The great thing about webinars which are online video training sessions is that you can have a live audience or you can simply present without an audience and record it for later or you could mix the two. You could present your core materials as regular videos and then run a quick question and answer or Q&A sessions to handle these questions of your students. Now the question becomes, "Should all your webinar training be recorded? Should it all be live or should it be some mixture of the two and what mix?"
At first, when you were just starting out with your webinars, all of your training should be live. Running live webinars are the best way to get used presenting and handling an audience. It also saves you time because if you run a two-hour webinar, it only takes up two hours of your time. And when the webinar is scheduled at a specific date and time, you simply have to be there and there's no way for you to pause or postpone a webinar until later. This gets you in a habit of starting and finishing a presentation in one sitting.
But as you run live webinars, you might find that you can't handle all the live training or that you're getting annoyed with visitor questions or even that the live webinars are feeling like a chore. You might feel like you want to record videos ahead of time. For example, record two webinars back to back and then drip them out on some kind of blog or membership site.
But this depends on your personality. If you love interacting with people, you might be able to continue running live webinars. If you hate people, you might have to switch 100% to pre-recorded ones. But if you're somewhere in between like I am, you might want to have half of your training be recorded and the other half be a live webinar. For example, in an eight or four requests, have every other week be a recorded webinar and the ones in between be live webinars.
When deciding between live and recorded webinars, think about this. Are you really responding to all of the questions? Is the fact that you're live make the information better? Are you being live just to be live or are you really responding to questions?
If you're the kind of person who doesn't read questions, who doesn't interact with the audience, what's the point of running a live webinar? On the other hand, if you respond to a lot of questions and allow them to course correct the direction your training takes, live webinars are definitely for you. And that's how you decide between live and recorded webinars. It really depends on your personality and if you get sick of live training or if you want to continue doing it after you've run your first few webinars.
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