Thursday 6 June 2013

How To Create Impressive Webinars

If you are conscious about your business surroundings, you must have noticed an increase in the number of webinars.  There’s a reason for it – webinars provide an effective and profitable platform for educating customers about the features, benefits and necessity of your products or services. But there are a few tactics of hosting a successful webinar. Before you plan for a webinar, there is one important question that you should ask yourself: “Would my business really have any benefit by educating customers on the benefits of my products or services?” If the answer to this question is yes, then only it’s worth hosting a webinar. Else, it’s just a waste of time and effort.

Attract the attention
Try to catch the attention of your audience at the very outset of a webinar. The audience likes to know their take away from the webinar. Remember to state very clearly the objective of the webinar right at its beginning. This will not only make the audience attentive but will also help you to get the right group of people for whom your products or services are relevant.

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After you have stated the take away from the webinar, do not just start with the products/services. Try to develop an engaging story that will follow the opening statement. Do not only recite a chain of events rather try to create a presentation. Develop the events in the story in such a way that your products and services easily become a part of it. It is better if you can spin the events in such a way that your products/services become an obvious remedy for the problems presented in the story.

Practice makes a man perfect
An effective webinar is a combination of planning and presentation. A lot of people forget the second part. They plan for a perfect webinar but they also should be able to host it properly. Presenting a webinar is often more important than planning. If you fumble in the middle of a webinar, you are sure to lose audience’s attention. Practice several time before you actually conduct a webinar. Practice aloud.

Switch to automated webinars
Hosting a webinar is a tiresome job. You need to check your internet connection, electricity connection, laptop or desktop (on which you are going to host the webinar). Yet at the right moment, something may go wrong and you have absolutely no control over it – the internet may stop working or your laptop crashes. Situations like this actually can ruin a webinar. You need to create a backup for everything or you can switch over to automated webinars.

Be confident
Another important factor is you should sound confident throughout the webinar. You should not stumble or hesitate during the webinar. If you wish to sell your product or service through the webinar, it is necessary to sound confident. Your hesitation can create a negative impact on the audience. For a better or prompt effect you can add a bonus at the end of the session – a discount for those people who buy/book through the webinar.

Provide contact information
It is also better to provide contact information at the end of a webinar. So, if somebody is interested in learning more about your products and services, they can contact you directly.

About the Author
James Smith is the marketing coordinator and content writer for FocalPointSystem. He has extensive marketing experience and is extremely knowledgeable about Self replicated websites. He writes educational tips for internet marketers, MLM companies and direct sales companies regarding best practices in the implementation of replicated MLM websites.

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