GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and ShowMyPc

Remote viewing or remote connections have been an imperative part of the technical support world for many years. However, in more recent years, developers finally found other great formats for remote connection that also has plenty of benefits.

• Web Meetings and Conferences
• Webinars
• Web Training

 Along with other useful aspects, these are some of the reasons why remote connectivity software or programming has become more popular in recent years.

GoToMeeting

GotoMeeting offers their customers a solid package for the price of $49 USD per month. This fee includes integrated VoIP, telephone conferencing service and a single license for unlimited web meetings with up to fifteen participants. With their software package users will be able to:

• Schedule regular or reoccurring meetings
• One-click meetings
• Transfer the mouse and keyboard controls to meeting participants
• Access to desktop and selected applications
• Clean screen
• Instant messaging
• Activity time-outs
• Meeting recording

GoToMeeting also allows users to create Webinars. If you are not familiar with the term, think of it as being allowed to attend a large conference from the comfort of your own home.

GotoWebinars allows users to harness the same power of remote meeting interaction but on a much larger scale. Webinars created on this service can accommodate up to 1,000 people and can bring the power of influential interaction, literally, to your fingertips.

How Can A Webinar Benefit My Business?

Using Webinars to market your products or services can offer great benefit in many aspects of your day-to-day business planning by:

• Reducing travel time so you can focus your efforts on the most important elements of your business.
• Generating more high-quality marketing leads at lesser cost.
• Presenting your marketing campaign to up to a thousand people from your home or office computer.
• Helping to save on the bottom line in travel cost, and other forms of audio conferencing such as international calling. 
• Reaching locales, niches and regions that you may have been previously unable to market to due to other restrictions.

 Alexa shows that GoToMeeting is ranked globally at #381 while the U.S. shows the highest traffic ranking of #132. Users are predominately Caucasian and African-American women with some college education who use the program from work.

ShowMyPc

In comparison, ShowMyPC is another remote connection service that can help to improve productivity and profitability for your business.

Although it offers the same functions as GoToMeeting it also offers a bit more, as well as the flexibility to choose a package that provides only the features you need. Different packages and capabilities include:

• Remote Meeting Support – Conduct or attend meetings online.
• Access Home or Office PCs – Remote viewing and access for technical support activity.
• Privately Hosted Servers – So that users have the option of their own server for conducting secure meetings or simply secure connections on remote access.
• Broadcasting Presentations or Classroom Planning – If you have a business that involves training and education this is likely the best option for remote access viewing and interaction.

Considering the packages are separate elements on their own, this is likely the more cost efficient option for those who are just launching this type of web conferencing campaigns while GoToMeeting would provide a better value for those who may need to use all of these aspects of remote viewing in their common activities.

ShowMyPc has attained a global ranking of #41,268 and statistics show that most users browse from work and are predominately educated males between the ages of 25 and 45 with incomes ranging from 30 to 100k USD.

Sources:

• Alexa
• GoToMeeting Features
• GoToWebinar
• What is a Webinar?
• ShowMyPc Products