Teleseminar Equipment and Location

You should be conducting the teleseminar from a quiet room where there will be no distractions. The last thing when you are concentrating is a colleague to come bursting through the door or worse still, if you are at home, the kids.

You might want to put a do not disturb sign on the door.

Your phone needs to make tones when you press buttons. It also needs to sound good . Confirm this by going to another landline telephone and getting someone to call you from the phone you will use for the teleseminar. Don’t do this test with a mobile phone, they don’t provide good enough sound quality.

The phone you use for the teleseminar should not be a mobile or cordless phone. Batteries run out when you are least expecting it and few have adequate sound quality.

If you are expecting to hold regular conference calls/teleseminars it is worth buying a headset. These will cost around A$200-$300 but will make it much easier for you to talk naturally. The sound quality will also be better because the microphone will always be the same distance from your mouth.

The most comfortable headsets will have a band that goes over your head, avoid the ones that dangle from the ear they are less comfortable and are harder to keep in the right place.

Don’t buy:

1. Wireless/Bluetooth headsets. They look great but typically have poorer sound, are less comfortable and the battery could die during your presentation.
2. Headsets that connect to a cordless phone have the same issues as the above.

The leading brands are Plantronics and Jabra (they used to be called GN Netcom). These companies make the headsets used in call centres and offices around the world. They provide excellent sound quality and reliability for people that earn their money over the telephone.

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