Hosting a webinar can be the ideal solution for getting your business and your products or services out in front of a wider audience. The very nature of a webinar—hosting multiple participants from multiple places looking to learn something new via the internet—is the perfect set up for spreading awareness of your brand.
If you plan to promote your business through a webinar, you should make your business a core component of the webinar itself. A good way to do this is to make the webinar a lesson on solving a problem that your potential customers may have. Of course, the tools and services you use to solve said problem will be products provided by your business. For instance, you could host a webinar on providing high security to users as they log into a website, and the security layer used in the webinar lessons would be your company’s premier product.
However, it’s not always possible to host a webinar with your business’s products as the center of attention. In cases where your products aren’t going to be the direct focus of the webinar, you can still promote your business by hosting and sponsoring webinars. If there is a webinar that is going to attract attention from multiple customers in your target demographic, you can sponsor the event, allowing those customers to participate in the webinar for free. This will attract attention to your brand and it will engender good will amongst the webinar participants since you effectively paid their way in.
So, when the opportunity for a webinar arises, consider how your business can play a role. It may just be the marketing opportunity you have been looking for.