A registrant is not a participant yet. Half forget to show up.
Getting them there is the bridge between sign-up and the live. A series of reminders, well placed.
The reminder sequence
Signing up costs nothing. Between sign-up and the live, the registrant forgets about you. Unless you remind them.
The days before are for building hype and adding social proof. A sequence of emails, at D-4, D-3, D-2, timed to when the person signed up.
Then the reminders tighten up. The day before, the morning of, and an SMS fifteen minutes before the live.
SMS, your secret weapon
An email gets lost in the inbox. An SMS, people almost always open it.
That's why you collect the phone number at sign-up. The last-minute SMS brings in the people who would have skipped it.
The right time slot helps too
With the same reminders, the time of the live changes attendance. Eleven in the morning to two in the afternoon on weekdays works well.
The attendance numbers are here: what attendance rate to expect.
After that, you have to convert
The room is full. The most important part remains: selling.
The full map of the funnel: how to run a webinar.