If you want your Infinite Conferencing webinar to be a success, you need people to attend it. This is where your invitations become important. How do you create compelling invitations that will encourage people to attend your webinar? There are a few things you can do.
Reading Ease
Many people don’t read all their emails all the way through, especially if they seem to be an advertisement. Therefore, it is important to create a headline that draws your readers in and tells them what they have to gain. Split up the information with subheadings or bullet points and include a strong call to action at the bottom. This will allow your readers to scan and still get the important points.
Provide Information
Your first goal should be to get your audience to trust you. This means revealing all important information honestly. Make sure you list the cost of the webinar so no one is surprised when they go to register. Let your potential attendees know who will be presenting so they can gauge the value themselves. Experts in your field make great presenters. Clearly list all sponsors and hosts to avoid confusion.
Offer Incentives
Incentives are always a great thing to bring in attendees, but you need to be careful about the incentives. One of the best types is to offer a discount if they register by a certain date. If you are offering incentives, make sure it is clear what they are, when they will receive it and what value it provides. Anything less can create a sense of dishonesty.
Making sure you optimize your webinar invite can help you attract more attendees. Your invite should be easy to read, provide all the relevant information clearly and offer incentives. If you do it correctly, you will be impressed with your results
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Posted by
Elita Jack on Thu, Mar 15, 2012 @ 02:19 PM
One of the best reasons to use web conferencing for teaching opportunities is the ability to reach out to a larger audience without needing a specified amount of space. When you hold a class in person, you are limited to the capacity of the venue you use. However, if you use web conferencing to conduct that same class, you can reach out to a classroom of thousands. Learn and employ these best practices for teaching using web conferencing and ensure your next course is a success.
Preparation
Your work on your web conference for teaching purposes begins long before your event takes place. Your preparation ahead of time is one of the biggest keys to the success of your class. You need to create the content you will use to teach your audience on the subject. However, this is more than just creating a PowerPoint presentation or slides, keeping animations to a minimum. You must also upload any slides to the system and determine which interactive elements you want to incorporate. Interactive elements, such as polls, Q&A sessions and chat boxes, help keep the audience involved. People learn better when they are involved. Keep in mind that you shouldn’t simply read your slides. You need to prepare a presentation you can use.
Practice
Like most other things, practice makes perfect. After you have all your materials uploaded and your web conference is ready to go, you need to practice with it so your presentation goes more smoothly. Run through the entire presentation from start to finish, using the tools provided so you are comfortable when it comes time to actually teach real attendees. You may also want to consider offering a short test session for your attendees to ensure that no one has problems accessing your web conference. This allows your tech team to iron out bugs before the real thing.
Assistance
Despite all your preparations, things can still go wrong. Therefore, it is important to have someone assigned to assist you during the presentation. This person will be the contact person for students who are having trouble viewing your web conference or participating. This will allow you to focus on the information you need to present and still offer help to those who need it.
Before the Web Conference
When you send out the invites for your web conference, ask your attendees to let you know if any assistance is required during the session so you can prepare accordingly. Provide everyone with a tech support phone number to call in case of problems so no one has to miss out on your presentation. It is also important to record your session, and let everyone know it will be recorded, so you can offer it on demand after the fact for those who missed it due to technical problems or prior engagements. Log in to your conference at least 15 to 20 minutes ahead of time so you are there when everyone arrives. Greet new arrivals as they come in. Before you begin, it is also important to go over the tools students will use and ensure that everyone’s microphone works well.
During the Web Conference
Once your web conference starts, there are still some things you need to pay attention to. It is important to keep your students engaged during the web conference. You can accomplish this by requiring some type of interaction from the students, such as answering polls, asking for a show of hands or asking if anyone has any questions. Turn the microphone over to the students occasionally to keep them involved. Keep the session moving along as smoothly and quickly as possible, but don’t get discouraged if you have audio or video delays. These can be normal, and tech support will get them resolved quickly. If your class is longer than 30 minutes or so, plan on having a 5 to 10 minute break about halfway through.
Web conferences make great teaching tools as long as you follow the best practices for teaching with them. You will effectively be able to reach a larger number of students so you can educate in new ways.
Posted by
Elita Jack on Thu, Feb 16, 2012 @ 01:09 PM
As a business, it is important to reach out to potential clients so you can increase your revenue. Simply relying on more traditional methods of marketing and advertising can be effective, but if you pair those with newer methods, such as web conferencing, you can expand your reach. When you expand that reach, you will be able to grow your business that much faster.
If your business wants to showcase new products or services, web conferencing gives you a low-cost method of getting that information out to existing and potential new clients. You can create a slideshow or video presentation to share through a web conference. You can even set up a chat session after your presentation so your viewers can ask questions and you can interact directly with your clients.
When you set up a web conferencing event to promote your company or the goods and services you provide, you gain the advantage of establishing a list of leads. If you set up your web conferencing event, you can require attendees to pre-register before they attend. This will encourage only those who are truly interested to register. When they register, they will provide you with contact information you can then use to further promote your product. Lead generation can be a difficult aspect for any business. A web conference makes it easier.
In addition to reaching out to your customers, you can also use web conferencing for internal matters. If your business operates from more than one location, you can introduce new products and services to all of your employees at once. Training exercises can also be conducted through web conferencing, making it easier to reach out to your employees without having to coordinate one big training session in person. You will be able to fully customize your web conference so that it meets the goals you want to accomplish.
Whether you are looking to reach out to customers with new products and services or to better train your employees, web conferencing is a viable option. As you create your marketing strategy, considering using a web conference to change the way you approach your audience can help you stand out from your competitors. The main goal of any marketing strategy is to improve the way a business reaches out to its clients. The use of technology, such as web conferencing, allows you to reach a much larger audience without costing you more money.
Posted by
Elita Jack on Mon, Feb 06, 2012 @ 01:34 PM
The healthcare industry relies heavily on new technology to find new ways to treat patients and network with other doctors to help improve the healthcare experience. One of the ways in which the healthcare industry can use advances in technology to its advantage is through the use of web conferencing. Through the use of web conferencing, doctors can reach out to patients, medical professionals and others with whom they need to interact for various reasons.
Training is one way that web conferencing can help in the healthcare industry. When doctors need to learn a new procedure, a new drug is introduced or nurses have training exercises to do, conducting this training through a web conference allows the trainer to reach a greater number of doctors or nurses at one time. These medical professionals don’t need to travel to receive the training. They can get the training they need over the Internet.
Meetings are a frequent necessity among those in the healthcare industry. Doctors often network with each other to go over difficult cases or teach aspects of patient care to others. Instead of spending the money and trying to coordinate everyone’s schedules, creating a web conference is easier on everyone. Not only will it save on travel costs, it will also cut down on the amount of time each attendee must take out of their day to meet. Each doctor can attend the meeting from his own office and return to work immediately afterward.
Those in the healthcare industry that use web conferencing over meeting in person at an in-person conference can save money. With the budget cuts that many industries, including healthcare, have had to make over the years, any time hospitals, doctors’ offices and other parts of the healthcare industry can save money can free up money for other areas, such as more research, purchasing new equipment or improving patient care.
The healthcare industry thrives on the ability to network with other health professionals to ensure the best in patient care. Whether you are introducing a new medication or treatment option, training new nurses or meeting over a particularly trying case, the use of web conferencing can make scheduling the meeting easier, as well as saving money by avoiding travel time and renting a facility to use. Web conferencing allows each participant to access the conference from their own place of employment and participate in many of the same ways they could in person.
Posted by
Elita Jack on Mon, Jan 30, 2012 @ 11:37 AM
With the use of new online education programs, the use of web conferencing in the education field has been growing. Teachers are able to reach out to students through this type of virtual classroom. However, there are also other uses for web conferencing from an educational standpoint. Businesses can use this form of communication for training and certification of employees.
Online schools use web conferencing to allow teachers and students to connect online in a more personal manner. Whether a student needs some one-on-one help or the teacher wants to address the class at once, creating a web conference allows the teacher and student to interact with each other in a similar manner to being in the classroom. Using web conferencing as a classroom allows teachers to share applications and slides with the class.
Businesses can also use web conferencing as an educational tool. If employees require training on a new program or some other aspect of the business, a web conference will allow administrators to teach all of the employees at once. Employees don’t have to leave their desks to attend a meeting as a group and will be able to learn new applications at their own computer. If a company has remote employees, this method works well so that all employees can attend the training session at the same time without anyone having to travel.
Some types of employment require specific certifications for all or just some employees. If employees require special training for this certification, it can often be done through web conferencing. At the end of the training session, the web conference can be set up to test the attendees for their knowledge of the material covered in the session. If a company uses a web conference to complete the certification training of employees, using a company that gives attendees the opportunity to print up a certificate of completion at the end of the training serves as an all-purpose conferencing experience.
Whether you are a teacher for an online school or a business that needs to reach out to employees for training and certification, web conferencing can provide you with all of the solutions you need. Teachers can connect with students and share applications with students to help them understand the materials. For businesses, you will be able to train larger groups of employees, even those who are working in remote locations, so they can learn to use new applications or become certified to do their jobs.
Posted by
Elita Jack on Wed, Jan 18, 2012 @ 10:01 AM
Non-profit organizations rely on donations and the kindness of others to make a difference. Whether the non-profit is a religious organization, charity, research facility or other type of organization, they must reach out to potential donors so they can survive. They need to make themselves recognizable to attract new donors and show their existing donors why they should continue to support the cause. Web conferencing can help these non-profit organizations make the connections they need to continue funding.
One of the reasons web conferencing is such a viable option for a non-profit organization is its low cost. When a non-profit organization considers any option, the cost of that option is an important consideration. Non-profits need to account for all money spent. Any money that is spent takes away from the cause the organization backs. Keeping operating costs lower can help provide more money to the cause and reduce the amount of donations required to keep the organization running.
Sharing the work of the non-profit organization through web conferencing is a great way to get the word out about the organization and its cause. Because web conferencing doesn’t require the user to download any special software, it is easy for anyone to join in a web conference and learn more about a non-profit organization. The easier it is to access, the more likely the conference will reach more potential donors, thus bringing in more money. Web conferencing can even increase the reach of a non-profit organization, allowing them to find donors around the world.
Putting together a fundraising campaign is an important aspect of a non-profit organization. With the help of web conferencing, the organization can reach out to more people than it could on a local level. Using the Internet, such as with web conferencing, reaches anywhere in the world. Especially when the organization represents a cause that is important in other areas of the world, a global fundraising event can bring in more support than the organization would expect from a typical fundraising campaign.
Non-profit organizations must use everything they can to cut costs and reach out to as many potential donors as possible. Web conferencing can provide a non-profit organization with all the tools it needs to reach a global audience with fundraising efforts and informational sessions to present the importance of the cause. The use of this important tool can be affordable, even to an organization that must watch its expenditures to avoid spending too much money that should go to the cause.
Posted by
Elita Jack on Mon, Jan 16, 2012 @ 10:22 AM
Building Successful Webinars: Key Tips and Insights
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 2pm EST
Overview:
Join Bruce Newman, President of wwwebevents.com along with Sabrina George, VP of Marketing at Infinite Conferencing, as they present this free webinar. They will present key tips and insights on building a successful webinar program for sales and learning purposes. In this event, you'll learn:
- Key components of webinar planning
- Setting goals
- How to structure sales webinars
- How to structure educational webinars
- How to measure your success
You'll leave this webinar knowing exactly how to build a webinar program, enhance relationships and generate sales. Click here.
It’s not unusual in this increasingly global marketplace to find an organization with multiple offices filled with employees who must work together – despite location – to meet the needs of customers. It would seem almost impossible to hold regular department meetings without incurring the costs of travel and productivity downtime.
But Fran Goldstein, deputy director of Lambda Legal, helps to oversee over 85 employees, 32 board members and five offices – all from the comfort of her Manhattan office with the help of Infinite’s phone conferencing services.
“We live and die by the conference phone. It’s the best way we can keep everybody informed,” Goldstein explained. “Of course, we email and have onsite meetings. But teleconferencing allows us to hold department and committee meetings literally at the touch of a button.”
Lambda Legal is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, the transgendered, and people with HIV or AIDS through impact litigation, education, and public policy work. With offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, and Dallas – plus a national headquarters to stay in contact with – Goldstein said, “that’s a lot of meetings.”
In fact, the organization has five board committees that meet monthly, a biweekly staff meeting, and myriad weekly department meetings. “Teleconferencing is much better than email because email can be misunderstood. The tone or inflection isn’t always clear in an email. The ideal way to communicate is face to face, but it’s not the most efficient or cost effective.”
Infinite allows its clients to set up teleconferences with no reservations. With an easy-to-use, fully automated teleconferencing service, Goldstein said her colleagues around the country set up their own conferences when they need to “meet.” The call planner sends a group email with call-in number and entry code to anyone invited onto the call.
Lambda Legal set up a corporate account with Infinite and now enjoys one bill at the end of each month with itemized charges for actual usage. There’s no setup fee and no monthly minimum charge.
In addition to its easy-to-use, affordable reservationless conferencing service, Infinite offers professional operators for an enhanced, more complicated teleconference. Infinite will help plan out the audio conference and customize it to the client’s exact needs. A typical higher-level call, such as an earnings teleconference, might include the following enhancements by the operator: introduction of speakers, digital recording, facilitation of questions and answers and/or polling, and sub-conferencing.
Prior to finding Infinite, a provider of reliable phone and web conferencing services, Lambda Legal was using MCI’s conferencing services. Goldstein said, however, that Infinite’s pricing structure is much less expensive to use considering the large number of conferences and participants she engages on a regular basis. Plus, she added, “MCI is such a giant and I don’t think it emphasizes customer service as well as a smaller company like Infinite. An organization like ours can be fairly independent but when we have a problem, we want a customer service department that is responsive.”
“Infinite obviously trains its people really well. When it comes to this type of service I believe my experience is dependent on getting an exceptional customer service person on the phone when I need assistance,” said Lambda Legal’s Goldstein. “My experience so far with Infinite is that everyone is very friendly and helpful. I think the company and the service are great. No complaints!”
“Infinite makes a difficult process of being able to communicate across the country that much easier.”