• People often forget to smile (we want to see those pearly whites!)
• People forget to look at the webcam while talking (don’t roll your eyes at me!)
• People forget to turn the light on and figure out a good lighting source (emo teachers?)
• People forget that it’s all about the content when you’re giving a webinar (content is king!)
• People forget to dress nicely, and wear pants (don’t forget these things, please)
• People forget to learn how to use the platform in the first place (oops!)

Join Brad and Koichi, pros when it comes to giving webinars (at least they think so), who will tell you everything you need to know to give a great webinar online, no matter what software you’re using (just so happens they’re using eduFire’s, because it’s amaaaazing). There are ten things you have to remember when giving a webinar online, and they go over all of them. If you’d like the worksheet that went with this webinar, you can find the “10 Steps to Running a Knockout Webinar” worksheet here.

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Avinash Kaushik is the author of Web Analytics 2.0 and the best selling book, Web Analytics: An Hour A Day. He is also the Analytics Evangelist for Google and the co-founder of Market Motive Inc.

As a thought leader Avinash puts a common sense framework around the often frenetic world of web analytics, and combines that with this philosophy that investing in talented Analysts is the key to long term success. He is also a staunch advocate of listening to the consumer, and is committed to helping organizations unlock the value of web data.

Avinash works with some of the largest companies in the world to help them evolve their online marketing and analytics strategies to become data driven and customer centric organizations. He recently received the 2009 Statistical Advocate of the Year award from the American Statistical Association.

He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences in the US and Europe, such as Ad-Tech, Monaco Media Forum, iCitizen, and JMP Innovators’ Summit, as well as at major Universities, such as Stanford, University of Virginia and University of Utah.

You’ll find Avinash’s web analytics blog, Occam’s Razor at http://www.kaushik.net/avinash

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As a former engineering manager at Google, and a member of the Google Hiring Committee for several years, Niniane Wang knows what it takes to succeed in a software engineering interview. She tells you tips, tricks, and tactics to help you get a job in Engineering, whether you’re applying to Google, Facebook, Yahoo, or what-have-you. Once it comes down to the interview, you gotta pull through!

Niniane has also written valuable career development guides that have made it to the front page of Digg and Reddit.

With this introduction class, Niniane will detail great tips on preparing for and acing your next software engineering interview.

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Some feedback from people who attended the class:

“Brilliant class. As the title says, it was totally worth attending it! Jon made this one hour seem like 10 minutes.”

“This was a really great session. I have a much greater desire to open the store of my dreams now that it seems more realistic.”

“Good insight into the entrepreneurial process with real-life examples.”

If you’re feeling like your “stuck” and don’t know what to do (or how to pursue your passion in business), take a look at this class, and be sure to see what other classes on entrepreneurship you can find as well.

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In this hour-long Business Channel class Maria and Jon will talk about the paths they followed on the way to their respective businesses and what they’ve learned along the way. You’ll have the opportunity to interact with each of them and ask questions about how they run their companies and what their plans are for the future. See you in class!

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Ranjit Mathoda is the founder of Mathoda Capital LLC, where he manages capital by looking for inexpensive stocks and favorable situations, and is a cofounder of The Ocyle Group LLC, an investment company focused on acquiring interests in prominent private companies. He previously was a corporate and commercial real estate lawyer at McGuireWoods LLP.

Mr. Mathoda has a law degree from Boston College Law School, bachelors of science summa cum laude in Finance and Operations Research from Babson College, completed three years of study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Computer Science and Economics, and is a member of the California State Bar. Mr. Mathoda has been quoted by the New York Times for his analysis of Barack Obama’s use of the Internet and startup techniques in his presidential campaign and for observations regarding the source of Google’s market power.

This was a live class on eduFire, recorded for your pleasure! Feel free to “invest” in our other classes as well, if you enjoyed this recording!

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”Prior to Brightroll, Saar was part of the senior management team of Adteractive, an online performance-based marketing company and one of the largest buyers of online media. Saar helped build Adteractive to over 175 employees and $120mm in revenues, with no outside capital. Saar was vice president of online customer acquisition and was responsible for the company P&L. Before Adteractive, Saar and his business partner raised approximately $12 million of equity capital to execute a complex private equity transaction. The project was sold within two years and returned over $30 million to investors. Saar started his career in investment banking and venture capital at Lehman Brothers. He has a biochemistry degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He is also the co-founder of carebadges.com, an online community that enables individuals to generate market awareness for the organizations and causes that they care about.

What does it take to get funding from a VC? Enjoy this class taught by Saar Gur, a very successful Venture Capitalist at Charles River Ventures. If you’re looking to get your company funded, if you’re interested in what your salary should be at your startup, or anything else related to money and funding, then this video a great place to start.

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You Think:
Every morning, Obama opens his MacBook Pro (because that’s totally the kind of computer he uses in my imagination). He logs on to Twitter.com and checks to see what all of his 750,000 Twitter friends are doing.

Reality:
He doesn’t care what you Tweet, because his intern / autofollower application followed you back, and there is a zero percent probability that he will ever ReTweet or read anything you say.

Why would you follow someone with the hope that they’ll follow you back (at least without really targeting an individual) if you aren’t going to get anything out of it? Sure, you might get more followers, but those followers really don’t matter, for the most part. What you really want is high quality followers, but how do you get them? It certainly isn’t easy, but it’s a lot more rewarding. It takes time, effort, and about one month to get 1000 Twitter followers.

This video is all about that. Over the course of 28 days (that’s four weeks), you will get a new lesson for each one of them. Each lesson is supposed to help you learn how to do something else on Twitter, so that by the end of the month you’ll be a Twitter pro (and hopefully have a thousand high quality followers). Watch the video now, and look out for other marketing classes on eduFire as well!

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Maybe you woke up this morning in your Flint, Michigan bed and though “*yawn* it doesn’t get any better than this!”

But then you feel small, insignificant. Sure, you made that decision, and you decided that Flint, Michigan is the best place in the U.S. to live, but did anyone really listen? Bert is the guy who has that power. He’s the guy that Picks the Best Places to Live, and lots of important people actually listen.

Here is how I imagine a day in the life of Bert Sperling:

12:00am: Bert wakes up from a power nap. He won’t need to sleep again for 300-400 more days.

1:00am: Bert eats breakfast. It is steak and eggs. He wrestled an angry bull to the ground and prepared it the day before.

4:00am: Bert watches recordings of all the television shows he’s been on. He has to play them on 10x speed.

6:00am: McDonalds calls him, and begs him to do a study for them on the Happiest Places in the U.S. for their Happy meal anniversary. Bert tells them to send Ronald over so they can talk about it.

9:00am: Ronald arrives, bearing gifts of golden golden fries. Bert agrees “Okay, fine, I’ll do it this time. But the King has been bugging me lately to run a study on the ‘Creepiest Places in the U.S.’ That dude is weird.” “Word son,” replies Ronald, giving Bert a fist bump.

10:00am: Bert sits down at his desk and noodles on the next best place to live.

11:00am: The world rejoices!

2:00pm: Bert turns on the television and Oprah watches him.

If you want to know more about Bert Sperling and the incredible job and business he runs, take a gander at the video above. How did BestPlaces get started? Why did he start BestPlaces? Does Bert have any knowledge to pass down to ye? Only one way to find out. No, not there! Look up, Look up!

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