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An Internet Marketing Master's Most Powerful Secret Revealed.

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Can you really make money... doing what you love... over the phone?

The answer is yes.

In fact marketing millionaires Harv Eker, Mark Victor Hansen, Bob Proctor, Jack Canfield, Harvey McKay and many others all use the telephone to rapidly build their businesses.

When they want to bring a new product to market quickly, create a new product or build their e-mail list. they all use tele seminars.

And when they need help... they all turn to the master of free teleseminars Alex Mandossian.

In case you don't already know what a teleseminar is, let me start with a description and why so many of the Internet marketing gurus use them.

A teleseminar is simply a conference call over a special conference call telephone line. There is usually a host/moderator who interviews an expert about a product, service or skill. And then, most importantly, there is a group of people who are on the conference call line in 'listen only' mode. There can anywhere from a few people to several thousand listening.

The host will have control over whether or not, the listeners can ask questions during the call.

Is my recommendation that on calls with over 20 people, the listeners be muted out. If the listeners want to ask questions, they either e-mail them in advance or use a specific teleseminar system that allows them to be sent to the moderator via instant message.

One system I recommend is InstantTeleseminar.com. You can find out more about this system on my blog. This is a more advanced system and allows for about 200 people to listen over the phone lines and up to 2000 people to listen over the Web.

If you are just beginning and don't have a very large group there are several good companies that offer conference lines for free. They even include recordings of the calls, which can then be turned into MP3 files and either sold or set up for free replay on your web site.

Teleseminar are great for
1) doing a free introduction of a new product or service
2) interviewing an expert to create a product
3) introducing a joint venture partner's product to your list
4) introducing your product to a joint venture partner's list
5) doing a training for your affiliate team
6) presenting a one-time training that people pay for
7) presenting a series of trainings that people pay for

There are many other creative and profitable ways to use teleseminars.

The benefit of using teleseminars is how flexible they are, how interactive they are, and how personal they are -- and how easy they are to set up an inexpensive to use.

You could decide to do a teleseminar in just a couple of days and have an e-mail out to your list and before you know it have a profitable and effective marketing campaign going.

To set up a call
1) Decide the purpose of the call.
2) Decide what action you want the listeners to take at the end of the call, such as to sign up for emails or purchase a product.
3) Decide if you need a web sales page or just an email to announce the event.
4) Decide if you are going to be the expert or if you are going to interview someone else.
5) Write your emails - There are normally 3 emails -
1st sent out one week from event
2nd two days from event
3rd day of event
6) Layout a script of the call. Remember to give a reason why the listener should stay on until the end (for access to a free MP3? To ask their questions?)
7) Call in a few minutes in advance. (make sure to record the call)
8) Give it all you've got - and remember to give the call to action - what do you want them to sign up for, buy, etc.

Take action today and set up your first teleseminar.

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Teleseminars: Are You Charging Enough?

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If you're involved with Internet Marketing you've probably settled into a comfortable rut of "free" teleseminars. After all, they're used to promote products, services, and events.

So it may be a jolt to find out that the rest of the world isn't doing them free. In fact, they are charging handsomely for them!

Take for example, SoundView Executive Summaries - the company that sends out the executive summaries of books for those of us too busy to read the full book. I just looked at one of their teleseminars. Keep in mind it's a 90-minute audio conference with a best-selling author. Their prices:

Audio Conference & CD Recording - $258.00

Audio Conference only - $199.00

CD Recording only - $199.00

Now if that doesn't make you sit up and take notice I don't know what will!

And consider - they are not going to open up the line for your individual questions - and I'll bet they didn't even offer an ASK campaign for your questions prior to the call.

And that's not the only one! I get regular notices from The Competitive Advantage.net. Here are their prices for a 90-minute audio conference:

Audio Conference Only - $159

Audio Conference & CD Combo - $209 (plus $20 CD shipping)

CD Only - $159 (plus $20 shipping)

Yikes! Now count how many people were on your last teleseminar. How much money did you lose by offering it as a "complimentary" teleseminar?

Can you charge those prices? It depends on your market and your topic.

If you market to CEOs, conventional business managers and sales professionals, you generally can charge well for the information you provide. Not only do they have the money to pay for it, but they recognize the value of good content - and regularly invest in their professional development.

On the other hand, if you market to those seeking to start a home business or a second income, they may not be able or willing to pay those prices. Traditionally, these markets are very cost-conscious.

Then let's consider the topic - your content. If your primary purpose in offering the teleseminar is to teach a topic, then you should charge for it. If you don't put a value on your information, no one else will either. However, if your primary purpose of a teleseminar is to sell a product, service or event, then you generally don't charge.

Could that change in the future? I think so. The quality of the information provided on preview teleseminars, for example, leading to a seminar is extremely valuable. Why not charge a small fee - to weed out those who have no intention of registering for the event? After all, either you need to sell a ticket to the event or you need to charge for the content.

The same should be true of a product or service. If you're offering a valuable amount of information, at least charge $10-20 to indicate the value and to reimburse you for the expenses and time of a teleseminar. In 90 minutes you will easily reveal that amount of information - and probably more!

The trend starts here. If each of us who provides quality content in our (previously) complimentary teleseminars starts to charge a small fee, the trend will catch on.

So ask yourself: What is my information worth?

Copyright 2006 Jeanette Cates

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Dr. Jeanette Cates works with consultants and other experts who are ready to leverage their expertise into Online Success. She is an expert at hosting and attending teleseminars. Learn how to host your own teleseminar this week athttp://www.TeleseminarBasics.com
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Affiliate Marketing Campaigns: Have Other People Sell Teleseminars for You

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All of the people who go through my trainings are considered alumni and become eligible to be affiliate resellers of my courses. When they sell a course, they receive a commission.

Student, affiliate, partner. That's the sequence, and the beauty about affiliate marketing is there's no inventory. You can build your business through Teleseminars in teaching and training your affiliates. Your affiliates are essentially treasure maps that lead to treasure chests full of other treasure maps. You can find all those other treasure maps by utilizing Teleseminars.

I don't know why people don't this, but you can create a Teleseminar to pump up and motivate your affiliates and then have them promote you on your behalf. I've done this with TeleseminarSecrets, VirtualBookTourSecrets and PodcastSecrets. I've launched an affiliate program for virtually every course I have to offer.

Let's say you have an affiliate program. There's no reason why you can't have a Teleseminar with your affiliates to have contests, update how your best affiliates are marketing your products, recognize best practices and outstanding efforts, give monetary awards and talk about upcoming events.

A Teleseminar raises intimacy. Use the power of intimacy to your advantage to get your affiliates excited about your product and get them moving along to promote your product. In the end, this all benefits you.

If your affiliates are invited to a free call where they can ask questions and have them answered and you're revealing the best practices that other affiliates have found, they will get excited and they will help promote and sell your product.

You will make out like a bandit and so will your affiliates. It's a win-win-win situation. The traffic that the affiliates send to you win because they get to the source. They get to the top of the mountain, not just to the foot of the mountain. And the affiliates win because they're getting paid for the referral. And of course, you win, too.

I've done this with 1Shopping Cart affiliates where we've had Teleseminars and we see a bump in business the next day - within 24 hours - because we get people pumped up during that intimate Teleseminar.

The key is to make it simple, make it exciting, and don't have it go longer than an hour. I've found that 45 minutes is the sweet spot for an affiliate call or a sales call.

That is the power of Teleseminars when used with affiliate marketing campaigns. As simple as it is, it is oftentimes overlooked. Don't overlook it - remember it is a in-win-win situation.
Author Resource:- Online Marketing Expert Alex Mandossian helps authors, speakers, consultants, entrepreneurs and small business owners maximize their online profits with minimal time and effort. To learn more online book marketing strategies, log on to http://www.AlexMandossian.com
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Teleseminar Profits 9 Steps To Building A Profitable Online Business Through Teleseminars

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You can make money with teleseminars if you know how to do it correctly. I routinely make anywhere from five hundred to a thousand dollars every time I do a teleseminar, and these are completely free calls. Here are 9 steps to take so you can make money whenever you hold a call, and get people to listen to what you have to say.

1 - Give your teleseminar a title that will attract people who are interested in your topic. This title must be catchy and tell the prospect what the benefit will be if they choose to participate.

2 - Begin to invite people to attend your teleseminar about a week before it will take place. This will give them time to schedule your call as part of their weekly engagements.

3 - Remind them the day of your event so they will not forget. Although many people will mark their calendar, even more will forget about it completely.

4 - Be sure to include your social network contacts when you are inviting people to attend. Your list is not the only source of prospects, now that Web 2.0 is here to stay.

5 - Provide good, solid information during your teleseminar. If you build a reputation for giving people information and content they can use, they will be more likely to attend your calls and trust you to give them valuable advice.

6 - Prepare a study guide for people to follow during your call. Even if it is only two pages long, people will appreciate having something to print out. Be sure to include your name and contact information on each page, so that they can stay in touch with you or email you for more information. You will be surprised when someone contacts you months later, but this typically happens if you follow these suggestions.

7 - During the call, make recommendations to affiliate products and services, as well as anything you have to offer. Make sure the things you recommend are directly related to what you are talking about during your teleseminar.

8 - Allow people to submit questions that you can answer during the call. Say their name and website so that others can contact them if they feel it is something they can use. This is all part of creating a community where people can begin to know and trust each other.

9 - At the end of your teleseminar, invite people to email you with more questions. You will find that the twenty to thirty minutes after the call is the time more people are likely to sign up for your recommended products and services.

Follow these 9 suggestions and you will have a profitable teleseminar and begin to build your online business quickly.

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What Should I Charge to Attend My Teleseminar

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Teleseminars are a great way to grow your mailing list, gain new customers, and reach out to your existing customers. You may offer a seminar for free or you can charge a fee to attendees. It is sometimes difficult to set a price on your seminar; there are a few things you can consider when making this decision, such as:

What is the reason you are offering this seminar? If the purpose of the seminar is to increase your mailing list or to generate press for a new info product, you may wish to offer the teleseminar for free. The way you will make money is to market to your new list or to make money off the sale of the info product you are promoting. If your purpose is instead to make money, you may wish to do some research as to what similar teleseminars cost, then charge according to your research.

How large is the audience you currently have? By looking at the size of your current mailing list and the traffice you have, you can use this information to help determine how much to charge. If you have an established mailing list and an existing website with traffic, you are likely to have many people already who are willing to pay good money for your information. Likewise, if your intention is to promote yourself as an expert and gain website traffic, you may wish to charge a lower fee. Once you have established a larger list, you can increase the price you charge.

Are you creating new customers or reaching out to repeat buyers? As you know, it is easier to market to your existing customer base. If your goal is to create new customers, charging a smaller fee can motivate them to try your teleseminar, even if they are not that familiar with you.

As your existing customers are already familiar with you, they will typically be more willing to pay a higher fee. You may also consider offering your existing customers a special discount off the price of the teleseminar.

For instance, let's say you have a cooking related website and you created an ebook with tips on cooking with children. You could offer an exclusive, free teleseminar for people that have previously bought the ebook. Not everyone who wants to listen will be able to make the call, so you can record the call and then offer it for a fee.

Have you thought about interviewing an expert, and charging them an interview fee? Other business owners may jump at the chance to pay you for being a part of your interview, and gaining your existing audience. If you charge the presenter a fee, you can adjust your prices for customers- either offer it as a smaller price or for free.

Most importantly, be sure to listen to your market. If you set your price at $29.95, and your seminar wasn't as successful as you would have liked, next time try offering a special discount of $19.95 and see if that helps your sales.

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Free Teleseminar Software You Shouldn't Do Without

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When someone said that you can produce a teleseminar for free, they weren'texaggerating. It is quite possible to present a teleseminar for virtually no money, thanks to a selection of teleseminar software that you can download and use without any cost. Other than the value of your time and effort, that should bring down the expense of producing a teleseminar to virtually zero. Here are a few of the teleseminar software you might want to consider using:

Free recording software

Audacity

Audacity is an open source software, so you can download it for free. It's quite popular with people in the teleseminar circuit because it's very easy to use and offers options for recording and editing.

Once downloaded onto your computer, you can then use this software to record your teleseminar. You can copy the file onto a disk, CD or DVD later. An advantage to this software is that it can work with either a PC or a Mac.

Wimpy MP3 Player

This is an excellent tool to use for teleseminar software. It can record in MP3 format and then allow you to edit your audio files and generate your content as a podcast. An added bonus is that it can support links to your e-commerce web page, so your audience can order and purchase from your online shopping cart.

Beware, though. It only plays MP3 audio files. If you prefer another format, you can use Wimpy Rave or another software.

Free Conferencing Live Office

This is actually used as a bridge line to handle teleconferencing during teleseminars but it carries plenty of perks. For one, it allows free recordings of your audio so you can save and store your lectures and presentations for posterity. You can also use this application to publish your teleseminar or use the audio content for podcasting.

Mix Craft Recording Studio

Another free software you can use for your teleseminar is Mix Craft. It has plenty of features that might scare off those who aren't tech-savvy but don't worry. This software doesn’t have a steep learning curve. If you want to produce recordings that are professional-quality, this is an excellent choice.

Although this software is meant to be used by aspiring music artists who want to record at home, it's also excellent for recording teleseminars. There are plenty of editing features that you'll like, along with sound effects. There's also a feature called 'cross fade', which allows you to make corrections to recorded clips that are less than ideal. You can record a fresh clip, drag and simply drop it on the older track so you can create a seamless, professional-sounding recording.

Ecommerce

Commerce.CGI

This is a free shopping cart application that will come in handy for your paid teleseminars. You probably know by now how difficult it can be to manage registration and payment transactions for your audience but Commerce.CGI can solve that. It's Web-based, so your computer resources wouldn't be bogged down.

This shopping cart has full features, installs and gets set up easily and is a breeze to use. There's also standard support in case you have any questions. Works well with either Windows or Linux servers.

Ubercart

Another free teleseminar software you shouldn't do without is the Ubercart shopping cart. It's quite capable of handling all your business transactions, so whether you're selling books, e-books or audio recordings to your audience or all of it, this application can handle all these tasks nicely.

Autoresponders

AMLM

The Autoresponder and Mailing List Manager is a free management software that can help ease administrative tasks associated with your upcoming teleseminar. You can set up personalized messages, schedule mailings, use double opt-ins and manage follow ups at a pace you prefer.

SendFree

No need to hire an assistant for your teleseminar if you have this software. It's free for the first month, easy to use and has excellent features. You'll have to sign up for an account, though but soon you'll have access to an efficient autoresponder service that can easily manage your mailing list for you.

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Producing an Audio Transcription of Your Teleseminar

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A teleseminar is basically your ordinary seminar brought to the telephone lines. In your ordinary seminar, you will need to book a venue, feed your guests or participants, book your speakers, pay for your speakers’ transportation costs, ensure that your speakers are comfortable, get all your speakers’ presentations in order to make copies for the audience, and ensure that everything that you planned is indeed proceeding smoothly.

Thanks to technology and advances in communication research, however, you can now have people gather virtually: they can get to their telephones, dial a number, and listen to your presenters over the phone.

This can make it cheaper for you to hold a seminar, but it also entails additional work for you. First, you will need to book speakers who are engaging, have great voices and can carry through what will be a phone speech to a lot of people. You will also need to have the infrastructure in order to do this: a telesminar will need a bridge line, which will allow a lot of people to contact you.

Second, you also need to have a question and answer portion to your event, as with most seminars, and this can be difficult to control if your questions come over the phone and you cannot see if the questioner is most likely disruptive. Third, you need to record everything that happens, and you will therefore need transcription equipment to carry your work out.

An audio transcription of your teleseminar will allow you to not only keep records of what happens, but give you a chance to see how your future teleseminars can be developed and improved. Moreover, an audio transcription can be valuable to people outside your company: it can be used as a basis for research in communication, as a way to substantiate reports of progress to your donors, and as a method of informing your clients on developments in your products and services and how you have addressed any issues put forth by your target audience.

Here are a few tips for producing your audio transcription:

- First, you need to understand that you need to record your event, and you need to take the details of the teleseminar down. This means that you will need to plan your event not just for what happens before and during, but way after. Who are you going to hire to transcribe the teleseminar? How much time are you going to give the transcriber to finish the transcription?

- Settle the names of your speakers early on so that you do not have to keep on checking back with spellings.

- Be accustomed to the unique voices of your speakers. When you get hold of the audio file, you may not be able to distinguish amongst voices if you do not know your speakers well enough.

- If you have a budget, shoot a video of the teleseminar (note that this is useful only if you have all your speakers in one room). If you cannot distinguish among voices in the teleseminar, or if you cannot make out the words, you might be able to consult the video and see if you can improve your transcript.

- Know your agenda by heart and have it next to you as you do your transcription. This can actually help you distinguish what is being said if you have an idea what is going on.

- Do not be afraid to ask for help from your speakers. Touch base with them early on and ask if they can be contacted for assistance if their voices come out garbled on the recording.

- Check all audio recording equipment a day or two before the teleseminar to make sure that they are working.

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Teleseminars versus In-Person Seminars: Which is the Better Choice?

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In-person seminars are the conventional way to make presentations and it’s a marketing strategy that has been used by businesses for many years already. An in-person seminar, however, isn’t all that easy to plan and conduct, and that’s why people have tried to come up with alternatives to them. One such alternative is a teleseminar.

Why Teleseminars Can Be the Better Choice
Teleseminars and in-person seminars both have its own pros and cons, but certain cases make teleseminar the better choice. Here are a few reasons why businesses may opt for a teleseminar instead.

Lower Overall Costs

First of all, travel expenses are immediately reduced to zero and this goes for both the teleseminar host and guests. Phone services will enable the teleseminar host meet with his guests, making it unnecessary for both parties to incur traveling expenses. This time around, a world tour can be conducted even straight from your home, and you owe everything to your good old phone. Other out-of-pocket expenses will be greatly reduced, if not completely eliminated.

If you usually charge fees for your in-person seminars, you can make admission fees either more affordable or profitable with teleseminars. Because you don’t need to rent a venue for a teleseminar and you’ll have to pay for fewer tools and services to make your teleseminar possible, your overall costs are sure to come down a few notches.

With lower overall costs, you can earn a more substantial profit even while ticket prices remain the same. If you wish to make your teleseminar more affordable and increase the number of attendants, you now have the means of lower your ticket prices. In some cases, and with proper advertising, you might even afford to make your teleseminar completely free!

Less Pressure

If it’s your first time to make a presentation, which situation would exert greater pressure on you: talking to ten people over the phone or having to face all of them together in a room and with you alone in the limelight?

A teleseminar is easier for the nerves, and if you have first-time marketers working for you, they stand to gain a more positive experience with a teleseminar.

Less Planning Time

A teleseminar is easier to organize than an in-person seminar for various reasons. Food and drinks, for instance, usually represent a huge headache in seminar planning because you want something that’s affordable but delicious and one you can serve hot and ready in adequate quantities. When it comes to teleseminars, however, food and drinks are no longer your concern. You can schedule a timely break in your presentation, but you can’t serve them food and drinks over the phone, can you? You may have to entertain them during break time, but there are many ways to keep your guests entertained without spending a dime.

Other problems that usually beset in-person seminars are not applicable to teleseminars. These include but aren’t limited to malfunctioning visual presentation tools, seating arrangements, and size and appearance of venue.

As you can see, holding a teleseminar may be a better choice if you’ve a smaller budget or you have less time to plan your presentation. But why make a choice if you don’t have to? You stand more to gain if you can afford to offer both an in-person seminar and a teleseminar to prospective clients so why not do that?

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Marketing Your Products Through Teleseminars

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You may be having a hard time marketing your products through the Internet, especially if there aspects to your products that you cannot explain. Now, imagine how much harder to market services are: are you a massage specialist, hair stylist, or even a professor or lecturer hoping to make a killing online?

It can be hard to convince people to avail of your services if you do not have concrete proof of your abilities, and so much harder if you do not talk to them personally. Websites can be great in featuring products and how they look, but they can be quite impersonal when you need to talk to people and address their needs.

One way for you to get over this hurdle is to conduct a teleseminar. Basically, a teleseminar is a seminar that is conducted over the telephone. This keeps you from having to go through the long, costly process of booking a venue for your activity, feeding your guests, and giving them either free samples or paraphernalia.

It also gives your guests the chance to hear what you have to say without them having to leave their homes. On both sides of the knowledge divide, there are advantages, and if you have a product, you can use the advantages of teleseminars in order to get your word across.

All that you need is a bridge line to allow a lot of people to listen to you. The people who need to listen to you need only a telephone number as well as an access code in order to listen to your seminar. If you are going to market a product, a teleseminar can be great: it can allow you to answer questions and address issues that you might not have anticipated had you not consulted your target market. If you are going to market your product through a teleseminar, here are a few tips that you may want to take into account:

- Have you ever heard the expression that if you smile, you can tell over the phone? Keep this in mind as you conduct the seminar. You need to appear enthusiastic (but not overeager) and you need to appear as though you are made happy by your own product. If you can’t be happy because of your own product, who else can be made happy by it?

- If you are going to create a network marketing scheme around your product, you can also use your teleseminars to train the people that you hope will sell your product. Teleseminars have been used for training, and you can use this aspect of the teleseminar not only in selling your product at first, but in sustaining sales.

For instance, if your product requires special training to be used, then you might conduct a teleseminar in order to get people to learn how to use it. You may also conduct follow up training for all the updates that you make to your product.

- Sustain your sales by having teleseminars constantly: this can allow you to keep in touch with your customers, and it can polish off your reputation as someone who cares about customers more than sales. You can have teleseminars that are useful to your target market, but mention your product only briefly. This way, you can still market your product without appearing like a hard-selling salesperson.

- Always provide information on where people can buy your product, and what they can get out of it. Moreover, be persuasive in telling people that they should get the product.

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Scripts to Use When Producing Teleseminars

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If you are into Internet marketing, then you may have heard of the teleseminar. A teleseminar allows you to have a seminar over the phone lines, saving you the time and money associated with having to book speakers, inform potential attendees and participants about your event, and keeping the seminar running live and on time.

A teleseminar will also save your participants money: they only have to worry about their telephone fees, if any, and they do not need to make reservations at hotels or incur transportation costs to attend your event.

A teleseminar, however, is much like any other major brick and mortar event. You will need to inform participants that you have something going on and that you would like them to participate in it. You will need to book your speakers and make sure that they are able to get to your phone and talk to your participants, not to mention talk clearly and succinctly so that you can keep within your running time.

You will also need a short, manageable running time. After all, not all your participants will have the energy and time to stay on the phone for hours.

In order to keep to your running time, you will need a logical agenda. For this, you will need a schedule and a script of sorts. This script will allow you to say what you want at the time that is most suited for your strategy. When making your script for your teleseminar, take note of these tips so that you do not get lost:

- Establish the purpose of your teleseminar. Are you using it to promote a product or service? Are you using it to train people? Are you seeking to teach or inform? Remember this purpose and allow it to guide you in writing your script. This may sound like obvious advice, but it is important: people tend to mix up so many different purposes to a seminar that it looks more like a mishmash of information than something useful to its participants.

- Make sure to have a feedback or question and answer portion. There will be customers who need to know more about your product or service, or people who are curious as to what you have to say about an issue. If you are holding a teleseminar with press people involved, you can expect them to start asking you a lot of questions. Make sure, moreover, that you have control over the question and answer portion: some people can hog the phone lines and annoy other listeners, while some speakers may not be too comfortable with answering questions.

- Have an expert in a field related to your product or service at your teleseminar. Having just one person talk can make a seminar not only feel boring, but sound boring at the outset when you are going to market it. Make sure that this speaker is available on the day of the seminar and is comfortable with the script that you propose.

- If you have an ebook, make sure that there is space on the script to get passages from it and refer to it. Avoid ordering people to simply buy your ebook. Make your ebook look like a reference material instead in order to show how useful it can be.

- Have a well-defined outline for your teleseminar, and keep to this outline for the seminar. It will guide you not only in keeping to your time, but in transcribing and recording the seminar later.

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10 Ways To Promote Your TeleClasses or TeleSeminars

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The teleclass format has become more "known" since Thomas Leonard started the first virtual coaching school. Below is a list of ways to promote your teleclasses. Some of the places below will cost a registration fee, others you'll need to be certified as a teleclass leader, and still others are free.

1. Teleclass

http://www.teleclass.com

2. Teleclass International

http://www.teleclassinternational.com/

3. 24/7 coaching

http://www.247coaching.com/

4. Online Success Teleseminars (must relate to Online $uccess)

http://www.onlinesuccessteleseminars.com/newevent.htm

5. Internet Marketing Seminar Schedule

http://internetmarketingseminarschedule.com/about.html

6. Craigs List

http://craigslist.org

7. Your usual marketing materials

8. Local Newspapers

9. Local Web Sites

10. Online Networking Organizations



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“15 Secrets of a Winning Teleseminar”

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Looking for secrets to a winning teleseminar? Read on to find out how.

1.) Determine a hot target market. Look for what people are passionate about and will spend money on. Strive to find a market place with money. (People have money and spend it.)

2.) Identify the market. Find out what people are already buying and they will continue to buy these products. For example, Golf market – people buy golf balls every year.

3.) Get high priced products by either making them or licensing them. One short cut is to buy the rights to products. Then when you sell it you are able to keep all the money.
When licensing a product, make sure that you are NOT paying a royalty. You should pay a one time fee to buy the rights to the product. It may cost thousands up front, but you’ll make it up in no time.

4.) Give a killer offer. Demonstrate the high value of everything in your offer. Offer bonuses. Build up your offer by offering more and more. Then give a big discount.

5.) Obtain teleseminar attendees through emails and/or post cards.

6.) Need landing/registration page for the teleseminar. This is a squeeze page where people can join the list and are put into your Autoresponder. The Autoresponder sends email reminders about the teleseminar.

7.) Create script for teleseminar. Keep a successful script as a template and modify it each time you use it. You can obtain a successful script by transcribing somebody else’s successful teleseminar.

8.) Sequence of marketing pieces includes emails that are reminders. Send A LOT of email.

9.) Record the teleseminar. Offer it for download online for a price.

10.) Conduct an encore teleseminar a week later using a recording of the teleseminar.

11.) Run first teleseminar in the afternoon. Run the second teleseminar in the evening. This is varying schedule works well for different time zones around the world.

12.) Generate teleseminar participants via mail order post cards. Repeat the process if it is successful.

13.) Use different toll free number to take orders from joint venture partners. For online order you can just use the different Joint Venture affiliate numbers.

14.) Shoot for a large number of teleseminar attendees. 400-500 may seem like a lot, but strive to have 1,000 people on the call at once. 8-15% is a normal conversion rate as far as buying products.

15.) Test your teleseminar by modifying parts of the recorded teleseminar. You can change the offer, script, etc. and test it. You can buy audio modification software at Office Depot.

Matt Bacak began investing his first earnings at the tender age of 12, a young businessman in the making. Now, 15 years later, Bacak survived failed businesses, botched partnerships, heavy credit card debt and bankruptcy - all in preparation for the accomplishments he has achieved today as a well-established Internet millionaire and best-selling author.
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10 Ways To Promote Your TeleClasses or TeleSeminars

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The teleclass format has become more "known" since Thomas Leonard started the first virtual coaching school. Below is a list of ways to promote your teleclasses. Some of the places below will cost a registration fee, others you'll need to be certified as a teleclass leader, and still others are free.

1. Teleclass

http://www.teleclass.com

2. Teleclass International

http://www.teleclassinternational.com/

3. 24/7 coaching

http://www.247coaching.com/

4. Online Success Teleseminars (must relate to Online $uccess)

http://www.onlinesuccessteleseminars.com/newevent.htm

5. Internet Marketing Seminar Schedule

http://internetmarketingseminarschedule.com/about.html

6. Craigs List

http://craigslist.org

7. Your usual marketing materials

8. Local Newspapers

9. Local Web Sites

10. Online Networking Organizations



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Teleseminars That Sell: 3 Keys to Success

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Teleseminars are used by nearly all of the highly visible internet marketing *gurus* on the scene today, both to drive sales and to develop a great relationship with their lists. Yet surprisingly, the average internet marketer overlooks this vitally important tool, preferring to stick with familiar but costly pay-per-click ads or time consuming article research and writing. In fact, most of the successful internet marketers out there will rarely advise you to add teleseminars to your marketing mix, perhaps because they want to keep this super-effective tactic to themselves!

The benefits of teleseminars are numerous and include the ability to deliver valuable information to your clients and prospects for free or as a paid class, as well as the ability to record your teleseminars and provide them as a bonus in exchange for a newsletter sign-up or to actually package them as a product.

Like many internet marketers, you may be confused about what it takes to start doing your own profitable teleseminars. In reality, there are only three things you must *get* to be successful with teleseminars:

Get experience: as a participant. Attend as many teleseminars as you can, especially those that relate to your area of business. Pay attention to what works and what doesn't, as well as what you like and don't like about the teleseminar host's style, how they handle problems that arise on the calls and how they build (or don't build!) rapport with the audience.

Get educated: get started by taking a comprehensive course to get you up to speed, one that covers the basics such as bridge lines, handing common problems on your calls, how to record your calls, how to keep your audience engaged and so forth.

Get some experience: by getting a free bridge line, setting a date and time and then inviting your clients to attend. Provide them with great information then sell one of your products or services, related to your teleseminar topic, at the end of the call.

Once you start using teleseminars to make sales, you'll be hooked! And the more teleseminars you host, the more skilled you will become. Your sales will rise, along with your confidence. So don't wait. Add teleseminars to your marketing mix today.

Ellen Britt, PA, Ed.D., is the creator of TeleSeminar JumpStart, a complete five hour downloadable course that will help you get started, quickly and easily, in hosting your own profitable and powerful teleseminars. Just go to: http://www.TeleSeminarJumpStart.com

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7 Important Tools in Producing a Teleseminar

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Technology is a great thing. It makes life easier in many ways, and conducting a teleseminar is no exception. Here are the essential tools you need to make your teleseminar perfect.

Online Marketing Tools

These include but aren’t limited to squeeze or landing pages, auto-responders, and e-newsletters. You need to aggressively advertise your teleseminar so that more people will hear about it and join.

Marketing efforts should continue even after the teleseminar. Try to obtain feedback from participants. Use the information you’ve obtained from them to improve the quality of your next teleseminar.

Presentation Outline

Start with a general draft before adding detail. Review and revise on your own before having someone else critique it.

While ad-lib is certainly fun, it’s still better overall to have a presentation outline to stick to. An outline prevents you from going off-topic and ending your presentation on time – something you need to do if you don’t want to be charged extra for using phone services beyond the scheduled period.

Bridge Line

Contact your phone company and inquire about their conferencing services. A bridge line is critical to your teleseminar since it lets every person you’ve called hear your presentation in optimal quality. If you can afford it, having a secondary bridge line as back-up would be great. In case of any technical malfunction with the first line, you can use your second bridge line to reconnect quickly with your guests.

Once you have access to a bridge line, perform several test calls to your friends and see how it works.

Recording

In most cases, your phone company may offer you recording services to use with your bridge line. This way, you need only to push a button to start recording your teleconference. If such services are unavailable, browse the Internet for alternative recording equipment you can use for your teleseminar.

Having an audio recording is necessary because it serves as additional online marketing for your future teleseminars. By posting an excerpt in your website, visitors will know what they’ve missed out on your last teleseminar. If they like what they hear, they’re sure to sign up for the next presentation.

Transcript

A transcript must be made for your teleseminar and the appropriate passages should also be uploaded together with the audio excerpt you’ve posted in your website. Visitors who don’t have the inclination or means to listen to your recording can read the transcript instead.

Transcripts are also a good review tool for you. It helps you determine which parts of your presentation require improvement. You can then make the necessary changes to make your future teleseminar better.

Reference Materials

It’s not easy for everyone to follow what’s being discussed in a seminar, whether they’re participating in person, online, or over the phone. You can make the lives of your participants easier by sending them reference materials prior to the teleseminar. It can give them background knowledge on what you’re about to discuss and help them follow your presentation.

Audio Presentation Tools

If your presentation includes use of music and other audio elements, make sure that you have the necessary tools and the knowledge for operating them. Again, try practicing them prior to the teleseminar.

If you make use of these tools, your teleseminar has greater chances of reaching its goals. Good luck on making people listen to what you have to say!

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Teleseminar versus Webinar: Which is the Smarter Choice?

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A teleseminar is a seminar conducted purely over the phone while a webinar utilizes online tools, together with phone use in some cases, to conduct the seminar. Both are commonly used as a marketing strategy, but as to which one of them would be more effective for your business depends largely on your budget and needs.

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using a Teleseminar

A teleseminar is easier to plan and conduct. As you will be making a purely audio presentation, there is no need for you to worry about the visual elements of your presentation. As long as the content is informative and entertaining and you’ve the necessary skills and tools to deliver your speech effectively, your teleseminar is sure to be a hit.

More people are also able to join a teleseminar. Even in today’s age, not all households have computers and not everyone with computers at home is computer-literate enough to understand what a webinar is, much less participate in it. In contrast, people of all ages and all walks of life are able to use a phone and almost every household has one of them.

Teleseminars are also less costly to set up since you’ll only have to worry about the phone charges. More often than not, you’ll have to shoulder the bill for long-distance charges as prospects will rarely participate in teleseminars if they’ll have to pay for the phone bill themselves. They may, however, agree to pay for a teleseminar fee, but only if you’ve sufficiently proven that they stand to enjoy a lot of benefits with their participation.

Teleseminars may have a more intimate set up than webinars, but they lack the visual impact that the latter has. Teleseminars also require participants to take down notes and voice out their questions aloud instead of simply having to type their questions – two things that not everyone might be willing or comfortable to do.

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using a Webinar

As you’ve probably inferred from above, a webinar will be more expensive and time-consuming to set up. But holding a webinar also offers certain advantages over holding a teleseminar.

For one thing, webinars do have the advantage of making a visual impression on its participants. Teleseminar hosts can only speak while webinar hosts can not make their message heard but seen as well.

Webinars give people more options to participate as well. If people can only hear and speak to participate in teleseminars, a webinar participant can simply view the live transcript of the presentation and type his question if he so wishes.

Webinars may be more costly to hold because they require more tools and advanced technology, but they can also be affordable in other aspects. For one thing, webinars using chat rooms can have guests from all over the world participate without having to pay for extra charges. Reference materials can also be sent online and for free, making it easier for participants to follow the presentation.

The Right Choice

Both webinars and teleseminars are vulnerable to connection problems and whichever you chose to hold in the end, you need to be prepared for possible connection trouble and have a back-up plan ready to keep your participants from withdrawing the seminar completely.

A teleseminar is ideal for short intimate presentations while a webinar is ideal for longer presentations and when you’re expecting a greater number of attendees. Take the time to consider your decision. Good luck on your presentation!

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Hot Topics For Your Teleseminar

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There are many advantages that can be gained from a teleseminar, but only if it will be done on the right manner. A lot of things can go wrong with your teleseminar and one of which is the content. The content is very essential because this will be the core of your online seminar. Since content is vital, you must be choosy in picking the topics.

On choosing the topic, there are information that you ought to know. These must be in accordance to the preferences, wants and needs of your audience. You must know who your target listeners what their educational levels are. You have to know all in depth facts before going into your plans.

Timely and accurate information is also needed. You may sound good but with no content; this will turn out to be a very poor teleseminar. You may also talk about timely information but sound boring; this is also a poor teleseminar. When choosing and planning for your topics, learn to hit the balance between style and content.

Be careful not to mix different topics on one teleseminar. Carefully choose one topic where you can focus and invest your time and effort into it. It may be good if you will offer a topic which you are very familiar with so that you’ll be comfortable in delivering it on your teleseminar.

Where topics can you choose for your teleseminars? You can choose between a soft teleseminar topic or a hard teleseminnar topic. Soft teleseminar topics will deal on soft skills like communication, leadership or motivation. Hard teleseminar topics on the other hand deal more of the visible like return or investment, etc. These two topics will sell if you have the target market.

Topics should therefore not to be taken too lightly. It is very important to make your teleseminar a success. You can choose from a wide array of topics listed here:

1.Building Your Online Reputation and Create Sales. This topic will deal on the easiest and fastest way on how anyone can position himself as an expert on the net; how to get free publicity and how to grow his online business. This must also include means on how to attract new customers or clients and how to save a lot on advertising.

2.Growing Your Home Based Business. This may include building a business and increasing its prospects. It can also include techniques on how to improve a certain business and how to move it into big leagues.

3.Marketing Schemes. This may also be a viable topic to choose. It may include information on how to sell a product or service. This may also offer solutions to marketing problems.

4.Business Conferences. Speakers on this kind of topic may be top consultants and business advisers. They will be dealing on how to run a career or a business. Strategies and insights of winning business owners can also be discussed.

If you still cannot make up your mind on what topic to produce, ask your clients about it. You can survey their ideas and get their suggestions to know what they really want. This will be a winning move wherein you will not dedicate too much time on thinking of what to offer but just put it into preparation.

Always remember that business owners allow themselves and their employees to engage in teleseminars because they want them to be developed. Your teleseminar must therefore be one which can really help and solve problems. Choose topics that will be very interesting and useful for your clients and you’ll never go wrong.

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What Are Webinars?

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As the name implies, webinars are seminars which are web-based. They are also referred to as online workshops or online seminars. Webinars have many uses such as building a brand, generating sales leads, training groups of people, press conferences, corporate announcements and focus groups.



Webinars are similar to conference based seminar; the only difference is that the participants listen to the audio through telephones and view the presentation by their web browser. The main feature of webinar is the interactive element which is the ability to discuss, give and receive information. It is different to “webcast” which doesn’t allow interaction between the audience and presenter.



Numerous companies have started offering webinar as an exchange to the traditional face-to-face seminars. Companies are acquiring the advantages that webinars give. These vary from flexibility to cost efficiency. Participants will not have to travel just to attend a seminar; they can learn on the comfort of their homes and their most convenient times. Other benefits are cost reduction, ability to reach much larger audience, lets future playback and can be recorded digitally.



Companies can save a lot from traveling budget and other expenses relative to trainings. A computer, an internet access and a phone line are just the items needed to attend a webinar. Materials like handouts can be printed and are downloadable and can be maintained as reference file.



Webinars also help marketers reach larger audience immediately. The geographically scattered colleagues may be able to work and collaborate as a team. Announcements can be posted to all the employees no matter where they are. Attendees and presenters can collaborate and interact through Q&A, document sharing and live polls; thus attendees can easily participate and learn from the activity.



The usual model for a webinar may be to offer a 5 week course and during which diverse lecture and module is uploaded on a specific day, for example, Monday. Registrants will have 1 week to take in the information.



If you are not into webinar hosting, you can just attend or let your employees participate on one. There are those with reasonable price and some are offered free. There are those which can be viewed and archived on demand. The archived webinars are made available for the viewing public; this can be accessed at Archived Webinars Page.



Looking for a webinar to attend will take a little research. If you’re always receiving invitations to online seminars, wait for the provider’s broadcast of an event. Also keep your eyes on upcoming webinars on trade magazines. Check websites for any webinars that have appealing topics since technology and universities are holding them.



Before registering on a webinar, do your homework first. Research the credentials of the presenter and the costs accompanying it. Even if the online seminar is free, try to analyze if it will be worthy of your and your subordinate’s time.



At first glance, webinars may seem less effective and meeting a person is better. But in various ways, the discussion group is a more effective method of communication. The discussion boards allow exchange of knowledge and information wherein the speaker also participate. The discussions are maintained online and anyone can review it anytime; this will let information propagate in many ways physical meeting cannot.



Webinars are fastly becoming the latest choice in web conferencing. Through its accessibility and low cost, companies can hold interactive meeting. Take advantage of the internet communication through attending or having your own web based seminars. You can also let your employees attend them for their development. Just do your research first and let your webinars help you with your success.


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