A “Well” Thought Out Business Plan: Emerging Corporate Wellness Firm MBSconnect Builds its Business with FreeConferenceCall.com
Long Beach , CA (September 26, 2007) –
Free Conferencing Corporation of America, the leading provider of FREE
collaborative communications solutions, today announced that Mind-Body-Soul Connect
(MBSconnect - www.mbsconnect.com)
has selected FreeConferenceCall.com as a critical communications tool to power its
business operations. MBSconnect is a wellness company, with staff located throughout
the US, which serves as a bridge between the world of wellness practitioners and
the world-at-large. The MBSconnect vision is to help employees around the world
be well through its mission of offering comprehensive, interactive, and easy-to-use
wellness resources.
MBSconnect's interactive corporate wellness program is
a blend of podcasts, online programming, and onsite programs and uses a set of interactive
tech tools. These tools are tied to a portal that allows employees to monitor their
health and obtain information and allows employers to monitor the health of their
workforce as a group. However, MBSconnect was faced with the challenge of building
its network of holistic practitioners and integrative providers who can offer services
and advertise on its web site.
MBSconnect quickly realized that audio conferencing was
the answer to their problem. Following a short experience with a paid conferencing
provider and the pains of dealing with call invitations, MBSconnect conducted a
search on free conferencing and selected FreeConferenceCall.com after testing a
few providers over the course of two weeks.
“Prior to FreeConferenceCall.com, we had no method
to gather these large groups of people in one forum, at the same time,” said
Lisa Rittberger, Founder and CEO of MBSconnect. “In order to assess, train
and organize the providers we were adding to our holistic network, we needed a tool
to regularly communicate with the providers. FreeConferenceCall.com gave us the
critical communications tool we were seeking.”
MBSconnect is presently using 10 to 15 conference lines
with each person on staff having their own number. “We grew our network of
providers using FreeConferenceCall.com,” said Rittberger. “Each week,
we hold conference calls where providers, corporations and other interested parties
can learn about our company. The true value of the service is inherent in the ability
to assemble groups of massage therapists, acupuncturists, and coaches - we have
conducted calls with up to 95 people on the line.”
Rittberger and her team conduct three information calls
per week that run an hour each as well as another five to 10 hour-long conference
meetings per week with providers and other network members -- five to 12 people
are typically on each call. “If we were using a paid conferencing service,
we would have had to pay anywhere from $2,000 to $4,000 per month,” said Rittberger.
“Not to mention, if we had to pay for the service, we wouldn't have relied
upon it so heavily to power our business.” MBSconnect has also used the free
conference recordings on its web site as audio advertisements of its services.
“When we started MBSconnect, we had no start-up money
and were forced to build our business through sweat and tears,” added Rittberger.
K“There was no pocket of change to pay any conferencing bills based on our
call volumes, but now FreeConferenceCall.com allows us to operate as a virtual entity
since we can easily gather all the staff and providers on the phone.”
“It is truly rewarding to see our solutions helping
to build a business like MBSconnect,” said David Erickson, founder
of Free Conferencing Corporation of America. “This young company has uniquely
optimized FreeConferenceCall.com including the use of our free conference recording
to create podcasts that serve the dual role of lead generation tool as well as helping
them build a podcast library of their services.”
To read more about how MBSconnect has benefited from the
use of FreeConferenceCall.com, please visit: https://www.freeconferencecall.com/resources/MBSconnect.pdf
About MBSconnect - Wellness Made Easy
Mind-Body-Soul Connect (MBSconnect) supports companies in reducing health care costs,
decreasing absenteeism and turnover, increasing workplace effectiveness, improving
employee satisfaction and well-being, while delivering a ROI and in-time Wellness
Risk Management to the Corporation. Our mission is to bridge wellness solutions
to our client's bottom line outcomes. Our vision is to create long term strategic
partnerships that enable our clients to provide compassionate and intelligent benefits
for their employees, to operate businesses that are solvent and profitable, and
most importantly, establish a culture of wellness, self responsibility, and inspired
living throughout their organizations. For more information:
www.mbsconnect.com or call (888) 398-9287.
About Free Conferencing Corporation of America
Free Conferencing Corporation of America, with headquarters in Long Beach, California,
is the industry pioneer and leading provider of FREE collaborative
communications solutions. With more than 5 million users per month and more joining
daily, the company's FreeConferenceCall.com flagship solution offers a high-quality,
reservation-less conferencing service that is extremely easy to use. As further
validation, more than 100 Fortune 500 companies are presently optimizing FreeConferenceCall.com,
including public sector agencies. Unlike other competitive offerings from paid and
non-paid audio conferencing services, FreeConferenceCall.com's pioneering all digital
network is built on voice routers versus analog-based conference bridges that can
be prone to static and other noise. FreeConferenceCall.com uses the PSTN
(public switched telephone network) to deliver unparalleled, high-quality audio conferencing.
For more information, visit www.freeconferencecall.com
or call
(844) 844-1322
