Hosting an Online Virtual Event

If you are looking to build your business and reputation, you may want to consider hosting an online virtual event.

This past February I hosted the Marketer’s Mojo Virtual Conference with 22 amazing speakers over five days.

It was a great way to build relationships with other speakers, to bring high value to my market and to gain new experience with event hosting without the risk involved in running a conference offline.

Paying attention to all the details to running an online event can be tricky. There is a lot of work involved and a lot of planning to do. So with that in mind I wanted to share with you some of the things I learned through hosting my own event. Here is my advice to you if you plan on hosting an online virtual event:

Don’t expect speakers to promote for you – I will admit at first I didn’t realize it was a faux-pas to ask speakers to promote the event. Speakers are bringing their talents and skills to the call so it’s up to the organizer to bring the people.

Get the speakers their call in info early and make sure they received it! I had one speaker end up being late because she couldn’t find the call in info and I thought she had it. Not good

Thank you speakers! Make sure you let the speakers know you appreciate their participation.

Don’t change up the game. Of course this is in reference to today’s post. Don’t change up what your speaker agreed to be part of without asking them if it is ok to do something different with their material.

Know how to pronounce your guests name. Yep this might be basic but when you have a guest just check, because sometimes a name just doesn’t get pronounced the way it’s spelt.

Be prepared with your guest’s bio. Make sure you read your guests bio before you get on the call and know it well enough that you don’t stumble over your words.

Thank your listeners.

So I’ve learned a few things along the way and I hope my post can help you avoid some little pitfalls you may run into while running your own virtual event.