5 Tips On Starting Your Own Webinar

A webinar is an online event where a speaker or two delivers online seminars while engaging with their audience to educate them about a specific topic. They usually are 30-40 minutes long live events that are great for introducing new products, explaining services, offer tips and tricks, answer the audience’s questions live and etc.

If you are willing to start your first webinar and are trying to learn how-to, follow the steps below to make sure nothing goes wrong:

1. Choose a date and time, considering different time zones.

The key to reaching a bigger audience is holding an event when most people are online. For example, consider starting your webinar during after-work hours, when people have the freest time. Or if you are trying to reach people in different time-zones, you could look them up on google and choose the time that would seem comfortable for all.

2. Choose your webinar topic.

Choosing the topic of your webinar in advance is the way to go since you will be well prepared to speak and answer the questions of your audience. It is also important to choose the topic as interesting as possible, to not bore your audience out and get them involved in the live session.

3. Practice.

Speaking live in front of a big audience can make you feel overwhelmed, which is very common and completely fine. But to avoid getting nervous or forgetting what you wanted to mention, practicing before the live stream would be great as it would help you gain more confidence and remember the important stuff.

4. Choose a platform and stick to it.

Deciding where you want to host your webinars and sticking to it is important if you want to gain a loyal audience since people who have enjoyed your first webinar, would know where to find you again.

You can choose either GoToWebinar, FLOW, WebinarJam or etc according to which feel most comfortable to use for you and which are most commonly used by the audience you are trying to reach.

5. Let the world know.

Publicize your event - send out email invitations to join, share on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter on other social media platforms. Gaining an audience when you are just starting isn’t easy, so don’t be shy to invite people to your webinar to grow the engagement rate and eventually the audience.