Webinars as Lead Generation Tools and How to Promote Them
More and more companies are successfully using webinars to promote their products or services for lead generation. Even though this trend is growing, there are still companies who don’t leverage the power of webinars yet. Also some of those who already have webinars, don’t promote them effectively enough to their website visitors.
Webinars are interactive sessions which may include audio, presentation slides, screen sharing, white boards and a wide range of other types of content. Generally the host has control over the webinar, but the participants are not just passive listeners but can interact and contribute in the webinar discussion by posing questions and taking surveys or polls.
Benefits of webinars for your company:
- webinars allow you to educate your prospects about your product or service
- great lead generation tool. hubspot, in one of their last webinars attracted more than 2,500 prospects
- easy way how to promote your product or service to hundreds or thousands of prospects at once
- it shortens sales cycle
- cost effective
- allows questions to be answered for the whole audience
I have found 2 good examples of how these companies are promoting their webinars on their websites.




If you need help to promote your webinars, I found this service from webfishery.com which helps to generate more leads for your webinars. Also I recommend you read webfishery blog where you can find more information on how to run your webinars.
If your webinar is related to e-commerce and conversion increase contact jan@proimpact7.com and we can promote your webinar on our blog for a small fee.
Questions or comments?
For queries regarding conversion optimization of your site, or for more information on this article please contact Jan Petrovic, founder of proimpact7.com and master certified in conversion optimization and web analytics.
jan@proimpact7.com




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Great Tips, thanks
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You have great suggestions in converting visitors to leads. I thought you’re done when you have the site up and running. It seems that is just the start. You still need an audience for that website. When you have an audience, you need to find a way to make them customers.
I have never thought of webinars as a tool for lead generation. But come to think of it, it can be used as one. It seems that with the internet, you can use anything, any tool to your advantage. One just need to be creative on how to use.