Have you heard about webinars or web based live online presentations yet? If not, you need to know about the three kinds of webinars you can run to deliver online training, non-interactive webinars, interactive webinars and Q&A driven webinars.
With the webinar, people see your screen and they hear your voice. When you're first starting out with the webinar, it can be kind of scary but it's worth getting the hang of it because it's the closest thing you can get to presenting live in front of an in-person audience but this is over the Internet. When you're first getting started, you'll want to only focus on the presentation you are delivering and maybe check for questions at the end.
But for now, just get used to presenting your PowerPoint's or demonstration and speaking for about an hour. Once you have a webinar or two under your belt then add the interactivity.
With many webinar services such as Go To Webinar, attendees can type questions into a special question box. This means that while you are talking, you can periodically check the question box and allow some of your attendees to steer the conversation in a certain way.
You can also have different panelists or guest speakers and un-mute individual people on the call so they can talk in addition to you or even one of your attendees if they have a headset or a telephone and they have a question, you can un-mute them and they can ask their question instead of having to type it out.
The final form of webinar which is super interactive and great for putting inside a paid member's area is a Q&A or question and answer webinar. These are the easiest kinds of webinars to run because you don't have to make any preparation. Simply answer up the questions that get put in front of you.
If you're doing this sort of a membership site, you can make a blog post inside the membership and ask people to post comments that detail their one question for the Q&A call. Then during the Q&A call, you read through the questions one at a time and answer them. You can also tell people to ask even more questions live on the call in the question box ensuring that you get to all of their problems.
Those are the three webinars you can run when you're just starting out, a non-interactive webinar, an interactive webinar and a question and answer driven webinar.
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