The Do’s and Don’ts of Baltimore Remote Webcasting

Remote webcasting is commonly used by business owners for a variety of purposes. We’ve seen it used in city town hall meetings, regional office conferences, investor relations meetups and for a variety of other purposes in the past year. A well-produced, planned and thoughtful webcast can provide time-sensitive information in a most efficient and effective (and engaging) manner. If you’re considering a webcast for your Baltimore business, these Baltimore remote webcasting do’s and don’ts will help you to be a success:

Do: Make Sure that Your Audience Can Easily Connect to the Webcast

There’s nothing worse than a webcast that the audience cannot get connected to. In fact, one of the most important considerations with Baltimore remote webcasting is to make sure that your audience can easily connect.

You don’t want a struggle and you definitely don’t want the meeting to be delayed due to “technical” difficulties — i.e. your users cannot connect!

Don’t: Leave Your Community Waiting Around

A key to virtual events and webcasts is punctuality. You should start on time and end on time — always. Don’t waste the time of your audience. They’ll feel unappreciated and they will not be happy with you. T

o make sure that you start and end on time, you should practice your part and make sure that any interviews or other communications that are planned stick to the time limit.

It’s also important to test out the technology and other needs of the webcast beforehand so that you know you can start on time without any issues.

Do: Incorporate Engaging Activities

Business owners turning to Baltimore remote webcasting should incorporate a wide range of engagement opportunities including chat, surveys, polls or quizzes to keep the audience interested.

You should also be collecting this information for your own personal business use in future marketing initiatives. Don’t forget to capture details related to future audience connections such as their name, email address, phone number or other details.

Don’t: Forget to Include Branding

The branding of your remote webcast will help consumers to recognize that it’s your business delivering the webcast and they’ll feel more comfortable.

Make sure that you incorporate colors, logos or other branding into your presentation slides or other images included in the webcast.

Consumers are more likely to recognize your brand this way and they’ll be more likely to stick around.

Do: Hire a Professional Crew 

Hiring a Baltimore remote webcasting crew to help you with your production is important.

They’ll not only cover all the tiny details like backup equipment and batteries as well as internet connection and uptime, they’ll also be prepared for a Plan B if something should go wrong during the webcast.

The decision to hire a professional crew like Beverly Boy Productions to help you out could not only save you time, it could save your webcast all together!

Don’t: Forget to Practice

Businesses that are considering Baltimore remote webcasting must practice. You shouldn’t expect that you can just go about producing a professional webcast without any practice at all.

Even if you’ve presented this presentation before, you should spend some time with the production crew practicing things like switches, camera movements, and other effects that will make the production a success.

Need more Baltimore remote webcasting do’s and don’ts from the pros? Give Beverly Boy Productions a call at 888-462-7808!