how to set up and run a webinar for your business
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Webinars, webcasts and screencasts are many things to many different people. Are webinars for your business? The answer may not always be 'yes'. The fact is, it does work for a lot of businesses; when it is put together and leveraged properly it can really help you grow your audience and leads, as well as build your digital ecosystem. Ask yourself: are you delivering value and creating an ROI for your business with Webinars? Are you defining your digital leadership with webinars for your business? Wait. What?!? A webinar on webinars? Yes! The challenge comes down to how can it work with your business online - for sales, for information, for awareness. Whatever you decide, webinars can help you build ROI into all of your online activities. Want to know how you can start to make it work for you and your business? Join me, Doyle Buehler, author of The Digital Delusion, as I bring you my DSchool Introductory Webinar on Webinars. For a simple, quick, 20 minute webinar, find out what you can do to quickly grow your audience and grow your leads and Return on Investment by using webinars more effectively. I will show you these 3 Simple Things: The Tools you can use to host and use webinars for your audience The Process to build your sales and leads based activity with webinars The Knowledge needed to fully connect Webinars with your own digital ecosystem Questions? Please email me: [email protected] Grow Your Business With Webinars. Download your own digital discovery to measure your digital leadership http://thedigitaldelusion.com/digital-discovery-self-assessment/ bit.ly/digitaldiscovery Find out what events are coming up next: Events page http://thedigitaldelusion.com/digital-delusion-events/ http://bit.ly/events1999TRANSCRIPT
Welcome to D-School WEBINARS
• What we’ll cover• Why Webinars & Why For Your Business?• Developing a Strategy & Making It Work• Tools & Resources
• Admin Stuff• Please type in your questions along the way• Audio/video check?• Screenshots? Yes! [Jing]
The Tools, The Process, The Knowledge
Hello, My Name is…
•Business Entrepreneur since 2002•MBA (2002, Leadership)•2 start-up businesses in the online ecommerce consumer market; fastest growing company in Canada; Canadian Innovation Award, multiple US patents.•Educator – teach Commerce, Business Planning & Entrepreneurship•Providing Coaching, Management & Consulting to businesses•Considerable time working on the “inside” of Marketing Agencies, along with major Fortune 500 clients, putting the pieces together.
Doyle Buehler
Why Webinars?
• Building Your Digital Leadership– Influence– Authority– Knowledge
• Educating & Informing• Content Creation (your content explosion!)• Sales, Leads & Contacts
• Strategy – WHY?• What are you “about”?• What is your value (WIIFM)?• How Webinars “fit” across your digital ecosystem?
• Your Content Strategy – WHAT?• Your Stories• Your Value• Conveying your value & stories• Your Customer Personas
Your CONTENT Drives Your Audience
• What is YOUR Original Content?– Not all sales– Your Business Value– WIIFM? “What’s In It For Me”
• Where is your Digital Leadership?
Are You Missing 67% of Your Market?
• The people that are perfect, ideal clients for you can be broken down into the following percentages:
• 3% - ACTIVELY SHOPPING• 7% - OPEN TO YOU• 30% - AWARE FOR FUTURE• 30% - UNCONSCIOUS• 30% - NO
How To Select A Webinar Platform
1. Webinar software Cost & ROI2. Traffic/user capabilities3. Session Recording4. Marketing Capabilities5. Landing page creation6. Communications & Follow-through7. Detailed Statistics8. Other Options– Payment Gateway for Paid session– Integration with existing software – infusionsoft, mailchimp,
CRMs, etc.
What Your Webinar Platform Needs
1. Registration or Opt-in Page2. Way to Capture Registrations & Emails3. Platform4. Back-up plan to record webinar5. Presentation & Creation software6. Method for “offers” or next steps7. Follow up with emails/contact
Webinar Platforms
• ON24 http://www.on24.com/• GotoWebinar/Meeting• Anymeeting• WebinarJam• Google Hangouts• Click Meeting
Webinar Structure
• Focus on Learning/Experience/Information• Dynamic• Less time “primping” about how awesome
you are• Less pitch – more filling
INFLUENCE To ACTION
• Move your attendees to your own lists and own pages.
• Not about “engagement”
• About Digital Leadership & INFLUENCE
Content Process – How TO EXPLODE Your Content With a Single Webinar
1. Run your Webinar2. Record video and post to Youtube3. Use the recorded video as a prerecorded webinar 4. Use the recorded video as part of your training program5. Record (or separate) audio and post as a podcast/audio file on
soundcloud.com or itunes6. Use your presentation and post to Slideshare.com7. Write a blog post and embed the video, audio and slideshare
presentation8. Use the individual slide images as branded images on your visual
social channels – instagram, Facebook, Twitter#9 SHARE! SHARE! SHARE!
Webinar Mistakes1. What is your topic? Did you pick the correct one for your audience?2. Are you marketing your webinar?3. Do you deliver on your promise?4. Is it just a pitch fest?5. Is it focused or wandering?6. Too much information?7. How is the timing?8. Is there a reason to stay till the end?9. Have you tested – EVERYTHING?10. Did you follow-up
What to Avoid• Excessively long webinars• All fluff and no substance• Not just about sales – about people entering
your long-term sales funnel• Don’t be boring!
A Few Last Words• Consistently deliver your value
– Educate– Inform– Delight
• Insights – Insights – Insights!– See what is working and what is not
• DON’T HARD SELL – INFLUENCE TO ACTION
• Your Value & Your Content? HOW do you deliver it?
• Your ROI? WHERE is the Money? Move your fans to your own lists and own pages.
Resources
• http://e3webcasting.com/top-7-webinar-statistics-you-should-know/
• http://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/webinar-attendee-and-registration-statistics-infographic
• http://www.on24.com/resources/resource-center/
• Upcoming Webinar Events http://bit.ly/events1999
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