Teleseminar or teleconference calls are often a mixed bag of misadventures. Current common teleseminar service technology in most cases, doesn’t solve many of the situations and that can ruin the quality of the teleseminar and the host’s ability to create a quality digital product from it. However, new technology is coming out that provides a workaround for many of the issues that frequently plague these calls. Read on for some of the ways in which you can use new technologies to create a flawless teleseminar.
1. A simple and easy way to interact with guests
There should be a way to interact with guest that is very easy and simple. The technology should allow the moderator to keep control of the call, yet also allow the listeners to participate in the call when needed. This means allowing those listeners who want to ask questions to be unmuted on a per listener basis. The kind of technology that would have this functionality would be a “raised hand” feature where the moderator would know those participants that want to ask a question to signal the host. This way, the moderator would know which specific caller to unmute so the caller can ask their question, and keep all the other callers on mute to avoid unwanted noise from the other callers.
2. Ability to adjust individual microphone volume
Have you ever been on a call where one presenter has a low volume that you can just barely hear, while another presenter has a very high volume? It is very distracting for the participants on the call because they are constantly getting switched from hard-to-hear to way-too-loud. A great feature that would eliminate this problem, and allow for a smooth call, would be for the moderator to be able to control the individual volumes of the presenters and guests. Technology has come far enough to where the moderator can actually adjust the output volume of individual members on the call.
3. Ability to call hosts missing from the teleconference
If there are multiple hosts or presenters participating in the teleconference call, the probability that one of the hosts or presenters missing in action increases dramatically. With the common technology, the moderator needs to find another line to check up on the missing presenter. If the moderator has no other line to use, they have to hang up to track down the missing presenter, and then hope they can call back in again if the teleclass is full. If they are using a service that disconnects all of the guests if the moderator hangs up, then the moderator has to wait and hope the missing presenter remembers to call in, or send them a flurry of frantic emails.
A solution to this problem would be to have a “dial-out” feature with your teleconferencing service. This would allow the moderator to directly call the missing presenter directly from the teleseminar hosting service and that way they don’t ever have to leave the teleconference call.
The teleseminar or teleconferencing service you use can have a great effect on the quality of your teleseminar. Until recently, the technology wasn’t able to overcome many of the common problems that frequently crop up during the teleseminar. The key is to know which service provider solves the most of these common problems. There are very few services that are currently available which are also affordable AND solve most of the technological issues that can often plague a teleclass.
As teleseminars and webinars become more popular with entrepreneurs and business owners, a new set if issues and problems are brought into the picture with the new technology. These problems can cost the host a lot of money if they are unable to manage these issues at all during the call. This article discusses 3 important issues that can kill the effectiveness and profitability of a teleseminar and are actually quite common. It also discusses a workaround to enable the host to deliver a top notch teleseminar.
1. Using a service without a backup number or phone redundancy
Have you ever experienced a teleseminar that was going great, and all of a sudden, you got kicked off, or the hosts got kicked off and the teleseminar ended? That is usually due to problems at the phone company end. Sometimes if there is a system overload, the service fails and kills the call. This is especially troublesome when it is difficult to reconnect. A good teleseminar service will have a backup number, or some kind of system redundancy so when there is a hiccup in the system, the call doesn’t go down and interfere with the teleseminar.
2. There is no room for the hosts of the teleseminar
With popular teleseminars that have been marketed well, the calls are usually full. The flip side of that is if the call is full, and one of the hosts or moderators is a bit late calling in, they can’t get in because the lines are full. This is especially problematic if the host gets dropped from the call and can’t call back in because the conference is full! Using a service that has a separate count for the hosts and the participants is a solution around this problem. That way the host doesn’t have to worry about a full call, and can be more flexible with when their hosts call in.
3. Not knowing how to easily mute the participants
With large teleconference calls, there is a good chance that there will be someone on the call with a very noisy background that will be very distracting to the call and the rest of the participants. It is important that the moderator be able to easily mute the participants when the hosts are presenting their topic so all of the callers can participate easily in the call. A professional teleconference service will allow you to not only mute all of the callers at once, but also individual callers as well so callers can participate when needed, but noisy callers are muted.
Teleseminars are a very powerful and profitable way to promote your product or service. However you are at the mercy of the technology, so it is important to use technology that won’t cause you to lose profits because it breaks down, or interferes with the quality of the presentation. Fortunately, the technology is evolving to overcome these problems effectively that is also affordable. You no longer have to spend thousands of dollars on this kind of technology if you know where to look. There are very few services out there that have the features and are affordable as well.
The people who brought you Instant Teleseminar have gone and created the next generation teleseminar service called Nconnect. This teleseminar service picked up where Instant teleseminar was lacking. My biggest complaint is that I didn’t know who was on the call during the call. They have fixed that now and not only do you have the ability to know who is on the call, you can selectively mute people.
How many times have you hosted a call, or been on a call and somone had stepped away from their phone and everyone else on the call hears all kinds of noise in the background? It kind of kills the ability to turn your teleseminar into an information product. Who would want to pay for that? Well the selective mute eliminates that problem.
Other features such as not limiting the number of hosts, lecture and conference mode and a raise hand feature, allow the teleseminar host to run a professional teleseminar and avoid confusion. It is definately a service for those who are serious about holding teleseminars, and creating information products with their teleseminars.
Check out this very reasonably priced teleseminar service. Right now they have a 30 day free trial! Definitely worth signing up for.
In this article, the author discusses the reason why teleseminars work so well for selling coaching. It is because, the teleseminar experience can be easily made into a mini-version of a coaching experience. This allows the participants to get a good idea of what it would be like working with the teleseminar host. Read on for more information on how these teleseminar secrets for coaches can give a boost for your business.
Using teleseminars to sell your coaching is one of the best kept secrets in coaching today. Many coaches are attempting to sell their coaching through strictly online efforts, when indeed they could be much more effective if they were to add in an element of teleseminars to sell their coaching.
So why are teleseminars so good for selling coaching?
Well, one of the big reasons is that teleseminars tend to mimic the coaching experience, especially if you limit the number of participants, and you also allow interaction on the call.
In fact, the teleseminar can be literally a sample coaching session of sorts.
Of course the call should generate desired results for listeners…or they won’t be inclined to purchase the coaching.
Now, how do you actually sell the coaching?
There are a few different ways to sell the coaching on the call.
The two ways I will talk about here are directly selling the coaching on the call, which can be done effectively, especially if you introduce a level of scarcity…people realize that if they take action while they are on the phone call with you they get some additional bonus.
Another way to do it is to sell a lower ticket item on the teleseminar itself, then use that lower ticket item to generate additional trust with the prospect, then give them an opportunity to get involved in your coaching at a later date.
Using either method, using teleseminars to sell your coaching can be highly effective, and highly profitable. One of the biggest things that happens is the rapport and connection between you and your potential client, on the teleseminar call.
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This is a good article that discusses some of the basic activities that you need to use to grow the number of people attending your teleseminars. There is one secret that I disagree with however, and that is where he says “anticipating” the potential questions of your callers. I say don’t anticipate or even guess. If you run your teleseminar on questions from a survey, then you know you are offering them something they are interested in!
Teleseminars are some of my personal favorite information base products. Aside from the fact that they are much easier to sell compare to other digital products, they are also useful when I am generating leads for my high-ticket coaching programs and online classes. They do not only allow me to connect with a lot of people but they also allow me to establish my expertise by simply sharing my knowledge to my audience.
If you are selling teleseminars or using them as lead-generating tools, here are some secrets that you can use to make them more compelling and more effective:
1. Topics. If you want to boost the number of your sign-up rate, I recommend that you go with topics that are truly interesting to your potential clients. You can talk about their pressing issues, their hobbies and other areas of interest, their burning questions, the skills that they would like to learn, etc. You’ll easily know what information they find interesting by conducting a survey or being doing keyword research using Google keyword suggestion tool.
2. Plan ahead. Contrary to popular beliefs, hosting a teleseminar can be challenging especially if you do not prepare ahead of time. To make sure that your telecalls will sound organized, I recommend that you decide on your seminar’s format and topics at least a couple of weeks before the actual call. Then, do your research, anticipate all the questions that your callers might throw at you, and plan your presentation ahead of time.
3. Practice makes perfect. If you are truly serious in giving your callers great listening experience, you must be willing to practice your presentation at least 48 hours before the call. I recommend that you get a couple of your friends and family members to help you out. Host a teleseminar as if you are talking to your real audience. Then, ask your friends and family members to list down all their feedback and comments. You will need to do this so you’ll know all the things that you need to improve on to better serve your customers.
4. Offer high quality information. Keep in mind that people are spending at least an hour of their time and huge amount of money on your calls simply because they would like to be informed. Do not fail them by making sure that your teleseminars contain every piece of information that they are looking for. Also, make sure that you deliver these information in a very easy to understand manner to avoid confusion during the call.
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This is a good article that gives you some insight into how to hold a webinar for a target audience of technical writers. Technical writing has its own characteristics, needs and issues that need to be addressed. The thing about this article is that you can also apply all of these tips to most any target audience as well, whether it be dentists, sales professionals, or personal development coaches. These are good tips all around.
Pay attention to the following 5 suggestions if you’d like to hold a successful technical writing webinar:
1) Do not rush your technical writing or product presentation even if you are used to speaking at a machine gun pace. There might be people in your audience with hearing problems, international participants who do not know your language that well, or there might be a technical problem with the way your voice is transmitted across the line.
How do you know if you’re talking too fast? JUST ASK and your audience will tell you gladly if you are speaking too fast (or too slow) or not.
2) If you have a hard-to-understand heavy regional accent, either ask someone else with a standard accent to give the presentation, or SLOW down and periodically check with your audience to make sure they are following what you are saying.
If you just assume that your accent is understood clearly by those on the line, you might be making a wrong assumption and wasting everybody’s time and your company’s money.
3) If you provide the means (usually a GUI text field with a SUBMIT button at the bottom) for your audience to send you questions, answer them. If you are not in a position to answer the questions, then do not provide the means to submit any questions. Otherwise you’ll be speaking to a frustrated audience and frustrated people don’t follow or buy anything. It just makes plain sense, doesn’t it?
4) Always make it painfully clear well in advance WHAT you will exactly cover in your presentation, for WHOM the presentation was designed, and what are the PREREQUISITES to follow the presentation fruitfully.
Make all these three points very clear in your advance emails in order to prevent unnecessary surprises. There is nothing more annoying than a fast-talking presenter showing you things on a piece of software that you do not even own and explaining a topic that is well beyond your education or expertise level.
5) Inform you audience before, during, and after the presentation whether the recording of the session, any presentation notes, PDF files or white-paper will be available to the participants. That way you won’t leave them in suspense and prevent unnecessary emails and phone calls to your organization.
A webinar is a great way to share knowledge and to market your products and services. But when handled poorly it can backfire and damage your image and business as well. There is no such thing as a fool-proof presentation “on the automatic.”
All webinars need careful advance work and a thoughtful presentation which is in touch with the audience. If you follow these 5 recommendations above your job might get just a bit easier. Good luck.
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This is a good article for getting a basic guide for webinar management. If you are looking for some good webinar training tips, this is a good article to start with because it gives you the basics on what you need to know. A great reference to follow up this article with would be this book called “6 Weeks to a Great Webinar”. It discusses in step by step detail what you need to do to conduct a successful webinar.
Conducting a webinar is no different than conducting a face-to-face seminar when it comes to presenting the material. The method of interaction will be different and there will be differences in the fact that you are not face to face with your audience so you may not be able to judge as well the various aspects of their personalities or understanding. This makes it difficult to alter the presentation in the middle to accommodate the atmosphere of the audience. There are a few things that you will need in order to conduct a webinar. These are host, content, features and price. When looking at a host you want to make sure that you are going with a host that is going to be able to grow with your business but that is not so far advanced that individuals without the latest technology will be unable to get on. You want to make sure that your webinar is open to anyone who may be in your target group. For example, if you are doing a webinar on the latest technological features of a network application you are going to have clients with a different level of technology than if you are delivering a webinar on how to effectively cook a five-course meal and still maintain a casual entertainment atmosphere. In one instance you are dealing with technical savvy people who may have access to the latest in computers. In the other you are dealing with individuals who may be ordinary home users and may be working with older equipment. Features are also need to be considered. You may want to look into these options when looking into your host. However, there are individuals who conduct webinars while using outside resources such as instant message or separate phone conferencing features. Considering if you want to include these in your host or use separate services is something to look into when deciding how to conduct your webinar. The content is the most important aspect of your webinar. You want your content to be informative, to flow from topic to topic in a smooth and related manner. The presentation should be designed for your target audience and be done in a way that engages your audience. Webinars are interactive so you may want to include spaces for questions if you get into areas where questions are possible to accommodate your viewers. Price is one of the most important things to look into. Hosts all have different ways of pricing and you should consider which option is going to provide you with the most benefit and the least expense. Overall webinars are exceptionally cost effective when compared to similar situations in face-to-face seminars Conducting a webinar can be a great way to get the information you want present out to your audience. It is important that you look into the various factors and research prior to launching your webinar. This will help to ensure that the webinar you are conducting provides the most benefit to not only you but those you are presenting too. If you are looking for a reliable and affordable webinar provider we recommend GoToWebinar. For a detailed review as well as more information on how to run a webinar, visit BestForWebinars.com
This is a great teleseminar training article that will get you on the road to having successful teleseminars. One very informative and successful way to have teleseminars is to have guest speakers where you are interviewing them. The tips given in this article are good and will support you in producing a quality teleseminar. Doing these kinds of teleseminars also allows you to create a great information product as well.
For a good resource on basic teleseminar strategy skills check out teleseminar basics.
Interviewing experts using teleseminars is an excellent way to boost your own credibility.
Here are five (5) expert interview tips to help ensure that host a great teleseminar that will enable both you and your guest(s) shine.
1. Ask Your Attendees for Interview Questions
The best interviews are structured around what your listeners want to hear and the best way to do this is to ask them beforehand. This interview approach means that you need to have a reasonable amount of lead-in time. Some interviews take months of preparation.
So conduct a survey to discover what your listeners want to learn. The Ask Database is an excellent vehicle to do this especially if you are expecting a large volume of questions. The questions asked may be very different from what you think they might be.
You will be able to group and prioritise the most frequently asked questions for the foundation of your interview. You need just about 10 of these for an hour-long interview.
Another advantage of using survey questions to form the structure of your interview is that it gives your guest the chance to prepare for the interview and create an appropriate study guide.
2. Give a Great Introduction
Ask the person you are interviewing to supply their bio and introduction. There are exceptions to this. You may want the person to give their own introduction. Sometimes it comes across better and more interesting this way than you just reading their bio. However, even in this case you still need to be able to give a brief introduction.
3. Listen
The best interviewers are also the best listeners. You have to let go of your ego and your desire to get your point across and allow your guest to speak without interruption. Sometimes you may need to pull an interview back on track but most of the time when guests are interrupted it’s because the interviewer just wants to interject their opinion. This can have the undesired effect of breaking your guest’s concentration and disrupting their flow. You have to bear in mind that those listening to the interview are attending mainly because they want to hear what your guest has to say.
However, there are exceptions to this rule too. For instance, your guest may say something that is a real gem and to capture those nuggets you could say “Could you repeat what you just said?” Interviewees will not mind this and will even feel complimented by this for you are demonstrating that you are listening and that you find what they are saying to be valuable. It is also what we tend to do naturally in a conversation and really good interviews should sound like a conversation.
4. Repeat and Recap
This will help to ensure that you fully understand the point that your interviewee has made and help your listeners to do the same. It also reinforces important points that are made. In addition, repeating and recapping what has been said helps you to monitor the progress of the interview. For instance, if you selected 10 questions to discuss during the interview, it would be a good idea to quickly summarise the main points covered in answering question number seven before moving onto to question eight.
With teleseminars people may tune in late and this technique helps to rapidly bring latecomers up-to-date. If they feel that they cannot easily pick up the thread of the conversation they may simply hang up.
5. Check In with the Audience
The disadvantage of a teleseminar is that you cannot see those attending and this makes it difficult to judge how the interview is being received and how listeners are doing energy wise. So periodically check in with the audience, ask them how they’re doing and affirm that they are receiving great content. This feedback is also important to your guest as it helps them to evaluate how they are doing and whether or not they might need to make any adjustments to the content they are presenting.
However, do mute listeners once the interview has started. If you don’t do this, expect your interview to be interrupted by unwanted background noise and all kinds of embarrassing sounds and conversations have been recorded because attendees haven’t been muted. Not only does back ground noise ruin the quality of the listening experience for the attendees; it also ruins the quality of your recording and makes reduces its monetization value.
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This is an interesting article with a pitch at the end. A surprising format and I guess the ezine directories are changing their requirements. Anyway, with the pitch and all, this article gives some great tips on how to conduct a teleseminar to promote your coaching business. I especially like it because it comes from a mindset of abundance! When it comes to conducting teleseminars, an abundance mindset will take you farther than any other mindset.
There is no better way to promote your coaching programs than launching your teleseminars. Unlike forum posting, article marketing, and other content base marketing solutions, teleseminars will allow you to give you prospects the chance to gauge your presentation and coaching skills as you’ll be able to talk to them directly.
Here’s how you can advance in selling your coaching programs via teleseminar:
1. Choose your topics. You should go with topics that are closely related to the things that you would like to coach about so you can attract those people who are most likely to buy your paid coaching programs. For example, if you are coaching about search engine optimization, you can launch teleseminars about link building, keywords research and analysis, off page and on page optimization, etc.
2. Don’t be afraid to spill the beans. Some marketers limit the information that they offer on their teleseminars as they are way too afraid that their prospects will feel that they have learned enough. This is just but plain wrong. You see, the more information you share to your listeners, the higher your chances of getting them to trust you and see you as an expert. So, be generous when giving out trade secrets, effective tips, valuable techniques, etc. Once you were able to bring out the wow factor in your teleseminars, people will surely sign up for your coaching programs in no time.
3. Make it easy to understand. I have attended several teleseminars in the past where the speakers tried so hard to make the discussion difficult to understand. I guess they wanted us listeners to check their coaching programs if we really wanted to learn. They were using highly technical terms and they did not care about explaining difficult concepts. I guess the message that they were trying to send was that: it is for us to find out. Did you think that I signed up for their paid coaching programs? You see, if you want people to spend their money on your e-learning products, you need to give them an assurance that they will learn from you so they can achieve their goals in no time.
4. Promote your coaching programs during your presentation. Obviously, this is one thing that you shouldn’t forget if you want to boost your sales and revenue. Pitch in your paid offerings at the end of your teleseminars and don’t forget to emphasize their selling points and benefits.
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Sean Mize teaches coaches, consultants, and small business owners how to package their knowledge and sell it in high priced coaching, consulting, and online class packages. Sean says “If you have an existing marketable service or skill that you can teach others, I can teach you to package it into a high-priced class or coaching program, guaranteed”
This article is about how to have a webinar that is set to impress. It lists some things to take into account that will make a difference in the quality of the webinar. This is a basic article at best and you will want to follow it up with other articles to discover what else you would need to have a successful webinar.
Signing up to play host to a webinar is not enough to make this online technology work in your favor. To pull off a presentation that’s effective and doesn’t fail to dazzle does require some planning. Fortunately, learning how to create a webinar is not as difficult as many believe. This format is very easy to use and personalize to one’s advantage.
So, how can you create a webinar that meets your needs? Follow these basic steps to put yourself on the right path:
•Select the right facilitator - There are a variety of webinar vendors offering services on the Internet. Look for a company with a reputation that speaks for itself and you will be on the right track. Pay attention to the potential features of a webinar package, too. The best companies will offer such things as visual and audio communications, transcription services, faxing ability, security and even voting options.
•Plan your meeting - Making certain that a webinar is an effective means of communication goes beyond selecting a good facilitator. To pull off your purpose, you will need to plan out your meeting, seminar or exchange of information. For example, you might want to create a presentation using a program like PowerPoint, set an agenda and even enable group discussion functions. When you select the right facilitator, the infrastructure will be in place for you to use your imagination to its fullest extent.
•Invite participants - Learning how to create a webinar is not enough to pull off an event that’s a success. You will need to also make sure your desired participants have the information they need to find the right site and get into the “meeting room.”
It is possible for just about anyone to create a webinar that dazzles participants. When planning goes into the proposition, meetings, seminars and even inter-company collaborative efforts can all be pulled off with ease.
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Teleseminars are not hard to do. However like anything you are starting from scratch, there is a learning curve. But the great news is you can slash that learning curve by months and possibly years.
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