When you run a webinar, you are showing your screen live and speaking to your audience live. That means that the most powerful thing you can show people is not necessarily a mind map or PowerPoint but a demonstration of you doing something whether that is placing a new real estate listing, creating an eBay auction, posting an outsourcing job, writing an article, setting up a blog. Whatever it is, the message you have to get across to people is many times more powerful if you show people instead of telling.
On your next webinar, consider using one of these three methods of demonstration. A screen shot PowerPoint, web browser, or point and click plus marker method.
The disadvantage to presenting something live on a call is that something might go wrong. Let's say you were showing people how to set up a blog. A million things might go wrong. You might accidentally show your password on the screen when creating that blog. Your web post might be down. You might come across an error you have not seen before.
If you're that nervous about something potentially going wrong on live webinar, take screen shots of the thing you are demonstrating. Take the screenshot of your entire screen. If you are showing people how to set the WordPress blog, take screenshots of your browser then take those screenshots, paste them into a PowerPoint presentation and stretch out the screenshot so it'll fill up your entire screen. That way, when you play the PowerPoint show, you are simply flipping through the screen shots of what you're doing. So, they can see what you were doing but you do not risk anything going wrong.
If you do want to demonstrate something live, just use your web browser. So few people realize they can show things other than PowerPoint on a live webinar. Show your browser in the screen and hit the F11 key to present it in full screen you show the most of the web page you're on. Now, demonstrate how to set up a WordPress blog, create an autoresponder list, post to a forum anything you can do with a web browser, you can show on a webinar.
And finally when demonstrating, remember to explain every point and click and to use the marker tool to draw out the thing you're talking about. For example, when talking about a WordPress blog, you might mention things such as the steps you'll take.
Set up the WordPress blog, add a theme and add plug-ins. You might then open up the marker tool and write directly on your screen the words set up, theme and the word plug-ins. That way, people can get the big picture and see what you are about to do. If there is a specific link or text box that is important and demands attention, instead of talking about it take the marker and circle that thing people should look at.
And that's how you demonstrate on your next webinar using a screen shot PowerPoint, your web browser or the marker tool.
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