With the affordable, easy-to-use, portable and compatible ViaTV Phone, businesses now have a great opportunity to save money on travel expenses. 8x8 knows how important it is to meet customers and clients face-to-face, to keep a personal dialogue going. We also know how expensive, troublesome and time-consuming travel can be.

Smart companies are buying ViaTV Phones and supplying their contact people with them as well as their best customers. The benefits are immense: no time delays, no time wasted, no travel costs, and a client impressed that you're serious, sharp, on the leading edge, a player in the world of business, technology and commerce.

Lane Brothers & Co. Inc. is a money management firm with ViaTV Phones set up at three of their offices, located in Menlo Park, CA, Prescott, AZ and Scottsdale, AZ. Company president Kevin Lane works out of the Scottsdale office and before ViaTV Phones he was flying up to Menlo Park, at least once or twice a month to meet with prospective clients.

Using ViaTV Phones to give that necessary "face-to-face" contact, Lane now travels up to the Bay Area only once every two months. What's the reaction been from clients who are involved in ViaTV Phone videoconferening? "We've received very positive feedback," states Lane.

Even if it is necessary to travel, movers-and-shakers take their ViaTV Phones with them so they can stay in touch with the home base. Business people who can see what's going on back at the office or with their families are going to be much more prepared and focussed on the job at hand. Seeing is believing...