A webinar is very much like a seminar, the difference being that a webinar is presented online. Attendees listen and watch from their computer, which saves them travel expenses.
Here are some tips to on hosting a webinar:
Think about your audience, and schedule a time when you think most of them will be able to attend. Remember that there is a 3 hour difference between the West Coast and the East Coast. Also, people tend to be very busy on Mondays and Fridays. Often times, people find that an afternoon midweek webinar is the best option.
Give yourself enough time to promote your webinar. Promotional possibilities include creating potential strategic alliances with other groups who have similar demographics, posting it on your website, announcing it via email to your list, and using social networks ( in a non spammy way ) to create buzz.
Send out a reminder email a day before the event starts.
Dial into your presentation at least twenty minutes ahead of schedule to make sure your webinar software is working. If you have another speaker, make sure you tell them how to use the webinar software.
Inform the audience how they can interact and ask questions. Decide ahead of time whether the audience can ask questions during the presentation, or after the presentation.
Provide a brief overview on what you will discuss, so that the audience knows what to expect.
Attendees love it if they can get the slides or a recording of the webinar emailed to them after the event. In that case, they can relax and listen to the webinar, rather than have to take a bunch of notes. If you do email the slides, think about adding a call the action to another webinar, product or service.
Here are some tips to on hosting a webinar:
Think about your audience, and schedule a time when you think most of them will be able to attend. Remember that there is a 3 hour difference between the West Coast and the East Coast. Also, people tend to be very busy on Mondays and Fridays. Often times, people find that an afternoon midweek webinar is the best option.
Give yourself enough time to promote your webinar. Promotional possibilities include creating potential strategic alliances with other groups who have similar demographics, posting it on your website, announcing it via email to your list, and using social networks ( in a non spammy way ) to create buzz.
Send out a reminder email a day before the event starts.
Dial into your presentation at least twenty minutes ahead of schedule to make sure your webinar software is working. If you have another speaker, make sure you tell them how to use the webinar software.
Inform the audience how they can interact and ask questions. Decide ahead of time whether the audience can ask questions during the presentation, or after the presentation.
Provide a brief overview on what you will discuss, so that the audience knows what to expect.
Attendees love it if they can get the slides or a recording of the webinar emailed to them after the event. In that case, they can relax and listen to the webinar, rather than have to take a bunch of notes. If you do email the slides, think about adding a call the action to another webinar, product or service.
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There are many excellent conferencing and webinar tools available. If you intend to charge attendees a fee, you will need to use a program like Click-an-Event in conjunction with your webinar software. Click-an-Event is an online registration software system that you can integrate with your own merchant account or Paypal.
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