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  • 1.  How to make your webinars engaging in 2022

    Posted 10-19-2022 10:14
    Edited by Megha Jetley 10-19-2022 10:17

    Happy Wednesday everyone! Let's kickstart with our next edition of the Tip of the Week discussion! 

    Webinars are a fantastic way to connect with your target audience as they offer a real opportunity to get under the skin of your audience and create a long-lasting connection between your brand and your audience in a way many other marketing channels struggle to achieve. 

    As we've said webinars are a fantastic marketing channel… and just as with any other marketing, content is king. So, here are some tips on how you can make webinars engaging in 2022/2023. 

    Thought Leadership First

    Instead of just setting a target number of post-webinar sales, you should focus on brand building, demonstrating your expertise, and developing relationships with your audience. To do that, you'll need to develop engaging webinar ideas.  

    Bring your own opinion  

    One key part of making webinars engaging is by ensuring that they demonstrate your opinion. Rather than simply regurgitating stats and facts (regardless of how important or impressive they sound) giving your own views on them is so much more powerful. Now we're not saying you shouldn't use research and statistics, but the best webinars aren't factual lectures. Instead, they're an opportunity to bring your own ideas to life and a fantastic platform to demonstrate your insight and expectations of the future. 

      Brainstorm 

      Start with the mantra that no idea is a bad idea and you'll find that you end up with a big list of potential topics for your webinar. This is great for two reasons:  

      • Firstly, you'll have enough webinar topics to choose from for now and for the future, so you could easily plan out a whole webinar series. 
      • And secondly, by thinking big and silencing the "we couldn't do that" voice, you may well come up with something genuinely amazing that could really stand out and give your audience something truly memorable. 


      Refine Your Options
       

       If you wanted to get scientific about it, you could rank your options and ask your colleagues to do the same with these criteria in mind. You might consider using something as straightforward as a spreadsheet, with one column for the topic, one for your knowledge/expertise, one for whether you have strong opinions, and one for anticipated audience interest. 

       

      Question for you: 

      • How often do you host a webinar? 
      • What is your creative way to make your webinar more engaging? 

       

      As always, feel free to drop in your suggestions in the comment section below! #CventTip


      #ManagingVirtualEvents

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      Megha Jetley
      Assistant Manager
      Cvent Marketing Department
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    • 2.  RE: How to make your webinars engaging in 2022

      Posted 10-20-2022 09:33
      • How often do you host a webinar? We host small webinars once a quarter.
      • What is your creative way to make your webinar more engaging? Our webinars are pretty curated to the audience, so we ask specific registration questions to guide content. We use polls and our relationship managers follow up with attendees that have questions or based on survey feedback. 


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      Beth Vriesen
      Events Registration Admin
      Associated Bank Corporation
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    • 3.  RE: How to make your webinars engaging in 2022

      Posted 10-20-2022 14:56
      • How often do you host a webinar? 
        • We usually host 2 - 3 per month
      • What is your creative way to make your webinar more engaging? 
        • We offer continuing education credit :) 
        • We utilize the Q&A and Poll features


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      Lori Wildman
      Senior Marketing Manager
      DuCharme, McMillen & Associates, Inc.United States
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    • 4.  RE: How to make your webinars engaging in 2022

      Posted 10-21-2022 10:04
      How often do you host a webinar?
      • Almost weekly with the goal of education & training 

      What is your creative way to make your webinar more engaging?
      • We are trying some leaderboard competitions to encourage repeat attendance and grow attendance numbers


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      Jennifer Jones
      Senior Specialist
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    • 5.  RE: How to make your webinars engaging in 2022

      Posted 10-21-2022 10:12
      • How often do you host a webinar? We host regular webinars throughout the year, at least once a quarter and sometimes more depending on strategic initiatives 
      • What is your creative way to make your webinar more engaging? We use a variety of methods to drive engagement, from quick polls and frequent pauses to review any questions/comments in the chat. We also like to invite guest speakers that represent the audience demographic to speak during the session - helps to hear feedback from a peer.


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      Bouran Qaddumi
      Sr. Manager, Training
      Church's Chicken
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    • 6.  RE: How to make your webinars engaging in 2022

      Posted 10-24-2022 16:02

      Question for you: 

      • How often do you host a webinar? 
        • We have SO many webinars, multiple /day/week sometimes!
      • What is your creative way to make your webinar more engaging? 
        • Polling, breakout rooms, whiteboard, live Q&A


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      Olivia Popofski
      Marketing Coordinator
      Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada and AffiliatesCanada
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    • 7.  RE: How to make your webinars engaging in 2022

      Posted 10-25-2022 14:37
      • How often do you host a webinar?  We have 5-7 webinars a month
      • What is your creative way to make your webinar more engaging? We cater them differently depending on the audience or messaging we're trying to get across. We either involve polling and live Q&A's or try and host an activity during discussions


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      Rachel
      NJ
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    • 8.  RE: How to make your webinars engaging in 2022

      Posted 10-26-2022 10:12
      • How often do you host a webinar? Once a month
      • What is your creative way to make your webinar more engaging? We try to do a mix of video, slides, questions to keep the audience engaged


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      Rebecca Quinn
      Corporate Events Manager
      Transplace Texas, LPUnited States
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