If you want to know how to find new customers for your business, webinars play a key role - they’re one of the best ways to create compelling marketing content. But how might they be made much better?
I always love it when we look at something we all know, like webinars, and we think we’re experts - we know it all. But then someone shocks us by using a fresh approach to make them vastly better. Webinars are a key ingredient in your b2b lead generation and content marketing programs to help you find new customers.
Jim Burns at Avitage has done this with his blog article, 7 Ways to Take Your Webinars to the Next Level.
In most webinars to date (and the Fearless Competitor has done many) you practice and pray — hoping the technology works as advertised. Before the event you email, Tweet and blog about your webinar, attempting to drive up attendance. And you record it to share with your attendees. All with the goal of helping you find new customers. But Avitage has taken a fresh and innovative approach, which I wish to share with the readers of Fearless Competitor.
In his blog article, Jim explains how to pre-produce your webinar, create a 90 second trailer, develop an executive version, create a fully indexed version, build a companion microsite and enable snippets for sales and marketing.These are all great ideas and I hope you check out the article and use Avitage to help you in your next big webinar.
7 Ways to Take Your Webinars to the Next Level
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Jeff Ogden is President of Find New Customers “Lead Generation Made Simple” Check out the online show every Friday at 11am ET, “Laugh and Learn with the Fearless Competitor.” Find New Customers is one of few lead generation companies in New York.
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Thanks Jeff,
A client benefited from this approach a couple of weeks ago when he was stranded in London due to the Iceland volcano! His client was nervous, but the webinar was in the can before he traveled.
For another client, we were able to triple his registrations when we promoted his webinar a second time with a 2 minute promotional vignette: http://avitage.com/a?q26ztsb&
Jim,
Thanks for your comment. Undoubted there are a lot of companies doing webinars today would could take advantage of the tips here. And using a promotional vignette like your example to give new life to a recorded webinar is a great idea too.
Jeff