Digital events vary in the level of interaction with the audience. Most virtual event organizers depend on the best audience engagement. Nevertheless, it may also be that you will only be a listener during the whole event. The most important task for the organizers is to create the closest experience to the real event.

To be successful, you should focus on creating memorable and fun experiences. These features will enhance audience engagement and brand awareness.

Like regular events, the organizers need to rent a venue where the event will take place. In the case of virtual events, the organizers need an AV (audiovisual) provider which sounds perfect with our technology driven organization, COACT .

This season we’ll take you through 10 virtual event industry trends you need to follow; keep reading to find out.

 

1. Sponsorship And Revenue Trend:

Well, who doesn’t like making money? Trends that help you gain thousands of attendees. Hence involve revenue targeting trends like event subscription plans for repeated attendees and multiple price points for early subscribers. Using a popular sponsor for your event will also boost your virtual event!

 

2. Design Your Event Specifically:

Design your event specifically and tailor them as per your niche. This will cultivate a unique etiquette for your audience to follow throughout the virtual event. They will know what to expect and feel comfortable joining the event. Virtual reality and events are a part of our everyday life, and it’s here to stay. Hence try keeping mainstream themes and sticking to your agenda while designing your agenda is very important.

 

3. Connect With Your Audience:

Generic persuasion is no longer an effective way to build lifelong connections with your audience. Addressing in a bland, generic voice will force them to leave your event, and you definitely don’t want that. Hence trying to keep them engaged by modifying your style, choice of words, and good communication skills is a trending way to approach your audience.

 

4. Be diverse in language:

As an event host or speaker, you might be crafting a message to an audience representing a small part of the world. But the world is very diverse, and not everyone in the world will receive your message in the same way. Therefore it is necessary to consider language when delivering your message. Even if you don’t speak a similar language, try being respectful and avoid slang.

 

5. Analyze Demographic Data:

Recrafting a message to have an impact on your audience, based on their cultural norms (which could mean organisational culture, not only their birth culture) will help you gain individualistic praise. Analyzing your audience’s demographic data is the latest trend to instill unprecedented levels of authenticity and build a meaningful connection.

 

6. Organize Virtual Booths:

To get the most out of virtual events, set up virtual booths in a digital space to showcase products and services. Virtual event platforms or software enables you to host online trade shows and exhibitions and offer product collaterals and other details to audiences globally.

 

7. Promote Your Virtual Event On Social Media:

Promoting and marketing your virtual event is key to boost attendance at the event. Do not miss out on any chance to promote your virtual event, to make the most out of it. Leverage popular social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat to promote your upcoming virtual events. It will help in making your event reach millions of active users instantly. Promote your event on community created on social media platforms

 

8. Use Your Website To Promote Your Virtual Event:

Promote your event on websites. It will help boost website traffic and your virtual event attendance. The event website is one of the most relevant places where attendees tune in to gather relevant information about the event, such as date, time, speakers, etc.

 

9. Leverage The Power Of Hashtags To Promote Your Event:

Push emails to participants who were part of your earlier events to promote your upcoming virtual event. Run ads on google and social media to strategically target your potential attendees and strategically promote your virtual event. Leverage influencer marketing to promote your event.

 

10. Gamification:

Try designing dynamic missions, each to be fulfilled, which the participants can mark as done. Games are a great way to create fun virtual events, connect with attendees, and strengthen bonds between you and your audience.

 

Conclusion:

Go prepared and organized. Plan by creating a schedule for the event, and make a list of questions or topics you’d like to cover. COACT helps you create active and participant friendly virtual environment for your audience from the comfort of their home.

Then, during the event, try to participate actively by asking questions and commenting on other people’s posts. Be sure to take advantage of the opportunities for networking by connecting with other participants after the event.

And lastly, you can follow up after the event by reviewing any provided materials or recordings at COACT.