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In this episode of Basic Bananas TV Franziska and Christo share one of their favourite team communication tools with you!

0: 52s So what is this ‘not-so-secret’ tool?
1: 34s How you can increase your productivity instantly.
1: 53s Live messaging with your team members (all around the globe).

What do you think? Give it a go and let us know how you go!

 

Joe: Hi Marco, I‘ve set it all up, we‘re ready to go. Where‘s Christo and Franziska?

Marco: I don‘t know, they‘re supposed to be here. Maybe I‘ll Vox them. Hey Christo, everything‘s ready for the video here. I mean are you guys coming?

Christo Hall: Hey Marco, just coming now. Here I am.

Marco: How about you? I lost you.

Christo Hall: Yeah, all right. Thanks Marco. You guys are good to go, we‘re all good.

Joe: Sweet.

Franziska Iseli Hall: So here we are. Thank you Marco and Joe for setting everything up in here.

Christo Hall: Thanks for setting it up guys, excellent.

Franziska Iseli Hall: So Voxer. What is this Voxer thing? We thought we were going to share with you one tool that one of our dear friends Kervin actually recommended probably about a year ago, and ever since we‘ve been using it. And it‘s called Voxer. And why are we all using it or wearing their t-shirts… We‘re wearing those t-shirts because I was being courted about using Voxer for our team in a publication in a mentioned newspaper. And the Voxer team obviously found that and realized that I was endorsing them and they sent us all t-shirts.

So what is Voxer first? What is this whole Voxer thing?

Christo Hall: Well what it is it‘s like a walkie-talkie program and so it‘s really cool for communicating with your team members. This is why we love it; because it‘s really efficient. So rather than having to talk or text. If I have a phone and call them, “Hi, how are you?” and go through it all, it takes time… And text messages same again, you‘ve got to take some time to type it and read it out. With Voxer, you just hold the button and you basically send a voice message instantly and they can play that as many times as you like. If they receive that voice message it could say, “Hey, Marco you sent me an e-mail to tell me how much you love me recently?” And he can then, if it‘s a job, he knows straightaway he‘s going to have that. And I‘ve sent three of them, I know he‘s got it, but a history of the conversation as well. Really cool for productivity.

Franziska Iseli Hall: Yeah, it‘s helped a lot… So we‘ve got the whole team on Voxer. We‘ve also got people that don‘t work from our office but people that work in their own home also on Voxer. Somebody just Voxed me…. And so we thought about people that are working from their own home on Voxer; so it‘s very instant. If say, I‘m driving from somewhere and I need to do something or I need to remember something, I can just (maybe not driving); but maybe at the red light I can quickly do it and say, “Hey, I‘m running ten minutes late. Can you please let Sue know that I‘m running late?” And it‘s really instant and it‘s fantastic, so check it out.

Christo Hall: Check it out, you will enjoy it. We‘ve finished in here now, guys. You can come back up… Guys? Guys, you can come back up now.