Are you interested in recording your webinar?

Let me show you a few tricks, but first, here are some reasons why you would want to record your webinar in the first place:

- Replays

There will be some people who are interested in your products even though they couldn't come to your initial webinar. So recording it and allowing potential customers to replay it could generate more sales and more leads to other customers.

- Product Creation

A webinar recording makes a great stand-alone product when you upload it to a password protected site or burn it to a CD.

- Training Module

This one is related to "product creation" above. Record a webinar so you can add the recording to an existing product or perhaps extra training on a specific topic. You could even record webinars and use them as bonuses to give away with the purchase of one of your major products.

So, what does it take to record a webinar?

Some webinar hosting companies have a recording feature built in, but you always want your own recording as a back up. And strange as it may sound, your recording may higher quality.

Step 1: Begin your webinar by logging into the host compnay as the organizer.

Step 2: Using a SECOND computer, login as an attendee to your own webinar.

Your second computer should have screen capture software like Camtasia. When you use this software, you will be able to capture the audio and video from your webinar. Once it's recorded, you can convert your webinar into whatever kind of file you read.

Step 3: On your second computer that is recording your webinar, set your screen parameters and audio settings and hit "record."

Make sure you set your audio to record "inline" and use a 1/8 to 1/8 audio jack to "trick" the computer into recording only the webinar and not your voice when presenting on the other computer. Otherwise you would have to out the recording computer in another room that is completely quiet!

But if you plug one end of the 1/8" cable into the mic jack and the other end of the 1/8" cable into the headphone jack, you can set the recording computer right next to you and even see in real time what your attendees are seeing. This helps with lag problems and is a great safety check when presenting live.

Step 4: When finished recording, render the file either to burn to a CD or for uploading to the Internet.

For an even more professional effect, add music to the beginning or the end of the recording. Of course, you will want to use royalty-free music. Also, add a "call to action" on the web site where you show your recording. This will make it easy for your viewers to take the next step and buy your products.

So, record your webinars and start watching your online or offline business explode using webinars!