Presenting webinars is more effective if we open up and use our webinar software dashboard tools as a proxy for eye contact. Controlling the message is “great PR news from yesterday”. Instead, making ourselves accessible and building relationships attracts attention. Roger has been active in the web-conferencing industry since 1999. He has been called “the Michael Jordan of online presentations and virtual classes”. Roger has an incredible resume of delivering conference keynotes and online presentations, publishing research and much more.   Bonus: Roger’s website at http://eventbuilder.rocks   The SHOWNOTES for this episode are available at http://webinarskillspodcast.com   My FREE BONUS for this episode are the “Must-Do Tips for Webinar Presenters”, which provides you with the best tips from the many of the best webinar presenters in the world. It is my gift to you for listening to the podcast and is available at http://webinarskillspodcast.com   To access FREE TRAINING about webinars and online presentation skills visit my website at http://damiannoud.com   You can SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Click on the “Subscribe” button on your podcast player.   Please consider helping other webinar presenters find the podcast by taking 1-2 minutes to RATE and REVIEW the Webinar Skills Podcast. It helps a LOT. To do this on iTunes visit http://www.webinarskillspodcast.com/listen-to-our-podcasts   Thanks for listening, never stop learning and become your best.   Damian xxxx   P.S. I create this podcast for you. It is as much yours as it is mine and I would love to hear from you. If you have a comment about anything you heard in this episode, feedback or a suggestion, or any question about webinars please pop it into the comments form at the bottom of the shownotes page.

98: Roger Courville - Talk with and not at People

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Maria Milea describes the three phases of planning, which she summarises as PDP. Maria is the Performance & Inbound Marketing Manager at WorkCast. She has completed multiple certifications with HubSpot and Google and has extensive experience in online marketing and social media management.   Maria was also the featured guest on Episodes 90 and 102.   Mentions: John Aikin from Web Canopy at https://www.webcanopystudio.com/ Bonus: 14 day free trial with the option for a 20% discount off WorkCast at http://workcast.com by using the discount code of wsp   The SHOWNOTES for this episode are available at http://webinarskillspodcast.com   My FREE BONUS for this episode are the “Must-Do Tips for Webinar Presenters”, which provides you with the best tips from the many of the best webinar presenters in the world. It is my gift to you for listening to the podcast and is available at http://webinarskillspodcast.com   To access FREE TRAINING about webinars and online presentation skills visit my website at http://damiannoud.com   You can SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Click on the “Subscribe” button on your podcast player.   Please consider helping other webinar presenters find the podcast by taking 1-2 minutes to RATE and REVIEW the Webinar Skills Podcast. It helps a LOT. To do this on iTunes visit http://www.webinarskillspodcast.com/listen-to-our-podcasts   Thanks for listening, never stop learning and become your best.   Damian xxxx   P.S. I create this podcast for you. It is as much yours as it is mine and I would love to hear from you. If you have a comment about anything you heard in this episode, feedback or a suggestion, or any question about webinars please pop it into the comments form at the bottom of the shownotes page.

108: Maria Milea - Plan for all 3 Phases

You don’t just need to invite people to the webinar but you need to sell them on actually attending the webinar. Our job is to increase the attendance rate from the average of 33% to closer to 50%. Email reminders are a valuable way to do this. Omar Zenhom is the co-creator of Webinar Ninja, independent software that he co-created with Nicole Baldinu. They have an incredible track record of success, including their podcast, the $100 MBA, which won Best of iTunes.   Mentions: Tim Paige (Leadpages) at https://www.leadpages.net/blog/author/tim-paige/; Noah Kagan (Sumo Me) at https://sumome.com/ References: Webinar Ninja at http://webinarninja.com Bonus: The Ultimate Webinar Course at http://webinarninja.co/course   The SHOWNOTES for this episode are available at http://webinarskillspodcast.com   My FREE BONUS for this episode are the “Must-Do Tips for Webinar Presenters”, which provides you with the best tips from the many of the best webinar presenters in the world. It is my gift to you for listening to the podcast and is available at http://webinarskillspodcast.com   To access FREE TRAINING about webinars and online presentation skills visit my website at http://damiannoud.com   You can SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Click on the “Subscribe” button on your podcast player.   Please consider helping other webinar presenters find the podcast by taking 1-2 minutes to RATE and REVIEW the Webinar Skills Podcast. It helps a LOT. To do this on iTunes visit http://www.webinarskillspodcast.com/listen-to-our-podcasts   Thanks for listening, never stop learning and become your best.   Damian xxxx   P.S. I create this podcast for you. It is as much yours as it is mine and I would love to hear from you. If you have a comment about anything you heard in this episode, feedback or a suggestion, or any question about webinars please pop it into the comments form at the bottom of the shownotes page.

104: Omar Zenhom - It’s a Live Event on the Internet

Damian shares his thought processes about dealing with difficult webinar participants. When required, he identifies four options about how to handle difficult webinar participants. They are:    Establish general rules for the webinar Change participant access to webinar chat Get someone to help you Boot the difficult participant from your webinar    Damian produces weekly training articles and videos all about webinar skills at http://damiannoud.com. He is the host of the Webinar Skills Podcast.   The SHOWNOTES for this episode are available at http://webinarskillspodcast.com   My FREE BONUS for this episode are the “Must-Do Tips for Webinar Presenters”, which provides you with the best tips from the many of the best webinar presenters in the world. It is my gift to you for listening to the podcast and is available at http://webinarskillspodcast.com   To access FREE TRAINING about webinars and online presentation skills visit my website at http://damiannoud.com   You can SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Click on the “Subscribe” button on your podcast player.   Please consider helping other webinar presenters find the podcast by taking 1-2 minutes to RATE and REVIEW the Webinar Skills Podcast. It helps a LOT. To do this on iTunes visit http://www.webinarskillspodcast.com/listen-to-our-podcasts   Thanks for listening, never stop learning and become your best.   Damian xxxx   P.S. I create this podcast for you. It is as much yours as it is mine and I would love to hear from you. If you have a comment about anything you heard in this episode, feedback or a suggestion, or any question about webinars please pop it into the comments form at the bottom of the show notes page.   P.P.S. To help fund this podcast and all my training services I sometimes include affiliate links. These links are only provided to products that I recommend and never cost you extra money because you use my referral link. By using any of my referral links you help financially support this podcast, so I thank you for being my hero by doing that.

103: Damian Noud - How Do I Handle Difficult Webinar Participants?

  Maria Milea describes the variety of ways she supports webinars and different support options that webinar software providers can offer to presenters. Maria is the Performance & Inbound Marketing Manager at WorkCast. She has completed multiple certifications with HubSpot and Google and has extensive experience in online marketing and social media management.   Maria was also the featured guest on Episodes 90.   References: “8 Questions to Ask Your Webinar Provider Before Signing Up” at http://blog.workcast.com/webinar-provider-questions Bonus: 14 day free trial with the option for a 20% discount off WorkCast at http://workcast.com by using the discount code of wsp   The SHOWNOTES for this episode are available at http://webinarskillspodcast.com   My FREE BONUS for this episode are the “Must-Do Tips for Webinar Presenters”, which provides you with the best tips from the many of the best webinar presenters in the world. It is my gift to you for listening to the podcast and is available at http://webinarskillspodcast.com   To access FREE TRAINING about webinars and online presentation skills visit my website at http://damiannoud.com   You can SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Click on the “Subscribe” button on your podcast player.   Please consider helping other webinar presenters find the podcast by taking 1-2 minutes to RATE and REVIEW the Webinar Skills Podcast. It helps a LOT. To do this on iTunes visit http://www.webinarskillspodcast.com/listen-to-our-podcasts   Thanks for listening, never stop learning and become your best.   Damian xxxx   P.S. I create this podcast for you. It is as much yours as it is mine and I would love to hear from you. If you have a comment about anything you heard in this episode, feedback or a suggestion, or any question about webinars please pop it into the comments form at the bottom of the showontes page.

102: Maria Milea - How Should We Use the Data?

  Damian describes why we should welcome and encourage difficult questions. We should not be scared of receiving difficult questions, especially if we adopt the different approaches Damian discusses in this episode about how we can respond to those questions.   Damian produces weekly training articles and videos all about webinar skills at http://damiannoud.com. He is the host of the Webinar Skills Podcast.   The SHOWNOTES for this episode are available at http://webinarskillspodcast.com   My FREE BONUS for this episode are the “Must-Do Tips for Webinar Presenters”, which provides you with the best tips from the many of the best webinar presenters in the world. It is my gift to you for listening to the podcast and is available at http://webinarskillspodcast.com   To access FREE TRAINING about webinars and online presentation skills visit my website at http://damiannoud.com   You can SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Click on the “Subscribe” button on your podcast player.   Please consider helping other webinar presenters find the podcast by taking 1-2 minutes to RATE and REVIEW the Webinar Skills Podcast. It helps a LOT. To do this on iTunes visit http://www.webinarskillspodcast.com/listen-to-our-podcasts   Thanks for listening, never stop learning and become your best.   Damian xxxx   P.S. I create this podcast for you. It is as much yours as it is mine and I would love to hear from you. If you have a comment about anything you heard in this episode, feedback or a suggestion, or any question about webinars please pop it into the comments form at the bottom of the show notes page.   P.P.S. To help fund this podcast and all my training services I sometimes include affiliate links. These links are only provided to products that I recommend and never cost you extra money because you use my referral link. By using any of my referral links you help financially support this podcast, so I thank you for being my hero by doing that.

98: Roger Courville - Talk with and not at People

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