No Cell Phones Allowed During Recording!
One of the most simple mistakes you can make during a teleseminar is using a cell phone. Even if you've arranged to use a bridge line, if the host or the guest dial in using a cell phone, the overall sound quality of your teleseminar will be compromised. Intermittent service, static noise, time delays and echoes can all contribute to make your whole event a disaster! All those hours of preparation and careful planning go down the drain, not to mention a successful teleseminar and a good quality recording as well.
All it takes is you or your guest losing service for less then a minute and your call can go from sounding very professional to having to spend time finding out where the guest is, and where they left off. This adds confusion to your listeners, and doesn't help you to sound professional. And it can be fixed very easily.
So what's a busy teleseminar entrepreneur to do? Plan on using a traditional corded phone. A corded phone on a land line will give you the best result on your recording since it is far less likely to produce static or electronic noise than a cell phone or even a portable phone. And of course there are no batteries to go dead! You can't control what type of phone the participants dialing into your teleseminar use, but if you want a successful telephone recording, you can and definitely should control what type of phone you and your guest use.
