It depends on how involved you want to be with teleseminars. You don’t need a website to have a teleseminar. You don’t need web hosting. You don’t even need online audio or fax broadcast or voice broadcasting. You don’t even need a database. However, those things do help.All you need for a teleseminar is a phone. Whether you are doing the interviewing or if someone is interviewing you. So, for the record, you just need a telephone and whatever that costs you each month, you’re in business.

Now let’s take a look at what it takes to be in more business and do more business using teleconferencing. It’s nice to have a web presence because you can get people on a teleconference very quickly. What changed my teleseminar world, and actually rocked my teleseminar, world is when the commercial web came into being. In 2000 I started doing more and more web work. Now, along with several of my colleagues, I can get a thousand people on a free teleseminar within 24 hours. So it is pretty amazing what the web can do. You can’t do that through direct mail, even fax broadcasting, but you can do it through email and through online registration.

As you move forward you can expand the operation and get webmaster services, hosting, a shopping cart, and an audio generator.

One of the things you need is a webmaster. Don’t do this work yourself, you need a webmaster. If you are a webmaster, then you’re lucky, because you get the templates for free as a part of being in the Teleseminar Secrets course. I do have webmasters I can refer you to. You just look at some of the resources in the executive summaries, as well as the approved vendor list that we have.

Now, a good webmaster will be worth somewhere between $40 to $50 an hour–I’ve paid some webmasters more, depending on how long you are hiring the person and how much you work with him or her. So figure about $50 per hour.

An Ask page to get people registered to a teleconference or a registration page shouldn’t cost any more than $50 to $100 dollars. Hey, there’s no reason to become intricate here or to create a stunning looking website. Just use the templates and you’ll be fine. Those are free.

Hosting will cost you somewhere between $9 to $12 a year. You can get a good host at GoDaddy.com. It’s a good registration service, and you can have it hosted in any number of ways. I’m actually starting a hosting company soon, because a lot of people need hosting and some additional e-business tools, but a good host will cost somewhere between $9 to $12 for basic service and then upwards of $30 – $40 dollars if you want to get a little bit more intricate. The hosting service I’m going to have will be somewhere around $20 a month.

This just goes to show you that it really is easy and inexpensive to have a teleseminar. There are a few other things that can be helpful, but I’ll discuss those in a future article. Good luck!

Teleseminars represent excellent low cost ways to attract qualified leads to generate more business. With these tips you can now leverage the technology and reap the benefits of teleseminars. Find out more and read on!a. Telephone bridge line: There might be instances where you only wish to record the conversation in the teleseminar. You may choose not to edit it later before sending it to clients or attendees of the teleseminar. In such cases you can easily make do with a low cost bridge line which also records the conversation.

b. Web control: There are plenty of no cost alternatives in teleseminars where you can easily view the number of participants attending. Via a web control panel you can view how many people are participating in the teleseminar. You can also mute as well as un-mute their lines from the web. These services are often available free of cost as part of the teleconference service.

c. Audio Acrobat/Audio Generator: These are paid solutions used to directly record teleseminars. You can easily leverage any one of these for a minimal monthly fee. What’s great about the Audio Acrobat and the Audio Generator is that participants of the teleseminar can post their feedback and comments on the 24-hour open testimonial lines that come with these two solutions.

d. Computer/digital recording: There maybe situations where you only wish to record your own voice instead of all the other participants. In such cases, it works out cheaper to record your voice directly onto your computer. In such instances you really don’t need to record on a teleconference bridge. Simply use a microphone or a digital recorder to record your voice into the computer.

e. Outsource: If your business doesn’t have core expertise in audio editing, it is best to outsource it to en external firm. Costs will work out much cheaper and you will also be assured of a better quality job. You could outsource the editing of the audio recording to a third party service provider. Maybe you could even get a discounted package from the service provider comprising recording, editing and even transcribing.

f. Hosting considerations: If there aren’t too many participants who will download the audio, your web hosting service provider should be able to meet your bandwidth requirements. However if you foresee plenty of downloads from users online, consider hiring the services of a third party service provider. This will work out less expensive.

g. Streaming or MP3 formats: The type of format you choose for your audio recordings will also determine the impact of your teleseminar. While a streaming audio file will necessarily mean the user has to be at the computer to listen, an MP3 format allows flexibility in transferring the file to a CD, an MP3 player and listening to your audio at leisure. There are many low cost MP3 recording options these days. Many even allow you to download free of cost which can prove to be beneficial if you happen to record audio files very often.

If the word ‘Teleseminar’ seems complicated, now you have 7 great methods that you can use to your advantage. Begin today. Why wait? You have everything to gain!

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Teleseminars seem to be all the rage these days, and for good reason. They’re a great way to build lists and make money, both for the organizers and their guests. They’re also really great for creating a connection between audience and expert, a connection that has two-way benefits.If you’ve been wondering how you could possibly get in on the action, wonder no more: Filmmaker Andy Duncan (of “I Need Cash Now” fame) and his business partner Steve Roye have put together the T-Profit System, the ultimate step-by-step how-to guide for putting together a teleseminar series that delivers the goods, for the audience, your JV-partners, and yourself.You may have thought you could never do that. You may not think of yourself as an expert. You don’t think you’re very witty. Heck, you may be shy! But Andy and Steve will quickly reassure you that neither exceptional wit nor fame or even expertise is required. Even better, teleseminar are among the easiest and most inexpensive products to produce. What’s not to like?The T-Profit system consists of a total of eight MP3s, along with PDF transcripts, plus live Q&A sessions.

First, there are the four instructional MP3s, in which Andy and Steve present the basic formula. They give some background and how they themselves got started. They talk about the reason why teleseminars work as well as they do. And then they launch into the details of exactly how you can go about putting together your own.

BTW, “instructional” may not be quite the right word for those MP3s. Yes, you’ll learn a ton – as promised. But they are so much fun you sure won’t feel like you’re studying terribly hard.

Just in case you’re still intimidated, they provide you with three examples of teleseminars with experts who themselves were new to the teleseminar genre. For two of them, that very teleseminar you’ll be hearing was their very first. And yet, they sound like old pros!

As mentioned above, the MP3s also come with transcripts, and many of them have outlines as well. A bonus seminar, produced as a bonus for one of the example seminars, is included as well. It’s a terrific introduction to affiliate marketing by Erik Stafford, also known as the Faster Webmaster.

Here’s yet another thing that makes T-Profit System special: included in the price are three bonus coaching calls in monthly intervals (actually, there was a fourth one that took place right after the system was launched, for all the early bird sign-ups), where Steve and Andy will answer any questions that come up.

And I really mean ANY questions. Andy and Steve are incredibly gracious and helpful. I’ve asked a few really basic questions, and Steve walked me patiently through all of my challenges. He did the same for other callers. They didn’t even laugh!

I bought T-Profit System the minute it came out. Why? I loved Andy’s “I Need Cash Now” program, and also did Andy and Steve’s 4 week coaching program. I got so much out of the two programs, I felt the T-Profit system was a complete no-brainer.

And that even though I believed that I already knew enough about teleseminars from the coaching program (and I did know a lot!), this program actually delivered even more details and step-by-step guidelines, thereby greatly reducing the intimidation factor, and greatly increasing the potential for success. I also find that I learn best when I get the same info presented several different ways.

Considering that I was a total web newbie about 6 months ago, I keep finding myself absolutely astonished by how far I’ve come. I have multiple websites, blogs, I’ve already come up with a concept for a series of teleseminars, and I have even done (and uploaded!) my first interview. Look for more on all that in the near future. For right now though, you may want to check out the T-Profit System, so you’ll get in on the live coaching calls while they last.