The Webinar Show The Webinar Show

Over the past year, I've written a lot about webinars gone wrong. In this episode I'll talk about some of the more glaring examples and what you can learn from these nightmares!

In this episode we chat with Roger Courville about webinar best practices from the presentation perspective. Roger Courville is the author of The Virtual Presenter's Handbook, editor of 1080 Group's Web Seminar Producer's Toolkit, blogger at TheVirtualPresenter.com and principal of 1080 Group, LLC, an independent consulting training firm that helps companies design and optimize online presentations and web seminars.

A practitioner in the web seminar industry since its inception, Roger has provided companies with thought leadership, innovative web seminar program design, vendor and system analysis, and staff development.
A partial list of leading organizations that Roger has personally assisted includes American Express, Harcourt Brace, Allstate, State Farm, Adobe, BEA Systems, Advanstar, CMP, AT&T Wireless, Sanofi-Aventis, Merck, Symetra Financial, Standard Motor Products, NCCI Holdings, Inc., Hitachi, and ThyssenKrupp Safway.

In this edition, we talk to Lee Salz, CEO of Business Expert Webinars and author of "Stop Speaking for Free! The Ultimate Guide to Making Money with Webinars". Lee will share with us the ins and outs of running attendee funded webinars.

Lee B. Salz is the recognized authority on attendee-funded webinars. He has helped hundreds of speakers, consultants, and trainers stop giving their content away for free and make money delivering attendee-funded webinars. Lee launched Business Expert Webinars as a means to connect speakers with virtual audiences … and real dollars. In addition to Stop Speaking for Free!, Lee is also the author of the award-winning book "Soar Despite Your Dodo Sales Manager" and a featured columnist with both Sales and Marketing Management and SalesforceXP magazines. He's been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Dallas Morning News, MSNBC, Selling Power Magazine, Training Magazine, and many other leading media publications.

Our guest will be Shama Hyder Kabani, the author of "The Zen of Social Media Marketing". We will discuss how social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) can play a positive role in your marketing efforts.

Shama has been featured in Fast Company Magazine, and Business Week anointed her among the Top 25 under 25 entrepreneurs in North America in 2009.

In this short episode we'll talk about web conferencing as typically used within companies.

On our first episode we'll start at the very beginning with definitions and general discussion.

Call in to have your webinar questions answered!