Steve Dotto here.
I’m glad you’re joining us today and I hope that you’re glad that you’re joining
me as well.
Our topic today is what I considered to be a very exciting topic.
We’re going to take a look at stealth seminar.
Now Stealth Seminar is an automated webinar delivery platform and there are a few of them
out there.
They all do a pretty good job and it’s so cool what you can do with these tools.
Now this is actually kind of a two part demo.
I’m only going to show an overview in this particular video.
If this is a product that you’re really interested in and you really want to evaluate
because you’re considering using it yourself comparing it with other products, then click
on the link beneath me right now and that will take you into my blog post where I’ve
got a whole series of demo videos that I’ve done where I show exactly how I use Stealth
Seminar to deliver my product, and I also talked really frankly about what I like and
what I don’t like about the product and there are both sides of that equation.
I’ve been using it for about three months now and I think I’ve got a really good handle
on exactly how it fits.
So if you are really kind of interested in kind of the deeper end of the pool, click
on that link beneath.
If not, stick around and let’s take a quick kind of overview of what automated webinar
systems will do for us and how we can engage in it.
So Stealth Seminar, as I said, I’ve been using it for about three months and I evaluated
the whole variety of different products when I decided that I was going to start delivering
webinars as a part of my business model.
Now what these products do is they allow us to package up webinars and to deliver them
to an audience in a planned environment.
So basically you schedule them to have them uploaded and not to have to deliver live webinars
all of the time.
Now there are two sides of that particular coin, one side I’m not so crazy about.
One side of that coin is they create the ability to be able to fool people into thinking that
your webinar is being delivered live.
They have all sorts of tools that make it if not blatantly this is live, at least to
confuse people to have them think that they’re dealing somebody live in the webinar.
Personally, I hate that concept.
I don’t like starting out a relationship with a new audience member, a new person,
by basically lying to them and by creating the illusion that I might be delivering something
that I’m not, I think of as lying so I don’t choose to use the software in that form.
How I do use it is I strip away all of that kind of smoke and mirrors and actually deliver
it and I say I’ve prerecorded this webinar.
Then what I do is I’d go into the chat room live so that I can still have interaction
with them.
The reason that I prerecord my webinars is a) we’ve all gone to live webinars with
the presentors had technical issues and all of the sudden in one-hour webinar you’ve
lost ten minutes of time while the person is scrambling around trying to get their head,
trying to get the technology working, and then the poor presentor is all very clamped
[phonetic 00:02:56] because they’d had such a problem putting it all together.
So that is not a good way, I think, to deliver valuable content.
Second, sometimes I tend to ramble and get a little bit off topic.
I don’t know if you’ve watched a lot of my videos but it happens occasionally, and
I want my webinars to be concise and to have as much value as possible.
So I prerecord them, edit them, package them up so that we make maximum use of the time
that people spend watching my webinars.
That’s a personal choice.
That’s how I choose to deliver my webinars and Stealth Seminar kind of give me the best
of all those different worlds at what I considered to be of fairly affordable price.
If you visit their website, they’ve got lots of resources.
There’s even a webinar that will walk you through the webinar process to tell you about
whether you should be buying it or not.
They’re very good at the internet marketing game.
As soon as you visit it, they will retarget you and you’ll see their ads appearing in
your Facebook feeds and in your Google feeds.
They definitely want your business if you visit the Stealth Seminar folk.
But let’s take a look just at an overview and the features, talk through it and then
again if you are really interested in the nitty gritty detail of the software, take
a look at the post that I created where I do demos of getting right down of the menu
systems and how I actually upload my videos and how I compose my entire webinar.
But if we take a look at the features, the things that really impressed me were first
of all the ability to upload the webinar, package it up and them stream it really efficiently
and on time without worrying about technical issues.
Technically, they perform very well.
The other thing that Stealth Seminar has going for them is they have almost legendary technical
support.
Their people who actually help you out when you send email back and forth with, they are
the best I’ve ever dealt with frankly and I’m not blowing smoke because that it’s
true.
If you kind of do a little bit of research online, you’ll hear a lot of people commenting
about how good their technical support is, to the point that they actually don’t want
you or they recommend that you don’t learn how to actually set all the settings yourself
but instead to use their technical support.
I chose to learn to do it myself but still their technical support puts everybody else
to shame frankly.
Some of the features that really make it stand apart is the ability to do both live and packaged
webinars and this one I really like: Hangouts On Air Integration.
So you can package up a webinar, deliver your webinar to an audience with a packaged webinar,
then be live and chat if you want, and then as soon as your webinar ends, you have the
ability to switch over to a Google Hangout live and be able to interact then with your
audience in a different form.
I really like that potential.
The other thing that they do really well, as far as I’m concerned, is they’ve got
a really good registration system where if you are using it to register people for your
webinar, they do a good job of autoresponding and letting people know when the webinar is
coming up, etc.
But it also integrates nicely with your own email autoresponder programs.
I integrated mine with Aweber, which is the autoresponder that I’m actually using, and
it worked really well.
If you are in the deeper end of the internet marketing pool, they do things like split
testing so you can check which landing pages convert better for getting people into the
webinars and all sorts of other integration is included as well.
Overall, I like this product if you’ve taken your first steps into the automated webinar
world mainly because I know that you’re going to have success because of their technical
support.
It works really well, plus it’s quite affordable.
Their main competitor, Evergreen Business Systems costs I think $500 but it’s a onetime
purchase.
You buy it once and then you use it.
With Stealth Seminar, I think I paid about $100 for them to set up my account and then
it was $69 a month to use it and that $69 gives up to 100 webinars a month with up to
150 people in each webinar.
So you can reach a lot of people using this system.
I hope that that is a good overview of Stealth Seminar.
As I said if you want more detail, drop in and take a look at the blog post where I cover
it in much more detail.
I’m Steve Dotto.
Thanks for spending time with me today.
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