A webinar is very much like a seminar, the difference being that a webinar is presented online. Attendees listen and watch from their computer, which saves them travel expenses.

Here are some tips on holding a successful webinar:

Schedule your webinar at a time that is most convenient for your attendees. Be sure to consider the different time zones. Remember that the East Coast is three hours ahead of the West Coast.

Promote your webinar well in advance. You can promote on your website, send an email to your list, use social networks like Twitter, network with other people, create strategic alliance, etc. Make sure that you remember to provide a registration link.

Send a reminder email a day before the webinar. People are busy, and may otherwise forget. In the email state the webinar’s topic, remind your attendees that they signed up for this event, include the start and end time along with the time zone, and be sure to let them know how they can log into the meeting.

Dial into your presentation at least twenty minutes ahead of schedule to make sure your webinar software is working. If you have another speaker, make sure you tell them how to use the webinar software.

Inform the audience how they can interact and ask questions. Decide ahead of time whether the audience can ask questions during the presentation, or after the presentation.

At the beginning of the presentation, state what the objectives and outcomes will be for this webinar.

Start and end on time.