If you're not the technical genius in the house, you still can run a webinar. The reality is, you only need to make sense of a few screens when presenting your webinar and most of the fancy features can be ignored. Most people who tell me they are not technically skilled enough to run a webinar can overcome that by using one of three strategies: By reading the manual and finding out just barely what they need to know, by having a dry run of the webinar, and having a buddy to handle questions and do the fancy stuff.
Reading the manual works wonders. I always tell my customers before asking me a technical question, read the manual first. And the funny thing is when most people ask me a question, I can find the exact part of the manual they did not read because the manual explained it.
Training companies like Citrix, which provides GoToWebinar, is always adding to their manual. And if they have a question that comes up very often, they add it to that documentation. So chances are, your question or issue has already been addressed inside the help manual. It can't hurt to read it just to make sure.
The next thing you should do before running your first webinar is run a practice session. Get a friend to join your webinar and act as if it's real: Practice starting the webinar, showing your screen, running through your presentation, polling, and even ending the webinar just to make sure everything looks okay. You will be a lot more prepared and a lot less stressed out when it comes time to run that webinar.
And finally, have a buddy or a co-presenter who can look at questions from the audience or even start the webinar for you and show your screen. You probably have some computer friend you can pay $10 to be with you on your webinar or use your neighbor's son or someone who knows computers. Even if you are technically skilled, it is way easier to ignore the questions and ignore all the fancy controls and simply present and allow your co-host to interrupt you or tell you about questions that are coming in.
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