Many B2B organizations have introduced webinars into their marketing mix. While it's a good idea to optimize your webinar strategy to increase registrants, attendees, interaction, and engagement, are these elements really moving the needle for your business?
By understanding how webinars can help your organization solve your biggest marketing challenges, you can start to shift your optimization efforts to achieve better results from your webinar strategy.
In this presentation, Thue Madsen, Marketing Operations Manager at Kissmetrics, explains how to use webinars to meet your B2B marketing goals.
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How to Optimize Your Webinar Strategy to Meet Your Marketing Goals
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Hana Abaza
VP Marketing, Uberflip
@hanaabaza
Thue Madsen
Marketing Operations, Kissmetrics
@ThueLMadsen
How to Optimize Your Webinar
Strategy to Meet Your
Marketing Goals
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Agenda:
• What is the goal of your webinars and where do they fit into your marketing funnel?
‣ Top of the funnel (ToFu)
‣ Middle of the funnel (MoFu)
‣ Bottom of the funnel (BoFu)
• Gathering the Data you need to improve your webinars
• Ideas to optimize your webinars
• Leveraging A/B Testing to optimize your webinars
What does today’s journey look like?
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My presumptions:
• You know about webinars
• You have probably done webinar already
• You are ready to take it to the next level and get strategical
Also:
• I will use examples from my own company and experience
• All data is made up or altered considerably
• I’m not going to cover much of promotion (not enough time)
What does today’s journey look like?
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The Kissmetrics Webinar Series
• Thousands of Registrants
• Hundreds of attendees
• Hundreds of MQLs
• Tons of questions
• Great feedback
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The Kissmetrics Webinar Series
SUCCESS??
• Thousands of Registrants
• Hundreds of attendees
• Hundreds of MQLs
• Tons of questions
• Great feedback
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Awareness
Consideration
Conversion
Loyalty
Advocacy
ToFu - Top of the funnel
MoFu - Middle of the funnel
BoFu - Bottom of the funnel
Problem you are facing:
• Brand Awareness
• Though leadership
• Product Awareness
What you want to optimize for:
• Registrations
• Content consumption
- Live Attendance
- Recording consumptions
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Can also be done with UTM - Examples of UTMs
http://go.uberflip.com/how-to-optimize-your-webinar-strategy-to-meet-your-
marketing-goals?
utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=webinar-152&utm_source=Kissmetrics&
utm_content=tofu-webinar
Topics to drive registrations
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Increase New Registrations
Partner webinars
• Share the content burden
• Get access to new prospects
• Requirements
• Your channel or theirs?
• Share leads
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Partner webinars
Partner webinars
• Keep an editorial calendar
• Make an “agreement” to set expectation and
responsibilities
• Set a timeline to get all assets
• Look for thought leaders but make sure to match
your best topics!
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Awareness
Consideration
Conversion
Loyalty
Advocacy
ToFu - Top of the funnel
MoFu - Middle of the funnel
BoFu - Bottom of the funnel
What you want to optimize for:
• Conversions
- Trials / Demos
• Product Information
- Downloads / Requests
Problem you are facing:
• Product Awareness
• Solution Need
• Solution Buy-in
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Topics
Our best practice for MoFu
• Thought leader topics showing the value of our products
• Something you can do with various solution but that we do better
• There has to be value even if they are not interested in your product!
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Collecting Demo Request up front
Make sure your lead understand your offering
• Great to increase lead volume drastically
• Make sure your funnel can handle it
• Prospects may not know what they are opting in to
• Lead quality might suffer
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Collecting leads in webinar
Make sure you don’t hold your audience hostage
• Prospects are not always there to get a demo or pitch
• Find the right time and length to pitch
• Create a system for collecting and following up with leads
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Awareness
Consideration
Conversion
Loyalty
Advocacy
ToFu - Top of the funnel
MoFu - Middle of the funnel
BoFu - Bottom of the funnel
What you want to optimize for:
• Product usage and utilization
• Customer Happiness
- Feedback, support tickets
• Product referrals
Problem you are facing:
• Product Adoption
• Retention
• Product Advocation
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Talk to your colleagues to find topics
Use the people who talk to your customers all the time
• Your Sales department meets the customers every day
• Customer Success knows about all the great and not so great things of your product
• Products know where the product is headed
• This is very much a team effort
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Topics
My favorites that we have seen work great
• Advanced use case of our product
• Setting yourself up for success with the tool
• How to do more with less
• Roadmap and beta training
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Topics
Get more out of your customer webinars
• Repurpose into on boarding, e-course, etc.
• Invite trials users, prospects if relevant though
exclusivity can be very beneficial
• But remember what the primary goal is
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The Kissmetrics Webinar Series
Three kinds of webinars
• Pure thought leadership that also stimulates product awareness - ToFu
• Product webinars that can be applied even without the use of Kissmetrics -MoFu
• Customer webinars that promotes Kissmetrics best practices and advanced use cases - BoFu
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The Kissmetrics Webinar Series
Three kinds of webinars
• Pure thought leadership that also stimulates product awareness
• Product webinars that can be applied even without the use of Kissmetrics
• Customer webinars that promotes Kissmetrics best practices and advanced use cases
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Crushing your webinar goals!
My rules of thumb:
• Know what you are trying to achieve with your individual webinars
• Have a specific goal and a way to know when you succeed
• Have your analytics and other platforms set up to give you the right data
• The more accessible and easy to find the higher the chance of success
• Advanced: Build a webinar programs that strategically contributes to every
step of the funnel
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