ensuring nothing's missed by absent team members.
Taste Tests
Commercials are entities of high production, featuring actors, special effects, and dramatization. Alternatively, other commercials feature real-time reactions, such as the Coke and Pepsi 'taste tests.' Company representatives may host and record a product or service taste test on video, using a bystander or unexpected party, capturing their candid and genuine reaction. In a world of over-dramatized commercials and fake reviews, getting actual reactions creates a signal of trust. Apart from these videos residing on the company's YouTube channel, a YouTube Downloader can also be used to assist in adding these videos to offline media such as USB sticks or CD's to be handed out.
Don't take a vacation on business matters. Opportunistic companies take advantage of all resources and timeframes provided, leveraging travelers for diaries, product/service taste tests, and marketing material while advancing training and in-house demonstration methods.
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Author Bio
Paul Moss is a travel expert. He loves writing about how to get the most out of travel time for small business blogs.
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