Saturday, March 15, 2014

What Makes Google Hangouts A Good Alternative To Webinar Software?

By Yusuf Abdi


When you're running an online business cutting costs is always at the forefront of your mind. The whole reason that you forgo the brick and mortar business style is because you want to minimize overhead and maximize profits.



Google Hangouts is an excellent alternative to webinar software because it is very easy to use. The interface is intuitive and your audience will not have a hard time with downloading and installing software. Google Hangouts is entirely free, which is definitely an advantage over webinar software since asking your audience to purchase software in order to follow your webinars is not a good way to attract more viewers.

This question brings up the first (and largest) drawback of using Google Hangouts as a webinar replacement. You can fit up to 100 people in a single text chat; but only 10 in any single video chat. For your business to reach a good audience you're going to need to be able to broadcast to a LOT more people than that.

Also, the nice thing about Google Hangouts, is that they are free to use, and if they are very easy to set up and use. The cost of some of the webinar software is really getting up in the clouds, especially if you want to hold large conferences.

You can experiment with Google Hangouts and see what you think, but for a small get together Hangouts are great and very workable. Also, realize that they can be used for bigger projects as well.




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