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A few teleseminar questions

by BB-Eats
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I am going to be hosting teleseminar for my site members in a few months. I have looked into a few services but am still note 100% sure what will be right for what I need.

Here is what I am needing and if anyone can through out their advice I would be very thankful.

-The ability to hold roughly 100 people on a line at a time.
-The ability to raise hands/mute line
-The ability to record the audio. I don't need anything fancy, I can do conversion/edits, etc myself.
-Best price possible, but doesn't quality and customer support is worth paying a little more for.

If you could just throw out a service and a general pricing that would be great.
#questions #teleseminar
  • Profile picture of the author chrisgarrett
    I have been looking at moving over to gotowebinar - around hundred dollars a month mark
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  • Profile picture of the author IdeaLady
    There are a number of free services that will do what you want. I had been using TheBasementVentures, and they were bought out by FreeConferenceCalling.com. I have only used the new company once, but it seemed to work well. They have the features you want,including a web control panel where you can see who is on the call, mute everyone or individuals, and people can "raise their hands" to ask questions.

    Are there dangers in using a free service? Maybe. But I have found that any service (free or paid) may have problems at times. The downside with a free service is that if there is a problem, you usually can't get someone on the phone to fix it or, failing that, for you to scream at. ;o)

    I always make a backup recording. Usually any service I have used provided a good recording. But I feel better knowing that there is a backup. I use a little device I bought at Radio Shack (~$30) that hooks into my phone line and my computer, so I can record using Audacity. Works great.
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  • Profile picture of the author BB-Eats
    Thanks Chris, I will look into that.

    And I guess they don't call you the idea lady for nothing eh? I appreciate it.
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    • Profile picture of the author marciayudkin
      I have been looking at moving over to gotowebinar - around hundred dollars a month mark
      The question was actually about teleseminars. I don't recommend moving from the teleseminar to the webinar format just because it seems to be more fashionable and up to date. Some audiences and some topics do well as webinars and others do not.

      I myself have attended hundreds of teleseminars (I'm not kidding) and I am highly resistant to attending webinars, although I've been talked into presenting a few.

      Consider a few things:

      * For me, at least, a webinar requires about five times as much preparation time as a teleseminar.

      * More people are familiar with the teleseminar format than webinars.

      * The less your audience are techies or early adopters, the less willing they are to attend a webinar.

      * People who are on satellite broadband sometimes have trouble participating in webinars.

      * The odds of something going wrong technologically are higher for webinars than for teleseminars.

      I'm not saying don't do webinars. For some high-tech or B-to-B companies, they are the perfect medium. But they're not right for every audience or every presenter.

      Marcia Yudkin
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      • Profile picture of the author MacFreddie
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        I attend about 2-3 TELE-seminars per week, it seems like EVERYONE is using this vendor Xiosoft's InstantTeleseminar

        Must be a reason for it. I can tell you for a FACT that several top gurus make Millions per year ONLY using Teleseminars, not Webinars. Alex Mandossian is probably the King of Teleseminars, he makes Millions. I heard 20 M a year.

        I recently attended one where the Host was actually calling from her car in CA and she had over 600 people on the call. She was laughing at how she making money while stuck in traffic. She stated "if this had been a WEB-inar I would not have shown up in time.

        There are still a lot of benefits to using the good ol telephone.

        In fact, I'll go on to say the Best technologies today are "AutoResponders and Teleseminars."

        You don't need a website to do this business. Almost EVERY WEBinar I attend has Problems. Either I can't get connected, or the Host has no clue what they are doing, or we lose connection etc... Even the Big Dog "Eban Pagen" had a Major screwup on his Webinar about 3 weeks ago. Everything went DEAD for about 10 minutes, with a 1,000 people on the webinar.

        You're right about Preperation, OMG the work that has to be done is Tenfold.

        Originally Posted by marciayudkin View Post

        The question was actually about teleseminars. I don't recommend moving from the teleseminar to the webinar format just because it seems to be more fashionable and up to date. Some audiences and some topics do well as webinars and others do not.

        I myself have attended hundreds of teleseminars (I'm not kidding) and I am highly resistant to attending webinars, although I've been talked into presenting a few.

        Consider a few things:

        * For me, at least, a webinar requires about five times as much preparation time as a teleseminar.

        * More people are familiar with the teleseminar format than webinars.

        * The less your audience are techies or early adopters, the less willing they are to attend a webinar.

        * People who are on satellite broadband sometimes have trouble participating in webinars.

        * The odds of something going wrong technologically are higher for webinars than for teleseminars.

        I'm not saying don't do webinars. For some high-tech or B-to-B companies, they are the perfect medium. But they're not right for every audience or every presenter.

        Marcia Yudkin
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      • Profile picture of the author chrisgarrett
        Originally Posted by marciayudkin View Post

        The question was actually about teleseminars. I don't recommend moving from the teleseminar to the webinar format just because it seems to be more fashionable
        The service includes a teleseminar feature bundled in the service called "total audio conference call".

        I am a geek and an early adopter but not one to blindly follow fashion
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  • Profile picture of the author BB-Eats
    Thanks a lot for all the information. From what it seems for my needs, the instant teleseminar seems to do what I need at a very reasonable price.

    The FreeConferenceCalling.com is great except it charges the callers. That would be fine but the teleseminars are a part of the perk for my membership, so charging them long distance fees is something I don't think they would like
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    • Profile picture of the author marciayudkin
      so charging them long distance fees
      I'm not sure what your topic area is, but these days most people have unlimited or cheap long distance, either as part of their cell phone plan or as one-price long distance.

      Unless you are appealing to very poor people or penny pinchers, the long distance charge for teleseminars is not a factor.

      I've surveyed my business colleagues on this point, and there's general agreement on this for business audiences.

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      • Profile picture of the author chrisgarrett
        Originally Posted by marciayudkin View Post

        I'm not sure what your topic area is, but these days most people have unlimited or cheap long distance, either as part of their cell phone plan or as one-price long distance.

        Unless you are appealing to very poor people or penny pinchers, the long distance charge for teleseminars is not a factor.
        Long distance plans I am sure are popular in the USA but here in Europe you can buy them, but many consumers and small businesses do not have them, or know about them, and they are not the norm by any means. They have no need for them.

        I don't know anyone here who provides long distance on cell plans by default. Just last week while I was in france it cost 35p per minute just to call home, but I can ask to buy a "bolt-on" for an individual country where I pay a fee each month and it brings the call to USA down to 15p a minute.

        These calls to the USA are not super expensive (I think according to Google on my landline call plan to the USA before I got the add-on it was 20.5p/minute), but we have look at all possible objections and do what we can about them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Coyotex
    So, you mentioned Instant teleseminar, which I currently use.

    Does anyone know of another service (not webinar) that lets people use the web as well as the telephone to listen to the teleseminar?
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  • Profile picture of the author StephanieMojica
    InstantTeleseminar is one of the best; many big players use them. They offer dial-in AND listening online as well as a 21-day free trial.

    Good luck!

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