Hello readers,

I hope you have been enjoying my series on tools to grow your network marketing business.

This week I want to talk about one of my favorite tools, webinar services.

One of my mentors in network marketing told me that everything I do should be a training.  This applies itself wonderfully if you have a local team and you can go out and meet prospects and do business presentations together.  However, what do you do if you work on the internet? What if your team members are spread all over the world?

That is why you should investigate webinars.

A webinar is a software program that allows your team to watch on the internet as you do things on your computer.  At it’s most basic level you can show powerpoint presentations and your team can listen in over the web or over the telephone while they watch on their computer screen. If you do a lot of internet related stuff you can turn this into a full on training session.  You can show someone how to use your web site, how to use their back office, or even give internet marketing lessons.  Your team can see your computer desktop while you are training them.  They can see your web browser or your software and learn by watching you.  It is a very powerful training method!

Best of all some webinar services allow you to record the training.  The training is recorded as a Flash movie that you can put up on a web page for your team members that missed your training session.  If the training was complicated your team can refer back to the training over and over again.  New members joining your team six months or a year later can benefit from your “library” of trainings that you recorded.

There are some webinar services out there which are really crap and are just sold because their is an MLM component to them.  The webinar service I use is the best in the business. My favorite webinar software is from Citrix. They make GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar.

With GoToMeeting you can host up to 25 people at a time. With GoToWebinar you can host up to 1000 people at a time!  They include teleconference lines and the ability for people to listen in using VOIP. We use it a lot to build our international business and save our team members money since they can just watch and listen over the web.

You can try GoToMeeting: Free for 30 days and host meetings of up to 25 people at a time. You can also try GoToWebinar for 30 days to host meetings of up to 1,000 people.
These webinar services can be powerful ways to train your organization or do sales presentations. They also allow you to record the webinar and make it available as a flash video that people can watch over the internet.  I’ve even called this my favorite training tool!

I hope you like it!

- Ben Fitts

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