Webinar from SalesFUSION and WebAttract on how to effectively manage and optimize the attendance and post-webinar conversion through nurture marketing, audience recruitment and content-driven marketing
2. What we’ll cover today
• Introductions
• Webinars as a lead generation channel
• Types of webinars webinar content
• Webinar as a long-term campaign
• Audience recruitment
• Tips for delivering a great webinar
• Post-webinar nurture campaigns
• Extending the webinar content
3. About SalesFUSION
• SaaS Marketing Application
• HQ – Atlanta, GA – Sales Offices in Philadelphia, PA
• Provide all b2b marketing functionality in a single app
• Focus on integrating Marketing and Sales (CRM)
• Only solution built on a CRM database
• Extensive global partner network
• 110 New clients in 2010
• Unique Client Services model
• Game-changing pricing structure
• 99% retention rate
• 90% of all new features added in 2010 – customer requests
4. An End2End Solution for Webinar Demand Creation
Mike Agron
Executive Webinar Producer
WebAttract, LLC
mike@webattract.com
www.webattract.com
+916.804.4703
5. ABOUT WEBATTRACT
AN “END2END” SOLUTION FOR WEBINAR DEMAND CREATION
• Professional services organization of B2B webinar experts
• Helps marketing and sales professionals excel at demand gen
• Delivers a proven methodology, best practices & metrics
• Clients include global and emerging brands
• Recently commissioned by Citrix Online to author a new eBook
“WebinarReady™ - A Step-by-Step Guide to Hosting Successful Webinars”
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7. Challenges you will face
More competition for people’s time
Email delivery
Creating a compelling message
Content creation
Registrant attendance
Follow up and qualification
8. Types of webinars
Industry best practices/point of view
Product promotion/release
Training
Accredited/Association-focused
Customer retention
9. Nurture-based marketing is 100% dependent upon good
content
2012 b2b content marketing report from MarketingProfs
10. Content is becoming the key driver for Nurture-based
programs
2012 b2b content marketing report from MarketingProfs
20. Tips and tricks for success – email invitation
• Invitation should be clear
and concise
• Make the dates/time and
how to register highly
visible
• Main paragraph should
show well in Outlook
preview pane
• Tues-Thursday between
11A – 2PM
21. Tips and tricks for success – Registration
• Simple, and main body
above the fold
• Registration – don’t ask too
much – only what’s needed
• Reinforce the agenda
• Reinforce the time/date
22. Tips and tricks for success – Confirmation
• Instant release
• 1 week before
• 2 days before
• Day of
• Include outlook reminder
• Opportunity to cross-
promote/reinforce brand
• OK to link to other online
resources
23. PLANNING FOR
WEBINAR NURTURE
CAMPAIGNS
• Average time frame for webinar
promotion is 4-6 weeks
• Post promotion – content and
attendee behavior focused
• Begin with webinar materials – filter
down to product materials toward end
24. Tips and tricks for success – Post webinar microsite
• Multimedia – video, slides,
resources
• Promotional asset for
ongoing use
• Posted to website, social
networks…etc.
• Link back to online sites
such as YouTube/SlideShare
28. The use of marketing automation tools in successful
webinars the brand and message – don’t rely on webinar
• Control
tools for registration, drip, trigger, nurture-based emails
• Robust analytics
• Pre-build and copy your campaign flow over and over
• Native integration to webinar platforms
• Better performance and attendee rates.
29. Benefits of using marketing automation to run
webinars
• Pre-build subject swaps – increase opens and CTR
• Track and adjust your webinar in real-time
• Control and adjust the message/subject line based on performance
31. Integrate results to CRM
• Move leads from webinar to CRM more efficiently
• Keep sales in the loop
• Tie in telesales for pre/post call-downs
• Track webinar leads through opportunity creation/close
32. Leveraging event management in MA Software
• Integrated event management combines planning, executing and tracking
online events into a single interface
• Integration with webinar platforms makes branding of reminders/registration
pages easier for the producer
33. Questions?
• Schedule a demonstration of SalesFUSION
• Learn more www.salesfusion.com
• Learn more www.webattract.com
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Notas del editor
Mike discusses his take on webinar demand generation, then moves to talk about the challenges
Mike – speaking of effective nurturing tactics, let’s drill down on the power of webinars, as a recent study from CMI, shows they are rated EFFECTIVE – VERY EFFECTIVE 70%Lori to advance when Mike’s done…to next slide on the webinar value prop for lead nutruing
(Mike) – Let’s talk about some of the key sources for creating great webinar contentRemember, people want to learn something new, or validate something they’ve been thinking about, or are just plain curious to hear what you have to say and determine if it’s relevant to helping them solve their business, operational or technology challenges….Mike advances the slide to drill down on the elements of a Case Study….Softball for Joe - What are some the motivators to get an author or subject matter expert to want to participate in a webinar?
(Mike) – talk to the key points, give examples….Advance to some popular webinar themes…
(Mike) – We’ve found that from a B2B perspective, webinar themes usually fall into these 3 categories…Give an example for each one….Advance to our next phase 2,…Softball for Joe - Popular B2B Webinar Themes – What are some of the more unique or esoteric themes you’ve produced?
(Bret) I’d ask you to consider than LinkedIn alone, with over 65 million members and over 700,000 discussion groups, can easily be leveraged to drive business-to-business demand. If you then add in Twitter, Facebook, Slideshare, YouTube, PRWeb and the many, many other social media networks and sites out there, into an integrated mix that can be smartly and efficiently use to increase awareness and generate demand, the possibilities are endless. The question is how? In this brief informational session we’ll explore the various tactics of contributing to discussion topics, blogging, breaking news posts, press releases, video snippets, and more, in leveraging your legitimate and original content marketing as channels to drive demand and ensure you and your company stay top of mind with prospects and clients.Overall, these social media platforms offer you the means to leverage blog posts, discussion groups, press releases, video, and more, to communicate your business message and drive demand gen results in various flavors, and over various lengths of time. An important point here is that, like most of marketing, social media marketing requires an investment of time, effort and intellect and, like most sales activities, delivers opportunities of varying sizes and across different sales cycles. However, given two factors, the use of social media for sales and marketing purposes is impossible to ignore: 1) it’s highly inexpensive compared to direct mail, broadcast, print advertising, etc., when you consider the reach it provides and 2) there are no real issues around spam and opt-in/opt-out, as long as used appropriately.Regardless of which social media marketing approach you take or, for that matter, any marketing effort you pursue, you’ve got to have a solid understanding of the objectives you seek to achieve and you’ve got to clearly understand who your audience is and what will be the most effective message to connect with them. Mike says, yup, the audience always needs to be our #1 focus…..always keeping in mind, what’s in it for them?Yeah, once these matters are defined, you’re ready to choose the best social media channel to attain your desired results. What you’ll see as we step through some of the choices is that each one satisfies certain marketing needs, and each one is diverse from the other both in terms of measurable outcomes as well as the time and effort it takes to put them to work for you.(CUE – Mike says, ….and for those of you that think LinkedIn is only for job networking, we’re going to talk about why this is truly the 800# gorilla of all business networking sites…..advances slide and let’s Bret riff )
(option) Mention that we use a combination of a 27MM name B2B DB as well as lists from some of our online media partners….Run through the numbersHint at CTR and we’ll come back to it in just a bitAdvance…and now let’s turn our attention to webinar contentSoftball for Joe - Key Audience Recruitment Metrics – What trends are you seeing, i.e., are these numbers holding steady today as they were, say a year ago?
The webinar went off as planned, you had a great turnout, the audience stayed on until the end…..Review stepsGet ready to go to summary slideSoftball for Joe - Post Webinar – From a lead scoring standpoint, which are more valuable, folks who attended or registered but were no shows? Can you give some other examples of what the final analytics can tell you to have a more positive and warm conversation with both attendees?