Webinar Consultant? What's That?

Have you ever heard of a webinar consultant?  Since launching this website in March, I have gotten to know a few consultants and how important they are to this industry. They do anything from helping webinar hosts find new participants, develop content, execute the technical side of the webinar, followup and more.  Here are a few of the consultants I know (in alphabetical order) and how they describe their business:

Roger Courville is author of The Virtual Presenter’s Handbook, principal at 1080 Group, LLC, and an internationally sought-after speaker on the use of webinars to deliver business results.  An 11-year industry veteran, Roger has reached tens of thousands both live and writing for publications.  His 2008 paper “Five Keys to Moving Training Online” won TrainingZone.co.uk’s Reader’s Choice Award for “Top Download of the Year.”

1080 Group, LLC is a training and research firm helping organizations deliver interactive webinar programs. The collective team experience includes hundreds of clients, thousands of web seminars, and more than a million web seminar attendees.

Rally Point Webinars help firms grow their revenue by finding new clients and reaching new prospects through online events.

We do this by:

• Developing engaging content that positions our clients as thought leaders
• Executing marketing campaigns that connect with prospects and drive them to the events
• Running flawless webinars that deliver value to attendees
• Creating sales conversations and new clients

Rally Point is built on years of experience of growing firms and implementing successful events that leave attendees with value and professional service firms with new clients.

Vell Group LLC produces webinars for companies regardless of niche or size. We review presentations to make sure they are “webinar-ready”. We make sure a means of registration is in place so the audience can register for the webinar. We perform a dry run rehearsal with the webinar presenter to make sure he or she is comfortable running through slides, annotating, launching polls and sharing the desktop as need be. On the day of the event, we moderate the webinar introducing the host, fielding all technical questions, performing “triage” on subject matter questions during the Q&A session, and then closing the webinar session. We make sure the webinar is recorded if that is desired. Finally, we assist with post-webinar activities such as satisfaction polling. In partnership with a marketing firm, we can also provide audience-generation services at an additional cost. Vell Group also provides social media management services under the banner of Vell Connected.

WebAttract is a leading Webinar Demand Creation firm delivering fresh new sales leads, increased brand awareness and enhanced thought leadership within a "turn key", single vendor solution.  Its proprietary audience recruitment approach converges traditional subscription-based contact data with social media, resulting in considerably larger, more accurate target lists (27+ million BTB contacts in its database).  They can do it all for you:

… collaborative content development, 
… laser-focused audience recruitment (no need of your own list, ESP or webinar platform!), 
… professionally moderated/recorded/edited event, and 
… post-webinar conversion of attendees and registrants to richer opportunities for you or your clients

Webinar Success assists companies in all phases of web seminar preparation, delivery, and follow-up. Services include webinar coordination and production, presenter training, on-air moderating, and creation of on-demand lead generation presentations. Webinar Success is headquartered in North Carolina with services conducted via remote communications throughout North America.

Have you worked with a webinar consultant before?  How have they been able to help you?