For Technology Product Management & Marketing Professionals (Length: 14 pages)

August 25, 2008

How To Make B2B Webinars Deliver Better Leads

Planned Pre-Show And Follow-Up Communications Are The Key

by Laura Ramos

with Bradford J. Holmes, Christina Lee, Zachary Reiss-Davis

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

As technology and business-to-business (B2B) marketers replace traditional offer-response strategies with community marketing practices to embrace adopter community issues and values, Webinars will become a key plank in the B2B marketing platform. Technology advances in Web conferencing and Webcasting make it much easier to engage prospects in a social dialog around the challenges they face and the solutions they seek. But a quick survey of common Webinar results shows that B2B marketers need to improve how they communicate with the attendee community before, during, and after the show to better cull the interested buyers from the bystanders.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemWebinars Attract Too Many Tire-Kickers, Not Enough Leads

itemFour Key Steps To Boost Webinar Results And Lead Quality

itemStep One: Use Webinars to Educate, Not Sell To, Your Target Audience

itemStep Two: Employ Web 2.0 Tactics To Grab Audience Attention

itemStep Three: Use Pre-Show Activity To Separate Tire-Kickers From Buyers

itemStep Four: Engage With Qualified Attendees During The Webinar — And Right Afterward

recommendations

itemTie Webinars Tightly To Community Marketing

itemSupplemental Material

As part of a joint study with MarketingProfs, Forrester surveyed 212 B2B marketing professionals in firms with annual revenues ranging from less than $20 million to more than $5 billion and that met our minimum criteria for marketing spend and mix.

Related Research Documents

itemB2B Marketers Fail The Community Marketing Test

May 7, 2008

itemB2B Marketers' 2008 Budget Trends

December 12, 2007

itemThe Forrester Wave™: Web Conferencing, Q2 2006

June 6, 2006

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Analyst: Laura Ramos
Technology: Acquisition Marketing, Enterprise Collaboration, Information & Knowledge Management, Interactive Marketing, Marketing & Advertising
Industry: Business-To-Business eCommerce, eBusiness/eCommerce, High-Tech, Tech Marketing Tools & Best Practices
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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