Your voice is extremely powerful. When you allow your prospects to hear you speak, you transform from a one dimensional figure on the Internet into a multi-dimensional person they can relate to on a personal level. It is the next best thing to being there in person. Teleseminars make it possible for you to do this as a regular part of your business model.

Teleseminars have been the most effective part of my marketing strategy. When I think back over the past few years, I can honestly say that deciding to give regular teleseminars as part of my online business has made it possible for me to increase my income each month and to connect with more prospects and clients than I ever thought possible. I now hold teleseminars and webinars several hours each week. In fact, many of my products are completely made up of just teleseminars.

Webinars require more technology, as well as requiring your audience to be glued to their computer screen. Most of us would prefer to download an audio file and listen to it through our computer or mp3 player. If I can avoid it, I always prefer to hold a teleseminar instead of a webinar so that more people will hear what I have to say.

You can easily use teleseminars to create information products. I teach my own students how to create an outline and use teleseminars for each part of their product. You can also include a study guide for each section, as well as a workbook for your entire training course. People can attend your sessions live, or listen to the replays. This type of product will sell for anywhere between $47 to around $497, and can be sold online for months, or even years to come, depending on the topic.

I have learned much of what I know on this topic from Dr. Jeanette Cates. She has been hosting her own teleseminars for more than ten years, and has trained hundreds of people to do this as well. She has an excellent course on how to host teleseminars for profit that I highly recommend.

By now you can probably see that hosting teleseminars is not as difficult as many people will lead you to believe. I encourage you to jump right in and add it to your marketing strategy. When you experience what it is like to connect with your prospects in this more intimate way, you will be glad you have added this to your business model.

When we work exclusively online, there is not much opportunity to connect with our prospects and clients in the same way as we would if we were meeting with them regularly in person. That is why it is so important to do whatever we can to make that connection with the people we want to do business with.

Have you ever known someone who got contact lenses after years of wearing thick glasses? Or how about someone who wore braces for a few years and suddenly had them removed? Remember how different they looked for the first few times you saw them? It is the same thing on the Internet; people get used to only receiving our emails and reading our blogs. As soon as you meet them in person, your relationship completely changes.

The best way I have found to make this connection on a regular basis is by holding teleseminars and inviting my prospects and clients to attend. By hearing my voice they are able to see me in a completely different light. It works the same way in reverse; when I hear them I feel like I know them more intimately.

Teleseminars are the next best thing to meeting people in person. It rounds us out and gives us a multi-dimensional quality that is just not possible through emails and blogs. Video and webinars also work well for this, but holding regular calls is the fastest and easiest way to connect with our audience. Take a closer look at your online business. You may just find that this is the perfect solution to building your business and increasing your bottom line.

Holding a weekly teleseminar allows you to meet the people on your list. There is not enough room in an email to tell people more about who you are, and you will never meet everyone at live events. Being able to speak with them on a call is the next best thing to meeting them in person.

This started for me back in 2006. I would hold teleseminars with very few people in attendance. This gave me the opportunity to find out more about them and to find out how to best serve their needs. Over time, as my list grew and attendance increased, many of those original people would still attend my teleseminars. I was learning how to reach out to people in the virtual world.

I encourage you to hold regular teleseminars and to connect with your listeners. Find out where they live and what they do, both online and off. Acknowledge them for attending your calls. Have fun with this process and you will be able to connect with your prospects in a very different way than you might have expected.

I actually figured out this technique purely by accident. I was promoting Alex Mandossian’s Teleseminar Secrets course two years ago, and someone on my list wrote to me to ask if I would be holding a teleseminar to help people implement what Alex would be teaching. I responded by announcing my 6 week teleseminar training for everyone who signed up through my link.

This was a great idea, because many people signed up through me in order to receive this additional training. I have since done this by offering one on one consultations, previous courses I have taught, and links to my trainings archived in my membership sites. The trainings you do can also become a new product you can sell later on.

Take a look at what you can offer those who purchase through your links. Be creative with this. People on your list will be more than happy to tell you what they want and need from you.

The power of your voice is great. When people hear you speaking about your topic they are able to tell right away if they want to do business with you. Give your prospects as many opportunities as possible to hear you speak. One way to do this is to have others interview you.

When I was just starting online there was no one who was interested in interviewing me. I asked people who knew me personally if they would ask me some questions during a teleseminar, and soon I was being asked by people all over the world if they could interview me. Now I have to pick and choose my interviews because there are so many.

Each interview is an opportunity for me to share my story and my knowledge with people. Those on my list are able to know even more about me to find out how I can help them to achieve their goals.

I encourage you to start doing as many interviews as possible and allow your list to hear them, either live or as a replay.

More than anything else, your prospects want to be able to connect with you directly. The best way to do this is to hold regular teleseminars where they can ask you anything. I even own the domain, AskConnieAnything.com, so that my calls are easy for people to find.

I started doing this in 2007. On one of my early calls someone asked me if I had a mentor program. My mentor program was born on that day. Before that I had planned on starting my own coaching program eventually, but when someone asked me about it on a live call, there just wasn’t any reason to wait any longer.

Schedule regular teleseminars, weekly or biweekly, to answer questions and to make yourself available to your prospects. Your business will grow and the people on your list will be more likely to do business with you now and in the future.

You can plan a teleseminar where you can teach others what you are learning. I first did this in 2006, when I taught people what I knew about blogging and article marketing. Even though I wasn’t an expert in either area, I had learned enough to share my knowledge with others who were just getting started.

What could you teach or explain to others? When I was teaching, I always had my students teach each other the concepts I had just taught them. This reinforces your knowledge and is extremely helpful to those who know even less than you do. You can then recommend the resources and the people whose programs you are learning from, giving your affiliate link.