Hi all, I am a huge advocate of hosting informational webinars, promoted across all the SM channels of course, as a way to reinforce yourself as an authority on the product or service you are providing.  Not hard sell presentations- just a relationship starter…anyone else using this or perhaps Google hangouts? Haven’t tried those yet.

@lisagrover @melissaagnes Hello folks! There is actually a very interesting thread already on this very topic. Check it out: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/small-business/forum/topic/using-webinars/

@rich-brooks

@lisagrover – Since we just launched in November, our blog has exploded and extremely pleased with it. Regarding webinars, yes it is absolutely in our plans and mission.

However, we are working towards a monthly goal of 10,000 visitors every month for 2 months before we are ready. I want to build up our audience first, who then has the means to share it. We are already at approximately 2,000 this month and that’s up from last week by over 300.

@melissaagnes I thought about taking the same approach you did and came to your conclusion before I did it. We actually have a few champions across the country that are starting to promote us now that they’ve seen the site.

In the next 2-3 weeks, I have a contact who is friends with the owner of a large radio station in Dallas (where I live) who is working on getting me on the air for a whole morning to promote our live conference in Dallas.

So, as my audience grows and we are consistent, then we’ll be ready to do webinars. It’s all about building the audience.

@lisagrover You are very kind Lisa! Thank you. I appreciate every one of our readers and followers!