
Master flawless webinar hosting by understanding goals, types, and platform-agnostic setup across platforms. Learn to engage audiences with chat, polling, and robust reporting for internal, external, or paid webinars.
Discover why webinars are an effective tool for remote meetings, education, product demonstrations, and customer support, and how private or public webinars can generate revenue and boost collaboration.
Identify the goal of your webinars to drive decision making, design, and success measurement for internal project meetings or revenue-generating, client-facing sessions.
Analyze the differences between public and private webinars, determine the goal and audience, and plan design and promotion to maximize engagement.
Interact with course discussions to ask questions, participate, and learn from peers. Leave a five-star review to signal value and help others decide to enroll.
Identify the best days and times to hold webinars for public and internal audiences. Time zones and target markets drive attendance, with Tuesday–Thursday outperforming Mondays, Fridays, and weekends.
Align your webinar length with the stated goal and audience needs, plan concise, on-time sessions, and build in time for interaction and questions to meet expectations.
Align webinar length with your goal, cover all promised content, and foster interaction through Q&A, polls, and activities; keep sessions 60-90 minutes or break longer trainings into 60-minute chunks.
Learn to set up a basic webinar using WebEx or other platforms, schedule a meeting, invite attendees, configure time, duration, password, audio, and optional alternate host.
Master advanced webinar setup with the WebEx advanced scheduler, configuring date and time across time zones, passwords, reminders, recurrence, attendee registrations, agendas, welcome screens, and attendee privileges.
Learn how to source speakers for webinars, assign roles, and engage experts from colleagues, consultants, customers, vendors, and associations while ensuring smooth delivery.
Coach speakers to excel in webinars by assessing comfort, aligning goals, and conducting two prep meetings and a dry run, while the host handles behind-the-scenes details.
Use a branded PowerPoint template that follows branding standards for webinars to ensure consistency, readability, and branding across slides, even for guest speakers, with a clean design.
Practice a dry run before high-stakes webinars to reinforce roles and comfort for presenters and panelists. Verify technology, slide rendering, and cross-platform compatibility to prevent surprises.
Launch and fine-tune your webinar by preloading slides, configuring panels, muting entrants, sending reminders, testing audio, inviting participants, and starting recording early.
Start the webinar on time and guide attendees through controls, chat, polls, and mute, while empowering the presenter with slide control and a clear end-time plan.
Engage webinar audiences with chat, Q&A, polls, and video demonstrations, while the host guides presenters to keep attention across bandwidth and interactive prompts.
Configure the chat box and Q&A to manage private versus public messages and host-led interactions. Learn to monitor privileges, save chat transcripts, and guide audience engagement for effective webinars.
Master Q&A best practices for webinars using chat and Q&A boxes, hand-raise, and structured turns. Learn to manage questions, time, and follow up with presenter responses.
Learn to use polls during webinars to engage your audience, tailor content, and share results, with practical steps for creating questions, choosing single or multiple answers, and timing.
Learn practical strategies for recording webinars, including when to record, how to manage storage and costs, and ethical disclosure, to ensure accessible, reusable webinar content.
Learn to prevent and manage webinar disasters with calm, prepared responses, including power outages, tech failures, late presenters, and disruptive participants; use recordings and mute or expel as needed.
Wrap up the webinar by recapping action items, confirming owners, thanking attendees and presenters, and outlining next steps such as recordings and follow-up materials.
Learn how to access webinar reports to measure attendance and engagement across platforms. Use usage and registration reports to track attention to attendance ratio and boost host effectiveness.
Apply best practices to run flawless webinars, promote your organization, and host internal, public, or educational events free or paid.
"Comprehensive with lots of detail."-Michah C
Webinars are a great tool but many people lack the confidence and skill to use them well. They struggle with them and are frustrated or avoid doing webinars at all. This course will give you the best practices and confidence you need so you can be comfortable and great on your next webinar!
Has this every happened to you:
Then this course is for you.
The instructor is well versed in a variety of webinar types from traditional virtual meetings to promoting your organization, working with prospects, and even selling educational webinars that generate $10,000 in revenue. Webinars can be high stakes endeavors and this course will help you to be at your best with 3 hours of great content.
Course Overview
Section 1 looks at why do webinars in the first place and the key concept of understanding the goal of your webinar plus the difference between private and public webinars. You will understand the variety of ways webinars can be used and how you can take advantage of them.
Section 2 goes over all the preparation work which is critical because if you do the prep well then better chance everything else goes smoothly and poor prep leads to poor execution. Great demonstrations how to setup a webinar that is not platform specific and concepts can be applied to other platforms. Plus how to work with other presenters and subject matter experts from sourcing and coaching to holding an effective dry-run in preparation for a high stakes webinar.
Section 3 is all about the big day and the best practices when you actually launch your webinar and what to do before others join. Also how to encourage engagement through the use of tools such as the Chat Box, Polls, and tips on holding effective question and answer sessions. Plus the benefits of recording and how it can be your best friend. What to do if disaster does strike such as the power going out or dealing with rude or unruly attendees. How to use reports to see who is paying attention on your webinar and how much as well as registration and attendance reports for your public webinars.
You will gain a tremendous amount of information you can use immediately from someone who uses webinars all the time in a variety of ways in an international environment and he will share all that expertise and best practices so you jump ahead in the use of this necessary tool and proceed with confidence, effectiveness, and productivity.
Many of the learners in this course:
In this course you will learn how to setup and host a webinar for success. Period.
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