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The Art of Creating and Running Successful Webinars

Maria Henneberry / @MariaHenneberryandSheila Scarborough / @SheilaS

What's in this for you?

Deliver better client training

Have another option as a speaker

Create better webinar visuals

Learn to tailor your speaking style to online training

What do people hate about webinars?

Poll: webinar turn-offs

Presenters who read directly from slides.

When the presenter has no energy. If you're not enthusiastic, what keeps me from flipping over to Facebook?

Poll: webinar turn-offs

I don't like the hollow/echo sounds. Hated when speaker disciplined a kid.

Missing out on the 'non-verbal' is the biggest difference: a wink, smile, smirk, hand gestures, etc.

Webinar malfunctions: no fun.

More webinar annoyances

Too much self-promotion

No-DUH content

Marketing materials don't match actual webinar content Deliver what you promised!

How to build memorable webinar content

Webinars are different!

Disembodied voice + slides = potential for deadly boredom

They have the option to wander and you'll never know

"Have a narrative, not a presentation that looks like you shook off a bookshelf and then dumped it into slides." Chris Brogan

1) The point you want to make

2) Story/example to illustrate

3) .and don't try to make too many points!

Even more painful than usual!

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