O'Connor Marketing's Guide to Effective Meetings

    SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, December 20, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Research reveals that spending time in non-productive meetings that could be spent on accomplishing another task costs businesses billions of dollars each year. In fact, the average worker spends around 16 hours per week in meetings, a quarter of which is deemed pointless. Over a year, this works out to be over 200 hours and over the length of a typical career, the time spent in meetings works out to be nearly 9,000 hours.

O'Connor Marketing finds that poor planning and preparation is one of the main reasons for time being wasted in meetings. In addition to that, O'Connor Marketing suggests there is often a lack of organisation and authority to focus on the actual meeting topic. Meetings are generally unavoidable in the workplace. Therefore, O'Connor Marketing suggests how they can be productive and worth the time spent.

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Planning and organisation before the meeting is necessary to spending the time effectively, says O'Connor Marketing. "Choose the right location where everyone is comfortable and ensure all equipment works and is ready to go when the meeting starts. In order to make meetings valuable, we recommend preparing the content and discussion points prior to the appointment and ideally send the agenda to attendees in advance, so they can prepare beforehand," says a spokesperson at O'Connor Marketing. The meeting host must ensure that attendees stick to the conversation points. "A lot of time is wasted in meetings when participants get off-topic," adds O'Connor Marketing.

Based in Sydney, O'Connor Marketing is an outsourced sales and marketing firm, organising and conducting business-to-business, events and promotional marketing campaigns. The firm finds it important to drive productivity and motivation, which as a result leads to business success, so their meetings have a positive impact on the firm's overall success. O'Connor Marketing spends a lot of time in meetings, internally, with contractors and clients in order to maximise return on investment and highlight points that went well and others that need improvement. O'Connor Marketing ensure that their meetings are well prepared in advance and conducted with efficiency to make room for other important tasks that drive the business forward.

Founded in 2014, O'Connor Marketing's first year in business has been a successful one. The firm increased their clients' ROI by over 56 per cent and is now preparing to expand into further markets early next year.

O'Connor Marketing is a B2B and event marketing agency with their eyes firmly on the future. Launched in early 2014, the firm's compact, driven and agile marketing force of consultants are unstoppable and have a 'can-do attitude' that generates impressive results in sales and customer acquisition.

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