You have decided you don’t want to do an in-person event; you want to avoid the hassle, the enormous costs, the inconvenience. Now, you’re ready to dive into the virtual event space…but with what kind of event? Luckily for you, virtual event platforms are malleable and any kind of event you want to host can…
Category: webcast
Pre-Record or Broadcast Live?
In-person conferences are only slightly different from online events, but one way in which they are vastly different is the presenting style. In-person events are presented live, with the speaker on a stage or at the front of a classroom-style room, speaking to the audience in real-time. They can step off the stage and answer…
The Benefit of Session Tracks
Many online event platforms attempt to copy in-person events, particularly when it comes to sessions. During an in-person event, there are a few rooms set up with perhaps a theme for each (or perhaps none at all). The sessions are presented in each of the rooms and there is typically a ten-fifteen minute break in between…
Help Viewers Understand First
Many people approach a webcast or virtual conference session as an opportunity to sell. This ends up driving the content for the session, and it drives the focus and presentation style as well. While it’s certainly possible to present a “pre-sales” type presentation with information about your product or service in hopes of driving the…
Where Do I Begin?
Getting your first virtual conference or event up and running can be a daunting task – but it’s really not as big of a hill as it may seem initially. Remember the old adage, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time*.” It’s the same with an event. (source) The really great…
Do Virtual Events Hurt Your In-Person Events?
This question comes up quite a bit. The short answer… if you do it right, is… No. If you can market the virtual event in conjunction with the in-person event, you end up boosting the value of the in-person event. If you market one, then move to the other, then back again, the messaging can…
Keep Virtual Event Attendees Engaged
Keeping attendees engaged is a tough battle with an online event. Let’s face it, distractions abound! Email arrives, instant messages beckon, heck just typing a new URL in the browser is a threat to their attention to your event. What can you do to retain attendees – to keep their attention and make the event…
How Long Does It Take? (To create and start an virtual conference?)
This may be one of the most often asked questions about setting up an event: how much lead time do you need prior to getting an event up, running and online to allow it to be successful? Unfortunately, the short answer is, “It depends.” Fortunately, we can pretty reliably call out what specifically it depends on….
Great Resource for your Digital Marketing Projects
If you haven’t seen it, check out The Outreach Marketing Virtual Summit (it’s free) – it includes key information from a whole host of experts. There is so much great information in this free event – it’s incredible. Here’s the direct link: http://www.vconferenceonline.com/event/home.aspx?id=1092 This was a project by GroupHigh, an outreach marketing firm that rocks…
Producing Content – horses for courses
Why Virtual? Josh Harrison Producer vConferenceOnline Producing Content – horses for courses So I talked about the importance of video in creating an engaging presentation. So for this last article let’s get into some real world HOW. You’ve decided “Josh is right, we should use video in our event.” Congratulations, you’ve made the right choice!…