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15 Ways to Promote Your Webinar
By Donna Gunter,
the Online Biz Resource Queen™,
and owner of OnlineBizU.com
dgunter at sohobizsolutions com
www.getmoreclientsonline.com
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Teleclasses,
also referred to as teleseminars, teleconferences, and webinars (with
the added component of seeing a presentation) provide a platform for online
service business owners to connect virtually with prospects around the
world via a teleconference bridge line and share information with them.
Many service professionals use paid or free teleseminars to grow their
lists, establish their expertise, and deliver training and coaching programs.
It's an ideal platform for information delivery, as both the presenter
nor attendee can listen from the comfort of their home, office or car,
without any of the headaches of having to be present for a live, in-person
event.
Once you have created a compelling description and list of learning points
for your teleseminar, how do you promote your teleclass and find participants?
Here are 15 ways for you to promote your upcoming teleclass:
1. On your web site. Regardless of your reason for offering
a teleclass, you need to create a search-engine optimized page on your
own web site that contains an opt-in box where interested participants
can opt into your list and get the call-in info for your teleclass. This
is the landing page to which all of your promotional efforts should link.
You may want to use a hover ad promoting your teleclass that pops up when
visitors land on your site, or use a graphic popup.
2. Your ezine and blog. Be sure to post an invitation
to your teleclass within your email newsletter as well as on your blog.
When I'm offering a teleclass, I make the post about the teleclass my
featured post on my blog so that it shows up above all other posts while
I'm taking registrations for the teleclass.
3. Events on social networking sites. Both Linkedin and
Facebook permit you to create an event (your teleseminar) and invite your
contacts and friends to the event. On Facebook, you'll want to remind
those friends who have RSVp'd "yes, I'll attend" to go to your teleseminar
opt-in page to register. You may also belong to some niche-specific, target-market-specific,
or business-to-business social networking sites which will allow you to
create an event and invite your followers to your event.
4. Press releases. You can submit this online via a fee-based
service like PRWeb.com. Don't bother with the free online press release
services, as your release doesn't go anyplace other than on the site to
which it has been submitted, with the exception of PRLog.com, which has
been shown to give releases high search engine ranking. Send your release
out to your local media list, as well.
5. Affiliate Marketing. Create a special email, blog
posting, or Twitter campaign that your affiliates can send out to their
lists to promote your event. Remind them to use their affiliate link for
your program so that they get proper credit for any registrations. Even
if you're holding a free teleclass, your affiliate program should let
you to create a special affiliate link to your teleclass registration
page for your affiliates and track those registrations and credit the
affiliate for any purchases made from your upsell promotion on the teleclass.
6. Article Marketing. If you're planning a free preview
teleclass where you will offer an upsell to a paid program, begin writing
articles and submitting articles on your teleseminar at least 30 days
prior to your event. In your resource box, you can offer your free teleclass
as your client attraction device, and send readers to your opt-in page
as your call to action.
7. Email signature. If you correspond frequently via
email or participate in online discussion forums or lists, create an email
signature either in your email program or as part of your discussion forum
profile that specifically promotes this teleclass and sends recipients
to your opt-in page.
8. Viral report. Write a special PDF report or white
paper about the topic of your teleseminar and give it away free of charge
to your list and social networking friends with an opt-in box. Offer your
list members and followers the opportunity to give it away by using a
viral report brander. Then your list members can personalize it with
their name, web site, and affiliate link. Be sure that the report links
back to your teleseminar opt-in page.
9. Discussion lists and forums. Some lists and forums
permit members to overtly promote their products and services on the forums,
while others have separate forums and lists specifically for those purposes.
Be sure you know the rules of the list before sending a promotional post.
And, if no overt promotion is permitted, post other comments to the list/forum
and use your email signature to help you promote your teleclass as described
in #7 above.
10. Strategic alliance partners. Ask colleagues with
whom you have a relationship and who publish ezines and blogs to pass
along your teleclass information to their readers. Or, you can use DirectoryofEzines.com
to help you identify ezines that reach your target market and request
that they let their readers know about your upcoming teleclass. If you
offer a free event and promise to deliver valuable content, you may have
an easier time getting ezine and blog editors to help you promote. Or,
offer them the opportunity to become an affiliate and outline your commission
structure to help motivate them to help you promote your program.
11. Speaking. If you regularly speak to groups and organizations,
mention your teleclass to them at your next speaking gig. Or, ask colleagues
if they will sponsor you as a special guest to their list to offer your
teleseminar. Research radio talk shows on BlogTalkRadio.com or podcasts
on iTunes.com and contact the host to interview you about the topic of
your teleclass.
12. Purchased advertising. You can do this by buying
classified ads in ezines that cater to your target market, as discovered
in #10 above. Or, you can create a pay-per-click (PPC) campaign on Google,
Yahoo, or MSN. Most of these programs let you set a daily/weekly/monthly
budget that you can begin and end as you choose. If you time your teleclass
during the time when people are actively searching for information on
your topic (like "home owner tax tips" in April before the IRS tax deadline),
the greater the likelihood that your PPC ad will yield results for you.
13. Audio and video marketing. Create videos about the
topic of your teleclass using your webcam, video camera or screencast
software and post to the major video sites via TubeMogul or TrafficGeyser.
You can also create a Powerpoint presentation about your teleclass and
upload it to Slideshare.com. Lastly, you can create a viral video or movie
about your teleclass topic and ask your colleagues and strategic alliance
partners to pass that to their lists, as well.
14. Teleclass promotion sites. There are a number of
places where you can post your teleclass either free or for a fee. Paid
listing sites include:
Teleclass.com
24/7 Coaching: (must be a paid member)
PlanetTeleclass.com
FullCalendar.com: (post in the San Francisco area because they seem to
have the media most open to posting teleclass info)
Solo-E.com: (you have to pay to be an expert here to post your teleclass)
Free listing sites include:
SeminarAnnouncer.com
CraigsList.org: (can only post in one city without being penalized and
removed from the listings)
Conference Call University: (You do have to place a link to their site
on your event page)
FindFreeSeminars.com
AllConferences.com
Also search Yahoo Groups and Google Groups for any teleclass announcement
lists.
15. Track your results. You need to know what promotional
efforts are bringing you the best results. Create a specific URL where
you can track the click-throughs on any promotion. Or, use a tracking
service like Hypertracker.com to track your results.
Add teleclasses to your marketing mix. Watch your business gain credibility
and see how quickly your list grows!
Internet Marketing Automation Coach Donna Gunter helps
independent service professionals create prosperous online businesses that
make more profit in less time. Would you like to learn the specific Internet
marketing strategies that get results? Discover how to increase your visibility
and get found online by claiming your FREE gift, TurboCharge Your Online
Marketing Toolkit, at ==> http://www.TurbochargeYourOnlineMarketing.com
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Published - March 2010
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