Founder & CEO of BigMarker.com, Zhu-Song Mei, discusses running the perfect webinar system. Topics cover registration strategies, marketing techniques, attendee engagement, post-webinar follow-up, and maximizing show-up rates. Learn about the importance of clear landing pages and engaging features to boost participation.
Marketing & registration are crucial for webinar success, utilizing social media & email channels.
Thorough preparation, interactive elements, and post-webinar follow-up enhance audience engagement and conversion rates.
Deep dives
Components of a Successful Webinar
Hosting a successful webinar involves a series of essential components. Firstly, marketing the webinar to ensure people know about it and register, utilizing channels like social media and email. Secondly, ensuring registrants show up by sending reminders and integrating with CRM tools to nurture leads. Thirdly, hosting the live webinar with engaging content, interactive elements like polls and Q&A sessions, and ending with a call to action to achieve the webinar's goal. Lastly, following up after the webinar by sending recordings to those who missed it and evaluating attendee interactions to qualify leads.
Optimizing Registration for Webinars
Optimizing the registration process is crucial for driving webinar success. Creating a clear, concise landing page with a compelling title and promoting it through various channels like social media and email marketing enhances visibility. Collecting essential data like email and name is vital, with the number of fields impacting conversion rates, depending on the audience's engagement level. Timing promotion effectively, such as starting two to three weeks before the webinar and sending strategic reminders, significantly impacts registration rates.
Preparing and Running a Smooth Webinar
To ensure a seamless webinar experience, thorough preparation is key. Practicing and familiarizing oneself with the hosting platform, content delivery, and engagement tactics are vital for a successful presentation. Setting a structured time frame for content delivery and interactive elements like polls and Q&A sessions enhances audience engagement. Moreover, sending reminder emails, integrating calendar invites, and nurturing leads post-webinar contribute to maximizing webinar outcomes and converting prospects into customers.
Zhu-Song is the Founder & CEO of BigMarker.com. BigMarker is the largest marketplace for webinars and online events. We provide a platform where webinar hosts can produce webinars, interactive online classes and presentations, and where consumers can find professionally valuable content from thousands of thought-leading organizations.
Zhu-Song founded BigMarker in 2011, it was born from the idea of creating a network based on web conferencing that could help people anywhere to learn and to build relationships with peers through the use of online video conferencing.
Since then, BigMarker has evolved into a full-featured platform surrounded by a growing community of people from 190 countries. The platform provides unlimited web conferencing with audio, video, screen sharing, and recording, the ability to sell tickets, and community features to engage and build an audience between events.