I'm John Crestani and in this video I'll be showing you walking you through the
4 bullet points I have. CCD Q of how you can host a good webinar. And also be
showing you what a good follow-up sequence is so you can make your online
training session a total hit. So, hosting an online webinar isn't very complicated.
I'm going to break it down very simply here. I host a lot of webinars for my business.
One side of my business is I actually train people on my own business model.
Which is called affiliate marketing. Basically selling other people's
products on a commission only basis. If you want to learn more about that, just
subscribe to my channel you get a free course. Now, I've broken it down into 4
different steps. CCDQ and the first thing you want to do to host a good
webinar is make sure you have a very strong internet connection. You can go to
speedtest.net to check your internet connection.
And you want to make sure you have a good up-and-down speed. So, up and down
means, you know, a lot of people have fast download speeds but you want to make
sure you have an up speed of at least a couple megabytes per second. At least
5 megabytes per second. The other thing I would recommend you do. So again,
be on a sound internet connection. You don't know how many people I've seen
that have tried to perform a webinar or only to get cut off midway through or
something like that. What I would recommend you do is you use
GoToWebinar. Out of the most common webinar program. And call in from the
landline, okay? Now, if you call in on your phone, if you're somewhat worried about
your internet connection, GoToWebinar. Gives you an option to literally just
dial in a number. So, the audio is on a telephone connection whereas your video
is on your internet connection. This gives you kind of a backup. In case your
internet connection is a little bit spotty, people will still be able to hear
you on your phone. You'll still be able to hear them. Second thing is do a sound
and video check when you begin. Make sure your audience is you know, hears you and
sees your screen. And what I would do is simply just put up
slide or put up your first visual and ask the audience. Say, "Hey, can you press
one if you hear me alright? And if you see the screen alright.' And you tell them
what the screen is supposed to say. Say, the screen is supposed to be a big
picture of me and my dog. Whatever you're showing. That way, you just have
confirmation from your audience that everything's cool. If you don't see
anything in the chat, that's probably a sign that you're not connected correctly
and you'll need to address that. Here's an extra thing. I just remembered this is
I would actually recommend you use 2 screens. Webinars. What I do, I don't
always do this. But I always try to do this is have a second screen up. You know,
have the screen you're using to present on. And then have a second screen where
you can put the chat. You know, for GoToWebinar. You can put the whatever the
questions people are asking. And you can also put a list of the attendees out. So,
what I do is I'll set my second screen up and my attendees and the questions
people are asking on my other screen. Just so, I can keep tabs on what the
audience is saying as I'm going through my presentation. Some people find this
distracting. If you're new to performing webinars, you might be distracting like
see people asking questions and you might feel like you need to answer them
or seeing people leave. You know that can be really disheartening if you're
performing for an audience of 100 people. And you just see you know, people are
saying, "Oh, this is boring." Or "Oh, I don't understand what you're talking about." And
you get all self-aware and self-conscious. So, maybe you don't want
the chat up and the attendees up because maybe that'll distract you from the
material you're delivering. I personally find it useful. But then again, I've done
it quite a few times. Next thing I would say to do is when you begin your webinar,
ask the audience to minimize their distraction. I always tell people a few
things. I say, "Hey, if you could turn off the ringer on your phone and flip it
down so that you don't see those blinky lights." Phones are designed to really
just suck our attention away from us. And you know, even if somebody's phone is on
silent, you have these blinky lights on the top now that just blink if you get a
message or a notification or whatever. So, I always tell people. "Flip your phone
down, so it's facing the desk, put it on silent." On GoToWebinar, you
can't be in any other tabs. But I do ask people. I say please, you know, close any
other tabs that you're using, that are up. And also I ask people to you know turn
off their TV or close the door to the room they're in or whatever they
need to do. So, they could focus on the material that I'm about to deliver. There
are so many distractions people have in their lives. It can be a bit overwhelming.
Life and technology companies are literally designed to take our attention
away from, you know, from other people. I mean I could go on and on about how bad
tech is for social relations. But a lot of people will have their TVs on call
out all these things. Help people minimize those distractions. If you have
something valuable to share with them. It will help them get the best most juice
out of your presentation. Now, the last thing is I would say before you begin
your presentation, also let people know what your question policy is. You know, if
you say, "Look, I encourage interaction but I won't be answering questions until the
end of the presentation." Let them know that. Or if you want people to ask
questions all throughout the presentation, you'll call on people and
answer their questions. Say, "Ask questions anytime." Also what I would do in the
beginning is let people know if you're actually going to call on them and unmute
them, okay? Or if you're just going to answer their question but not actually have
them on the line, on the webinar with you. Some people get a bit jarred when you
just unmute them and you know maybe they're hanging out at home with a
kid and they have a crying baby. And they don't want to be called on. So, you could
tell people you know what I tell people as I say, "Hey, look. if you ask question, I
may unmute you. You know, I may put you on the line and because I want to talk to
you live. And also make sure you have a microphone. Because I only answer
questions for people who I'm going to actually speak with I like that
interaction." So, that's how to host a webinar. It's not too complicated. Well
now, what I would recommend for reminders and follow-up sequences general. So, I
send people a reminder 6 hours beforehand, 4 hours beforehand and 2
hours beforehand. And also 15 minutes beforehand. Now, in a business to business
space, you might want to be a little more discreet. And you might want to
only send a reminder maybe a day, an hour and 15 minutes beforehand. Just let
people know what's going on. If you have the ability to send text message
reminders for your webinar that you're doing, I think that's very useful because
I mean, let's face it. Sometimes people forget it or life gets in the way or
calls or whatever. I hope that was helpful in teaching you
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