How To Host a Webinar

Posted by in How To, James Schramko, Lifestyle

I just arrived home after traveling to the other side of the world. One thing this reminds me about is the power and leverage of webinars. Webinars (can also be called a web conference) are one of the best ways to reach a large audience without leaving home. When I travel I have to sit in planes for hours on end, often two or three planes, in the case of Sydney – Dublin or Sydney Belize. Sometimes it takes me more than 30 hours from when I leave my front door to get to my destination. Webinars eliminate this altogether.


This marketing device will become more popular

I first realized the power of webinars when I met two men who make more than 10 million dollars a year from webinars. I tried it with my own clients and they LOVED it. Now it is your turn. Get into it right now before it becomes common place. Be an early mover and tap into the vast majority of the non-internet community who have in many cases NEVER heard of a webinar!

Who can do this?
If you have a laptop, a connection and a subscription to a webinar service (like GoToWebinar) then you are set to go. The next steps are pretty straight froward:
- Find an audience,
- Do your research,
- Create some slides
- Craft an offer
- Create a registration link
- Promote the webinar
- Practice in safety
- Run the webinar
- Leverage that content
- Repeat

How you can use live meeting webinars
You can use them to sell products or services, train outsource staff, educate members of a community, create content for membership sites, conduct small business webinars for research. There are several ways you can use live webinar software.

Reach the entire world whilst sitting at home
Most weeks for about two years I have been running webinars to global audiences. There are many reasons why I do this and one is because they are extremely profitable. For example, when I run training webinars for my paying members of SuperFastResults coaching forum I am maintaining a recurring membership database. When I sell a course from webinar I am generating thousands or in some cases tens of thousands in sales in about an hour. All from my home office (lab).
James Schramko Beach House
(Photo taken from my backyard)

How to Run A Webinar
In my internet marketing coaching forum recently I held a training about webinar best practices on this very subject: “How to run a webinar”. It takes you through the items listed above PLUS my biggest mistakes and lessons learned. It is just under one hour and I decided to release access to this webinar to the public as a single product.

If you are not already a member of SuperFastResults you can be setting up a webinar instantly when you buy your own copy of this webinar training video using this link: How To Run A Webinar Training

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14 Comments

James Reynolds

22. May, 2010

Great example of leverage and practicing what you preach.

George Lee Sye

24. May, 2010

Great work James, this is definitely a medium that will experience growth in application, both in the corporate world and the small business sector. We continue to explore its use in our business execution and leadership education programs. Thanks again.

Peter Park

25. May, 2010

What program/software is recommended for webinars?

James

26. May, 2010

I use GoToWebinar. It is a well regarded program and can handle up to 1000 people. Mac or PC.

Justyna Bizdra

26. May, 2010

James, your idea of making a webinar on “how to run a webinar” was really cool.

As always great content and valuable tips. I particularly liked the part about leverage and “oops” :)

Cheers
Justyna

James

27. May, 2010

Thanks! The oops are worth the price of admission alone!

Alex

27. May, 2010

James, another insightful piece, backed up by the fact that you actually take action and just get it done! (as was pointed out in that interview with Yaro)
This relates to the last piece, but I remember researching and coming up with ‘how to start an internet business’ and started my attempt to rank, then I saw your post and was like ‘yeah that’s just great, now I gotta fight this guy too!’ LOL

Nice backyard man! Is that (removed) ?

I live in Pymble but spend most of my time in Dee Why. Want to catch up for a coffee?

James

27. May, 2010

funny you found this blog with long tail search terms – I guess that is the purpose :)

Carol

29. May, 2010

James – great webinar. Will definately help me out a lot. Some of your opps moments where quite entertaining – hopefully it might stop me from making the same mistake.

James

29. May, 2010

nice to know my mistakes were able to save others!

Tony

28. Jul, 2010

Hi James. Thanks for the great value as usual! I was wondering if I should use webinars for my business and now I think I will. Reading your article, I also got new ideas!!

But I have a question. If I have a list of people who already know about the product I am offering, is it still a good idea to promote a webinar to those people. It could be a way of answering a lot of questions at one time and it could lead to more sales I suppose.

What are your thoughts about this??

Thanks again

James

31. Jul, 2010

@Tony Yes, a webinar will increase your relationship, create valuable solutions (in the form of answering questions), provide you content and also muster an ‘event’ based buying environment!

Eric Henderson

05. Aug, 2010

James,

I just came across your blog today. It is funny because I am just starting using webinars in my business and they are just like you said – the most powerful tool in an entrepreneurs toolbox!

I am definately going to check out your product on webinars as well! Thanks again and be well.

Best Always,

Eric Henderson

Tony

07. Aug, 2010

@ James Thanks for the great tips…..I will incorporate this in my business in the near future!

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