If you are marketing products or services online and aren't using teleseminars then you are leaving money on the table. Teleseminars are powerful ways to get known for what you do and to advertise your products.

It gives you the ability to sell your product to hundreds of people while talking on the phone from your living room chair! It's like a television infomercial, except that you can do it from home.

For those of you who may not be familiar with the term teleseminar, you probably have heard it called by many names including teleclass, virtual seminar, teleconferencing, webinars, online training, and web conferencing. But basically it's a class, demonstration, or interview that you offer online over a telephone bridge to many attendees on the phone.

Why do teleseminars work

The reason why teleseminars work, is they are such a powerful marketing tools. It positions you as the expert. You share with a large audience an overview about what you do, how it helps them, and can share stories of the results it's helped others to achieve. It's like an infomercial that showcases what you are selling and tells lets them get excited about what you have to offer.

Another advantage to teleseminars is that it helps you to build trust and connection with your audience. They get to know you more personally and hear how you can help them. When you build a relationship with your audience, they are much more likely to want to go deeper and buy from you.

When interviewing a group of experts, sign up to their affiliate programs, and the expert advertises their product and you get the commission on the sales. This means you don't even need to have your own product to sell, and you can still make money from teleseminars.

How to plan a teleseminar

The first step to holding a teleseminar is to decide what your goal is.
Are you doing this:
to build your database list,
to market a product or seminar,
to boost your credibility as an expert in your field?

Next, you want to decide what type of teleseminar you are offering:

• Will people be able to attend for free or are you charging a fee to get access?
• Will it be lecture style or will you have someone interviewing you?
• Is it going to be a onetime event or will it be a series of calls?
• Will you turn the teleconference into an audio product and transcripts that you will sell online?
• Will it just be you speaking or will you create a virtual seminar featuring a lineup of guests?
• Will you be taking questions from participants?

How to host a teleseminar
The best way of course to get a feel for how to host a teleseminar is to attend one yourself. There are all kinds of free teleseminars held online.

After you get a sense of how they are conducted. You need to set your own plan for the call.

1. You'll want to welcome people to the call.
2. Head into your core content / interview.
3. Closing thoughts or ask the audience what things they are taking away from the call.
4. Then you'll want to close the call with a special offer / a next step.
   (Something only available to the people on the call, that they must act soon to get.)

Then the only thing left to do is market, market, market! You can mention it on your website, your newsletter, friends, and your blog. Also consider if you have business associates who might be willing to announce your teleseminars to their list. (Other people’s blogs etc.)

With a little marketing, some good content, and a good presentation on your part, you'll put together a super teleseminar.

Summary
So, there you have it. I hope you’ll consider how teleseminars can help you to earn big money and grow your business online or even start a new business.

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