Webinar Wisdom: Unveiling Three Essential Insights for Hosting Success
A few weeks ago I hosted my first webinar called Ask CTE Contributors: High-Pressure Coolant for Deep-Hole Drilling . Here are three things I wish I had known before I hosted the webinar: 1. Put script eye level with your webcam so that you are not looking down. This is a mistake that I made in this webinar, you can see me looking down reading off of my iPad in a lot of the introduction. To add to this point, try not to sound robotic and try to use the script as a guide not word for word. 2. My guests kept getting kicked from Vimeo , our webinar hosting software. My advice, have the technical rehearsal a few days before the event rather than just the day before. It was only after the webinar did I figure out it was due to my poor wifi signal, so ethernet fixed my issue. If we had done the technical rehearsal sooner, who knows, maybe this technical error could have been avoided. 3. Make sure that you can see the chat clearly. I had my laptop kind of far from me, and as a result, I was