Teleseminars are used to provide information, training, or promote or sell products to group of people interested in a particular topic.
The audience can vary in size from a few callers to 1,000 participants depending on the capacity of the bridgeline used and the popularity of the topic being discussed.
Despite the participation fee, the advantage for students is this medium does not require the hassle and expense of traveling to a live seminar.
[4] Hosts may conduct many teleseminars on a specific topic over a period of a few days or weeks in a format that's come to be known as a "telesummit".
A common form of telesummit allows participants to listen in for free, but pay for recordings and/or transcripts of the calls.