I've been attending, organizing and presenting teleclasses for 10 years. I started in 1997 when I discovered Thomas Leonard, the founder of Coachville. I've learned a lot over the past decade and though they are one of the best ways to build your list, convert prospects to customers and create products, there are definitely some things you need to know and do in order to make sure your teleclass is successful.
Aside from knowing your material and being able to market your class, there are some basics you need to master. Since we're talking with Ellen Britt this week on Blogging and Beyond, I decided to put together a short of list of some resources you can use when you organize your teleclasses.
TeleSeminar Jumpstart - Ellen Britt's incredibly thorough 5-part program on how to do teleclasses. She covers faciltation skills, technology, marketing, how to deal with participants, how to run a teleclass, how to prepare, and much more. There are 5 hours of audio, detailed notes and mind maps.
AudioAcrobat - this system allows you to record your conference calls as long as you have 3 way calling. But it also does much more. You can use it to record testimonials, audio postcards, record online, record on the phone, or upload your own audio. I've known about AudioAcrobat for a long time but only recently got an account when they added podcasting to their service. If you deliver free audio programs, you can quickly and easily set up a podcast with the audios you select, submit to the many podcasting directories and drive more traffic to your sites.
Audacity - free, open source audio editing and recording software that works on PCs and Macs. I'm no sound engineer, but I do edit all our recordings, at the very least to remove irrelevant chit chat, ums and uhs, and strange background noise.
Tom Antion also has a terrific teleseminar training product and he reveals how he made $18,000 on one teleseminar!
