" More business owners have been saying their marketing by doing webinars. Dick good of net world alliance trade magazines. Runs sponsored webinars on topics such as cutting costs and installing new technology. Future trends in our industry and the best signs to posted cash registers. He says they routinely get 300 to 600 people to register for a webinar and about a third who signed up actually view the web and are -- visit occurs. He emails the others to say here's a link to the webinar you were unable to attend. If somebody's interested enough when your topic to sign up for a webinar on a there a prospect to become a client and that's why webinars have become more popular. I'm Joe Connolly for The Wall Street Journal."