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For busy people, scheduling meetings can be a chore and not the best use of your time. If you're like me, you would like to make scheduling 1-on-1 and group meetings an efficient and painless process.

The good news is that finding a meeting time that works for multiple people can be easy when you use the right software. Here we'll look at some of the most popular scheduling tools and highlight their advantages.


Mike

Doodle is a user-friendly scheduling tool trusted by 70,000+ companies that allows you to create polls to find the best time to schedule a meeting: Make a poll asking, "When are you available?" with the date and time choices.

You send a link to your participants, who can then select their preferred meeting times. Doodle compiles the responses and shows you the most popular options.

Doodle integrates with such calendar applications as Google, Office 365, Outlook, and iCal, making it easy to add the meeting to your schedule.

Free for 1 user. Pricing plans for more users start at $6.64 per month paid annually per user. 
 

It's like getting an assistant, even if you're a business of one. Calendly is the courteous way to book meetings and other appointments because scheduling with just a few clicks makes the most of everyone's time. No wonder it is trusted by more than 50,000 organizations worldwide.

Calendly puts your entire meeting workflow on autopilot, sending everything from reminder emails to thank-you notes, so you can focus on the work only you can do.

One advantage of Calendly is that it integrates with various video conferencing tools, including Zoom and Google Meet.

For instance, choosing Zoom as your event location will automatically create video conference details and save them to your Calendly event. The details will be automatically included in the confirmation notifications and calendar event sent to your invitees.

Free. Plans with automation start at $8 a month per user.