how to drive webinar registration and attendance in 2015
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How to Drive Webinar Registra2on and A5endance
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Panelists MODERATOR: Kim Zimmerman Senior Managing Editor, Demand Gen Report
Mark Bornstein VP, Corporate MarkeNng���ON24, Inc.
How to Drive Webinar Registration and Attendance in 2015 Mark Bornstein Vice President, Corporate Marketing ON24
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Biggest Webinar Challenge?
Results: ON24 Benchmarks Webinar Poll
Driving Registration: #1 ranked challenge to delivering successful webinars
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Challenges to Driving Webinar Registration & Attendance
Schedules often don’t include free hours during the middle of the day…
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Challenges to Driving Webinar Registration & Attendance
Catching your prospects at a moment of receptivity
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• Open rates are unreliable source of information• Click rates continue to fall• Your prospects are flooded with promo emails• Many companies are buying from same contact list
vendors• Open viewing time between 8-20 Seconds
The Email Marketing Dilemma
Optimizing Email Promotions
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Webinar Promotion and Registration Benchmarks
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Promotion and Registration Benchmarks
Previous Year:
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Effective Webinar Titles: Address Problems/Pain-points
“10 Common Webinar Mistakes”
“7 Keys to Successful Webinars”
“Benchmarking your Demand Generation Programs”
“5 Best Practices for Virtual Product Launches”
“Building your social media footprint”
“How to Optimize Content Delivery”
“How to Drive Webinar Registration”
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Great Subject lines have the following qualities:• Disruptive, upset the status quo• Address a specific pain-point or need• Promise change• Tease or titillate • Short and concise • Read well, phonetically interesting• Feel personal
Creating Effective Subject Lines
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Anatomy of an Email
Clear Title, Strong Graphic
The first line must grab
Clear “Register Now” Button
Short and to-the-point
Use bullets, tease content
Show value of attending
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Promote from Different Angle
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Consistent Creative Across all Communications
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• Leverage previous campaign responders to create custom emails based on prior activity
• Create logical progressions from one piece of content to the next
• Use campaign data to determine best opportunities– Marketing Automation– CRM– Webinar Analytics
• Plain text email more effective for active campaign responders
• Integrate webinar offers into nurturing campaigns
Personalization Increases Registration
Promoting with Social Media
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Using Social Media to Promote Webinars
• Get creative
• Entice
• Use social language
• Use hashtags
• Shorten links
• Hint at content
Tweet #1
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Using Social Media to Promote Webinars
Tweet #2
• Mix up the message
• Try different times
• Broaden appeal
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Integrating Social Media Applications
• Integrate Social Media Applications onto confirmation pages
• Promote event hashtags
• Enable registrants to put webinar on their business calendar
Optimize for Audience Attendance
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Webinar Attendance Benchmarks
Previous Year:
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Webinar Attendance Benchmarks
Key: Avoid rush hour on west coast, lunch on east coast
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• Try promo email subject lines that offer change of the status quo• When crafting promo emails, one line is more important than 3
paragraphs• Try different subject lines and email types• Leverage history with previous campaign responders• When promoting on social media, mix up times and messages• Ensure that you have consistent creative through all promo
communications• Hold Webinars at the most convenient times and days for your
target audience
Summary
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Mark Bornstein VP, Corporate MarkeNng���ON24, Inc.
MODERATOR: Kim Zimmerman Senior Managing Editor, Demand Gen Report
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