Familiarize yourself with your audio equipment. If you don’t know what you’re doing at the start of a Zoom meeting, especially if you’re hosting it, you will appear foolish at best and down-right incompetent at worst. Fumbling with settings and controls can be laughed off once, but if you continue to do it you’ll erode the confidence others have in you and their view of your professionalism. After all, if you don’t take the time to grasp basic tech skills why would a colleague or customer believe that you would properly prepare for their next project. So, before you go live on Zoom, or your favorite conferencing platform, do a test run and make sure you know how to set your audio levels, how to mute yourself, etc. Doing so will help keep your credibility intact.