Online events in the Biznik Calendar

Hi Andrew,

Its nice to see that Biznik is expanding into other interesting areas. I understand the need for testing the market carefully and taking the kinks out of a new system.

I was unaware that Biznik had an additional category, beyond ProVip members who pay your top membership fee – this category called 'members we are familiar with' – I thought Biznik was an online community that provided benefits and services based on the category of membership and the relevant fee paid? This special 'clique' thing is disturbing.

He was quoting you Matt "We are dealing with the circulation of online events very deliberately, and are only able to extend this privilege to members we are familiar with at this time."

Not that I have an issue with it. I think he misunderstood.

Hi Matt,

I was referring to circulation of online events very deliberately, and are only able to extend this privilege to members we are familiar with at this time. This came across to me as if you are making this available to only those members that you have some special familiarity with - thus the use of clique.

BTW - my apologies for addressing my initial comment to Andrew, rather than you, Matt.

Hey Matt, I think this is great you are testing the waters on this. And the fact that you need to keep an eye on what webinars show up on the calendar makes a lot of sense. With as many that are done out there, it could become overwhelming : )

I'm sure most of us agree, as with so many webinars, their sales pitch goes well beyond the 5%. In fact I can't tell you how many I have found to be nothing but a huge sales pitch.

Looking forward to seeing how this all plays out.

This explanation makes sense Matt. Thanks for clarification.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to share this experience for The Perfect Pitch with the Biznik community.

We have been working very hard and I know that this is something that any business will be able get glean from.

Great work and I am honored to be included in the pilot and looking forward to seeing more online events from the community!

Yes. I noticed my teleseminar did not get the same attention as my in person workshop. This is great!

So many of us are going virtual to save time and money and reach a broader audience. It's a shame not to have the events showcased the same way as the in person, local ones.

It sounds interesting. Is this similar to an online video that prerecorded? Or will this all be live?

Bob, if it's a sales pitch webinar, it's easy to turn it the webinar off. :)

I don't see myself doing these, but I might attend a few.

Laura, it is easy to turn it off, but if I have taken the time to tune in and the promo for the webinar is misleading, it still is irritating : )

Bob, I'm sensing that you are going to run a webinar on how to properly advertising and market a webinar. :)

I am all for informative, interactive and educational teleseminars. I have attended a few some where basically just listening to someone talk - it was still live because we could ask questions via a text box. Others were completely interactive - like a class only remote I enjoyed that most.

It sounds like some guidance on the platform would also help. :)

Some of the IRS webinars/ online classes are run in a very dry manner. Other's not so much. I still chuckle about the one where they showed a taxpayer was hiding under a desk to avoid an agent. :)

Laura, having edited a few Power Point presentations for your industry do they ever get less dry? No pictures all text I was bored and I was just editing the content. :)

A good accounting webinar has jokes about every 15 minutes. A dense tax or accounting webinar is guaranteed to put most people to sleep.

Reading tax code even puts the speaker to sleep.

I would suggest some graphics or some examples that are entertaining to liven it up a bit.

The AICPA online CPE training courses makes people push buttons at random slides, has short quizzes, and popup windows.

Quickbooks also has online training for the ProAdvisors. Again random buttons to advance the training, live shots of speakers, moveable graphics.

If all they had was text, I think they lost out on a great opportunity to insert some graphics, put in cartoon, etc.

Hello everyone. I thought I would chime in about my event The Perfect Pitch tomorrow.

Most of our broadcaster will be LIVE. That is what is so special about our event!

We do have a pre-recorded video at 1pm but ALL broadcasters have been asked to provide insights for businesses and NOT sell their own companies.

We redirect users who are interested in learning more about the individual broadcasters and their companies to the profile pages or channel descriptions where the user can click links if they want to.

I am counting on many people dropping in and out of the different broadcasts and if you happen to miss something - you'll be able to watch the re-broadcasts later on.

We are trying to find new ways to create engagement with online conferences, as this is our first we will have many improvements on the next one.

Our broadcasters will be checking in from Vancouver, British Columbia Toronto, Ontario New York, New York Wadhurst, East Sussex, UK Melbourne, Australia

Our broadcasters are encouraged to stay live after their segment to answer questions from the chat feature in each channel page.

Can't wait and oh yeah... we just hit 10,000 visits on our site today (an all time best~)

Matt, as you probably know, I'm a proponent of sharing online events via BizNik as most of my events are virtual.

I like the idea of making it available to your higher paying clients first and to filter the ones you circulate to make sure they will speak to a majority of your members. Kudos for wanting this to be a high quality portal...its why I decided to invest as a Pro member. =-)

Let me know if I can help in any way.

Melanie

Great conversation.

Matt, is it not possible to simply establish a criteria, just like your 5/95 rule and let everyone know what that criteria is – rather than looking at each one, subjectively?

This is great - I'm looking forward to webinars & Teleseminars being promoted - both from a presenter but also as an attendee. I'm sure they're several that I would have attending & found value in if had had known about them but unless I stumbled on the promotion on someone's profile they're a missed opportunity. And I like your concern about keeping the info/sales ration in check.

Excellent! I'm with Sue on this on as well. Keep testing the waters and I'm sure balance will be found.