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Here’s how to deliver a successful Sales webinar

  
  
  

I got a great call last week from Paul, a subscriber to my blog. He called because he had a dilemma. Much of his selling is done through webinars, and his conversion rates weren't where he wanted them to be. We discussed what he was doing in terms of pre-qualifying, setting up the webinar, and following up. The call took nearly 45 minutes, because I realized that he was facing the same challenges that many of my clients face, namely that many webinars are geared to providing information rather than selling. The sales techniques for improving webinar sales success that I gave to him are now available to you, because I've written a webinar whitepaper that you can now download.

Delivering a Sales-oriented Webinar is a whitepaper that may very well change the way you deliver prospect-facing webinars. Much of the material is right from my inside sales training courses, including sales tips on questioning and closing skills, and quite a bit on presentation skills, time management, and attendee management, too. Topic areas addressed in the whitepaper include:

  • Informational vs. Sales-oriented Webinars
  • Pre-qualifying the Sales-oriented Webinar
  • Setting up the Sales-oriented Webinar
  • Delivering the Sales-oriented Webinar
  • Fine-tuning the Webinar process

If you've ever been involved in presenting a webinar, this whitepaper is for you. It's full of great information you can use today, and it can be read in 5 minutes. After reading it, my guess is that you'll want the rest of your webinar team to read it as well. And I'll bet that your next webinar will be different. Download it today, and add it to your Best Practices playbook.

Comments

I think this hits the nail. I started to ask before a webinar "What do you want to see"? "What is it going to take for you to buy the product"? These types of questions should be asked before a webinar to help focus it. 
 
 
 
Also a good point of not letting a technical customer take over the webinar by digging with tech questions. Offer to setup a call with them at a later date to do that.  
 
 
 
I think its a good idea to make the webinar clear crisp and give them something to imagine about. Leave them wanting more. Make sure you control the webinar process. 
 
 
 
If you give out all your product info and go into a detailed features splurge you can overwhelm prospects and lose sales. 
 
 
 
So the webinar is a show.
Posted @ Saturday, October 25, 2008 12:43 PM by Paul Narasimhan
Great, Paul, glad you're finding it useful! Thanks for underscoring some of the whitepaper's main points.
Posted @ Saturday, October 25, 2008 8:55 PM by Geoff Alexander
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