When you are presenting live internet presentations or webinars, there are a few small tweaks you can make to your presentation to make it a whole lot better. I want to share those with you today.
The first thing that can have an enormous impact on you webinars is by saying nothing. That's right. You can add pauses into your presentation for dramatic effect. If you are finishing a thought, if you just said something profound, there's nothing wrong with stopping for one second and letting it sink in. It's your natural reaction to try to fill the silence. That's why people say words like "uhm," and "you know," and "like" to try to fill in the silence. But having a pause shows that you're in control of the conversation and that you are relaxed enough to be okay with little pauses.
Another big thing that can improve your webinars dramatically is to keep your hands off the mouse. Too many webinars especially ones that show the screen, show the mouse cursor dancing around, or the person manipulating the screen, selecting text randomly, moving the windows around, fidgeting. If you are watching a speaker in person fidget with their fingers or their clothes, you would be distracted from the content they were speaking. The same is true, if not more so, on a webinar because all the person is looking at is your screen. Keep your hand off the mouse unless you want to click on a link or advance the PowerPoint slides. If you can get a clicker or a wireless presentation remote, try that to advance your slides. That way you don't have to touch the mouse at all during your presentation.
Another thing that makes a big deal with webinars is to simply stop for questions. Too many presenters don't care at all about their audience and the audience has no idea if the presenter cares about them. If you feel like you just gave people a lot of information and you should stop and make sure they all understand it, stop and ask for questions, or stop and ask people if something makes sense, or stop and ask if they are ready to continue on.
If you have not been applying those three things to improve your webinars, add them. Add vocal pauses, keep your hand off your mouse, and stop for questions. Here is a method that is 50 times easier than any other way to generate content: It's at www.webinarcrusher.com.
