Webinars are a great interaction tool for any business. It is an efficient and sure way of getting your message out to customers directly, especially in the tech industry. Below are four (4) benefits of presenting webinars.
Around the clock availability
Webinars are available live and can be visited later on if you are unavailable. This around the clock availability is extremely useful if you have clients that are constantly busy or do business internationally on different time zones than you. Also, having the availability of the webinar after it has gone live helps increase your reach through search engine optimization (SEO) when being searched for at a later date. This helps you stay relevant rather than hosting live seminars and losing the attention once it’s over.
Easy way of delivering your message to your target
More often than not, those that watch your webinar have an interest or stake in what you are presenting. This means that your audience for the webinar is most likely who you are targeting or should try to target with your marketing efforts. Having your target market come to you rather than putting in extensive, and expensive, market research will simplify your job greatly.
Cost savings
Although you have to spend to create a webinar, you also save considerably from other sources. These include travel costs that your company would have endured in order to educate your customers on changes to the system; the cost of time that’s spent by your presenter while they could be working away at other tasks; and lastly the costs you would’ve undertook to hire a venue and all that comes with hosting a live event. You always want your customer to be educated, however, budgeting properly is should also be a top priority.
Easy way of generating qualified leads
If you ask any sales representative, they will say that generating leads is easy; however, generating QUALIFIED leads is a more difficult process. Relating back to the second benefit, those that are watching your webinar are probably interested in what you are presenting. You are now able to use the registration from the webinar to collect lead information such as contact methods and locations. This is also considered a form of market research as you can see what your demographics and geographics are. Lastly, by educating those watching your webinar you have already qualified them as leads since they are now aware of your products and services and there will be no need to re-qualify.
The 4 benefits mentioned above explain how webinars are a powerful tool if you are looking to increase brand awareness, minimize costs, and boost revenues in the simplest possible way.
