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Five Fabulous Features Of Online Web Conferencing

Written by: Stephen Beck

Article Overview: There are a number of ways you can use an online web conference to drive sales & profits better than other methods of presenting. Here are 5 ways that are unique to webinars that you can use to demonstrate the need and want for the products and/or services that your company sells.

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Five Fabulous Features Of Online Web Conferencing

There are a number of ways you can use an online web conference to drive sales & profits better than other methods of presenting. Here are 5 ways that are unique to webinars that you can use to demonstrate the need and want for the products and/or services that your company sells.



1. Question boxes
This is useful to allow any participant who is connected to the webinar to be able to type a question for you to answer. You can choose to address the question immediately or address it at a later point on the webinar. Sometimes I will open up the webinar at the end of the presentation for questions from the participants. You cannot do this on a teleseminar. In fact, it is difficult to do this in any other format.
2. Make the most of your presentation
With an online webinar you can use PowerPoint presentations to your advantage. Unlike a teleseminar, a webinar allows your participants to be able to not only hear you but also follow along with you on a PowerPoint presentation that you walk them through. This gives them a visual feel for what you are explaining to them and increases their comprehension level.

3. Utilize an exit survey
An online web conference also gives you the ability to conduct an exit survey. This is very valuable. A survey reveals to you what the participants like and did not like about your webinar. This information can help you to make more sales. If you know who liked the webinar, you now know who may be the best prospects to follow up with. An exit survey can also give you comments to use for testimonials.

4. Total involvement of listeners
Webinars are very effective. They are an excellent form of influencing your prospective customers. They engage multiple senses. You can be heard, you can be seen and they can interact with you. Because there is involvement on multiple levels it increases the perceived value much higher than other forms of selling. It is far superior then just hearing someone. It is better than just reading words. Hearing and seeing your inflections give you the ability to better express abstract ideas.
5. Emotional involvement of listeners
Using an online web conference is the ultimate form of show and tell for your business. You can show and tell about the latest software your company created. You can highlight pictures that better demonstrate what you are trying to explain. I found this very helpful when I am trying to explain about different places that I have gone and visited. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and this is clearly the case with a webinar.


Other items you can show are websites, membership websites and virtually anything that will help you to make sales. If you have a retail store, you can show the products that you sell there. Business webinars do a fantastic job at getting the sale. The power is found in the ability to stir up the emotions of the participants and get them to interact with you, which drives the sales process. I am not saying that you should never use other selling strategies. I use them as well. I have just found that an online web conference works very well and I do them continuously as a result.

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