11 Simple Steps To A Powerful Webinar
One of my intentions for ‘08 was to offer a complimentary teleclass/webinar with the folks from webmeetlive.com and their team. Tim Romero the owner of webmeetlive has graciously been spending time with me to educate me on the latest technology and value of webconferencing. Webinars are the next step up from teleseminars and they are done over the internet and you do not need a bridge line.
There are many advantages to offering a webinar for speakers, authors, coaches, business folks. If you can join us I am offering a complimentary teleclass/webinar interview and demo Thursday, February 7, 11am-12:15pm PST or 2pm-3:15pm EST. I will be interviewing Tim on the benefits of webinars. Here’s what we will be talking about.
Webinars: Latest Technology to Explode Your Business interview with Tim Romero owner of webmeetlive.com.
You are welcome to join us register now
- Benefits of a webinar
- How a webinar be as effective as a live workshop
- How a webinar can significantly increase your sales, no matter what type of business you have or what product or service you are selling
- Effective methods for creating web based training for presentations, seminars, conferences and meetings for your customers and employees
- How to generate leads and products with webinars
- How a webinar makes it easy to engage speakers located anywhere in the world for a more cost-effective training with no reduction in quality
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The following tips are from the folks at webmeetlive
11 Simple Steps to a Powerful Webinar
The keys to a successful Webinar are selecting a valuable topic and content for the audience and having a good speaker. Follow these simple steps to conducting an effective Webinar.
1. Determine the goals of your event - educate clients and prospects, generate sales leads, launch a new product.
2. Determine a compelling topic that will make the right people want to attend
3. Choose your technology - You’ll want to use a reliable web conferencing solution that works with a variety of operating systems, is scaleable to a large number of attendees, and has the features you need including VOIP, chat, Q&A, and recording. This will ensure a completely interactive and enjoyable experience from end to end.
Not all web conferencing services are created equal!
Many “so called” webinar services are not accessible to dial up or satellite users, do not include Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP), and require the use of a teleconference bridge for the audio portion of your webinar.
The drawback to an old fashioned teleconference is that when the line is open for Q & A it can become a very noisy, non-productive environment. This can leave a negative impact on your guests, who have sacrificed their time, and in some cases, their hard earned money to attend your event.
4. Select your speaker and meeting support team.
a. Speaker: It’s best to have a speaker who is recognizable to the audience, credible and has good speaking skills. This may be YOU!
b. Moderator: A Webinar is much like a radio show to your audience. A skilled moderator improves the flow and feel of your event in several ways. A moderator will put a nervous speaker at ease with easy questions and prompts that will help them stay focused on their presentation. In addition, a good moderator can read the audience’s mood by viewing the questions and comments submitted by online participants. This gives the moderator cues about speeding up the program, or taking time to answer pressing questions raised by the audience.
c. Support person: Have a support person on hand to handle any technical issues experienced by participants.
5. Select an appropriate time for your Webinar: For events based in the U.S., 10:00 am PST, 11:00 am MST, 12:00 pm CST, 1:00 pm EST is usually a good time. Skip Mondays and Fridays.
6. Establish your registration process: Streamline the registration process as much as possible - make it quick and easy. Online registration is effective and convenient. Also, make sure the technology can separately track who attended the meeting for follow up.
7. Engage in a mix of offline and online promotion early and follow up, follow up, follow up. Send confirmation e-mails immediately after registration and at least two reminder e-mails prior to the Webinar.
8. Pre-seminar walkthrough - Practice your Web seminar with your speaker(s) and content at least once prior to the actual event.
9. Conduct your Webinar.
a. Join early - Presenters should join at least 15 minutes early to set up the presentation including any interactive content such as polling or Q&A.
b. Interact with the audience - Your content can be delivered with PowerPoint slides, co-browsing, videos, followed by Q&A.
Many webinar conferencing solutions offer a chat feature so that participants can send questions to the presenter without interrupting the presentation. Interactive content is recommended when possible in order to keep your audience engaged in the seminar and it enables you to collect valuable information and feedback. Remember, keep your webinar educational and avoid sales pitches. Your webinar is not a sales fest!
c. Emphasize the main points: Annotation tools are a great way to emphasize what you are talking about at any given time. These tools allow you to highlight areas within your presentation and keep your audience focused on the subject at hand.
10. Collect feedback – Use polling, surveys, Q&A and chatting transcripts to learn about your audience and develop a post-event FAQ.
11. Archive for playback - By selecting a Record and Playback option, both the audio and the visual portions of the presentation are synchronized for future playback, further extending the reach of your event.
A personal conference center is an ideal way to hone your webinar skills and produce training content, live and on demand pay-per-view events, pre-recorded 24/7 “infomercials” for your business, product or service. It’s also great for customer service, business meetings, sales presentations and just keeping in touch with friends and family.
Get your own web conferencing center today and you can by clicking on the following link www.speakerservices.webmeetlive.com
