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Tool To Distro Webinar + Capture Viewer Info?

Posted by Anonymous on 4/16/2009 at 9:43 AM ET 250 Points
We recently hosted a free webinar open to anyone and recorded the presentation so we could distribute it later. The file is huge, even when compressed, so it's not possible to email the whole thing. I'm looking for a place to house this thing where people can download/view the archived webinar for free. However, it is of no value to me if they don't have to register to get it, for obvious reasons. I'd really rather not have people email us to request a link, inefficient and will irritate viewer.

Yes, I know this should have been a part of the pre-webinar strategy, but we are a very small business and just getting the webinar to happen was a feat on its own. :) Anyone know of sites that will house and deliver this info with registration (oh, and by the way, it has to be cheap...small business rates?).

Thanks for any ideas!
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  • Posted by Jay Hamilton-Roth on 4/16/2009 at 6:08 PM Member
    If your server has the space and bandwidth, you could keep it on your own site. Create a page on your website (that doesn't have any internal links to it) to show the webinar (you can have links from the webinar page to elsewhere on your site). When someone registers, the autoresponder can send them the link to the webinar page (via email, to authenticate the email address) or you can have the registration button also jump to the webinar page.
  • Posted by Tracey on 4/17/2009 at 1:55 PM Member
    This may not help you now, but if you don't want to host your own webinars, you can use a webinar service like GoToWebinar, which will host the recording w/ registration. You can then just send a link to your customers. (It's about $99/month, I think).
  • Posted by jmcnary on 4/17/2009 at 4:40 PM Member
    We tried to do in host our own webinars at one point, but found paying the money for GoToWebinar, etc. was well worth it. Once you figure out the configuration & enable recording it works pretty well.

    I know MarketingProfs uses Adobe Connect, which as I see it is the best tool for webinars out there. However, it seems expensive comparatively.

    You may also wish to check out open source DimDim. It is new, but shows some promise.
  • Posted on 4/20/2009 at 8:39 AM Author
    Hi Jay, Tracey, and jmcnary - thanks for the replies.

    We do have the recording on our site, but no way to require registration. We used GoTo Webinar and it was fine, albeit grainy on the video portion. Neither AdobeConnect or Dimdim has the post-webinar registration feature. We could certainly email a link, but that doesn't allow us to capture any viewer data and therefore no opportunity for sales there.

    In the meantime, however, we did find a site called FormSpring which has registration setup - you can customize fields, background, confirmation pages, registration emails, and have a notification sent to anyone that someone has registered. We paid for the $9.95/month subscription and it will work well for us.

    Thanks, anyway!
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