Those of you who utilize teleseminars or teleclasses in your business have no doubt encountered a fair number of glitches and technical problems with the medium.

I have to tell you, these continual technical glitches drove me crazy. And not just because I’m a “do it right or don’t do it” kind of person. No, they particularly bugged me because I used to own a telecommunications company. We specialized in ethnic (Chinese and Indian) dating. This was back when everyone was using 1-900 numbers – remember that? This was before the internet and you’d pay $1.99/minute to listen or respond to personal ads, or chat with others.

My point is: We would often have 200 people or more on the line at the same time…. and guess what? No glitches, no echos, no one got dumped off the line, no one had trouble dialing in. So if we could do all that nearly 15 years ago, why can’t teleconference bureaus today provide glitch-free service?

Well, I’m thankful to report that I’ve made good headway in solving this problem and I’m happy to share my tips and tricks with you. Whether you’re a newbie to teleseminars, or just incredibly frustrated the way I was, the following should go a long way to helping you capitalize on this technology.

And of course, feel free to share any gems of wisdom you’ve discovered in the Comments section below.

Troubleshooting For Teleseminars

• Make sure your phone service is the traditional fibre optic land line. Do not use cable or internet telephone service providers – they will not provide the line quality needed and glitches are guaranteed. I had thought I was okay using a cable phone service, but no, after discussions with VoicText I switched to my local, landline phone company and presto, no more echos, cut outs, or suddenly getting dumped off the call.
• Make sure you instruct your guest(s) to call in only from a land line. Cell phones have too many echoes, delayed transmission, background noise, etc.
• Only one moderator/host needs to operate the controls to put you in and out of ‘lecture mode’. This may seem obvious, but for some reason I thought that both my guest and I had to push *5 to put us both into lecture mode (where the other participants are muted, and only we can be heard). But no, if you both push *5, then what happens is one of you has put you into lecture mode, and the other one has taken you out! So, only ONE host/moderator should be pushing buttons during the call.
• If you’ve done all the above and you still get an echo during the call, remind your participants to press *6 to mute their line. If this doesn’t work, ask them if anyone is simultaneously listening to the webcast (which is 15 seconds delayed – like a radio show – so sounds just like an echo) and ask them to either turn it off, or press *6 to mute their line.
• Use an old-fashioned corded phone (with or without headset, your choice) for your teleseminars. This is because cordless phones emit as much radiation as a cell phone! Personally, we do not have any cordless phones in the house as any direct radiation is too much, in my opinion. Also, I don’t want my kids irradiating their growing brains, which are particularly susceptible. For more info on this:
  http://www.listen2yourgut.com/blog/gut/officials-warn-against-cell-phone-use/
• Set up a back-up communication system with your teleseminar guest so that you can communicate with each other in case something goes wrong. The easiest way to do this is to exchange cell phone numbers and have the agreement that if anything goes wrong, you call each other on the cell (since your regular phone line will be engaged in the teleseminar). This was invaluable to me when I interviewed an MD and he was 20 minutes late! When I called his cell to find out what was happening, he informed me he’d had a medical emergency at the hospital, so was just driving home now. Once I told my listeners what was going on, they were all content to wait for him and we just chatted to pass the time.
• If you use VoiceText as your teleconferencing bureau, they (and many other paid bureaus) have an operator help feature – so be sure and let all your callers know at the beginning of the call that they can press *0 for help at any time during the call.
• Have your line set up to play music until the moderator/host dials in. If people call in a few minutes early and hear nothing, they’re likely to hang up. Music lets them know that they have connected successfully and that something will be happening soon.

Well, there you have it, the benefit of my experience doing teleseminars to date! Hopefully this will help you to avoid the excruciating downtime that dead air and technical glitches can result in – not to mention the stress!

Don’t forget that if you’re a newbie to teleseminars, or if you want to find out how to maximize your revenue, or streamline your marketing funnel using teleseminars, then this is the course that I recommend. It’s solid information without the hype that a lot of internet marketers include and very reasonably priced.

soar higher,
Jini

If you haven’t started hosting teleseminars yet, you’ve no doubt heard the buzz about how they can be great tools for your business to help you accomplish the following:

• Position yourself as a leader or expert in your field.




• Use teleseminars as a sales tool by giving away lots of free information on a topic and then presenting a special offer to a product that will give them either more important info, or step-by-step instructions, or do-it-for-them tools, etc.




• Build a library of top quality information that can later be packaged into a course (eg. 5 CD Set on Time Management – consists simply of you interviewing 5 different time management experts on past teleseminars) or offered as premium product/service on your monthly membership site.




• Share cutting-edge or crucial information with your list or clients – increases your reputation, their trust in you and your integrity.

Obviously, a whole article could be written about each of these points (and maybe I’ll get to that in the future!) But for now, if you want a referral to a good teleseminar course that will expand on each of the point above and lots more (how to use them, how to set them up, how to maximize sales, etc.), this one is very detailed and can get you hosting your first teleseminar within a week.

Setting Up Your Teleseminars

There are plenty of free teleconferencing services available. Just do a Google search on “free teleconference” to pull up a whole list of them. If you are really broke, or, you do not charge for your teleseminars, then this may be a good way to go.

However, if your reputation for excellence is important to you, or if you are charging participants, then you definitely should NOT use a free teleconferencing service. These free bureaus often use internet-based lines and the quality can be really poor. You are almost guaranteed to have glitches on these calls at some point – hey, they’re free, what do you expect?

So, if you want to provide consistent, good quality calls, then use a good quality teleconferencing bureau that, yes, you have to pay for. However, as I found out, just because you pay for the service doesn’t mean they will provide good glitch-free service either! Since I’ve been in business online for the past 9 years, I have contacts with a number of the “big players” in internet marketing. So I tried a bureau that well-known guru Dan Kennedy / Bill Glazer uses for their calls – and I know they have hundreds of people on a call, so I figured the bureau would be a good one, right? Wrong. Not only did I have some bad calls using them, but when I talked to the boss of the company after a particularly bad one (a total of 20 minutes of glitches and I have the recording to prove it!) His only solution was to not charge me for the call! This is not a good sign. I don’t want free teleconferencing, I want GOOD, reliable, consistent service.

Anyway, without going into all the different ones I tried, VoiceText Communications is the bureau that I’m happy with and still use:

Now, not being sexist or anything, but this company is woman-owned and perhaps that’s why they’re so diligent….

When I had some glitches on calls with VoiceText, they worked with me to help me figure out what was going wrong and what we could do about it, to ensure they did not recur.

Next, I strongly suggest you use this teleseminar web host in conjunction with your teleconferencing bureau so that you can provide your customers with the following benefits:

1. People can listen in via webcast, rather than having to dial in and pay long distance charges, if they prefer.

2. Participants (or whoever you give the link to) can access a replay of the call immediately following it and download the mp3 file if they wish. Note: Recording each teleseminar is automatically included, so you don’t have to pay the teleconferencing bureau extra to do this for you.

3. Participants can submit questions via the “Question Box” online, before or during the call – so you can get lots of feedback and interaction with your listeners. People are often too shy to speak up during a teleseminar and they much prefer being able to ask questions this way.

4. You can send all your customers (or list) to an “Event Page” that gives them all the info they need for each teleseminar. The great thing is, this is a template page that is pre-formatted, so you just enter your specific info for each call. No need to get your web programmer to design a special web page for each event! You can customize the look and feel of the page though, to reflect your style or colors.

Where can you get all this? It’s provided by this company Instant Teleseminars, which offers a free trial and very cheap monthly rate. Here’s a video that shows you exactly how it works (I really recommend you watch the video as it’s the fastest way to understand exactly why and how this will benefit you):

http://InstantTeleseminar.com/VideoDemo.asp?x=1801174

Or, if you prefer, here’s the written info on how it works and how you can use it in your business:

http://xiosoft.com/instantTeleseminar/specialinfo.asp?x=1801174

Okay, now you’ve got everything set up to deliver great quality teleseminars to your clients, that are easy for you to set-up and administrate!

In my next article, I’ll get into some of the common glitches that can happen on a teleseminar, why they happen, and what you can do to prevent it.

live strong,
Jini

I was driving in the car the other day, with my five year old daughter, Zara.

“You know what I want to do when I grow up? I want to work in a store,” she announced.

“What kind of store?” I asked.

“A video store. Because I love movies.” she replied.

“Well…” I suggested, “Then instead of just working in a video store, why don’t you be the one who makes the movies? You could write them, act in them, produce them, whatever you wanted!”

Zara thought about my suggestion for a while, then let out a big sigh, “No, I think I’ll just be a Mom.”

“Oh really?” I laughed, “What do you like about being a Mom?? – the dishes, the laundry, the cooking, what?”

“Well,” she said, “When you’re a Mom, you get to buy as many books as you want. And you get to go to business meetings all the time.”

I laughed and laughed. Out of the mouth of babes and what little sponges they are! As a writer, books are my lifeblood, and yes, when we go to the bookstore, Zara gets to buy 2 books, and I get a big stack.

Since both my husband and I work from home, we go out several times a week for 3-4 hour business meetings over lunch. Our kids have obviously just absorbed the enjoyment and anticipation my hubby and I feel for our business meetings. And in their eyes, a ‘business meeting’ is now just about the best thing you can ever do. Of course, they are also picking up on the good spirits and high energy we come home with – since there’s few things that fire me and hubby up like a good brainstorming session, a long to-do list and an excellent meal with dessert.

My two year old Hugo, has also picked up on this. Today he walked into my office, grabbed a piece of paper, a pen and my calculator and announced, “I go business meeting!”

Too funny.

Jini

I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to upload photos to the new WordPress 2.5 blog.

So, in case I can shorten the learning curve for anyone else, here is my research and what worked.

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First, in case you just need to know exactly how to insert a photo into a blog posting:

VIDEO TUTORIAL:

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-rc2/

SCREENSHOT TUTORIAL:

http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/howto-upload-photos-to-wordpress-25/

- this tutorial contains additional instructions for how to set it up properly to upload photos from your computer. So be sure and go through both.

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Now, if you’ve followed these instructions and it’s still not working, here are some possible solutions:

PROBLEMS/SOLUTIONS:

This first one is most likely to solve the problem and is from:
http://joshhighland.com/blog/2008/03/30/wordpress-25-image-upload-problem-solved/

Something was for sure messed it. I tried it in several browsers, but had the same results. no luck. I started to go some searching online but since wordpress 2.5 is so new, there was little info to be found. After about an hour of stumbeling around I came across a post on a forum where someone said they got the image upload to work by adjusting their .htaccess file on thier site with the following code.

NOTE: change all the regular brackets ( ) to html code brackets < > when you implement this (I couldn’t use them here as they would screw up the blog code)

(IfModule mod_security.c)
(Files async-upload.php)
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
(/Files)
(/IfModule)

I made the change to my .htaccess file, and like magic the image upload feature started to work again!

I am making this post in the hopes that other people with similar problems will stumble across this post and be able to fix their problem with out having to wade through all the pages of people trying to diagnose what the problem is when the solution is super easy.

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This sounds basic, but it happens all the time with word press and firefox. DO you have the latest version of firefox? Did you try closing down your window and reopening firefox and see if it works?

Can you try it on IE and see if it works?

There are often conflicts with firefox, even though I use it too. But whenever i have a problem like this that should not be happening, I always go check in IE, and then start checking my browser versions, reboot, etc. Then I look to re-install or check for something corrupt in the install.

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If you try all the above and it still doesn’t work and your photo does not appear in your post, then check to see if it has at least been uploaded to the GALLERY.

If it has, then click SHOW ALL for the photo you want to feature.

Then copy the LINK URL for that photo and post that URL into your blog post using the img src=”URL” tag.

So, for example, it would look like this – but just change the regular brackets ( ) to html brackets < >. I can’t use the html brackets here as the blog reads it as code:

(img src=”http://www.colicinfant.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/3onbeachfinal.jpg”)

hope that helps!

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all the best,
Jini

For those of you who can’t get those darn YouTube or Viddler videos to show up in your blog, here’s how you do it:

NOTE: I have changed the < > brackets to [ ] brackets so they will show up. When you go to use this code, change them back to < > brackets.

1. You have to preface the YouTube embed link with this code:

[strong]Title of The Video[/strong]

[table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="425"]
[tr]
[td]

[object height="355" width="425">

2. And you have put this code at the END of the embed link:

[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

3. As for the video embed link itself, you have to change the code from what YouTube gives you.

For example, this is the embed link of a video as copied and pasted from YouTube:

[object width="425" height="344"][param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HQuODiMlUsc&hl=en&fs=1"][/param][param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"][/param] [tr]
[td]
[object height="370" width="437"]

Here’s what a YouTube video will look like in your blog post:
http://www.listen2yourgut.com/blog/gut/natural-cancer-treatment-has-90-success-rate/

Here’s what a Viddler video will look like in your blog:
http://www.listen2yourgut.com/blog/tools/are-you-using-the-ltyg-cd-rom/

I find it easiest to copy the block of code I’ve given you above and paste it into Notepad or TextEdit while I’m writing my blog post. Then I can double-check back and forth easily to make sure I’ve got everything correct.

Hope that helps you out and saves you a wee bit of time!

Jini

I am so delighted to be able to share this “hot off the presses” information with you.

Dr. Tullio Simoncini, an oncologist in Rome, has discovered a CURE for cancer that works 90% of the time and it is so simple, it’s beautiful. It essentially involves treating the tumor or cancerous area with… baking soda!

Why does this treatment work? Because Dr. Simoncini maintains that cancer is a fungus. Therefore, just as millions of women who treat their Candida infections with baking soda have discovered, fungus is unable to live in an alkaline environment.

The 10% failure rate is due to bone cancers – they have been unable to come up with a way to get the baking soda inside the bone.

Dr. Simoncini explains this in person, on Doug Kaufmann’s TV show (p.s. I’ve been on Doug’s show twice and he has been educating people about fungus for a decade or longer):

Cancer Is A Fungus – Part 1

Cancer Is A Fungus – Part 2

You can also visit this site below and listen to a radio interview where Dr. John Apsley explains the baking soda treatment in detail and gives you the exact formula and delivery methods for different cancers. You can then take these formulations and instructions to your integrative medicine doctor and begin treatment if needed.

http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/rsbell-dr-apsley.html

Not surprisingly, Dr. Simoncini has since lost his medical license (he is currently in litigation to get it back), but regardless, there are dozens of clinics and hospitals in Rome and North of Rome who are continuing to implement his protocols. Keep an eye out as it won’t be long before Cancer Institutes, the FDA, Big Pharma and numerous others who make billions out of cancer treatment, or the “search for the cure” for cancer release “studies” discrediting his protocols. Unfortunately, a quick look at the past shows this happens with every natural remedy or protocol that is very effective. We just need to stay savvy and not be swayed by the propaganda when it comes down the pipe.

As those of you who have done any research on this topic know, there are actually numerous natural treatment protocols that are highly effective at curing cancer. However, this one wins the prize in my book, because not only is it so simple, it is very quick too.

Here’s some more information on this treatment, plus a discussion of why chemotherapy is not effective and 75% of doctors said they would not undergo chemo if diagnosed with cancer.

Of course, as with healing any disease, you must then make the lifestyle, environmental and dietary changes necessary to prevent future fungal infection, if you want to remain cancer-free for the rest of your life. But then, this applies to all of us anyway.

Jini

Many of you are already familiar with certain concepts of holistic dentistry, such as: mercury is poisonous, root canals promote ongoing infection, flouride is toxic, etc. Since that information is widely available and there is LOTS of documentation on it, I wanted this teleseminar to be more advanced and specific.

Left-click on the link to listen or read, right-click to download

Click Here to LISTEN to the Holistic Dental Health Teleseminar with Dr. Hal Huggins, DDS, MSc

Click Here to READ the Transcript of the Teleseminar

So here is just a sampling of some of the topics covered and questions answered in this FANTASTIC teleseminar:

• What kind of mercury detox protocol is safe for people with existing chronic illness – to avoid triggering a flare?
• What are safe alternatives to root canals? Are implants safe?
• How to avoid tooth decay in the first place – is there a special diet or supplements we can take to improve our tooth enamel and prevent decay from occurring?
• Crowns, bridges and implants – are these safe for our bodies from a holistic point of view and which materials are safe to use?
• What are good dental materials (for crowns, onlays) for the chemically sensitive?
• I have a chronic sinus infection in my right sinus. , plus I have a root canal in the upper right quadrant–is it possible these 2 things are connected?
• If a mercury filling was removed and replaced with a composite, is there a possibility that mercury residue still exists under the new filling?
• I’m extremely chemically sensitive (Multiple Chemical Sensitivities). What is the least chemically reactive material for fillings and what brand makes it? Do you recommend Heliomolar? Which composite materials would you recommend for fillings, which ones do you consider safe and durable?
• When and how often should teeth be brushed in order to maintain optimal dental health?
• What is your opinion on using unrefined sea salt instead of toothpaste?
• Nearly all commercial toothpastes contain glycerin – should we avoid this?
• Should we go for regular teeth cleanings to a dental hygienist? Are there any safe ways to remove tooth tartar that you would recommend?
• Are there any safe ways to whiten teeth that you would recommend? What is your opinion on hydrogen peroxide and sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) as tooth-whitening agents?
• What do you think of Dr. Gerard F. Judd and his findings and recommendations?
• What do you think of Dr. Weston A. Price and his findings and recommendations?
• Can tooth enamel regenerate? If so, what can be done to stimulate and support tooth enamel regeneration?

I have read and researched extensively on alternatives to modern dentistry and holistic ways of caring for our teeth, gums and improving our dental health – so I’m pretty confident when I say that NOWHERE else will you find this depth and specificity of information on what you can do to take charge of this area of your health.

Dr. Hal A. Huggins DDS, MSc has both a Dentistry degree and a Master’s degree in Immunology, plus over 40 years of research and experience in Holistic Dentistry – both in an academic and clinical setting. I think the fact that he views dentistry from the perspective of “What does this do to the immune system?” is why he has been able to develop such powerful protocols. He is a wealth of helpful, healing information and he shares many key cornerstones of his dental health protocol here.

This teleseminar blew me away, and that’s why I’m giving it to you as a gift. Use it to move your health to the next level. And share it with all your family and friends!

Left-click on the link to listen or read, right-click to download

Click Here to LISTEN to the Holistic Dental Health Teleseminar with Dr. Hal Huggins, DDS, MSc

Click Here to READ the Transcript of the Teleseminar

You can find out more about Dr. Huggins, his dozens of books, and referrals to a dentist trained in his protocols, on his website: www.drhuggins.com

NOTE: The 120 page manual that Dr. Huggins refers to in this teleseminar, that you can use with your dentist, is called the Client Education Pack.

Soar higher,
Jini