Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Raymond's 64 other Ask SC answers

Webinars are an excellent platform for training, though not as common for recruiting. What makes webinars so powerful is the fact that they are personable, meaning that your attendees get to both see and hear you. They can see and hear your passion and desire to help them succeed. No more are you just a name that they read on their screen.

So, how do you go about hosting your own webinars? You would want to start by researching webinar hosting platforms. You will find that there are many to choose from, some free, but most will have some kind of fee, usually based on the number of attendees.

Once you have decided on a hosting platform, you will, of course, need the proper equipment. This can be as simple as just a computer with a webcam if you are hosting live webinars, which is likely to be the case when hosting for training your downline, but the options are slightly more broad when producing recorded webinars which you will use for marketing purposes. You can still just use a computer with a webcam, or you could go with a camcorder or more professional video recorder, along with video editing software and such, depending on how professional you want your published video to be.

If doing these from home, you will want to set up a room in your house to use as your recording studio, regardless of whether doing live or pre-recorded webinars. This room should be free of unnecessary distractions and you should have a sign for the door to indicate that you are recording so as to avoid interruptions, especially when recording for marketing purposes.

Hope this helps and wish you the best in your success.
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Webinars are an excellent platform for training, though not as common for recruiting. What makes webinars so powerful is the fact that they are personable, meaning that your attendees get to both see and hear you. They can see and hear your passion and desire to help them succeed. No more are you just a name that they read on their screen.

So, how do you go about hosting your own webinars? You would want to start by researching webinar hosting platforms. You will find that there are many
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 542 | Read Sule's 287 other Ask SC answers

Webinars are very effective marketing strategies online. If you do not have a customized website to host them, you can register FREE on some other sites like AnyMeeting.com to host your webinars. From there, you can post your lessons regularly to your downline. Even with non-professionals, many of these sites provide very good support, training and infrastructure for good webinars. That makes them very easy for any interested marketer to use.

However, for your webinars to be very effective, you must take the following into account:

1. First, find out through research the degree of interest your downline has for webinars.
2. You must know very well the subject matter of your webinar.
3. You must be an undisputed authority on the subject matter of your webinar.
4. Take into account the time zones globally when delivering your subject.
5. Factor in cultural, linguistic and regional considerations/sensibilities when delivering your webinar.
6. Encourage visual contacts and feedbacks in your webinars.
7. Be time conscious when delivering your webinars.
8. Schedule webinars well in advance at specified times.
9. Research your subject matter thoroughly and regularly and ensure you are up-to-date.
10. Make sure you keep all promises you make in your webinars.

No sensible marketer will get involved in webinars because everyone else is into them. What matters is how best webinars can help your marketing efforts. That is why you must endeavor to make your webinars interesting, informative and useful. Taking the above tips into account before you embark on the use of webinars greatly enhances their effectiveness.

I hope this answer helps? Best of luck in your campaign!


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Webinars are very effective marketing strategies online. If you do not have a customized website to host them, you can register FREE on some other sites like AnyMeeting.com to host your webinars. From there, you can post your lessons regularly to your downline. Even with non-professionals, many of these sites provide very good support, training and infrastructure for good webinars. That makes them very easy for any interested marketer to use.

However, for your webinars to be very effective,
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Affiliate since: 04/21/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Stephanie's 12 other Ask SC answers

I would like to answer your question regarding how to go about utilizing webinars in marketing and training your downline. I am going to assume that you have not put together a webinar before.

A webinar of course is defined as "seminars on the internet" or "live online events". This type of presentation differs from pre-recorded.

For live, interactive webinars, all attendees require a fast and stable internet connection (nothing worse than "freeze frames"), a computer, headset or speakers and a mic to ask questions and interact. From the "speakers" side, you will need to determine where to host your webinar and here in Canada "Go to meeting.com" is a popular webinar hosting service. Unless you require an ongoing hosting plan, webinar hosting services can be utilized at no charge. All attendees are required to check their internet speed beforehand and arrive at the meeting/webinar/training "room" 10 - 15 minutes early. The instructor sends out complete instructions beforehand and these instructions are usually two page of how to attend.

I would like to suggest another method of delivering training for your consideration.

Unless you are a pro at putting on webinars/seminars/courses, Udemy.com offers free "How to Create a Udemy Course" "How to Teach Online" "Course Creation" (etc, etc) that are very valuable and loaded with advice, ideas, what works, what doesn't and so much more. Basically, you can create your own "recorded training" with just your webcam and mic; software programs such as Microsoft Power Point and Microsoft Movie Maker; and that's it. Your production can then be uploaded into YouTube or otherwise distributed by email accordingly. By viewing Udemy's FREE "How To" instructional videos, you will be able to pick up ideas and increase the professionalism and content of your course and create a course that just keeps on giving.

I hope this helps!
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I would like to answer your question regarding how to go about utilizing webinars in marketing and training your downline. I am going to assume that you have not put together a webinar before.

A webinar of course is defined as "seminars on the internet" or "live online events". This type of presentation differs from pre-recorded.

For live, interactive webinars, all attendees require a fast and stable internet connection (nothing worse than "freeze
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Webinars can be a great tool or a huge disaster. I am not negative but I think you need to look at the possibilities of what can go wrong so that you can have a solution available.
I work for an International company and our HQ is in Portugal. I've been involved in a few webinars over the last 5 years - both training and joined projects. I considered one training session a success - the rest did not teach me a thing. I worked on one project that was implemented without problems, the rest .... well lets just say it caused more problems than solutions.

Why did everything not go well?

1. Time differences (Portugal, UK, Canada, USA, France and South Africa)
2. Bad connections - one moment we are all online the next one or more country is
disconnected and we have to stop to get them back.
3. Hosts or presenters / trainers that was not well prepared and bored the living day
lights out of everybody.
4. Language - everything is done in English but sometimes the accent is so bad that it
sounds like a different language.
5. Too much information - it makes your head spin after a while and it either takes
too long or it is rushed and does not have real impact.

Find ways around these problems and you will have great success.

A very good alternative you can consider is a video blog. The advantages of this:

1. You get to fix any slip ups before you post it - so you can make sure it is
perfect and professional.
2. You can ask family or friends to watch it before posting - if they are bored your
audience will probably be bored to and if they like it - so will your audience.
3. You can do a series of blogs - each on it's own topic - short and interesting.
4. Your down line can send in questions before you do your blog and you can be
specific - that way you give them the information they need and not a mountain of
information they know already.
5. They can watch and learn at their own time and pace.
6. You build up a library of valuable tools you can use again and again.

All of this is for training. For marketing and workshops I think it will work better if you concentrate on smaller groups in the same time zone - easier to find a time everybody can attend. (you might have to schedule a few in other parts of the world that will have you doing it in the middle of the night but daytime for your audience)

For marketing it is a good idea to get a group together in one room - like students at a college or university - for example students studying marketing - if you impress their lecturers they might include SFI business as part of their course.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.
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Webinars can be a great tool or a huge disaster. I am not negative but I think you need to look at the possibilities of what can go wrong so that you can have a solution available.
I work for an International company and our HQ is in Portugal. I've been involved in a few webinars over the last 5 years - both training and joined projects. I considered one training session a success - the rest did not teach me a thing. I worked on one project that was implemented without problems, the rest
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Affiliate since: 02/24/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Derek's 210 other Ask SC answers

The idea of using webinars to train your downline is very good, providing of course that all your affiliates understand English, or any other language you are going to do your webinars in. The webinars I have attended and in some cases used for training have always proved to be very useful.

With a webinar you can show your affiliates what they need to do instead of trying to explain it in words. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and in my experience this is very true.

There is a far better interaction available through a webinar, although of course this could also apply when using some of the other instant messaging services.

I would start off with one of the free webinar platforms available. This would put a restriction on the number of participants in your webinar but it should be fine when you first start.

You will need to plan what you are going to teach so you have any information needed at hand. There is nothing worse than going to a webinar and having to wait while the necessary training aids are found.

Do a couple of practice runs using friends and family to get used to the way the webinar works. Again a sure way to turn new people off is you not knowing how to use the program you are using.

You need to be professional from the very beginning.

I wish you every success with your webinar venture.

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The idea of using webinars to train your downline is very good, providing of course that all your affiliates understand English, or any other language you are going to do your webinars in. The webinars I have attended and in some cases used for training have always proved to be very useful.

With a webinar you can show your affiliates what they need to do instead of trying to explain it in words. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and in my experience this is very true.

There
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Affiliate since: 01/22/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Fran's 122 other Ask SC answers

Hi Margaret,

Using a Webinar to communicate with your team is a good idea.

1) I suggest that you e-mail your full team, whether they are active or inactive.
2) Invite them to the scheduled webinar with date and time, don't give a choice.
3) Make sure to consider the different time zones.
4) Pick a time that most of your active members will be able to attend.
5) Decide whether the meeting will be weekly or monthly.
6) Have your affiliates invite their team members and prospective SFI member.
7) Inform what the topic of your lecture will be.
8) Make time for questions and answers.
9) Recognize those that participate and for their accomplishments.
10) Send the invitation by e-mail requesting conformation of attendance.
11) An incentive for those that attend may help members show up, as a door prize.
12) Some examples of a door prize could be T-Credits, Gift Certificate, or W3 Kit.

If you find that you are not having any response or many affiliates attending,
you might want to change to doing a weekly e-mail type conference.
An E-mail meeting is where you write about a subject and ask a question at the end.
The affiliates open and read the e-mail and then sends you back their answer.
I do suggest you send each person an individual e-mail telling them whether they answered the question correctly or what you were looking for.
This would be a way to get people interested and then moving to a Webinar.

I hope this has given you some ideas.
"Winning starts with beginning." Robert H. Schuller

Continued success in your life & business.

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Hi Margaret,

Using a Webinar to communicate with your team is a good idea.

1) I suggest that you e-mail your full team, whether they are active or inactive.
2) Invite them to the scheduled webinar with date and time, don't give a choice.
3) Make sure to consider the different time zones.
4) Pick a time that most of your active members will be able to attend.
5) Decide whether the meeting will be weekly or monthly.
6) Have your affiliates invite their
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 295 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

For Team Leaders webinars could be an effective way to train your downline over a wide geographic area. As a Team Leader you’ll have the opportunity to interact and share information with your downline.

Points to consider before conducting webinars:

- Send messages to your downline about your plan to conduct webinars in your marketing and training them. This will help you in determining the number of participants and find out at the same time the geographical area of your attendees. You need to consider the best time to conduct your webinars taking into consideration the time zones. Don’t forget to include a brief survey in your message to help you determine which topics are most relevant to them.

- Choose your webinar provider that offers web conferencing solution working with variety of operating systems, reliable, allows you to accommodate large number of participants and has the features you need including Q&A, recording, chat, etc.

How to conduct effective webinars?

- State your purpose clearly. It should be easy to identify the purpose of conducting your webinar by having a clear set of goals and content, which is valuable to your downline.

- Start the webinar by engaging your participants from your very first words.

- Keep your introduction of yourself briefly, your audience really want to know, what they will get from it. Point out to them clearly how they will benefit from this webinar.

- In your presentation, make use of the SFI materials such as Marketing Aids, Marketing Methods, etc. This depends on your topic that you’re going to cover. Be creative, turn them into slides or do a power point presentation on big screen. Watching a speaker, no matter how good he/she is can become dull.

- Connect with your Participants.

Refer to your audience when citing examples. You should say “You’re going to discover today how to apply the Marketing methods” instead of saying to them “I’m going to explain to you now the Marketing Methods”. Make your audience feel that they a part of your webinar. Ask questions from time to time to prompt them to interact.

At the end of your webinar, don’t forget to summarize what you have covered. Before signing off, leave them a lasting impression by stating an inspiring and motivating quote.

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For Team Leaders webinars could be an effective way to train your downline over a wide geographic area. As a Team Leader you’ll have the opportunity to interact and share information with your downline.

Points to consider before conducting webinars:

- Send messages to your downline about your plan to conduct webinars in your marketing and training them. This will help you in determining the number of participants and find out at the same time the geographical area of your
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

Webinars is one of the powerful tool available for our SFI business. it enable us to talk to people face to face whether he is our prospective affiliates or our downlines. The best thing is its free once you already have your computer hooked up to the internet.

There are Three areas that we should be prepared to conduct a successful Webinars

1. The Content Preparation - The content is the meat of your webinars.

a. The first thing to think about is your objective.
b. Then make the outline of the topics and sub-topics
c. Researched on your topic well
d. Make the materials needed to be able to present your topic.


2. The next thing to prepare are the technical requirements -

a. See to it that you have a good quality video and audio equipment.
b. You need to have a good internet connection
c. You should be familiar with the software that you will use.

You want to bring the message clearly to your audience so you can not sacrifice this technical requirements.

3. The conduct of the actual webinar

a. Send out your invitations in advance. Two weeks before the actual date is the minimum. and follow it up one or two days before the actual webinar. You advertise to attract more viewers to attend.

b. Set the right time for your audience and start on time.

c. Keep your audience engaged. Have a little fun with the presentation.

d. Be aggressive. You need to get your point across aggressively. You must leave a lasting impression. You are the leader and you need to act like one while conducting your presentation.
e. End by keeping them thirst for more and end on time.
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Webinars is one of the powerful tool available for our SFI business. it enable us to talk to people face to face whether he is our prospective affiliates or our downlines. The best thing is its free once you already have your computer hooked up to the internet.

There are Three areas that we should be prepared to conduct a successful Webinars

1. The Content Preparation - The content is the meat of your webinars.

a. The first thing to think about is your objective.
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Stefan's 93 other Ask SC answers

This is a great question and one I wish SFI had an internal solution for within the the SFI site.

However, for now, you can use many great utilities to host webinars that support:

screen-share,
whiteboard
Vo-ip
Video
Granular control of attendees

There are two utilities that are easy to use and easy for attendees to attend that work well for training small to medium size groups. You can setup as the on fly webinars or scheduled and can add ad hoc attendees during a webinar. Both utilities support iPad and iPhone devices as well. Both services have a nominal fee per month that is actually quite reasonable. Personally, I have used and still do both of these services. I actually host webinars from my iPad with full video and sound.

The two services are:

Webex
Zoom

Both support droid and iOS as well as standard desktop. You can access the applications at zoom.com and webex.com

Citrix also had a great webinar utility. There are many hosted solutions out there where you use virtual meeting rooms as well. You can perform a search to find them. Personally, I prefer the two I recommended above.

Now that you have the utility, you need to know how you may apply it to SFI.

The easiest way is to promote webinars along with your other marketing efforts. A good way to get offsite sign ups is to advertise your training on your website by offering free work at home seminars and then conclude it with the SFI information to your gateway or links to direct sign up.

You can and should leverage internal PSA s to train your downline via team email, newsletter etc. People can easily learn more about SFI via a live webinar then reading about it. It is great way to promote team meetings and generate motivation within the team with powerful webinar topics hosted weekly touching on areas where PSA s have the most questions.

Webinars are a great tool if you can leverage them in growing your business. Great question. Thank you for asking. Now let us hope Sfi will provide this as a service in the future.

Good luck!
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This is a great question and one I wish SFI had an internal solution for within the the SFI site.

However, for now, you can use many great utilities to host webinars that support:

screen-share,
whiteboard
Vo-ip
Video
Granular control of attendees

There are two utilities that are easy to use and easy for attendees to attend that work well for training small to medium size groups. You can setup as the on fly webinars or scheduled and can add ad
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

You asked a very interesting and innovative question for SFI Affiliate Marketing.

It is fair to say that webinars are increasingly popular marketing tools, but few SFI Affiliates are using them.

They are definitively an advanced marketing method.

They do require resources, an autoresponder and a good sizable audience.

To run webinar effectively, you need both an infrastructure and high level traffic to bring you quality attendance

I. Webinar Infrastructure

1. You will need first a reliable, cost effective webinar hosting platform. We are not going name any here as it would appear as sponsoring them, but here are few effective ones.

The average cost maybe around $499 a month for the most effective ones. Two years ago, they were on promotion for about $99 a month.

When you search the topic, you will find that there are stand alone webinar services as well as webinar providers who bundle their services with other offerings

2. Most of the webinar service providers offer autoresponder features as, your audience will likely have to register in advance, confirm their registration to get the link and timing of your webinar, so that they can attend at the proper schedule.

II. Traffic and Quality attendance.

After you secure a solid webinar structure, your most important ingredient for success is prospect quality and level of attendance.

Both aspect matter: the number of your webinar participants as well as the quality of that attendance.

a. "The Money is on the List"

There is one famous saying in online marketing that applies here: "the money is on the list".

Simply put, you have to have a list of potential prospects. This is part of list building.

b. Adveritizing your Webinar

The second option is to advertise your webinar. You will achieve maximum impact using all available advertising methods and outlets, including paid advertising as well as social media sites.

c. Webinar follow up.

Your autoresponder would also provide you with the opportunity of following up with your webinar attendants

You may also want to record the webinar and post the proceedings in your website or your blog. This will give the opportunity to the attendants as well as those who missed the webinar to review its content

Make sure you contact your webinar attendants, few hours after the closing. Get a feedback from them and motivate them to register with SFI using your affiliate links.
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You asked a very interesting and innovative question for SFI Affiliate Marketing.

It is fair to say that webinars are increasingly popular marketing tools, but few SFI Affiliates are using them.

They are definitively an advanced marketing method.

They do require resources, an autoresponder and a good sizable audience.

To run webinar effectively, you need both an infrastructure and high level traffic to bring you quality attendance

I. Webinar
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