5 Powerful Webinar Tools With Free Hosting Service

Webinars are the closest you'll get to face-to-face engagement with your customers, clients or prospects. And when you combine this online modality with great content and resources that address pain points or challenges that your target market typically face, webinars can offer one of the best opportunities for connecting and engaging with prospects and turning them into long-term customers and clients.

In this article, we review 5 in-stream software webinar tools for businesses to help move a webinar attendee from cold prospect to a passionate repeat customer that not only loves your product or service but sings praises about it to his or her friends and family members.

Hopefully, by the end of this article you will have a better understanding that it is not only important to consider a comparison of webinar platforms and services that might best suits your business's needs and requirements, whether that's Citrix, Webinr Jam, Click Webinar, Adobe Connect Webinars, Cisco WebEx, or Webinars OnAir, but that it's also important to keep in mind the purpose of your webinar and in that regard what software tools various webinar platforms offer that will help you to achieve your goals during the live broadcast itself.

Here are some example in-stream (i.e for live webinars) webinar tools and software solutions for you to mull over.

1. Not Just Automatic Webinar Recording & Replay Tools

Many webinar platforms and services will offer you the ability to record your webinar and offer a replay link that you can send out to your attendees or other visitors who may have missed the live broadcast.

However, simple record and replay tools are quite run-of-the-mill in today's internet given that current technology allows you to do so much more flexibility and greater opportunity to capitalise on your live broadcasts.

There are two innovative in-stream webinar tools offered by the Webinar Jam platform that take the concept of recorded webinars to a new level.

The Replica Replay tool is a webinar application developed by Webinar Jam that allow webinar organisers to replay a recorded webinar exactly as it appeared in the live broadcast. In other words it is presented as an actual live webinar with the original community chat and all the interactive tools included.

Then there is the Video Engine tool for hybrid webinars that allows you to mix up a live webinar with recorded segments, for example a product demonstration, and your audience won't even notice what's live and what is not, as the transition between the 2 happens seamlessly.

You can learn more about that on the video at the top of this page or go to the WebinarJam Studio page here.

2. 1-Click Sign Up Webinar Tools

The internet is a fast pace environment where visitors rarely stand still long enough for you to get their attention. That's why it's important if you are looking for your website visitor to take an action, e.g click on a link or to register for your live webinar event, that there are as few obstacles as possible that might prevent this from happening.

Adding forms that require visits to enter their email address is adding an extra layer or obstacle that will cause you to lose some site visitors. And the more fields of information that you ask your website visitors to complete the more registrations you will lose.

With the 1-Click Sign-Up tool there are no forms for your visitors to complete so every person that clicks on your registration link will instantly become a registrant of your webinar. The benefit is you get a 100% registration rate of those that clicked to register for your live event, so no lost clicks from visitors that hit the back button because they don't want to or don't have time to complete your form.

3. The Feedback Flow & Live Alerts Tools

One of the main reasons webinars are powerful tools for connecting with your audience is because they are interactive and engaging. When attendees can see other attendees' questions and comments the audience can sense a real buzz in the webinar room.

Social proof in the form of your prospect's peers making positive comments and feedback on what is being presented in the live webinar is incredibly powerful not only in warming up your prospects and getting them to trust you, but in moving them from being a cold prospect to a passionate long term customer of your business.

The Live Alerts and Feedback Flow tools give you the power to post an attendee's comment at the top of the webinar window where all attendees can see it. In addition, if you are selling a product or service during your live event, you can set up your webinar room to automatically record and display to your attendees every purchase that is made.

These are 2 very powerful in-stream software tools that help with social proof and to encourage and motivate your audience to buy from you or to be more engaged. Psychologically it is more powerful for the listener to hear how good a product or service is from a third party than it is to hear it from the business owner's own mouth.

4. Webinar Tool That Lets You Charge To Attend A Webinar

As a consultant or teacher for example, you may have the need to charge an upfront fee for attendees to join your live event. With the Webinar Pre-Pay tool, you can automatically set up a payment gateway that only allows attendees to register for your event once they have paid the subscription fee to attend.

The tool is very simple to set up and incredibly valuable if your business depends on charging for live webinars.

5. 1-Click Set-Up Landing Page

As a business owner, time is one of your most valuable assets. As such it is unlikely that you'll want to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get started or how to create a professionally looking landing page for your webinar, one that is branded to your business and that looks like it has been put together by a professional company.

The 1-Click Landing Page Set Up tool gives you the option of simply using an already professionally created landing page template or to use one of your own landing pages that you may already use in your business. It is entirely flexible and even the templates can be customised to suit your requirements.

Simplicity and speed of use are incredibly invaluable to business owners in today's very busy world.
So there you have it, just 5 of the many powerful and innovative in-stream webinar tools that are all available as part of the Webinar Jam service. Plus you get free webinar hosting so you don't need to worry about finding reliable hosting or with bandwidth issues when conducting a live webinar with a large number of attendees.

And because the service is online i.e. web based, with a simple snippet of code the live webinar can be streamed on any web property online that accepts html code. Which means it will work on Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal platforms, on Desktop or Apple Mac systems, and it even works on mobile devices.

To discover more powerful webinar applications and tools that are available through the webinarjam platform, watch the above video and out our Webinar Jam Studio review .

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