My primary business is online and offline at the same time. Our software is web based and we provide our customers with an easy way to follow-up with their clients and prospects. They create greeting cards online and then we mail them, snail mail, for them.

My "other hat" is in providing training for entrepreneurs on how to market their offline business, on the Internet.

Guess I'm focused on having the best of both worlds.

D'vorah
http://www.CardsYouRemember.com
http://www.AskTheMarketingWizard.com

Just getting started with my offline biz and trying to figure out best way to get things rolling. I'm holding a workshop at the end of July working hard to sell the seats. I thought I would be able to hire sales person but that has proved to be very difficult so now it's up to me. Time to pick up the phone and start talking to people

Would appreciate advice for from anyone who has sold seminar seats successfully

Not to pick nits or anything, but, if you don't know how to sell your own product, how are you going to teach others how to better sell theirs?

2 ways to sell seminars, Adwords and banner ads (either 768X90 or better 300X250) in places where your niche meets; IE forums for chiropractors etc.
Also, either sell them cheap or free. The money is in the back-end products.

You may want to start with webinars. People don't have to drive there or fly, get a room etc. It is easy to do one. You can even prerecord one and have it set to play at certain times so that it can be used over again. (For desktop recording, Camstudio 2.1 is free and works very well. Fred Glick recommends Flip for video, but I like the Canon FS10-11, it is cheap now because they just came out with it's replacement so can be had under $350 USD. (Make sure whatever you get has jiggle adjustment built-in). The real secret to video is lighting. it generally takes 3 to eliminate shadows, but can be done with two very well placed ones if it just one person is being taped.

These seminars can also be now sold as a product! Later when you make more, the older ones can be throw-ins when selling the newer ones. For GREAT off-line info see Maria Gudelis as she is pretty good at that niche and her mind-mapping is excellent and allows you to A) professionally sell a presentation and B) easily up-sell the service.