Five Fabulous Features Of Online Web Conferencing

An online web conference provides you with a number of options at your disposal that you cannot get in any other type of presentation type. Here are some of the options that are available to you when you use webinar trainings to sell the products and services your company offers.

1. Question boxes
This is useful to allow any participant who is connected to the webinar to be able to type a question for you to answer. You can choose to address the question immediately or address it at a later point on the webinar. Sometimes I will open up the webinar at the end of the presentation for questions from the participants. You cannot do this on a teleseminar. In fact, it is difficult to do this in any other format.

2. Make the most of your presentation
You can really get your PowerPoint presentation to work for you with webinars. A webinar is so much more powerful than a teleseminar in that your listeners are not just listening along with you, but are also watching along with you as you go through your interactive PowerPoint presentation. This really helps them visually get a feel for what you are talking about and increase their understanding of your message.

3. Utilize an exit survey
An online web conference also gives you the ability to conduct an exit survey. This is very valuable. A survey reveals to you what the participants like and did not like about your webinar. This information can help you to make more sales. If you know who liked the webinar, you now know who may be the best prospects to follow up with. An exit survey can also give you comments to use for testimonials.

4. Involve your listeners with multiple senses
Webinars really involve the participants. They serve as a great way to engage your audience. They tap into multiple forms of sense. They tap into the hearing, the sight and they also allow for interaction. What this does as a result is makes it a presentation that has a higher value than a traditional presentation. It is more effective than a voice only presentation. It is better than reading words on a screen. It communicates your points more effectively.

5. Allows you to involve their emotions
An online web conference gives you the ability to show as well as tell. If you sell software, you can demonstrate how it works. If you have pictures of your product you can show those. For instance, on a webinar I hosted, I showed the participants pictures that I took on trip to Ireland. This is far superior to just trying to describe these pictures in verbal or written words alone.

Other items you can show are websites, membership websites and virtually anything that will help you to make sales. If you have a retail store, you can show the products that you sell there. Business webinars do a fantastic job at getting the sale. The power is found in the ability to stir up the emotions of the participants and get them to interact with you, which drives the sales process. I am not saying that you should never use other selling strategies. I use them as well. I have just found that an online web conference works very well and I do them continuously as a result.


Copyright Stephen Beck 2009

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