7 Ways To Enhance Webinar Promotions In 2015

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7 Ways to Enhance Your Webinar Promotions in 2015 Mark Bornstein Sr. Director, Content Marketing ON24

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Biggest Webinar Challenge?

Results: ON24 Benchmarks Webinar Poll

Driving Registration: #1 ranked challenge to delivering successful webinars


Challenges to Driving Webinar Registration & Attendance

Schedules often don’t include free hours during the middle of the day…


Challenges to Driving Webinar Registration & Attendance

Catching your prospects at a moment of receptivity


•  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


What are your biggest email promotion challenges?A.  Low click rateB.  Low click to register averageC.  Crafting compelling promo copyD.  Insufficient database

Poll #1 (choose one)

7 Ways to Enhance Your Webinar Promotions


#1: One Line, One Chance



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”


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


Subject lines for today’s webinars

Subject Line #1: (The Compelling Question)Is anyone paying attention to your emails?

Subject Line #2: (The Webinar Title)Webinar: 7 Ways to Enhance your Webinar Promotions

Subject Line # 3: (The Bottom Line Benefit)This email will increase your webinar success


Which subject line yielded the best results?

A.  Is anyone paying attention to your emails?

B.  Webinar: 7 Ways to Enhance your Webinar Promotions

C.  This email will increase your webinar success

Poll (choose one only)


Which subject line yielded the best results?

A.  Is anyone paying attention to your emails?

B.  Webinar: 7 Ways to Enhance your Webinar Promotions

C.  This email will increase your webinar success

Poll Answer: Best Subject Line

#2: Get Your Body in Shape



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


Optimize for Mobile Viewing

Smart Insights 2014


Try Losing the Sidebar

Emails without a sidebar have a 4% higher click through.

Spiceworks Study 2014


If you are promoting your speakers….

Update your speaker photos

#3: Promote from Different Angles



HTML


Plain Text Email

#4: Get Personal



•  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


Personalization Based on Previous Behavior

#5: Get Social



Using Social Media to Promote Webinars

• Get creative

• Entice

• Use social language

• Use hashtags

• Shorten links

• Hint at content

Tweet #1


Using Social Media to Promote Webinars

Tweet #2

• Mix up the message

• Try different times

• Broaden appeal


Integrating Social Media Applications

•  Integrate Social Media Applications onto confirmation pages

•  Promote event hashtags

•  Enable registrants to put webinar on their business calendar

#6: The last day is the best day



Webinar Promotion and Registration Benchmarks


Start Early and Finish Strong…

58%Register the week of live webinar

42%Register over one week before webinar

58%

42%

1-7 Days Promotion

> 7 Days Promotion


Email 1: HTML Subject Line AEmail 1: HTML Subject Line BDropped1-2 weeks before event44% of Total Registration

Email 2: HMTL Plain TextSplit into two runs (day before and day of event)26% of Total Registration

Email 3: HTML Plain Text (Previous Campaign Responder email)Dropped day before event21% of Total Registration

Registrations from other (website, social, sales referral): 9%

Anatomy of this webinar


How many emails do you typically send out for each webinar?A.  1B.  2C.  3D.  4E.  5+

Poll# 3 (choose one)

#7: Consistent Creative



Consistent Creative Across all Communications


•  Try promo email subject lines that offer change of the status quo•  When crafting promo emails, one line is more important than 3

paragraphs•  Optimize emails for mobile viewing•  Try different subject lines and email types•  Leverage history with previous campaign responders•  When promoting on social media, mix up times and messages•  The day of the event is the best time to drop promo emails•  Ensure that you have consistent creative through all promo

communications

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