Why Webcasting is the business tool you can’t live without

Home businesses are changing. New business tools are creating new home business opportunities, and none more than webcasting. Webcasting has the power to transform your business.

I know you have heard it before: business tools that worked yesterday are obsolete today. If you are involved in network marketing, internet marketing, or any other online home business, you know it’s true. This is not to say that you must abandon current practices, just that you can improve them using new business tools.

The biggest change in 2012 will be the increased use of webcasting to grow your business. Webcasting has been around for a while, but it has been expensive and too complex for many home businesses. All that has changed now.

Yesterday (January 23, 2012) GVO launched their price-smashing webcasting product, MeetCheap, as a new home business opportunity. Before looking into that, though, let’s consider why you might want to look at webcasting as a business tool. What would you use it for?

Why Webcasting?

Webcasting is a way of getting in front of a large number of people at minimum cost to you and them. Once you have the service, all you are investing is time, and you’re investing that more efficiently than almost any other way. Webcasting gives your prospects an opportunity to know, like and trust you by seeing you and hearing you talk without traveling to a meeting.

When I was with a previous network marketing company our primary reach out method was to invite prospects to sales meetings. These took place at a venue that was more than an hour’s drive away from home for me. Most of the time, none of my prospects would show up at the meeting.

Now, with webcasting, I can hold the same meeting with a global reach. Nobody has to travel: this saves time and money for everyone. And I can email or phone with reminders right up to the last minute to let people know when the webcast is starting.

Training

In addition to prospecting, webcasting is a wonderful business tool for training your team. GVO even has regular training webcasts that my team can attend on every subject from sales psychology to website design: six days a week there is at least one highly professional training webcast, and some days as many as three. To train your team, you can integrate your own webcasts with this schedule.

How to Webcast

Like any new business tool, there is something to learn. Fortunately, GVO has made webcasting so simple with MeetCheap that the learing curve is very short. You can start by simply webcasting a PowerPoint Presentation and graduate to videos and desktop sharing.

What is in MeetCheap?

Here are a few of the main webcasting features. Some of these may not mean much at a first glance, but they are explained on a link I will give later.

Audio/Video Controllers

Enable or Disable web cam or microphone

Desktop Sharing

Moderator can display desktop to mambers

Presentation

Converts and presents PowerPoint

Record

Moderator can record full audio/video

1×4 Full Duplex

Moderator can bring in up to 3 other people in audio and video

Chat

Text message to/from guests

Members

Lists all members present

Multiple Moderators

Create multiple moderators for live events

White Board

Draw on screen, sites, PowerPoints

Live Show

Live streaming video
To see the full list of 27 webcasting features and their explanation, go to http://gr8netbiz.com/7odl

Why MeetCheap?

I won’t go into all the reasons you should choose MeetCheap over other webcasting solutions, but I will invite you to at least take a look at it. I believe you will pleasantly surprised at:

• the affordability
• the reliability
• the business opportunity.

Now, while you’re thinking about it, watch the 2-minute video and read the details about webcasting with MeetCheap at http://gr8netbiz.com/ksru and watch your business grow!

Yesterday I posted about exercise on one of my other websites.  In that post I gave a link to the online fitness program I use.  However, what I did not mention is that it can also be used as a highly successful network marketing business.

Right now is absolutely the best opportunity of the year to promote a fitness program.  Most people have created NewYear’s resolutions and are looking at how to achieve them.  For many of them fitness, weight loss and lean muscle mass are major concerns – what better time to promote a fitness program that enables all three at a very competitive price?

Don’t miss out on this opportunity!  For less than $10 per month you can start a networking business and also get fitter than you have ever been in your life.  Go now to http://gr8netbiz.com/7rt to register for a free webinar that will show you how.

 In September 2011, GVO.com announced a new domain hosting package.  OK, I know domain hosting isn’t the most exciting topic around, but the interesting thing about this announcement is the price point.  Joel Therien has recognized that in the current economy marketers are looking to save money wherever possible: his new offering (Host Then Profit) is intended to meet that demand.

You may know that Joel moved from Canada to San Antonio, TX a couple of years ago to get better bandwidth and less costly support for his servers.  I used to be with Kiosk, Joel’s previous domain hosting company, which later changed its name to Global Virtual Opportunities (GVO). I left Kiosk because I found their service somewhat erratic and difficult to use.

Since then, I have used a variety of services, including GoDaddy and HostGator, before joining GVO again a month or two ago. I made this move when I recognized that I was paying too much for domain registration, domain hosting and autoresponder services. I found I could save money and also have a single point of contact for problems by moving all that under one roof.

Apart from price point and functionality, the three main concerns with a domain hosting service are:

• Reliability
• Ease of Use
• Support

Kiosk had its problems with the second and third of those criteria. I’m delighted to find that the problems have now disappeared: the last few years have made a huge difference. So now I’m excited to see the new offering, which should fill the bill for a lot of marketers.

What does Host Then Profit offer?

It’s a “GVO Lite” package designed for marketers who want domain hosting for a limited number of websites but also need some of the other facilities a marketer requires, such as autoresponder, blogs, videos and a conference room. It also includes massive amounts of free training, notably the renowned GVO Academy webinars, which occur daily. (If you’re not interested in GVO’s other offerings, you might find value in these free training webinars, which cover everything from marketing to WordPress.) And, of course, if you need to upgrade to a more versatile account, GVO has the packages to accommodate you.

For me, the big saving comes in the free autoresponder that is included with all the GVO domain hosting packages: right now I’m paying for an Aweber account that looks after one non-profitable website that just costs me money! I am also looking forward to working with the Video Producer when I can find some time and, maybe later, the conference room. I pulled together some information from GoDaddy and HostGator for comparison with Host Then Profit, and created the following table:

*3-year rate

I hope I got all those numbers right: GoDaddy and HostGator always seem to have special deals going on, but my experience has been they catch you for the first year and then raise the price after that. The prices I have given for Host Then Profit are monthly with no contract. Oh, and by the way, there’s a $1 trial offer if you want to put a toe in the water.