Sometimes it’s tough to read your audience when your event is not held in front of a live audience, but in times like these it is so much more cost efficient to use web conferencing technology to hold a meeting or do some training than to pay for flights, gas, hotels and food. The problem is that even though you have allotted a portion of your webinar time for your question and answer session, your participants may not be comfortable asking the first question.
If you want to help break the ice and get your webinar participants engaged in a Q&A discussion, it might be a good idea to have some questions prepared ahead of time and plant one or two with members of your staff. If you are utilizing TelSpan, you can request that a TelSpan Client Service Professional ask a question of your choice to get the ball rolling! You might call these “planted” questions, but often it helps those out there in the audience get their creative juices flowing to allow an open forum for questions and ideas. We can arrange for your prepared questions to be asked at the proper time if there are no questions right away from your participants and just maybe it will be the boost they need!
