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Host Networking Meetings Online During Coronavirus Shut Down

Host Networking Meetings Online During Coronavirus Shut Down

by | Mar 19, 2020 | Business, Business Coaching, Recent-1

Coronavirus is leading to the shut down of many businesses not deemed “essential.” If you’re now working remotely and if you want to find a way to keep in touch with current clients and perhaps reach a new audience of clientele, why not take to online meetings. We have tips for how to host networking meetings online during coronavirus shut down.

Planning an online meeting isn’t difficult, nor should it be, but you will want to take a few steps and have a strategy in place to get the most out of it. When you’re planning an online meeting or webinar you will need to market it in advance, get sign ups and then follow up after the meeting has ended.

Host Networking Meetings Online During Coronavirus Shut Down

Here are ways to “fill the seats” at your webinar

  1. Prepare a pre-event email campaign. How will people know you’re hosting an event if you don’t do pre-promotion? They won’t! Plan a launch campaign. The first message could be a tease – a “save the date” as it were.
  2. After they have saved the date you will want to reach out again and give them a sample of what they will see, hear or learn during the event.
  3. Offer up some behind the scenes, or teaser handouts. Get them interested and they will sign up.
  4. Let them know what they will learn – in other words what is their ROI for giving you some of their time.
  5. Give them an exclusive offer. This should be in the email invitation. Let them know what they will get: early bird tickets, deeply discounted merchandise, insider information, pre-launch insight, free bonus merch just for being there live
  6. Urge your subscribers to forward your message to colleagues they believe will benefit from your webinar
  7. Invite potential attendees to write and ask you if they have any questions or want clarification.
  8. As the date approaches, send reminder emails to those who still haven’t signed up AND send emails to those who have registered to keep the excitement high.
  9. If you’re having guest speakers, urge them to share the invitation with their list.
  10. Promote the speakers in your email campaign

Finally, send a follow up. If you offered a time sensitive discount, remind them of the ticking time clock and build the sense of urgency.

Are You Always Late?

Are You Always Late?

by | Jan 16, 2017 | Business, Business Coaching, Recent-1

Are You Always Late?

I pride myself on being punctual — actually I pride myself on being ahead of schedule when I am meeting with clients or attending a meeting. Are you always late? Are you on time? If you’re always late you are, in effect, disrespecting the person with whom you’re meeting, the other attendees at a meeting you’re attending and it is, frankly, in bad form.

Why are you always late? Does time truly get away from you? Do you forget to write appointments down in your virtual or paper calendar? Do you need to set a timer or alarm in order to get yourself to meetings on time? Do you have an assistant who could be called upon to remind you of pending meetings and to get you out the door in time?

It’s thought that people who are always late are “creative and/or artistic types.” Even if you work in a creative field, being late is disrespectful to the person with whom you’re meeting. Don’t fall into the cliche of the “absent minded professor.” Don’t become known as, “John, he’s always late.”

Here are things you can do to assure you’re on time:

  1. Set a timer on your computer, your smart phone or use an actual timer for 15 minutes before you have to leave for a meeting. Give yourself that 15-minute window to wrap up the task you’re working on and get out the door.
  2. Set another alarm to remind you to get out the door.
  3. If you know you have a meeting coming up in an hour, don’t get involved in a time consuming task that will be hard to break away from.
  4. Give yourself breathing room in your schedule. Build in a buffer for calls that take longer than you planned for, projects that were more time consuming than you’d imagined.
  5. Enlist someone in your office to remind you of your appointments and get you out the door in time.

Are you always late? What is your reason for being late? Can you determine what it is? If you can pinpoint it, you can work to address it in the future.