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What Happens if a Student Cannot Attend A Live Online Webinar

One of the best ways to teach a course and to help someone learn something is to do a live training session through a webinar. However, because webinars are live, some people will not be able to make it. What can you tell people, who cannot come to a live webiniar event?

You, have a few options. You can either send them a replay, or tell them that you are sorry and you only do live webinars, or replay it in the paid members area of your website. To help you achieve this, you can record your webinar, and doing this is easy.

One of the more popular webinar services, that is available is: Go To Webinar recordings, and they will most likely have built in recording devices in their programs. All you need to do is hit the record button, to record the live event.

If you happen to be new to the system, and are still needing a webinar, you should make a replay of the webinar and give it to the public for free. Or alternatively if you are taking the class and asking for money for the course, then you should probably put the replay inside the members area. However, if you are doing the webinar's for free, and you already have some sort of following, you can take a different approach, you can tell them they cannot access the replay.

The best response that you will receive from students, is if they are sitting there and watching you live, while you present to the class. As it is a live setting, anyone can ask you questions, and you can tackle them quickly. As it is live, people will sit and listen because it is in real time, and they will not be able to fast forward and miss something that you have said.

You should ensure and enforce, that your students attend all the webinars when they are live, instead of waiting around for the replay to appear. That's why you should not really offer any replay to anyone, and especially to those who haven't brought the lessons from you. Which gets me to the last point, for those who cannot attend the webinar live, have them pay for the replay instead.

For example, if you are conducting a class, that is a free webinar, you can promote for a paid class. You can conduct this for free and then also teach them something, and put in the pitch for your extra paid classes. Then you can have the recording, and put it with the paying class, for the extra value of it. This webinar has now become, like an extra bonus.

If people want to attend the webinar live, they can receive that information for that extended webinar. However, if they want to watch the webinar, and have missed it, they will have to join up and pay to access the recording. So, if people say that they are not able to make it to a live recording, it will be up to you whether to offer them a replay or not, or post it in the member paid area. You can find out more information by going to: www.webinarcrusher.com

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03. Feb, 2011
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What amount of Webinar Training Should Be Live?

One of the best parts about doing a webinar online, is that you can have an audience there live while you are presenting a training session, you could record for later use, or you may even want to combine the two together. You may even want to just present the main material as videos, and then have a question and answer session for your students. The most important part is whether you want the training to be recorded or not and if you want it live.

When you are starting out on webinars, in the beginning they need to be live. When you run a live webinar, it will be the best way for you to get used to presenting live in front of an audience. By doing it this way, will also save you a lot of time, as they can be a bit long. So, when you do it live, you only have to do it once and that is it. The only issue you will have is, what time you want to present your webinar, and to make sure that you actually show up. To have a set time for the webinar ensures that you cannot change the date and the time, which also gets you into the habit of running the presentation when you say you will.

However, sometimes with live training you may find it difficult to do, and you may start to find that it doesn't have the fun factor, or you may get overwhelmed by the questions. If this is the case, then maybe recording it ahead of time maybe the way to go. When you do record them, you may want to post it on the paid membership section of a website.

This too, also depends on the personality that you have. For example, if you like to interact with people then continue going down the path of running a live webinar. If you feel uncomfortable about presenting live, then maybe record ahead of time. All alternatively, if you're not sure how you feel about both, try doing both the live and the recorded as well.

When you do recorded webinars or live ones, you need to know whether or not you are really getting to all the questions that is asked by your audience. If presenting live, helps to solve those problems for people and you do tackle the answers to the questions straightaway, then present live as this will help you do that.

If you are one of those people that don't interact with the audience and don't answer the questions, then there is no real reason to do a live webinar. However, if you do answer the questions, and let the training session go the way the questions and answer goes, then going live is what you should be doing.

This will help you to decide, which way to go. All of this depends on what you can handle, and what type of personality you have and what you enjoy doing more.

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02. Feb, 2011
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What To Do If Your Webinar Runs On Overtime?

Although it may not necessarily be a very common problem, there is always the chance that a host could be faced with a webinar that lasts longer than expected. For example, a ninety minute webinar could end up running for two to three hours. If you, as a host of webinars, ever find yourself in this position, or would like to know how to prevent this from happening, there are a few tips that you may benefit from here. You can end the session on time by skipping less important slides, not taking any more questions, or jump forward to the main point and thereby end the session.

When you are giving a webinar with a PowerPoint presentation, you should try using a presenter view. The purpose of the presenter view is to show all of the upcoming slides on your main monitor. On a second monitor, you will be able to view the current slide and the content you will be displaying to your webinar's viewers. If you suddenly find yourself pressed for time, you will be able to jump past any number of slides. You will be able to tell exactly how far into the presentation you are, with the presenter view. From there, you will have the ability to adjust the session according to how much time you think you have left. For example, if you only have ten more minutes to spend on the webinar and you can tell that there is material enough left for another hour, you will have to jump over some slides.

Most smart webinar hosts rehearse their presentations ahead of time for ultimate preparation. However, even if you think you are doing great on time, you should be sure that your practice runs end a while before the actual time limit. While this may seem unnecessary at first, consider that you will be on live call where people can ask you things and you can talk with co-hosts. A viewer asking only one question can dramatically slow down webinars, depending on the complexity and demonstrations needed to answer that one question. Simply tell your viewers if you are pressed for time. This will help everyone to understand that you will not be taking or answering any more questions during the remainder of the session. If you are using GoToWebinar, you will not have to worry about missing anything important, since the tool stores all of the questions for you to look at later. After your presentation has ended, you will be able to review all of the questions and even address them individually, in whatever means you prefer, such as video, email or report.

For the presenter who suddenly finds himself or herself in dire straits regarding time, you can just jump ahead right to the end of the session. Speak on the action you are encouraging your viewers to take. Do your rehearsed sales pitch. Sometimes, a sales pitch can last up to twenty minutes. If you find yourself with a lot left to say, just jump to the end and use whatever is left over to make bonus content, or even an entire new webinar series.

The bottom line is: if you find that your webinars are too long, you need to bring them down to size. Jump ahead, do not accept any more questions, and get to the end of the presentation as soon as you can. To find out more details about the technical aspects of marketing webinars, you can go to: www.webinarcrusher.com

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01. Feb, 2011
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Webinar Editing with Camtasia Studio

When you have finished recording your webinar you are going to want to know how you can edit the production in order to make changes and improvements. In this article we are going to discuss how you can fix mistakes, add music and much more.

There are numerous programs available for editing videos. Many of them are difficult to learn and use and they can also be slow in processing your video.

One program that is simple and fast to use is Camtasia Studio. Using this program allows you to make quick and easy editing changes to your webinar.

Some of the useful features of Camtasia Studio that make it easy to edit with are its use of a timeline for your movie, an easy way to add introductory music and preset tools for uploading your movie to various sites on the internet.

A timeline feature is important when you are editing your video because it makes it easy to select portions of the movie to edit or delete. Often it is at the beginning or at the end of the video where you want to make your changes. Using the scissor icon in Camtasia Studio easily deletes portions that you don't want seen, such as the preparations for starting the camera or the ending of the recording. The timeline feature is also very handy when you want to add music, we'll discuss that next.

Music is a definite enhancement to your webinar but many people are uncertain as how to go about adding music to their video and editing it. Adding music is easy with Camtasia Studio. Simply import your music file and drag it under the place on the timeline where you want the music to be. Don't place it to the left or right of the timeline; it must be placed below in order to play the audio at the same time as the video. It is also easy to edit the volume of the music so that it is louder before and after your voice presentation. This allows you to add the professional effect of the background music while ensuring that you will be heard clearly. You can edit the sound volume by locking the track and using the decrease volume or increase volume icons. This is a simple yet effective way to make your webinar more professional.

Camtasia Studio should be your editing software choice for a number of reasons. It is an easy to learn and easy to use video editing tool. It contains many useful functions such as a timeline of your movie, a simple and effective way to add and edit music tracks and preset tools to help you upload your finished webinar to various places on the internet.

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31. Jan, 2011
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Webinar Discounts

As someone who is planning your own webinar, you have no doubt attended many training sessions or other webinars in preparation for making your own. It is probable that during some of these sessions the presenters offered discounts on products, services or memberships.

Is this a good idea?

Sometimes discounts can be an effective marketing tool; for example, when you are a new company or when you are offering a new product or service.

The discount can help increase interest in the product that you are promoting. If you offer a discount, it is a good idea to let customers know that this is a short-term discount and only for those who purchase quickly. This encourages early-bird shoppers.

You need to careful that you do not lead your customers into believing that you will always discount your price. If you discount all of the time you will lead people to think that your products are only worth the discounted price. This is not something that you want to do as it diminishes the perceived value of what you offer.

There are better and more effective ways of promoting your products and services than using discounts.

Instead of lowering the price of your product, add more value to it so that it seems a good value at the full price.

For example, if you are offering a course in hula dancing you could add information on Hawaiian music or language. I'm sure you get the point. To ensure that the addition is of real value to your customer, it must be something that meshes with your main product. A course in yodeling would probably not be of much interest to the person learning hula dancing!

Make sure that you are pricing your product in a way that accurately reflects its value and the value of other similar products available. If you do this consistently then your customers will not expect a discount and will purchase your new products at the full price. You will then have an established customer base that is happy with your product or service and happy with your prices.

Remember, discounts can be an effective marketing tool for new companies or goods or services. Make any discounts for a short period of time to encourage early shoppers. Don't give discounts on a regular basis, it devalues your product.

Increase the value of your product with additions that compliment the original product. Price your product fairly in terms of both its value and the prices of products of similar value. Value here means 'true worth', not price.

If you do this you will have a satisfied, returning customer base for your goods.

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30. Jan, 2011
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Tips In Keeping People Interested On Your Webinar When You Present Your Pitch

When you are hosting a webinar, which means a live presentation, a lot of people tend to forget about the ending. They just care about what happens at the beginning and the middle part, but not the end. What people don't know is that the end part of the presentation is the most important part of all, as the end allows you to get your audience to do something. If you are presenting a pitch, your aim should be to get people to buy the product from you. Regardless if you are just giving the audience a training that is for free, the end of the webinar should tell the audience what action they should take. The webinar pitch, that is either for training purposes or to get them to buy something, should guide them to what action they need to take next.

There are ways to know if your viewers will follow through on what they have seen. You can do this by giving them a pitch after the training session, in a way that is not pushy, in other words it should be a smooth transition between the two. Make sure the action they take, will only is from one offer you give them. Having a smooth transition means, that there shouldn't be a pause in following what you have just discussed before leading into your pitch.

If you can pitch what you are selling to your customers in a seamless way, they may not even realize that you are pitching, and from there you will have their attention. When you transition you shouldn't say goodbye before your pitch, you need to say it at the end.

People tend to get anxious about the pitch, and slip up and say their goodbyes and pause followed by the pitch. There is no need for it to be like that. The session should feel like it is an entire training session, even when you are pitching. It should give the audience the idea that you are helping them with a problem, because they have done this and to help solve this problem you should go here and this is why you need to go to this website.

What will help you with your pitch, is giving someone only one place where they need to go. Giving the audience too many suggestions on where they can get the information, leaves them confused and uninterested. Just getting the audience to go to one web address is difficult enough, without having them go to more than five. Pitch them where they should go next, following the training. This allows them to do the action right then and there.

These are the ways to keep people on the webinar, when you are pitching or on the final close: You need to create a seamless transition, and don't say goodbye until the end of the kind of action you have given them to do.

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29. Jan, 2011
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The Number of People You Can Expect On Your Live Webinar Training Conference

If you are intending on running a webinar, then you will first have to register some people before you begin, and once you start your live training, these people that you have registered will attend it. However, how many of the registered people will actually attend your live training session? Do you think that all the people or at least half of the registered people will actually attend? Well, you are wrong.

According to my past experience in running a live webinar, 32% of people who register is the usual rate of people who actually show up. This simply means that if I have 100 registered people, then out of these 100 only 32 will actually show up. This percentage does no vary a lot from one webinar to another. Your results may actually vary, but you must plan on close to 1/3 of registered people to attend your live webinar training sessions.

What are people expected to do on your live webinar and what is the amount of time that you should expect them to be there? This actually depends on the person attending your live webinar, and it is one factor that actually varies from one webinar to another.

However, through my experience with running webinars, I have seen that at the top of every hour, a few people leave. This simply means that if my webinar runs at 3:30 in the afternoon, some people will leave at four o'clock, some at five o'clock and others at six o'clock. Some people only have scheduled events or appointments at the close of the hour and they lose a few people.

I have also noticed that there is a slight drop of people at the end of my live webinar. If you are trying to teach something and then move to a pitch, there are a few people who are not going to purchase, who aren't even slightly interested in purchasing, and who will not hang around for your pitch. Even if you aren't trying to sell something, there are a few impatient people who will leave immediately your webinar seems to wind up. They usually feel that they have got all they need to know, even if you probably have a very important thing to say at the close of your training, they will leave before the training is over.

Therefore you can expect about a 1/3 of the people who registered for your webinar to turn up. But always remember that a few people will leave early into your webinar while others will leave at the end of it. You must therefore not expect that all the people who registered for your live webinar training session will actually turn up. You should not even expect half of them to show up. The best figure that you can expect to turn up is 32% of the registered people as earlier mentioned.

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28. Jan, 2011
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The Mistakes That Are Made With A Free Webinar

When you are presenting a free webinar over the Internet, there are a few notes that you need to know before entering in this domain. You should always have a pitch at the end, have a clear teaching style, and don't give away all the secrets.

When you are working on something, you should get paid for what you know. There is probably something that you know more about than anyone else. There will also be some sort of paid book, membership site, ebook, and DVD about a similar topic. So, when you are presenting and teaching your audience for a couple of hours, it is okay to pitch a website URL at the end. This is where your audience will find out more about you, and can purchase anything extra from you. Having some sort of pitch at the end is really important.

Even though you are pitching at the end it is needed, you still need to teach them something. There is no point in just having a pitch at the end without the information behind it, as there will be no reason for them to listen to what you have to say about the pitch.

Find an interesting topic, that you know a lot of information about, and teach the audience. You can present this information in which ever way you chose to. This will help people realize how the product your talking about, will solve all their problems by the amount of valid information you give. You need to give them a reason to pay for the product, or otherwise they wont.

When you make a presentation, don't give all the information about the product your selling, just settle on a few important points, and go into detail. Your information that you are presenting should be enough to get them to buy a product.

When you are presenting in a live webinar, help solve the problems that people are facing, and give them the basic information to help tackle the issue. Once they know all of this, then they will be more inclined to buy the product from you. But, if you give them all the information that is in the product away for free, then there is no real reason for people to get it, as they have all the answers to their problems.

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27. Jan, 2011
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The Best Time to Have Your Live Webinar

Do you find yourself constantly worrying about the best time to run your webinars? What time during the day or week is best to run your webinars?

All I can tell you that no time or date is perfect to run your webinars. I still get people attending my webinars when I run them at night, in the afternoon, in the morning, over the weekends, and also early and late week. This is the most important thing to keep in mind when running webinars. Run them at your most convenient time.

If you have a day job or you have other engagements during the week, you can run your webinars on weekends. You can see if more people attend your webinar or if the attendees in your webinar purchase more things by running your webinar on weekdays every once in a while. This also applies to the time of day. You can try running your webinars in the morning if you usually run them in the evening to find out if there will be a difference.

But most importantly, don't be superstitious. It is very easy to listen to the advice of another person telling you that you can only run a webinar on Friday mornings. But the misgiving of that reasoning is if Friday morning was the best time to run a webinar, wouldn't everybody run their webinars at a certain time? This would not be possible because that slot of time would be overcrowded and it wouldn't be the best time to run a webinar anymore.

Another important reason why you should try different times and dates, is to find out what your subscribers prefer. Maybe a lot of people on your list attend your webinars on Monday afternoons, but maybe mine attend more on Friday mornings. Find out what your list prefers and combine this with the best time slot for you. You are an owner of a business and you can therefore schedule your own hours including what time and date your webinar should run.

Be consistent once you know which date, time and the most convenient day of the week to run your live webinar. If you see that you like and your subscribers, like you to run webinars on Mondays at 3:30 PM, continue running your webinars on Mondays at 3:30 PM because your list is already used to this.

The best time to run your webinar is the most convenient day of the week for you and also your list. You must also ensure that you run your live webinar at the best time of day for both you and your subscribers. Nobody can tell you the perfect time to run your live webinar because there is no perfect time. As long as the time and day of the week that you choose is convenient for both you and your subscribers then this is the best time.

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26. Jan, 2011
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Small Changes in Webinars for Big Effects

As the presenter of an online training session or webinar, there are some small things that you can do in order to make your presentation much more effective. They are; the use of vocal pauses, calm presentation and the use of questions.

Many people presenting webinars seem to fall in love with the sound of their own voice; they go on and on with out pause. This can be boring for your audience and is neither effective in getting your information across nor in emphasizing your key points. The use of vocal pauses is a good way to add dramatic effect. It also lets people know when you have made an important point and gives them time to reflect on it. Being comfortable with short pauses is the sign of a professional presenter who feels no need to fill pauses with 'uhm's, you knows and ok's'.

Another sign of a professional presenter is that they do not fidget constantly with their mouse. It is very distracting to the audience too see the mouse cursor flitting about all over the screen. The same holds true for randomly selecting text, moving windows around and other forms of electronic fidgeting. If you were watching a presentation live, you would be distracted if the presenter was constantly making gestures or movements that had no relation to the presentation. Electronic fidgeting with your mouse has the same distracting effect. Keep your hand of your mouse unless you need to change a slide or click on a link. You can get a wireless presentation remote to use during your webinar, that way you don't need to use your mouse at all.

Pausing for questions is important for three reasons.

It allows you to emphasize important points by putting them into question form. It allows you to check if your audience understands your material. It also gives the audience a sense of participation in your webinar and shows that you care about what they are thinking. An additional benefit of pausing for questions is that it gives the audience time to consider the information that has already been presented.

Keep in mind that there are three small changes that can have a very big effect on your webinar presentation.

Use vocal pauses for dramatic effect and to emphasize your key points.

Do not play with, or fidget with, your mouse Use it only as necessary to avoid distracting your audience from your presentation.

Pause for questions. This allows you to reinforce concepts, check that your audience understands your material and gives them a sense of participation.

Present your webinar in a truly professional manner by incorporating these helpful tips.

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25. Jan, 2011
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