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Proven Methods for Hosting Webinars

By Joe Binam


Webinars have much more going on than you might initially think. This gets back to old fashioned marketing except you are giving an oral presentation, basically. If you give it some serious thought you'll see that this is true. Both use the principles of marketing and public speaking. The beginning may seem a bit unnerving, but you will find that it gets a lot easier. You need to learn to be persistent when you want to find success with your webinars. They can do so much for the profit margin of your business which makes them worth the effort.

Always prepare for your webinars even if you think you got it all down and you're ready. When you're talking about a topic for the first time it's good idea to write out at least a few general terms as well as practice a tiny bit. Seriously, you never want to be lacking for what to say or a direction to follow. Getting to the point is how your presentation should go, filler is the enemy. You should understand your most important points as well as the things you want people to get through their heads. You should write out at least a couple of drafts of this and let your final draft be a simple but to the point outline of your major talking points. From here simply follow your outline but don't do a lot of paper shuffling that your audience will be able to hear. Make sure you are aware of all that is occurring during your webinars. There aren't a lot of reasons people leave webinars and you'll be able to see when they do. Maybe you have been droning on about something less relevant. Or you might be going in circles and taking too long to get to the meat of the webinar. Perhaps your using a monotonous tone and aren't aware of it. Pay attention to how you sound and how you are trying to get your message across. You should pick up the pace if you get negative reactions, like people signing out. While you shouldn't go overboard, you can try modifying your delivery a bit as well. You need to keep things interesting and have a good rhythm.

Professional webinar creators know just how to create webinars that people want to remember, were entertained by and in which they found value. In a real sense, you are sort of relating a story to your attendees, the people in your audience. Not every person is good at telling stories. There are a lot of terrible books being sold these days. There are parts of your webinar that follow a basic structure like the introduction, then the meat of the webinar and some kind of intelligent closing. Your webinars will get so much better once you start to use these lines.

Anytime you are in a situation like a webinar when you are talking to an audience, you have to be ready for things to change. You know exactly what information you want to cover and the people tuning in also have some idea of the general subject. Then, for whatever reason, it appears something just isn't working out. It might be from the comments people are leaving or it might just be a gut feeling. It is at those times when you will have to change gears on the fly; very quickly. It's about being ready for anything and about your mindset. You need to make sure you don't lose control of the webinar, which means you'll have to be able to think quickly.

It is possible to forget to ask people to register for your webinar as easily as it is to forget to ask people to sign up for your list. Almost nobody is going to opt in to an email list if they have to give a bunch of personal information. The example is an extreme one, sure, but it illustrates the point we are making about what you should be asking for in terms of type and amount of information. This is also true of webinars, asking for too much information will seriously hinder your registrations. You don't need much information for a webinar registration. So don't ask for too much--only what you need to get them to sign up. Offering your own webinars to your audience will offer you a much more powerful way to market your own products or services. Even when you haven't used webinars in the past, this is a great opportunity to get your feet wet with them. It isn't hard to conduct your own webinar, but you might need to go beyond the boundaries of your comfort zone. You have probably attended at least one webinar before now. You, then, have most likely already gotten a good idea about what these things are about.




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