With a webinar, you can present live online training. And just like any presentation, you probably have a goal about how long you want your webinar to last. If you wanted your presentation to last an hour and you keep coming up short, you keep ending at the 20-minute or 30-minute mark, what are you doing wrong? And how can you get better so you hit your time goal? To make your webinar last longer, have more talk to about, take questions during the call and reiterate and demonstrate.
If you are stopping your webinar around the 20-minute mark, you probably just don't have enough to talk about or you're going through it too fast. Maybe you're not going into enough detail. Maybe you can still use the same outline but stop and explain things more or repeat important points to make sure people get them or recap things you've already spoken about. Different people go through their presentation slides at a different pace. I happen to go through my slides, one slide every 1 to 3 minutes but I know people who only go through one slide every 10 minutes. There is no real set number of slides to have in your PowerPoint for a 1-hour presentation. It depends on how quickly you go through the slides. If you have to add more slides to fill more time, do it. Because you're on a live webinar, you can take questions. Maybe you mentioned and somebody wants you to slow down or brings you off on a tangent. Somebody wants you to cover another topic. Or somebody wants you to recap a specific need you said a few minutes back.
Depending on your style, you might want to specify a point in your webinar to take questions. Or if you're like me, take questions as you're speaking. Don't worry because this is a webinar, you're attendees cannot interrupt your voice. They can only type in questions as text in a question box then you decide if you should ignore it or take care of it.
And finally, here's a way to make your webinar last longer without adding any new content and that's to reiterate and to demonstrate. Too many times, I see people and I hear people telling me things in a theoretical sense. They tell me how to set up an opt in page but they don't show me. You are on a webinar. You are showing you're screen. If you're telling people about something, show it to them. Let's say you were teaching a money management course and telling people how to always save more money than you spend. That sounds good in theory but I'd rather see your personal budget or for you to create a budget on the call with real life numbers so I could better understand it. Different people learn in different ways. Some people learn from the big picture, others learn from the example. Show both ways. This will make your webinar have a slower pace, which means the information will stick better with your attendees and it will make more sense.
If you're webinar is not lasting long enough, either add more content to talk about, take questions or demonstrate the things you taught, or a combination of the three. Run your very own webinar and become famous right here at www.webinarcrusher.com.
