Comedy Meeting Breaks Video News Release 8/1/05

NEWS RELEASE

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Dan Coulter

336-794-0298

coultervideo@att.net

For Release Monday, August 1, 2005

NEW COMEDY VIDEO HELPS KEEP MEETINGS ON SCHEDULE

Online previews available at www.meetingvideos.com

Winston-Salem, N.C. -- Meeting hosts who may have considered sending out search parties to corral their audiences after breaks have a new tool to help keep meetings running on schedule.

A just-released video offers short, business-related comedy sketches designed to entice meeting participants to return to their seats on time.  By playing a different sketch after each meeting break, hosts give their meeting participants a fun incentive to be punctual and keep their agendas on track.  

 “Comedy Meeting Breaks” from Coulter Video’s meetingvideos.com is a series of two-to-four minute segments that each start out like countless other “I couldn’t be at your meeting, so I made a video” presentations.  But they quickly veer into outrageous approaches to situations and policies that people in businesses and organizations will instantly recognize. 

The seven segments on the video cover the following areas:

BUSINESS CASUAL defines proper work attire in excruciating detail -- and defends the free enterprise workplace against jeans, bare navels and other insidious apparel attacks. 

BUSINESS TIME TRAVEL reveals why your boss sometimes asks you to do three days’ worth of work in one afternoon -- when he forgets that you’re not in on “the secret.”  

BUSINESS JARGON celebrates the power of obfuscating language and discloses how “behind-the-times business BS" is getting a new life in lustful literature!  

LEADERSHIP TRAINING exposes the dangers of management training run amok and bemoans the demise of sacred executive perks.

BEST PRACTICES offers to dramatically increase business bottom lines by curing “Employees’ Kids Fundraising Cookie Sale Syndrome.” 

NO COMMENT officially retires this beloved PR response and reveals the official successor knee-jerk media reaction statement for the new millennium!

EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION provides next-generation "instant incentives" to stimulate video-game crazed entry-level employees with the attention span of…er, what were we talking about?

The video segments were written by Dan Coulter, a former public relations executive who spent more than 20 years working for major corporations and routinely managing meetings.  Coulter is a recipient of the International Television Association’s “Golden Reel of Excellence – Special Achievement in Writing” award for comedy meeting videos he wrote while working in the corporate world. 

“Everybody hates having meetings run long,” noted Coulter.  “Comedy Meeting Breaks offers a proven way to draw people back into their seats on time so they don’t miss the fun.  Enjoying the videos together also helps put them in a cooperative, receptive mood – and a cooperative audience can be a huge help in keeping an agenda on schedule.”

Meeting planners will find sample online previews from Comedy Meeting Breaks at www.meetingvideos.com.  Coulter Video also will mail free complete preview tapes to qualified customers.  The program rents for $250 for seven days and sells for $750.

ABOUT COULTER VIDEO

Coulter Video is a video production company specializing in educational and business videos.  Located in Winston-Salem, N.C., the company offers educational videos through its www.coultervideo.com website and meeting videos through its www.meetingvideos.com site. 

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