Running a webinar or a live streaming, stream capture presentation might seem scary and you definitely want to want to at least practice your webinar once to ensure that everything goes properly, that you didn't leave anything out on your PowerPoint slides and that most importantly you know what you're talking about. I would definitely recommend you practice your webinar with a friend ahead of time for these reasons: You can pretend it's live and get used to an audience, you can leave in time for questions, and you can record yourself and see how your recording compares to what your friend sees.
When you're rehearsing webinar, you might be tempted to skip over the non-important parts. But I'm telling you right now, you need to pretend your webinar is live. That way you will present, when you practice, exactly the same way as you present live and that means if you are going to make a mistake on the live presentation, you'll make that mistake while you're practicing and you can correct it. This might mean that your order form is broken, that your PowerPoint is broken, that the order you were going to present things is broken. Whatever it is, pretend it's live, that way you'll make the same mistakes you would've made and stop them before they happen.
When you practice, it's important to have a friend there to ask questions. When you practice by yourself, you might forget that you need to leave room for questions. Your audience might have an urgent message right in the middle of your presentation that might slow you down by 5, 10, or even 15 minutes. Leaving time for questions and even ask your practice partner to ask you some questions which also gives you the added bonus of being prepared in case there are no questions whatsoever.
And finally, record yourself practicing. It's one thing to do a dry run of your webinar to have a friend see you, but now with the recording, you can go back and watch yourself and catch even more things you can improve upon. You can hand the recording off to a third party for a critique, and most importantly, you can even offer people the replay to your webinar before the webinar is even over. Here's what I mean: Many times when I run a webinar, I don't offer the replay but instead I make the webinar itself the recording a bonus to the offer I'm selling. If I just ran a practice session, I could have the practice recording already loaded in and I can say, "If you want to go back and watch anything on this webinar, it's already in the member's area, go get it right now." It has more instant gratification that way.
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