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Chart of the Week: How Attendees Hear about Webinars

 

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Webinars are a great way to generate leads for your services and nurture the ones already in your pipeline because they allow you to demonstrate your knowledge and expertise, connect with prospects and strengthen relationships.

But how do you fill those webinar seats? To find out, RainToday surveyed more than 200 buyers of professional services (including buyers of accounting and financial services; architecture, engineering, and construction services; human resources consulting; IT consulting and services; legal services; management consulting; marketing, advertising, and public relations; and training services) and asked them how they find out about upcoming webinars. More than three-fourths said they find out through an email from the webinar producer. This tactic was followed by referral from a colleague (44%), invitation by direct mail (42%), email sent by a third party (34%), and Web search (30%).

Email may be how the majority of attendees find out about webinars they are interested in, but that's not to say you should rely only on this tactic. To get qualified prospects to attend your webinars, reaching out to them in multiple ways using a mix of tactics is the best way to increase the number of leads generated from new prospects.

 

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Posted by Jeanne Hopkins on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 @ 04:15 AM

COMMENTS

Excellent research and information. 
 
I find that businesses are largely unaware of the opportunities to share their knowledge with current and potential clients.

posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 7:03 AM by Rick Falls


There is something to be said for consistency. Similar to blogging, your webinar strategy should also incorporate a schedule. You may decide to host a webinar the 1st of each month providing the prospect or client a schedule (routine)that they can check in on.

posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 7:19 AM by Doug MacFaddin


Jeanne, great information to realize and I like the clean ways you presented everything in the article. Thanks for inspiring my next real estate blog post!

posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 7:45 AM by Jennifer Stalford


Thanks for the information! This is very helpful and somewhat surprising. 
 
Mark

posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 8:07 AM by Mark Kilens


Webinars are a very effective way to sell. Our company moved away from one on one presentations and sales calls to group selling via a webinar format and sales increased significantly 50%+ All of our lead gen activities are geared toward driving people to our webinars.

posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 8:19 AM by Matt Gethins


As an email dude, I love to see these results, but I'm kinda surprised that Facebook and Twitter are not on the chart.  
 
Are they less then 11%? Really? 
 
DJ Waldow 
Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory 
@djwaldow

posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 8:24 AM by DJ Waldow


As an email dude, I love to see these results, but I'm kinda surprised that Facebook and Twitter are not on the chart.  
 
Are they less then 11%? Really? 
 
DJ Waldow 
Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory 
@djwaldow

posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 9:11 AM by DJ Waldow


I agree with DJ. I would think that Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter would be on the chart.  
 
 
 
Email works well for our webinar promotion and registration and we tend to keep consistent times for all of our public webinar presentations. 
 
Thank you for the nice article and chart. 
 

posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 11:45 AM by Marc Ricci


I am also shocked there's no Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Also, no reference from blogs. 
 
Could it be that "Referral by a colleague" includes that? It's pretty general.

posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 1:52 PM by John Cavanaugh


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