If you set the meeting time for 10 am, some people will still be downloading Zoom and getting set up at 10.05 am, and some people will already be in the meeting.

Be prepared for some small talk or a very general welcome and introduction at the beginning because not everyone will join in on time.

Give people instructions for using Zoom beforehand, so they know that they will probably have to download some software before the meeting.

What I’ve learnt so far: Tips for using Zoom for a meeting or conference call for three or four people. I use Zoom for the fortnightly workshops in my Remarkable Business programme, and I record our sessions and put them up on a members-only area of the website afterwards. I’ve interviewed people for my blog, recorded some videos of me talking to the camera, and run a weekly team meeting for a project with 12 people on Zoom. The quality of the calls is much better – I never have to switch my video off to be able to hear my clients. I started by switching my coaching sessions for people outside of Brighton to Zoom. And if you want to have a call of more than just two people, Zoom works about a million times better than Skype. It works about a thousand times better than Skype. They have roughly the same functionality, so if you’ve used Skype you can easily use Zoom, but there’s one big difference. Zoom is like Skype, so you can use it for talking to people online, running meetings, doing webinars and conference calls. Read here for ideas on how you can use Zoom to strengthen your business, particularly if you’re thinking of taking your business more online in the aftermath of the Coronavirus crisis.

This article covers using Zoom for larger groups, workshops and conferences calls.

And because we’re also a virtual team I spend a lot of time on Zoom so I thought I’d share some tips that I’ve picked up. As an online business advisor, I use Zoom a lot.

Zoom conference call set up