Present Like A Pro

The hardest part of a teleseminar is getting a audience together because you can't make people attend. Once there are connected to your teleseminar you control everything, so if anything goes wrong it will be because you have not prepared enough.

Practice Everything

Days before the meeting you should know inside-out:

1. How to use every function of the teleconference service that you are likely to use
2. The telephone you will be using sounds good, is available at the time of the meeting and that there will be no background noise
3. What callers will hear before the meeting starts so that they know they are in the correct place
4. How you will start the meeting
5. Your presentation
6. How you will finish your presentation and move onto the question and answer session without losing attendees
7. What you will do if there are no questions

Practice using the teleconferencing service

Practice the following using the same phone that you will use for your conference – this is important, the idea of practising is to ensure that everything goes smoothly and that there are no surprises.

Dial in from a regular phone as the moderator. Keep this line connected and now dial in from a another phone ( perhaps your mobile) as a participant.

Removing background noise

On the regular phone mute everyone else’s line by pressing *5

when you do this also listen

On the mobile what does a participant hear when they mute themselves using *6 (and the same again to unmute).

Starting a recording *21. When you do this, practise a bit of your presentation so that when you receive the recording you will be able to hear what the participants hear.

Conference calls are normally set up to beep every time someone joins or leaves a meeting. You may want to ask us to remove these tones because if you have a really well attended meeting they will be intrusive. If not many people show-up, it will also be obvious that there are not many people online.

Run through your presentation (running order) until you can do everything easily and it sound good.

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