You dream of running effective meetings - welcome to Shangri-La!
2MuchTalk Standard Version is a free PC download for managing meetings of up to six people - that's plenty for small businesses and small teams in big companies. For larger meetings, 2MuchTalk+ Advanced Version, £24, has more features and covers up to 25 people.
Meetings are a form of theatre. They’re like a play with audience participation. But when you go to the theatre, certain parameters are set. You know how long the show will be. You know how much your ticket cost. You know the director will have rehearsed and prepared the cast.
Now contrast that with spectre of business meetings.
They often drag on, with half the audience watching the clock, waiting to get back to work, or to get home. It isn’t the clock they should be eyeing; it’s the cost. And the cost is usually unknown.
That’s crazy. And avoidable.
2MuchTalk makes you - personally - the show's director. It allows you to enter all the data: the length, the venue, equipment, travel, accommodation, people, salaries, food, everything. It reveals, maybe for the first time, the true cost of meetings. You can run rehearsals, try out alternatives, set budgets, set times, set lengths. And everyone can see all the stages of the meeting, on screen, on a Meeting Dashboard, with the money meter relentlessly ticking over. And you, with 2MuchTalk’s help, direct and choreograph all the action.
- PlanMeeting lets you: plan and edit attendance, costs and facilities; set budgets and objectives; invite people by email or calendar.
- RunMeeting lets you log people in and out; add unplanned expenses such as travel; it reminds you when the meeting’s approaching the planned cost and length; and the large, easy-to-see cost readout keeps money in mind throughout the meeting.
- ReviewMeeting lets you review all previous meetings. You can report the costs and show ideas for improving future meetings.
- ExportData By upgrading to 2MuchTalk+ you can export all
previous meeting data so you can analyse, chart and report by
spreadsheet or other applications.
Now duck! - here comes a hail of bullet-points. 2MuchTalk lets you.
 capture costs of venues and catering- factor in people’s costs by their actual or estimated salary
- calculate the cost of suppliers and consultants attending by their hourly rate
- consider where people are coming from to reflect travel costs
- account for virtual participants who may join in by conference call or web-cam
- auto-generate Outlook or iCal invitations or personal emails
- log the rascals in or out during the meetings
- show a running total, either full screen or in a smaller, moveable window locked in front of your PowerPoint slides, to keep costs in mind throughout the meeting
- set budgets and make plans to meet them
- set automated alerts which sound when your budget limit is hit,
or at a chosen percentage of the planned total cost
- set up, once only, an unlimited number of regular participants
and locations for future use
 keep everybody’s earnings invisible- 2MuchTalk is available as an 8Mb .zip file download for single PC installation
- has a User Guide and narrated ‘How to’ movies
- is simple to try out free and then, if you wish, upgrade
- 2MuchTalk+ can also print and export Review Meeting data as .CSV files, with £, € or $ defaults, for analysis and reporting. So, there it is. Over to you, Mr. Director. 'Ready when you are, Mr. de Mille'’
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