The document discusses 7 ways to enhance webinar promotions in 2016. It provides tips for crafting compelling subject lines, optimizing email body content for mobile viewing, promoting webinars through different channels like HTML vs plain text emails, leveraging personalization and past attendee data, promoting on social media, focusing promotion efforts on the day before and day of the webinar, and maintaining consistent branding across all promotional materials. The key is testing different subject lines, formats, times and creative to find the most effective promotion strategies for driving webinar registration.

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7. 7 Ways to Enhance Your
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Mark Bornstein
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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

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Webinar Promotions
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13. #1: One Line, One Chance
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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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Subject line examples
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

17. #2: Get Your Body in Shape
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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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Optimize for Mobile Viewing
Smart Insights 2014

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Try Losing the Sidebar
Emails without a sidebar have
a 4% higher click through.
Spiceworks Study 2014

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If you are promoting your speakers….
Update your speaker
photos

22. #3: Promote from Different
Angles
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HTML

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Plain Text Email

25. #4: Get Personal
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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

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Personalization Based on Previous Behavior

28. #5: Get Social
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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

32. #6: The last day is the best
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Webinar Promotion and Registration Benchmarks

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Email 1: HTML Subject Line A
Email 1: HTML Subject Line B
Dropped1-2 weeks before event
44% of Total Registration
Email 2: HMTL Plain Text
Split 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 event
21% of Total Registration
Registrations from other (website, social, sales referral): 9%
Anatomy of this webinar

35. #7: Consistent Creative
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Consistent Creative Across all Communications

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Keys to driving webinar registration:
• 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
Summary

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