The past few years have been quite challenging for all of us. Not to mention Covid19 was the reason behind it. Transforming from in-person meetings to online meetings and from onsite to remote work was not easy at all for some companies. 

Somehow companies and businesses managed and learned new ways of connecting and collaborating with audiences and remote employees. Nowadays, we can see that most organizations are using webinar platforms for education. Webinars emerged as a great way to reach and connect with potential audiences and deliver something important to them.

In this digital era when you and your audiences are connected virtually, it means both are behind their web cameras. It becomes a difficult task to keep your audience away from distractions. And make them listen and respond to your presentation. 

Well, in this blog, we will share some amazing tips and tricks for keeping your online audience engaged throughout the webinar. So let us quickly dive into the blog.

Tips and Tricks to keep your attendees engaged.

Embrace unique methods:

Webinars are a way of delivering beneficial and educational information to audiences. But do you think that when you and your audiences are a hundred and thousand miles away from each other, your audience will carefully listen to you without zoning out? So to keep your audience hooked, you need to adopt new formats that will stop your audience from exiting the webinar.

Using a single format throughout the webinar can make your audience bored. Hence, try to incorporate vivid formats to deliver different information. 

• You can use slides with appealing graphics, themes, and colors.
• In slides or ppts, you can also add memes, videos, and quizzes. 
• Original photographs related to the topic of discussion will also help maintain their interest in the discussions. 

Ensure you are not overloading these formats in your presentation.

Incorporate poll questions:

Poll questions are the best way to keep your attendees engaged during the webinar. It will provide them an opportunity to interact and know the speakers, sponsors, organizers, and hosts. Moreover, polling questions are one of the best ways to know what your audience thinks about your brand. Sprinkle the questions throughout the webinar to keep them engaged. Apart from the questions related to the discussion, you can ask fun questions or icebreaker questions. The poll question also shows the best segment of the webinar that attendees like more. Poll questions also help the audiences in retaining the knowledge they have gained during the webinar. Moreover, polling questions keeps the mind of attendees stimulated. Webinar hosting platforms also offer several dynamic features to keep attendees engaged.

Pick a suitable topic for the webinar:

The topic of the webinar plays a crucial role in keeping attendees engaged. It is the usefulness of the content that allows the speaker to make connections with the attendees. So while planning for the webinar, keep the interest of attendees in mind. Select a topic that is useful for the audience. Seeing the advantage of the topic, attendees will surely pique their interest and will remain on track throughout the webinar. 

Surprise the audiences by inviting guest speakers or influencers:

Usually, audiences don’t like single speakers in the webinar. So you can announce the entry of an influencer or a guest speaker when the attendees are least expecting anybody. Moreover, by giving responsibilities to other speakers you can diversify the discussions. As we all know, we all have different perspectives about a topic, so incorporating influencers and speakers will tend to shift the point of view of audiences in a new direction. Furthermore, influencers are like win cards to keep attendees hooked to the webinar. 

Add a fun element to the webinar:

Apart from engaging the attendees, add some fun elements to the webinar. You can add surprising facts, jokes, and unexpected things. Nobody wants to look at a boring presentation without learning anything new. You can also include gamification in the webinar. Moreover, a short workshop and a quick yoga session or meditation session will add fun to the webinar. Try to be as active as you can and try to make sessions more interactive and enjoyable. There are a handful of online free webinar platforms available in the market that offer a plethora of fun features for attendees.

Offer incentives:

Everybody likes gifts, attendees would love to get gifts, in return for attending the webinar. You can offer incentives to attendees, this way more attendees will stay till the end of the webinar and will respond to the information you are delivering to them. If you are selling a service to the audience, you can offer an extra discount to the attendees who stick to the end of the webinar. Moreover, you can give them access to ebooks. You can also ask attendees to answer each poll in favor of gifts or incentives. 

Offer networking opportunities to the attendees:

Other than learning new things, networking is the prime reason behind attending webinars. The majority of attendees join webinars to grow their professional network. So provide them ample opportunities to build and grow their network. Best webinar software offers several networking features like AI Matchmaking, networking tables, and two-way communication. 

In today’s technologically advanced world, webinars are crucial for your business’s marketing strategy. Through Webinars, marketers educate and connect with the potential targeted audience.  There are several ways to know whether audiences are engaged with the webinar or not. Try to incorporate polls and surveys to understand the responses of the audiences. Create content in different formats. Add graphics, videos, images, graphs, bars, and pie charts to the presentations. Moreover, you can also add bold colors to the slides. 

Apart from the above-stated tips for keeping the attendees engaged, you can give your audience a chance to brag right, diversify your speakers, test your audio, and manage your time wisely. If you follow these tips, you can successfully host a well-engaging webinar.