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With 21st Century regulations regarding equal access to financial information you are almost certainly offering a publicly accessible quarterly teleconference or webcast. The webcast has become the Reg FD solution. There are many new companies springing up to help you create such conferences.
Below are links to tips on teleconferencing. If you wish to see what other companies have done with teleconferences, search on "teleconference" or "webcast" plus the word "earnings" via the popular search engines. You will find the transcripts of many companies' conferences at their websites and you will find the names of the media companies who facilitated them.
And for a free posting of your web conference go to
When you archive the audio and/or video version of your presentation or conference at your Website, save an MP3 version of your audio presentation and make it available via an RSS feed. Creating an RSS file and uploading it to your server is relatively easy. There are also easy-to-use utilities such as Feedburner. Then make sure your presentation is included at StreetIQ.com and other podcast or videocast directories. StreetIQ is a subsidiary of FinancialContent which specializes in the integration and delivery of financial data and tools into websites, corporate intranets and print media. Therefore, your podcast may also enjoy an even wider distribution.
Here are four articles on road shows and conference presentations.
Starting around the year 2000, financial industry conferences began to proliferate and are a good way to present yourself to potential investors. Many are sponsored by brokerages. Check out the partial list of upcoming conferences at Bedford and Assoc. and another list at Microsoft Money Central and yet another list at Research Magazine . Explore the possibility with your market makers and investment bankers. Other investor conferences are run by magazines or commercial organizations. A few have been around for years but many are new. A few of these conferences are sponsored by:
Some of these conferences are aimed specifically at people interested only in smaller companies or larger companies. Check them out to make sure which is right for you.
Most conferences will also be webcast, some live. Due to Fair Disclosure regulations, some companies will not participate in a conference unless it is also to be available on the Web.
For an online magazine on this new art and science go to Digital Webcast. Their primer is especially helpful, as is their market directory.
Here are a few of the many companies producing virtual road shows and analyst conferences: