If you have not yet run your very first online webinar or live video training session, you might think that a live webinar is a scary thing. Actually, it's not and you can easily overcome the anxiety that's holding you back with three simple techniques: Practice, get critiqued, and get a partner.
You really should run at least one webinar per week. All it takes is one hour per week to pitch your latest product, make a new product, answer questions, or even present to another marketer's subscribers. You need to stay and practice. If I go for longer than three weeks without running a webinar, I will find I will get worse at it. The first time you have a webinar, the first five minutes will be really scary but once you get the hang of it, it'll become second nature to you. And the more you do webinars, the better you get as long as you stay and practice.
Again, even if you don't have time to create a PowerPoint presentation of some kind, at least hold a webinar for your customers where they can ask questions or even show you their URLs for critique. An example might be if you taught real estate and one of your customers placed a home listing, you could look at how they could improve it. Speaking of critiques, you really do need to have someone else watching your webinars and telling you what you need to improve. Even if you don't have someone like this, just watching your own recordings will tell you what you should change. I know that at first you might cringe at hearing and watching yourself, but once you watch a complete webinar of your very own from start to finish, you'll find it easier in the future to watch them and self-critique them, and get better.
If you noticed that you're having difficulty presenting or dealing with your anxiety or moving forward in the webinar, you might want to get a partner to co-host the webinar with you. The job of this co-host will be to handle questions while you speak. You might tell the partner to interrupt you, or you might simply present and then when it becomes question time, ask the partner to find the questions. If there are no questions, make sure that your partner is skilled enough in your niche to think of some questions on his own.
Those are just some easy ways for you to overcome webinar anxiety today: Practice, critique, and get a partner. The only way you will really get better at webinars is by doing them. Find out how to do them at www.webinarcrusher.com.
