How many of you have attended a webinar in the last 6 months? Raise your hands… OK. How many of you wanted to do one!? I see a lot of hands here.
Well, I am going to guess that the main reason you haven’t held any webinars yet is that you can’t afford a service like GoToWebinar. If you are just beginning with your blogging journey and have a lot of information to share, it would only be logical to hold a webinar. But it is hard to afford it if you are just starting out and probably on a limited (or non existent) budget.
You can always sell something on your webinar to get the investment back, but how many people will buy from you, if no one knows you.
If you are a new blogger with no money but want to share your knowledge with those few readers you have, I have a solution for you. And I actually tried it a few days ago on my first live Q and A session and loved it – Meeting Burner.
Meeting Burner is a webinar service you can use for FREE! Yes, you read that right, there is a free plan you can use that would probably be perfect for beginners.
It allows you a meeting (webinar) with 15 attendees which is a great size for those starting out and just trying to share knowledge with their readers.
I was one of the lucky beta testers that was rewarded with a free PRO account after they got out of beta. Pays to be one of the first ones, right? (I did give some beta invites to my newsletter subscribers so you may want to join the list for future cool giveaways.)
Now that you know how to do it for free, let’s see what you can do on your webinar.
Three ideas for your first webinar
- Q and A session. This is the one I did a few days ago. I had a list of questions sent by mail from various readers. I also answered all the questions I got at the webinar itself (there is a really cool chat feature so people can send in their questions as you speak).
- How-to session. Solve a problem your readers run into often, by showing them how to solve it. Meeting Burner (even the free package) allows screen sharing so you can show your attendees how to do it.
- Product review. Ask your readers what is one product in your industry they would like to see how to use (or review), get it and show them how to use it. If it is a book, go through the main points; if it is a physical product show them how to get the most of it; I mean you get the point.
So you have the webinar service you can use for free, the ideas for your first webinar and readers eager to hear from you. Don’t forget that once you schedule the webinar, you can use these free online event registries to promote your event!
Your turn, have you ever held a webinar? And if not, will you do it now that you can do it for free?
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Hi there,
My visit here in your webpage is very timely. I m planning to start my first ever webinar this coming month and I really appreciate your tips I read over here. I am become more confident because I am equipped again with additional information and useful ideas you shared here.
Thanks,
Gabe
Twitter: implrcontent
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I have not done a webinar myself yet. I have attended lots of them, but never been the host. I have done interviews and recordings and used Blog Talk radio for those. I guess the next frontier is a webinar – I”d better hurry or something else will take its place before I get a chance!
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Twitter: trancingqueen
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Thanks so much for the great info, Brankica. I have been thinking about doing a webinar and will look into Meeting Burner!
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Twitter: productivesd
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Brankica,
I’m about to get started with webinars very soon.
What about having a no-sales pitch seminar where you invite a top expert to lecture about a topic and then your audience can ask a questions at the end of the presentation?
Cheers,
Timo
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Twitter: ModernArtsPack
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Thanks for sharing this service and for imparting ideas on how we can create our first webinar.
Twitter: nuper17
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Hey Brankica,
I see you changed your domain and I can say that it’s a lot more ideal to your niche than the previous one. Thanks for sharing. I learned something here.
Regards,
Noah
Twitter: Janis167
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Jeah, webinars is the way to go! Quite great article, thanks for the read :)
Twitter: billspaced
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I like #2–a how-to session. A lot of people need technical help (not a lot–just a little to get over a hump) and Meeting Burner might just be the ticket to help.
Thanks for the GREAT suggestion!
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A webinar always helps people on the world wide web stay connected, while offering free education to the masses by way of someone sharing useful information in the webinar. Keysha is doing a fantastic job here at we blog better with this blog. Keep up the good work! =)
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Twitter: ileane
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Hi Brankica, thanks for introducing us to this service. I noticed that Kim was using it the other day on the Facebook webinar but I didn’t pay much attention because I assumed it would be expensive. Now that I know it’s free, I can’t wait to test it out. I like the idea of having the chat room and answering questions and interacting with everyone. Nice review!
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Twitter: BrankicaU
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I wish I knew you didn’t sign up during BETA, cause all the BETA members got the bigger package for free.I actually gave away some invites, I think I shared it in my newsletter and FB page. But the service is great, I used it for my first Q and A and it was very easy to use.
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Great ideas in having webinar for free. Anyway, thanks a lot Brankica for having some time to post here and it is my great pleasure to read your valuable post and I like it so much.
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Twitter: BrankicaU
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Thank you for the comment and hope you will check it out, pretty cool tool :)
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Twitter: hajraks
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A blogging friend is planning a webinar and she doesn’t know anything! Many have told her that holding one is tough because trapping in audience is a challenge. I mean many people say they love the idea and will attend it but don’t show up; especially if it is a free webinar!
Maybe the essence is to identify the right audience and tap in the right potential? Have you faced a similar situation?
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Twitter: BrankicaU
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I just told my list and my fans about the Q and A webinar I had so that was a warm audience to start with. I don’t think I would promote mine to an unknown audience anyway. So it was pretty cool, people were asking questions and it was very active. If she doesn’t already have the right audience it may be hard…
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Twitter: cursor4life
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The main things you should be targeting when organizing webinar is ability to solve people problem. if this can be achieved in your webinar, people will definitely attend your webniar en mass. Just always look for problem people often get involve with and find solution to them
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thanks for your great post! I will regular visit your site to find something i need. Keep it up!
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These ideas you’ve shared are very helpful especially to who really eager to have their own webinar. They can now do the things they want for free since there is an offer that is for free.
Twitter: EbookTutorials
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Maybe this is definitely something I would look into in future. I would probably have to go the full-version route as I am surely not limiting myself to 15 readers LOL
Thanks for a great share!
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Twitter: BrankicaU
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Well it is very different limiting to 15 readers and 15 webinar attendees :) But you can use the 30 day free trial for the biggest package to make a big webinar, that is a great way to try it.
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I’ve been wanting to host a webinar for quite some time but wasn’t sure the best route. Thanks for the info on Meeting Burner; I’ll definitely be looking into it further. Also, I just installed CommentLuv on my blog so feel free to leave a message; I’ve enable DoFollow, KeywordLuv, and 10 posts to everyone for the next week as a thank you for letting me comment on your post.
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That means you are taking this seriously, which is great :) I think you will like this service.
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Thank you so much. I’ve wanted to do a webinar, but didn’t know what to do and you just gave me two great ideas that I can do easily. Thanks! I’m going to start planning these today!!
Kimberly
Make sure to come back and tell us how it went :)
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Twitter: wpwebhost
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Would love to try the how to session as I’ve seen a lot of product reviews already.
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Just sign up and give it a go. And don’t forget to tell us about it!
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Brankica, Nice to see your post here. I too never held any webinar but it seems its easy and simple. Will follow your points to do this. thank you so much.
Yup, I am one of the team members here except I don’t get around to posting a lot, with all the stuff going on. That is why I like to share something really useful when I do. I am happy to see my posts here cause Kiesha is one of my blogging idols :)
Glad you like the post, let me know how this works out for you!
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Thanks Brankica for sharing your discovery with all these people here. I bet lots of us will be making webinars. Have you done yours yet?
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Yup, I did one Q and A, it was pretty cool, the service was easy to use, I really enjoyed it. As a matter of fact I want to set up another one soon :)
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This is great! I am pondering on doing webinars and Meeting Burner gives me a chance to see if I’ll be any good at it.
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Have you tried it already?
Its great to hear that we can easily do a free webnair with great efficiency,
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One great thing about a lot of companies competing about your attention :)
Thanks for sharing with us different ways to in start creating a valuable webinar…
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Glad I can help and hope you can put this to good use :)
Twitter: harleenas
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Loved the info Brankica!
You are so right, never held a Webinar and barely manage to attend one due to the different time zones- but this is a great source of information to keep in file just in-case one wants to hold one ever!
Thanks for sharing, and nice to see you here too :)
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Harleena, I am pretty sure you will find some very cool ways to create a great webinar. And then we will have to figure out a time zone. There is just no perfect time :( so I guess the best we can do is target the time of our perfect target market. Thanks so much for an awesome comment!
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Wow! That sounds really great! I haven’t heard about MeetingBurner before but it seems to be really a nice one! I had been searching for some free webinar services for a long time, when I found your post. Thanks for sharing this nice opportunity!
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I searched for something like this a long time too :) I am glad I found it, it really came in handy for my first live Q and A session I had recently ;)
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