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After Your Webinar: Follow Up Techniques That Work!

Mar 6, 2010 12:40pm

Now that you have held a successful webinar presentation, what comes next? It is critical to maximize the leads you have generated from your webinar presentation. Disregarding this part of the process is wasting the time you put into developing your presentation and leave lots of money on the table!So...

Summary Of Web Conferencing Vendors Available

Mar 4, 2010 8:47pm

A big tip of the hat and thank you to Susan Matkov who alerted me to a report from business-software.com. It is titled "Top 10 Web Conferencing Software Vendors Revealed" and has a copyright from this year.There isn't much explanation on how they picked the highlighted vendors. Just a single...

How To Record Your Webinar!

Mar 2, 2010 6:29pm

It's really not that hard to record your own webinars. All you will need is just two computers and a few tricks of the trade.You will need to use your primary computer (pc or mac) to broadcast your webinar. If you are looking for a cheap webinar service to get...

Webinar Gets Terminology Approval in NY Times

Feb 27, 2010 2:46pm

I had to follow up my last post about "webinar" as useful vs. unuseful terminology when I saw a story in today's New York Times by Bryan A. Garner. Part of the Times' "On Language" category, the article is simply titled "Webinar."Mr. Garner starts his article with this paragraph:Webinar (Web +...

Webinar Is Not A Marketing Term

Feb 24, 2010 5:47pm

Anne Holland put up the results of an A/B comparison test between two web site navigation menus. One site used the phrase "Webinars" to indicate a page of available sessions. The second site used the phrase "Online Training." Anne invites you to guess which navigation bar resulted in more click-throughs to the...

Registering For A Webinar Recording

Feb 15, 2010 9:04pm

I have been following a discussion thread on a LinkedIn group where a commenter asked whether any webinar vendors provide a special registration option for people who are interested in your webinar topic, but know they won't attend the live session. It would be a way for them to provide...

Barrier to Entry: Adobe Connect Pro vs Webex

Jan 27, 2010 9:00am

Anyone who talks to me for more than five minutes about webinars knows that I am an Adobe Connect Pro bigot, big time.Dave Walker, the self proclaimed "Connect Guru" from InteSolv illustrates one of Adobe's advantages over Webex in a painful demonstration. Check out the difference between joining an Adobe...

Webinars - A Waste Of Time?

Jan 21, 2010 6:38pm

Amber Avines says "...after today's useless webinar, I will never waste my time again." She's not talking about wasting her time with a single company or a single topic. She doesn't want to ever attend another webinar, period. Houston, we have a problem. What happened to make Amber say "Somewhere...

LearningWare Posts Webinar Survey Results

Dec 28, 2009 1:46pm

LearningWare has posted the results of a recent survey about webinar usage and perception. They sent out requests to 15,000 recipients and received over 300 responses.You can go online to see summary results with LearningWare's comments or a full breakdown of responses including write-in responses from participants.Participation was heavily oriented towards...

World's Shortest Webinar

Nov 19, 2009 4:55pm

I love this idea to death! A company named LogicMonitor put out a press release advertising "The World's Shortest Webinar." Sure, it's a gimmick, but a fun and novel one. They want to demonstrate how fast their product can be configured, so they say they will just start up, do...