WebinarNinja 5.0 - Beautiful webinars. No worries.

@jpmentorsuk Thank you! 🙏 It's hard to keep it short yet effective :)

@jpmentorsuk Thanks James! Appreciate the kind words!

@jpmentorsuk I never got that excited about webinars before. Great video indeed hahaha

Great question @spencerfry! Let me preface this by saying that the teams at Facebook created a great tool with FB Live and this is not to put them down. It’s to show you the difference between FB Live and webinars. The main difference between using Facebook vs. webinars comes down to the control you have...control of your long-term marketing and relationship building with potential clients. 1. With webinars, you collect your attendees' email addresses. This allows you to later follow up and build a relationship with your audience. You can give them more value and eventually make an offer to them. With FB Live there is no way to follow up and you cannot contact them directly via email. You can only really comment below the video and that post gets buried in FB quickly. 2. Webinars are a controlled environment. When your attendees are on your webinars there are no other distractions like notifications, updates or other things in the feed on the page. With FB live your attendees are a scroll away from leaving your presentation. There's a crazy amount of distraction with tons of other content everywhere. 3. With webinars (especially with WebinarNinja 😉), you can be a whole lot more interactive. You can run polls, take questions (separate from the chat), even display offers right on the webinar page at anytime. You can also email them before or after the webinar to give them updates or reminders. 4. With our built-in follow-up sequence you can choose to automatically send your webinar replays to your attendees. You can customize that message to include any other offers or copy. 5. With webinars on WebinarNinja, you can share your screen and presentation slides. This means you don't need to be on camera all the time. You can talk over your slides or whatever your choose to share on your screen easily with no other software. 6. When attendees register and attend a webinar, they are coming with a different mindset. They are coming to learn and to stay for the length of the workshop. On FB Live, most are really only attending if they happen to be on FB at the time of your live video, with no intention to watch your live video to the end. There is a whole lot less commitment in this situation. To sum up, Facebook Live is a good tool within the social ecosystem but not so great for acquiring targeted leads and building trust with potential clients. Webinars are like presenting in a private auditorium with a captive audience. While Facebook Live is like having a stall at the county flea market, shouting for attention.

@bizrepublic Interesting to see your thoughts on this. Actually there is software you can use that means that you can run polls and take questions and share your screen on Facebook live. The integration of Messenger bots and getting people to subscribe by email is also changing Facebook Live today. I also see increasingly people asking for email addresses to then optin into a live stream on Facebook is a closed group that they only can access having gone through that landing page. What I am interested in is how tools like WN could be integrated into the platform that @spencerfry created (which I happen to be a customer of) - his platform is a great though I would like to see an integration with live streaming - I messaged him about this last week! Perhaps the two of you should talk as a user I can see some interesting synergies that would be great for both of your customer bases. P.S. Just a coincidence that I see Spencer asked the question as I was scrolling through the comments!

Thanks @brennandunn! Loved seeing you grow as well my man. You're doing amazing things. Love this question because our users requested this a few months back and we've been working on it! We are hoping to release a whole new feature later this month called On-site Registration. This will allow you to use any landing page or/with ESP to register your attendees to the webinar. It will work with anything that allows an HTML form embed. We currently have a Zapier integration but are also working on full featured integration with major ESP's like Drip that will allow you tag to your hearts desire within WN based on actions like 'registered but did not attend' or 'left before your offer was shown'. This second feature is due later in April/May. Needs crazy testing as you can imagine 😅

@bizrepublic What are the new 5.0 features? Is iOS fully supported now in all features and functionality?

Hey @wkeving! Yes. iOS is fully supported now (thanks to Apple allowing WebRTC in iOS11). We really worked on an improved experience in creation, presenting and interacting with features like: - Upload your PowerPoint slides & docs right inside WebinarNinja! - Faster webinar creation - Insert YouTube videos at anytime during the live broadcast - Dynamic layouts - Improved chat with Emojis 😎 - Our new Series & Summits webinars - A powerful webinar search engine, The Webinar Finder, to help hosts get more attendees. ...and a whole lot more...for a quick walkthrough of 5.0 and its features, you can check out our features page at: https://webinarninja.com/features/ 😀

@lorenzo_fiori Wow! Thanks so much Lorenzo. Our users are the best! They've help make what WebinarNinja is today!

@lorenzo_fiori Thank you!

Thanks Ryan! Your words are like a power up from a classic video game- giving us renewed energy! But seriously, it's so nice to see how much our work is appreciated and pays off for our users.

Gotta admit, Omar and the team have been working hard on this, and they're developing improving it each time I see it!

Thanks Mike! You're a baller user ;)

@noahkagan 😀 You've been a great person I've called upon for advice along the way. Appreciate you brother.

@mijustin!!! Means a lot from a guy that is great at esthetics.

I witnessed Omar, Nicole and their distributed team put the final touches to the last iteration. It was such hard work and they did a great job. I am a big fan Justin, Product People was recommended to me by a fellow SaaSter a while back :)

@arunbhar echoed 100%. they burned me exactly the same way.