GoToWebinar Advantages..

I tested the ClickWebinar's service and it's really good. It's obviously based in adobe connect, my preferred meeting and collaboration service by far.

That said, there is a big flaw in it: it has no integration with email services like aweber. So, you would need to do some custom programming just to be able to build your lists off your webinars.

As far as I can tell, it has any kind of email reminders built in neither, but don't take my word for it. Maybe someone using the service could enlighten us on how it can be integrated into the normal internet marketing flow.

An interesting data I found: ClickWebinar did a survey to their users asking what kind of integrations they would like to see and WHAT THEY WERE USING THE SERVICE FOR.

Interesting enough, only 19% of ClickWebinar users seem to be using the service for "Sales of Products and Services".

( you can see the full post here: You Spoke, We Listened: Results of our Survey on API Integration - Blog ClickMeetingClickMeeting )

This fact, combined with the lack of a direct integration with the more essential tools used in marketing such as autoresponders tell me the main focus and customer base of this service maybe is not internet marketers.

Anyway, it looks like a promising service but doesn't have what's needed for me at this time, at least, not out the box.

I'd love to hear what the guys using this service for their business have to say though..

Hey Coby, any particular reason why you didn't consider stealthseminar or instantteleseminar.com?

I like the extra features, especially the one related to automate your webinar recordings giving them the impression to be live.

But maybe the webinar platform itself is not that good?

After some investigation I found the real deal breaking with these services is how good the sharing screen feature works.. GTW seem to have been focusing on this feature since the very beginning since that's the way GTW sessions have to be hold.

I've found the ClickWebinar desktop share has some delay, but I guess the really important fact here is that audio and video be synchronized, that's both have the exact same delay if any.

What's your experience on this regard Coby?

By the way, I heard good things about Google Hangouts and how it would be a killer for conferencing software.

However, I've had a really bad experience with it from the attendant point of view. the video just keep stopping and buffering all the time and it ha been impossible to me to keep up with the conference.

Now, maybe I have a no-so-good internet connection but I guess some of my invitees won't have it either.

I've not had those kind of technical issues assisting to GTW conferences. In fact, I have never experiences any issues attending GTW webinar seminars.

I hear people complaining about GTW requiring you to donwload a little piece of software for every webinar you wanna attend but to be totally sincere, it takes just second and I've attended to hundreds of GTW webinar from both my laptop and my phone and have never experienced any issues.

I know for a fact though that flash based conference rooms run into problems ofter and you're required to log out and re-log in to solve audio or other issues.

On top of that, many phones like mine (samsung S4) do not support flash.

As said before, I have absolutely no experience with GTW from the admin side of things, but all in all I think the customer experience is really good.

Maybe is that the reason why everyone seem to be using it, even with his outdated feature set?

Does it really excel into the sharing screen feature or is it comparable to others'?