Congratulation! You've just run your very own live webinar which means that somebody can see your screen, they can see anything you display on your computer, and they can hear your voice as you're narrating them through it and answering any questions the attendees have.
It's one thing to run a webinar, but what you should also do is record any webinar you have with a tool such as Camtasia Studio. That way, if someone misses your free or paid training, you now have a video you can give away for traffic, or sell for money over and over again.
But many times, we'll want to also have a written version of this webinar not just a video showing how to use a piece of software, or how to implement a particular strategy. We'll want to have a written manual digital or printed that we want to distribute which might contain screenshots, which might have the words edited down or condensed a little bit.
The process is to export the audio from your webinar, to post up on a job site to get it transcribed, and finally, mix in some screenshots.
Exporting your audio is actually very easy. If you record your webinar in a tool such as Camtasia Studio, you can go to File, Export Audio As, and save an MP3 recording of the video that you just created this will be the audio file that you can give to others. These people will listen to your audio and type up the words that you or others have spoken on your live webinar.
If the program you use such as Camtasia asks you what quality to save the sound file as, I would save it as a 64 kilobyte per second stereo file. But the audio quality or file size really is not that important. It just matters that someone can listen to an audio file and hear the words that you have spoken.
Now, the second thing you should do is post this audio file on a job site. There are many job sites where people can post different skills that they have available. You can post in jobs that you need done with a specified time frame, a budget, and the description. When people see these job postings, they can bid you choose the person to complete the job. Once you have agreed to what work will be done, send them the audio file, you get your transcript back a few days later, you close the job and pay the person.
I recommend a site called oDesk for this which is a very popular place for people to get transcriptions done.
Now, what happens when you have given this person your audio, paid them money, and received a transcript in return? Now it's time to make that report look pretty.
What you should do is put it into a nice Word document. Maybe add a table of contents. What I like to do is mix in screenshots of the webinar.
What this means is that, maybe I had Adobe Photoshop open on my screen and I was explaining a certain concept which people watching the video or watching the live webinar understood, but people reading might not get. Maybe I had explained some other piece of software or some other web page that people needed to see. What do I do in this case? I open up my recording in the Camtasia Studio, scroll to the part of the video I want, and do Save Frame As this will save a still snapshot of one moment in time in your video.
When you showed something interested, Save Frame As this will save a JPEG or an image file containing that one frame of the video. All you have to do is drag that JPEG graphic into your Word document in the appropriate part in between some of your text.
Do this roughly every page or for every audio minute. Now, you have not only a webinar video recording and a webinar audio recording but also a report a written version of this audio that you can now sell online, put inside a membership site, give away for free, place on viral PDF sites, even upload to Amazon CreateSpace for a physical book, or Amazon Kindle for a digital book. Either way, you get a webinar transcribed by exporting the audio, posting to oDesk, and mixing in the screenshots.
Robert Plank wants to give you a start to finish, complete, step-by-step webinar system at www.webinarcrusher.com.
