5 Things You Should Know When Choosing A Webinar Services Provider:
Choose Based On Your Audience Location
The size and location of your audience is a factor in your choice of a webinar services provider. Planning this allows you to weed out some of the providers you can't use. In one instance, a meeting holder had already set up a webinar that was to be held in about 5 different cities across the United States at the same time. It was not until after the meeting had already started that it was found that 3 of the 5 cities could not be a part of the meeting, because the service providers software did not work in those cities.
Choose Based On Your Audience Size
Your audience size is also important to your choice. Many webinar providers tend to specialize based on audience size; some of them work better with large audiences and others better with small ones. Know which providers are better based on the size of your audience.
Understand The Services You Want
Webinar services should include these basics: Synchronized web browsing which allows everybody at the meeting to see what is on the main screen. Whiteboard features which allows the meeting to remain dynamic. Ease of document and presentation sharing, so that all can see files and presentations as they are presented.
The Audio Is Most Important
The technology surrounding this kind of service is still new and in the marketplace even the best systems have sometimes under-performed. A big area you want to make sure that your choice gets satisfactory reviews is in the performance of their audio capabilities. It must be clear and reliable. If other areas fail you would want some kind of assurance that your audio will not.
The Power of the Replay
Many of the best webinar services now offer automatic replay. What this means is that viewers don't have to see the webinar broadcast in real-time. Instead, viewers can see a replay of the webinar at their own convenience. Why is this feature so powerful? If people are able to watch the webinar broadcast at a time that better suits their schedule, you will get many more people that will see the webinar. Not only that, but viewers also have the option of pausing the video, or replaying part or all of the video in order to understand key points better.
Now that you know what options to evaluate when picking a webinar services provider, you will be able to choose a company that offers features that best fit your specific needs. Make sure that you do not judge based on price alone though. The cheapest webinar providers may not have the technology available to ensure a error-free video broadcast.