Introduction
I was interviewed by Michelle Davidson, Editor at RAIN Group, on RainToday.com’s “Marketing & Selling Professional Services Podcast”. Michelle and I talked about lead generation via virtual events – a process I call “accelerated lead generation”.
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Virtual Events Questions
The questions Michelle asked me:
- What is a typical virtual event?
- What’s the cost of a virtual trade show compared to a physical trade show?
- Do people worry about the lack of face-to-face interaction in a virtual event?
- What kind of success have B2B service professionals had with virtual events?
- You wrote on your blog that generating leads with virtual events is a process, not a discrete project – tell us about that?
- Is the use of virtual events growing?
- How does a company get started with virtual events?
- If people want to get more educated, do you have any resources to recommend?
You can find the podcast here:
Additionally, you can directly download the MP3 here:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/raintoday/Shiao_Virtual_Events.mp3
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