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Things You Should Do To Get People To Come Back  To Your Next Business Seminar

David Caruso professional business seminar speaker tells a story of a gentleman he knows who hosts business conference events.

He has an extremely high ranking in Google due to his SEO efforts. When David asked; “How many of the people who use your services come back for a second helping?”

The answer was almost none of them!!!

This gentleman is one of the lucky ones. He is in high demand.

However according to David Caruso for most people working within the events business world, this would prove deadly!! In fact for the majority of business event seminar organisers it would put many out of business.

It is best business practice, when one does a seminar or an event, that he/she is conscious of doing a great job, so that people will therefore come back for more.

Things You Should Do To Get People To Come Back  To Your Next Business Seminar

Do the following at your next event to increase and maintain the customers you get

1.    Provide high quality content.

It may sound simple, but it is highly effective.

The problem with most people who organize events is they are too preoccupied with trying to sell their next event. As a result, there workshops and seminars turn into a sales presentation for their next event.

This can be considered ill-advised would be a dramatic understatement.

Of course you want 100% of the people who attend your event to come back to the next event and every other subsequent event that you hold.

Therefore it is paramount that you deliver on the promises you make at your event. If you do this, everything will fall neatly into place.

In addition be approachable to those people who attend your next event.

By being friendly and on hand to answer any questions your customers may have, it would make them more likely to want to sign up for your next event.

 

 

 

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Running a better business seminar

Usually because the seminar turned into a sales pitch for the next one. People can tell when they're being sold to instead of taught.

Spending the session selling the next event. Deliver on this one and the next one sells itself.

Give them high-quality content and keep every promise you made in the marketing.

Lightly, and at the end. Teach first. If the content was good, people will ask what's next.

Finding a new attendee costs far more than bringing back one who enjoyed the last event. It's the same reason David spends 10% of his marketing budget on existing customers.

Very. Be on hand before, during and after to answer questions. People come back to people they like.

It can fill the first one. If nobody comes back, you'll be paying to find a brand-new crowd every time.

Hand out short feedback forms before people leave and ask what they'll actually use. Stephen De Kalb used forms like these to rate David's workshops.

A thank you and the date of the next session. If you promised slides or a checklist, attach them. Keep it short.

Long enough to teach something useful and short enough to hold attention. For hands-on work, a half day suits most groups.

Ask your past attendees what they're stuck on. Start with the market, then build the topic for them.

A strong guest speaker adds a drawcard and gives your regulars something new.

Usually. A packed agenda of average talks is easy to forget. One great session is what people tell their friends about.

It's practical, specific and fits the size of business in the room. Corporate case studies don't land with small business owners.

Real examples and a bit of humour. Then give people a few minutes to apply an idea to their own business while you're still in the room.

Deliver what you promised and follow up fast. Invite them to the next one while they're still happy with this one.

It can help. People who missed it can catch up, and a good clip promotes the next one.

Yes. He ran a 14-month series of online marketing workshops for the Australian Government during the NBN rollout, and spoke at News Corp's seminar series.

Yes. A half-day workshop gives members time to work on their own business with David in the room.

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