Tips for Effective Conference Calls & Webinars
Conference calls and webinars are the most underused but highest value tool for helping a team work together. The purpose of this guide is to help you understand what accounts for a good conference call/webinar and to give you specific tips for how to make your conference calls/webinars an effective use of your time.
- Keep things quiet – Use a quiet area and turn off call-waiting or mobile phone so these tones won’t interrupt.
- Introduce yourself.
- Put one person in charge.
- Ask for all phones to be muted.
- If you plan on answering questions, ask for them to be held until the end. With a webinar, guests can type their questions during the call and you can answer them at the end of the webinar.
- Keep the conference call/webinar at under an hour.
- Practice, practice and practice. Practice setting up and executing with a few people and practice what you are going to say as well.
Conference calls and webinars have high value, low cost and are quick and easy to set-up. Use them for Enlyten opportunity presentations, brainstorming sessions with out of state ID’s and for training with your team.
Here are a couple resources:
Freeconferencecall.com
Gotomeeting.com
Please remember to speak clearly and with confidence. Having passion about your product, the business and the reason you are doing it, is the most important thing you can do.
