Webinar recommendation

I just viewed a demo of the Webinar solution offered by VoiceText. It is absolutely a snap to get into and easy to use. I recommend it for anyone who is interested in jumping into the webinar revolution.

The person to contact for info is:

Joy Rimes
Web Conference Manager
Voicetext Communications 512-404-2300 x137
jrimes@voicetext.com

Please let her know you learned about the service from Dan Janal at Great Teleseminars and then send me a note mailto:dan@prleads.com and I'll send you my special report called "5 Webinar Mistakes That Can Kill Your Business."

VoiceText has been my provider for teleseminar services for five years and I've been very happy with the quality of VoiceText's customer services. I recommend them highly.

Do you think webinars are a good idea? Please post your comments to this blog!


Dan Janal
Great Teleseminars Audio Production Services
www.greatteleseminars.com

Podcasting Made Easy

If you want to podcast your teleseminars but don't want to get involved with all the technical difficulties, I'd recommend you use this new service from Audio Acrobat. I've been very happy with their service and their outstanding customer support. I'm sure you'll be happy in you use them for your podcasting. They also have on-going training for their products. They really know how to make a complicated process sound simple.



FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact: David Barrett
david@audioacrobat.com
510-891-0006 ext. 200

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Podcasting Simplified…Click, Click Done.

Oakland, CA - AudioAcrobat, one of the fastest growing online audio services, has introduced a new, proprietary feature that makes Podcasting a very simple process. Not only can members record and publish audios to the Websites and email, they can now submit their recordings to the various Podcast networks and aggregators automatically.

“We are at the very beginning of a new way to syndicate content. Podcasting is like rocket fuel for content providers. And, with a couple of clicks you can send audio and video information to a huge audience,” says David Barrett, Global Communications Manager for AudioAcrobat.

Although Podcasting is gaining tremendous momentum with the online community, a recent survey conducted by Pew Internet and American Life Project indicates that only 13% of U.S. Adult Internet users have a good idea what Podcasting means.

“We have taken a considerable amount of confusion out of the equation on creating a Podcast,” added Mr. Barrett. “AudioAcrobat has the means to create audio and video and, once either is done, you are minutes away from sending your production to the Podcast networks. This is very cool!”

Launched in the Fall of 2004, AudioAcrobat has one the most comprehensive and intuitive feature sets to record audio and video on the Web.

”We created a technology with a low learning curve. Furthermore, there is no expensive equipment to buy. And, it is priced 30 to 50% less than anything else on the market. At $19.95 a month for the base audio features, we have made it very affordable,” says Ms. Pat Lynch, CEO and founder.

Podcasting and Video along with the base audio features is expected to be priced at $34.95 per month. There is a 30-Day Free Trial for anyone to try out AudioAcrobat.


AudioAcrobat
2121 Peralta Street • Suite 138 • Oakland, CA 94607
Tel: 510-891-0006 • Fax: 510-891-000

Teleseminar attendance boosters

Here's another simple way to increase attendance at your teleseminars.

Post the start time in each time zone.

Why?

People get confused about translating time zones. If they are off by an hour, then you've lost them forever.

Here's what your schedule should look like:

Our teleseminar will start at:
8 p.m. Eastern
7 p.m. Central
6 p.m. Mountain
5 p.m. Pacific

Don't use abbreviations like ET or EST.

Place this chart in every confimring message and web page about the teleseminar. If you do, you won't have people showing up early or late!

Dan Janal
President
Great Teleseminars Audio Production Studios
www.GreatTeleseminars.com
952-380-1554

Teleseminars: Holding your event in the "sweet spot" of time

Most evening teleseminars are held at 9 p.m. Eastern time USA, which is 6 p.m. Pacific time USA.

Marketers would call this "sweet spot" because it isn't too late on the East Coast nor too early on the West Coast.

I repsectfully disagree.

It is too late for the East Coast who want to watch the news and go to bed. It is too early for the West Coast who are fighting traffic to get home.

What's the solution?

Glad you asked.

Hold the event at 7 p.m. East Coast annd 7 p.m. West Coast (or 8 p.m. if your tests show those time are better.)

I'm not suggesting you hold the sun still to do this.

You can either hold the teleseminar twice. Make the same presentation twice when it best suits the time of your clients.

Or hold the presentation one time and record it on a telephone replay line. Let the West Coast people listen on replay. After all they watch TV showw on replay, don't they?

I recommend this service to telephone replay
-- and it is free! Can't beat that. Sign up for your free account today and test it out. You'll be amazed at the clarity and the quality of the sound.

Dan Janal
President
Great Telesemianars Audio Production Company
www.GreatTeleseminars.com

Teleseminars: Finding the right time to hold your teleseminar

When's the best time to hold a teleseminar?

I get asked that question a lot.

The easy answer is to say: test, test and test again since every market is different.

If you are dealing with a corporate market, then it must be held during normal business hours. When these people go home, they don't want to take time away from family.

If you are dealing with people's personal issues (home, family, health, etc.) then you can't do it during normal business hours. They have to work. Or should work.

If you are dealing with entrepreneurs, work-at-home, business opportunities marketplace, you could go either day or night. These people will put their business interests ahead of their personal lives.


Dan Janal
President
Great Teleseminars Audio Production Company
www.GreatTeleseminars.com

Teleseminars: How do you get people to show up?

Hosting free teleseminars is all the rage for people who want to showcase their expertise and build their brands.

Happy experts report hundreds upon hundreds of registrants to their events.

But the sad truth is that only 35 to 50 percent of those people will ever show up!

So how can you increase that rate?

Here are a few tips:

1. When people sign up, immediately show them a web page with the telephone sign-in codes.
2. Ask them to print it out right then and there.
3. Ask them to put it in their calendar, on the wall, anywhere they will see it.
4. On the day of the event, send them a reminder by email with the sign in info -- and the benefits of attending. Chances are they don't remember signing up for this seminar.
5. Reward them for attending. Give them a free PDF file or something else that doesn't cost you anything to send but has a high perceived value.

Let's assume people don't come. Life interrupts them. It happens. What can you do after the seminar is over?

Plenty.

1. Send them an email asking them if they'd like to listen to the replay. You did record this session, didn't you?
2. Ask them to buy the CD.
3. Ask them to buy the transcript.

If you have additional tips, I'd be happy to post the best ones to this blog.


Dan Janal
President
Great Teleseminars Audio Production Services
www.GreatTeleseminars.com
952-380-1554

Teleseminar Recording Tips

Here's a good article on how to record and edit your teleseminars:

http://www.circlesixmagazine.com/technology/