One feature that is commonly overlooked with webinars is the ability to have a co-host or a panelist on a webinar.\u00a0 In fact, you can have many panelists on a webinar.\u00a0 You can unmute people.\u00a0 You can pass the screen to people.\u00a0 You can give others the ability to see questions and start surveys; and the best part about this is when these different panelists are speaking, the webinar software will say, \u201cNow speaking\u2026\u201d and the name of the person, so it\u2019s easy to identify who is saying what.\u00a0 That begs the question, \u201cShould you get panelists on your webinar?\u201d and \u201cAre they required?\u201d<\/p>\n
They are helpful but they are not required.\u00a0 You need to be able to stand on your own.\u00a0 You need to be able to get a partner needing you more than you need them and you should be careful about who you unmute on a live call.\u00a0 With anything but especially with webinars, you\u2019re going to have a lot more power if you first master running webinar by yourself.\u00a0 This way, you\u2019re not dependent on anyone else\u2019s webinar account or on anyone to introduce you.\u00a0 You can run the show.\u00a0 I have put on many webinars where I presented with a partner and one of our computers broke; either we lost our internet connection, the computer crashed, or the webinar software crashed, and I needed the other person to fill in for me or vice versa.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a lot better to have two people who could stand on their own than two people who are dependent on each other to run a webinar.\u00a0 This will also make it easy to get a partner on a webinar if you really want one.\u00a0 If things with you and your webinar partner are not working out, it should be easy for you to find a new webinar partner.\u00a0 If your business partner refuses to do webinars, you can present this offer, \u201cI am going to run this webinar with or without you.\u00a0 I\u2019d rather it\u2019s with you but if I have to, I will run it all by myself.\u201d\u00a0 Then, your business partner will want to be on the webinar just to not be left out.<\/p>\n
When we\u2019re talking about panelists, your panelists don\u2019t have to be needed the entire time.\u00a0 I put on calls where the panelists introduced me to his subscribers and didn\u2019t really have much to say until the end.\u00a0 On the other hand, I\u2019ve also been on calls where we ran an interview and the panelists had all the questions to ask me and I simply answered them.\u00a0 But be careful who you unmute on a webinar.\u00a0 It seems like common sense but there are a lot of weirdoes on the internet, a lot of people who just love to cause a riot in a webinar.\u00a0 Even if someone has good intentions, far too often, when I have unmuted someone, they didn\u2019t have their microphone ready or I heard an echo in the backgrounds.\u00a0 So you definitely should not unmute anyone on the webinar who you choose and you shouldn\u2019t count on that person to have the proper audio hardware to even speak to you.\u00a0 If you do unmute someone, make sure it\u2019s someone you trust and someone who either has a headset or has dialed in on the phone for their audio.<\/p>\n
Panelists on a webinar are great but you don\u2019t always need them.\u00a0 You should be able to stand on your own, you should be able to tell on a webinar that you don\u2019t need them to run the webinar and you don\u2019t want to unmute every single person on a call.<\/p>\n