What is a Webinar & What Are The Key Benefits

What is a Webinar?

A webinar is generally a live conference, lecture, or interactive event that’s hosted online by either a single host or a panel of experts. Webinars are excellent for generating leads and revenue, educating and training purposes, launching and demonstrating products, and great ways to connect with existing and potential clients. Essentially, hosting and attending webinars are perfect sources for every business and for anyone looking to enhance their skills and knowledge base.  

Webinars help with the following:

• Generating high-quality leads
• Onboarding new clients
• Successfully training employees
• Introducing a new product or service
• Educating and communicating purposes
• Increasing brand awareness

What are the key benefits of hosting and attending a webinar?

Webinars are super beneficial and help businesses and the public in several ways.

They’re a great way for individuals to learn and gain extensive insights into a variety of industries and topics. Webinars can help increase your professional network by giving you the opportunity to interact with professionals in other fields.  

These online events are typically free to the public and easy to host. Businesses can save enormous costs and time by holding a webinar on a new product or offering. And compared to other marketing approaches, webinars are more effective and more likely to increase your brand’s credibility.  

Hosting these live conferences are also fantastic for reaching larger audiences. Since you don’t have to worry about space, you can invite as many individuals as you want. And regardless of location, participants can join in from anywhere in the world.  

Overall, webinars are valuable tools.  

What are some of the benefits of webinars?

• Affordable to host and join
• Gain insights from the experts
• Build and reach a wider audience
• Easily exchange information  
• Build valuable connections
• Excellent source of knowledge
• Increased brand credibility  

How to find and register for a webinar

Since webinars are held online, they’re very convenient and flexible for businesses to host and individuals to join. And luckily, there's thousands of engaging options to choose from!

You can join and participate in a webinar by first searching for one relevant to your work or a subject you’re interested in. If there’s a brand or business you are particularly fond of, try visiting their website for news and events updates. Usually, companies will post about upcoming webinars or events on their website or social networks. And of course, there’s always good ole’ google, which will allow you to directly search for webinars.

Once you find a webinar you want to attend, the next step is registering for the event. Click on the registration or signup link and make sure to fill out the required form. After you’ve registered you should expect some type of email with further webinar instructions and details. Reserving your spot for a webinar is an easy process, and now that you understand these virtual events a bit more, you should try registering for one.

Ready to register for a fintech webinar?

Intrinio is very excited to host our Coffee and Conversation fintech webinar! We hope you’ll join us for an open conversation with a CTO next week Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at 11:00AM EST! This free online event will feature our very own CTO, Matt Von Lintel, and will be moderated by our CEO, Rachel Carpenter. Participants will have the opportunity to submit questions in real-time, learn about the day in the life of a CTO, and much more. This is a wonderful opportunity for any fintech founder, CEO, CTO, engineer, or technology enthusiast - so make sure you save your spot today!