When running your live screen capture webinar presentations, you are going to mess up. It's going to happen, it's inevitable. But I'm here to tell you that messing up is not a bad thing. In the long term, making mistakes on your live webinars is one of the best things that can happen to you because you'll make the same mistakes other do. You can always turn your mistake around into a valid point and then you'll get better over time.
The great thing about a live webinar is that when you're demonstrating something right in front of an audience and something goes wrong, there is no do over. There is no Delete or Rewind button. I'm a PHP programmer and I have been in plenty of webinars where I messed up the PHP codes somewhere and it gave an error. Instead of freaking out and giving up, I would analyze the program. I would say, "If you are coming across this same mistake, then check for a semicolon in the end of the line."
In another webinar, I was showing how to find message boards that you can post on and none of the message boards I found fit the right criteria I was looking for. What do I do instead? I use another way of finding message boards. The great thing about demonstrating something is you'll come across the same road blocks that your students are about to come across so you are really saving them time by showing them your mistakes and fixing them.
Also keep in mind that many of your webinar mistakes can be turned into a valid point. Not only can you show how to recover but you can also joke about it or take the problem and stride because that's just the way life is. How many times have you been at school or at a seminar where someone was talking and if there was a noise in the other room or if there was a loud crash, they would completely get distracted and derailed? You can't do that. If you are in a webinar and your phone rings, make a joke about it. Or even better, realize you don't have to be perfect. I've been in webinars where the phone has rang, where one of the presenters stopped to pay the pizza boy.
I've been in webinars where the webinar crashed three times in a row before I could continue speaking. It's going to happen and you need to learn how to deal with it instead of letting it stop you. If you make a webinar mistake, you know you're going to get better. If you stutter, you know you're just going to work on it. If you speak too quickly, that's one thing to focus on. If you find yourself getting really nervous, you just need more practice. There's always ways you can improve on your webinars and the best way is simply to practice, figure out what you can make better and repeat the process.
That's why webinar mistakes are very good. You'll make the same mistakes others do so you can prevent your student's mistakes before they happen. You can turn any bad thing into a valid point and you will improve over time. Run your own webinars and improve over time with this training at www.webinarcrusher.com.
