Life Change Coaching & Brief Business Coaching by Videophone
Consultations by videophone (and telephone) are available to people anywhere in the world. We currently use an ISDN videophone compliant with the H320 Standard. You can access us from any matching system or an H320 video conferencing facility. If you have another system you will need to arrange for a bridging house facility in advance for the call.
All videophone consultations need to be booked at least 7 days in advance with full payment made by credit card by fax at this time. Any cancellation or alteration made with less than 7 days notice before the scheduled appointment will be charged for at the full hourly rate. This also applies to missed appointments. The strategics involved with setting up video conferencing are sometimes complex and we need to arrange our schedules well in advance, both for the convenience of the coach and client.
Clients
pay for the videophone call at the prearranged time and for any video
conferencing or bridging house facilities.
How to Access Videophone Facilities
Videophone is now a common way of communicating, both in the business and healthcare sectors. You can visit a videophone facility at one of your local business centres which offers video conferencing and you will probably be given a private room from which to make your videophone call, booked at a scheduled time.
Many universities also have video conferencing facilities and some do hire them out to interested parties, so it may be worth asking your local university.
Videophone by ordinary telephone lines, ISDN, broadband cable or ADSL/DSL is also available to set up from your home and the equipment can be acquired from various internet sites as well as local dealers. Some examples are shown below - click on the company's name to be taken to their website; however, please note that these are merely suggestions for people to look at the various options and we are not recommending any one system - it is up to you to investigate and find the best solution for you. We do suggest though that your videophone is able to deliver at a minimum of 20 to 30 frames per second as anything slower than this is usually poor quality and results in too much time delay, making consultation impossible.
Links for Videophone Suppliers & Manufacturers
Black Crow: http://2getitnow.com/blackcrow_broadband_videophone.html
British Telecom: http://www.bt.com/videophone/index.jsp
Buy Quick Australia: http://www.buyquick.com.au/shop/Product.asp?ID=SNY9873
Tatung, Taipei: http://www.computex.com.tw/computex2004/hotnews_detail.asp?index=228
D Nexus: http://shop.d-nexus.com/product_info.php/cPath/147/products_id/1203
D Link, Australia: http://www.dlink.com.au/products/multimedia/dvc1000/
SupaFrog, Australia: http://www.videophone.com.au/
All Products: http://www.allproducts.com/search/products/pE130720.shtml
Motion Media: http://www.motion-media.com/
Tracewell Systems: http://www.tracewellsystems.com/Contact/video.htm
Viseon:
http://www.viseon.com/prod/consumerindex.asp