Comments on: Using Webinars to Promote Your Business

By: hoboaddict

hoboaddict — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:51:15 +0000

Thanks a lot.

By: Gini Dietrich

Gini Dietrich — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:38:53 +0000

Steal away, my friend! Steal away!

By: bluefox864

bluefox864 — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:18:20 +0000

I’m glad you posted this! I’m going to a conference in June and I’ll be doing a session on the anatomy of a webcast. I’m totally going to include some of this info in my presentation . Some of the tips you mention mirror my own experiences with my webcasts. This is a great summary.

By: Gini Dietrich

Gini Dietrich — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:41:11 +0000

Les, one of my favorite stories to tell when I speak is a CEO raised his hand from the back of the room about a year ago and said, “So I have to give an employee a bad review and now you’re telling me he’s going to put it on Facebook?” I said, “No, I’m telling you he already is putting it on Facebook. Now you have the opportunity to decide what to do because you’re monitoring what is being said about you or the company online.” He said, “I don’t get it. No one is using Facebook like that. I refuse to believe it.”

Uh…okay. Send me your check, though snail mail, then!

By: Les McKeown

Les McKeown — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:33:54 +0000

Reminds me of a CEO who proudly told me how he had banned his sales people from using their company-issued phones to send text messages.

When I explained some of the ways texting might actually be a good thing to harness, he said “Well… I don’t want my people being productive in ways I don’t understand”.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:03:47 +0000

CHECKS. they expect people to send them a check!

By: Gini Dietrich

Gini Dietrich — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:55:52 +0000

So how do they expect to collect money if they charge for the Webinar?

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:12:28 +0000

Wow, this post couldn’t have come at a better time – a GREAT place for me to vent.

I have a client who wants to set up a webinar – i’m totally cool with that, actually excited about setting it up. Then they said they want users to pay to see it, again something that I am 90% sure I can do. So there we have a client who is all about the “web stuff”

Then I get an email from them
“I dont think we should use paypal. Our clients are scared of the internet and are probably going to be nervous about putting their credit card into into paypal”

WHAT?! These are people who are attending a WEBINAR (a pretty high tech experience) and yet you think they are going to be scared of PAYPAL? Paypal, the most well known name on security in payment on the internet.

AHHH..

None the less, anyone who reads this, if you are available to allow me to pick your brain regarding internet streaming, i would love to do so!

By: Susan Weiner

Susan Weiner — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:47:53 +0000

Thanks, Gini! I keep mulling over a FB fan page. Part of me doesn’t want another social media presence to maintain.

By: Gini Dietrich

Gini Dietrich — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:22:13 +0000

Jason – you’re so right! It’s like anything else on the Web…if you offer something of value, people will tell their friends who will tell their friends and then you have a great participation rate.