When you run a live webinar, which is an online training session. You want people to show up. But just like any class in school or presentation from a stage, or phone training.
Getting people to show up is different than getting those people who show up to participate. I want to give you easy ways to get more audience participation from your webinars.
Which is with a random drawing, calling out specific individuals, having a question and answer session, and by being exciting.
An easy tactic to make sure people remain on your webinar is to offer some kind of a bonus. I am not a fan of giving a gift to every single person who comes to the webinar because that
distracts from your clothes or the offer you are delivering at the end. Instead, do this. Before the webinar starts, give people an address where they can subscribe with their first name and email address.
And tell them that half-way through the webinar, you're gonna look at those email subscribers and pick one at random and give them some kind of a gift. That's directly related to the offer that you're giving at the end.
You're not giving away the whole offer but maybe some kind of tool they can use. For example, if you're running a webinar that teaches people how to record audio files. You might give one lucky person on the call, a free USB headset.
Next, if you recognize repeat attendees or repeat customers on the webinar or even if they ask specific questions. Call them by their first name and address their question or use
them as an example. At some point in your life, you have probably been in the audience in front of some kind of speaker who has mentioned you or used your name. Whether it's a small
group or a large group and it really makes you feel like you're part of the conversation. You can apply the same logic as a presenter. People love to hear their own names get
mentioned and they love recognition, so play to their egos.
Have a question and a answer session. If you get alot of repeat questions, address that question. If you're running a free training call, have a section where you answer everyone's
questions. The important thing here is not to let this ruin your clothes. That means that if you're not closing in on a webinar, it's ok to answer questions. If you are closing, then
present your offer, have everyone take a 5 minute break to order, come back and answer questions. But with every question you answer, close again and present the offer.
This brings me to my final point is to be exciting and not boring. You can be presenting on the best subject in the world but, if you do it in a boring way, no one's going to care.
Be excited and others will feel your excitement. Make jokes, be a real person, don't have your webinar be scripted, speak from the heart. And if people are getting bored or losing
attentiveness which you can see and go through webinar and see the percentage. Move on to a more exciting subject. Poll your audience. Get them to answer a test or a survey and figure
out what part of the webinar you should be focusing on the most.
And that's how to increase audience participation. Have a random drawing, mention specific people, answer questions, and be exciting.
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