Episode #522 How Johannes Built A Global Community Bringing Thousands of People Around The World

Episode #522 How Johannes Built A Global Community Bringing Thousands of People Around The World

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Today I have the pleasure to Interview with Johannes Voelkner

Today, I’m excited to welcome Johannes, founder of Nomad Cruise. What began with a simple idea to bring 100 digital nomads together has grown into 11+ cruises connecting over 2,500 nomads from 70+ countries. Johannes is passionate about building global communities where nomads can connect, grow, thrive, and create meaningful experiences together.

In this episode, we talk about: 

      • From Business to Community: Johannes shares his journey from building an online therapy-card business 
      • Building Strong Communities: He explains why communities need a clear shared value and how to make newcomers feel genuinely welcome. 
      • Managing Community Dynamics: He discusses why members naturally move on, how communities evolve, and why a few difficult people shouldn’t define the experience for everyone. 

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    Episode #521 From Homeless to Global Connector. How to Build Million $ Partnerships

    Episode #521 From Homeless to Global Connector. How to Build Million $ Partnerships

    Welcome to another episode of Expert To Authority Show, brought to you by https://gtex.org.uk/

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    Today I have the pleasure to Interview with Michelle Maree

    I’m excited to welcome Michelle Maree, a Global Business Connector, award-winning retreat leader, and Founder of Ripple Global Founder Ecosystem and The Nomad Escape. Michelle helps founders and teams create meaningful connections through transformative retreats, events, and introductions. She’s passionate about bringing the right people together and creating opportunities for growth. 

    In this episode, we talk about: 

        • Leading with “How can I help?” opens more doors than asking for promotion
        • A strong vision can attract partners before the full product even exists
        • Relationships take time, credibility, and genuine interest

      Connect With Michelle Maree

      Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-maree-global/ 

      Website: https://thenomadescape.com/ 

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      The Million $ Webinar Framework: Create Webinars That Convert Every Time

      The Million $ Webinar Framework: Create Webinars That Convert Every Time

      You can be great on camera.

      You can know your subject better than anyone in the room. And you can still get to the end of your webinar and sell nothing at all.

      I know, because I did it 25 times in a row.

      Twenty-five webinars. Not one sale.

      And here is the thing. My content was fine. My structure was a mess. The day I fixed the structure, the same words started selling, and they have kept selling across over 1,000 webinars since making millions of $.

      So let me give you the whole thing.

      What is the Million $ Webinar Framework?

      The Million $ Webinar Framework has four parts. The intro, three teaching points, the pitch, and the Q&A.

      Here is what each part is for.

      1. The intro makes people feel they are in the right place, at the right time, with the right person.
      2. The teaching points clear away the things that stop your audience from ever using what you sell.
      3. The pitch sets up the problem first, then shows the offer, and it gets 15 to 30 minutes.
      4. The Q&A answers the doubts in the room, even the ones nobody types in the chat.

      That is the shape of it. But there is one thing you need to sort out before you touch any of it.

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      Start here: what do you want them to believe?

      A sales webinar and a training webinar are two very different animals.

      When you train someone, you are teaching them how to do a thing.

      When you sell, you are changing the way they think about their problem. Because when someone thinks about their problem in a new way, they act in a new way, and the thing you want them to do becomes the obvious thing to do.

      You are not teaching them what to do. You are teaching them how to think.

      So before you make one slide, sit with this question. What is the one thing my audience needs to believe by the end, so that buying from me is the natural next step?

      Let me show you mine.

      I sell webinar services. So the thing I want you to believe is that webinars are the best way to get clients online. Now think about what happens in your head if you really believe that. Your brain goes, right, I need a webinar. Where do I go? You come to me. Because Italians do webinars better.

      That one belief is the thread that ties the whole thing together. Without it you have four bits that just happen to be in the same slide deck. With it, every part pulls the same way.

      Right. Now let me show you the four parts.


      Part one: the webinar intro that keeps people watching

      Every part of your webinar sells the next part of your webinar.

      The intro sells the teaching. The teaching sells the pitch. The pitch sells the Q&A. Break that chain anywhere and people leave, and you cannot sell to someone who has gone.

      Now here is something I want you to sit with for a second.

      When people do not buy at the end, the problem is almost never at the end. It is at the start. The reason to care, the reason to act now, the reason to trust you, all of that gets built in the first ten minutes or it never gets built at all.

      So your intro has four jobs.

      1. Right place, right time. I want you to feel, in about ninety seconds, that you are in exactly the right room. Some people say hide what you are going to cover, so you can surprise them later. I do the opposite. I tell you the whole plan up front, because that is what makes you sit back and stop looking for the exit.

      2. Why this matters to you. Not why the topic is nice in general. Why it matters to you, in your business, with the mess you are sitting in this afternoon. If you believe it matters to you, you stay.

      3. Why now. Why does this need your time today and not in six months? If you do not build that here, no bonus and no countdown at the end will save you. The rush at the end only works if you planted it at the start.

      4. Why you. This is your story. And it does three jobs at once. It connects you to the room, it shows why they should trust you, and it sets up everything that comes next.

      Now on that last one, let me be honest with you, because people fall into two camps and both of them hurt.

      You have been on one of those webinars where thirty minutes have gone by, you have learned nothing, and the person is still telling you how great they are. Awful. But the other camp is just as bad. Someone is so shy about themselves that you never find out why you should listen to them at all.

      The sweet spot is simple. Tell the story that connects you to your audience. Show the proof that you have done this. And let one real, honest, human moment in there, so people can see a person and not a robot reading slides.

      Then tell them why you do what you do. Because when I know why you do what you do, I am much more likely to buy from you later.

      Ask permission to sell

      Then, still in the intro, I tell them there is an offer coming.

      Most people wait for the pitch. I do not. I ask for permission to sell, right at the start.

      Here is why that works.

      Your audience already knows something is going to be sold. If they have been on a few webinars, they know the drill, and they sit there the whole hour waiting for you to turn. That waiting is quiet resistance, and it is eating your sale long before you get there.

      So say it out loud instead. Something like this.

      “With your permission, at the end I am going to share something with you that will help you do all of this and get X result. I will show you how we can work together, and I will have an offer for you. Is that okay with everyone? Give me a yes in the chat.”

      Boom. You are honest, you have their yes, and they have just told you they are happy to be sold to.

      Twenty seconds. One of the biggest lifts in the whole framework.


      Part two: three teaching points, built from what stops your audience

      Do not start from what you want to teach. Start from what is stopping them.

      I have worked with thousands of clients and I get the same question every time. Simone, what do I actually teach on my webinar?

      And what most people do is pick their best stuff. The stuff that will wow the room and blow people away, because surely if they are impressed, they will buy.

      I get it. I really do. That works great for a training. For a sales webinar it does almost nothing.

      Ask this instead. What stops my audience from using the thing I am about to sell them?

      Let me show you mine. When someone does not use webinars, it is nearly always one of four things.

      One. I do not have an audience, so nobody will turn up. Two. I am not sure what I would even sell. Three. I am not techie and the tech scares me. Four. I am not a good speaker and I hate being on camera.

      Now I can teach you everything I know about webinars. But if those four things are sitting in your head, you are still not going to run one. So my content goes straight at those four. How to fill the room. What to sell. Which tech to use and how easy it really is. And what to do if you are not a confident speaker yet.

      Once those are gone, webinars make sense to you. And my offer becomes the obvious next step.

      Three themes is the sweet spot, by the way. I sometimes run five or seven, but that takes years of practice on a stage, so build up to it rather than starting there. Go past three too early and you will bury the room. Start with three. There is no rush.

      How to build each teaching point

      Every theme follows the same seven beats. The content changes each time, so it never feels samey to your audience, but the shape under it is always the same.

      1. What is the theme. Name it, so people know what they are about to learn.
      2. Why it matters. This is the moment they decide to pay attention or check their phone.
      3. What people get wrong. Now they see themselves in it. That little “oh, that is me” moment is where the shift starts.
      4. What to do instead. Give them the what, not the how. The answer, not the full build.
      5. An example. A client story works best, because it proves the point and proves you at the same time.
      6. An exercise. Something to do, right there, in the room. I want my webinars to be a chat, not a broadcast.
      7. A share. What did you learn? That is what makes it stick.

      Let me run one of mine through it, so you can see it work.

      The theme is how to fill your webinar when you have no audience. Why it matters is easy. You can build the best webinar on earth, and with nobody in the room it is a party for one. Sad day.

      What people get wrong is this. They post on social media, ask a few friends, leave it to the last minute, and email a list that died two years ago.

      What to do instead is build a partner network. You do not need an audience. You need a few good relationships with people who already have the audience you want.

      I worked with a stylist who had almost no list of her own. She built one relationship with a speaker trainer. She got more than 600 sign ups from his audience, and he did all the promoting.

      Then the exercise. Write down five people who could put your ideal clients in the room if you asked them.

      Then the share. What did you learn?

      Now look at what just happened. She walked in thinking “I have no audience, so webinars are not for me” and she walked out of that section thinking “I need partners, and I already know five people to ask”.

      You moved the problem. You moved the way she sees it. And she still does not know how to build those partnerships properly, which is exactly where your offer lives.

      Then you do the same for theme two, and the same for theme three.


      Part three: the webinar pitch, and the three mistakes that kill it

      Most pitches fail for three reasons, and I have made all three of them.

      The first one is rushing it. You feel like you are stealing time from your audience, so you speed up. Please buy this, thank you very much, bye now, time to wrap up. Nobody buys from that.

      The second is going straight into the product. You start listing what is inside to a room that has not felt the problem yet.

      The third is nerves. And nerves come from not practising. You have never said the words out loud, so you fumble them in the one moment where being clear really matters.

      I did all three. For 25 webinars. So let me tell you what changed.

      Give it 15 to 30 minutes. I will not sell anything with less than 15 to 20 minutes, and 30 is better. Here is why. The second someone leaves your webinar is the second they stop listening to you, so my whole job is to keep them in the room as long as I can.

      Let their brain catch up. People often need to hear the offer two or three times before they really get what they are buying. And if someone is not sure what they are buying, they do not buy. Saying it twice is not you being annoying. Saying it twice is you making them sure.

      Practise the pitch more than the content. You say your content all the time. On videos, in posts, with clients, on stages. The pitch is the one bit you almost never say out loud, and that is exactly why it comes out shaky. Say it until it is second nature, so you can just be with your audience while you do it.

      The running order of a webinar pitch that converts

      Here is the order I use.

      Recap what you covered, so the lessons are fresh. Then name the problem, because your offer only means something as the answer to a problem, and the bigger the problem, the bigger the answer. Say what happens if they do nothing. Say what happens in the worst case. Then paint the picture of how good it could be instead.

      Take them into the tension, then give them somewhere soft to land.

      Then the offer. Who it is for. Who it is not for, which is optional and works really well. How their life changes if they join, the money, the time, the result they get. Then, and only then, how it works and what is inside.

      See what I am doing there? I spend all that time setting it up before I describe a single thing. Because without that, your offer is just a list of stuff.

      Then what they get if they decide today. Then the form or the sign up link. Then case studies, because by now their brain has gone all logical and it wants proof. Then your guarantee, if you have one.

      And then you say the offer again. How it works, what is inside, the guarantee, and the link.

      Now I know what you are thinking, because I thought it too. I already said it once, do I really have to say the whole thing again?

      Yes. You do.

      I fought this for years. But someone who wants to leave can leave, and I would rather look after the people who are still there and want to make a good call. Hearing a full offer once, after an hour of content, is a lot to hold in your head. So slow down and let them get sure.

      The short pitch for corporate and for booking calls

      If you sell to corporate, or you want a booked call instead of a sale, the pitch gets much shorter.

      The rules do not change. You are just not closing on the webinar, because the real chat happens after, one to one.

      So you recap what you covered. You name the problem and what happens if they leave it alone. You paint the picture. Then you say something like this.

      “These are some of the things we do, and honestly, right now I do not know which one is best for you. If you want this result and you want this problem gone, book a call and we will work out the right fit together.”

      Give the link. Move to the Q&A.

      Trying to run a full product pitch with a stack and a countdown at a corporate room does not work. They buy in a different way. And that is completely fine. Sell the conversation instead.


      Part four: the Q&A, where people get off the fence

      I do not run a webinar without a Q&A. Ever.

      It does two jobs. It answers the real questions people have about your content and your offer. And it hands you a free list of everything to fix next time, straight from the people you are trying to help.

      My goal in the Q&A is to run over. On purpose. I want you to see that I will stay until the last question is answered, because that is what over delivering looks like, and because the longer people stay in the room, the more they buy.

      Two things can happen when you open it up. Either nobody asks anything, or you get flooded.

      So I always bring my own questions. And I pick the ones that help someone make a decision about the offer. These are the real ones I get, every single time.

      • How much time do I need each week?
      • How can you guarantee my result?
      • I want to sleep on it. Can I decide tomorrow?
      • Will you run this offer again?
      • What if it does not work for me?
      • How fast will I see results?
      • I need to speak to my partner first. Is that okay?
      • I cannot start right away. Can I start later?

      Even when nobody types those in the chat, they are in the room. They are sitting in people’s heads. So I answer them anyway. My whole aim in a Q&A is to look like a mind reader.

      And the way you open it decides what you get back. So invite the right questions out loud.

      “I am here now to answer anything about what I shared today, or about the offer I just made.”

      Say the offer bit. Leave it out and you get twenty minutes of general questions while nobody touches the thing standing between them and a yes.

      Two last details that matter more than they look.

      Keep the offer slide up on screen for the whole Q&A. Do not take it away while you are talking.

      And at the end, if the room is big or the questions ran long, say how the offer works and what is inside one more time. Yes, that is the third time. Every part of your webinar sells the next part of your webinar, and the Q&A is the last part you have got.


      How to build this webinar in one week

      You do not need a month. And you do not need it perfect. Here is the order I would build it in.

      1. Day one, the belief. Write the one sentence your audience needs to believe by the end. Everything hangs off this, so do not move on until it is on paper.
      2. Day two, the blocks. List every reason your audience does not do the thing you sell. Pick the three biggest. Those are your themes.
      3. Day three, the teaching. Run each theme through the seven beats. Theme, why it matters, what people get wrong, what to do instead, example, exercise, share.
      4. Day four, the intro. Right place, why it matters, why now, why you, and your permission to sell line.
      5. Day five, the pitch. Write the full running order and block 15 to 30 minutes for it in your timings.
      6. Day six, the Q&A. Write the eight doubts you know your audience has, and write your answers.
      7. Day seven, practise the pitch. Not the content. The pitch. Out loud, three times at least.

      Done is better than perfect here. Your first one will teach you more than another week of planning ever will.


      Frequently asked questions about the webinar framework

      How many teaching points should a webinar have?

      Three. I sometimes run five to seven, but that takes years of practice, and more than three while you are still learning will bury your audience instead of winning them.

      How long should a webinar pitch be?

      Fifteen to twenty minutes at the very least, and thirty if you can get it. Rushing the pitch is the most common reason a good webinar sells nothing.

      Do I really have to say the offer more than once?

      Yes. Twice as standard, three times if the Q&A runs long. People need to hear it more than once to be sure what they are buying, and unsure always means no.

      What if nobody asks anything in the Q&A?

      Bring your own questions. Write the eight doubts you know your audience has, and answer them out loud whether or not anyone types them in the chat.

      Does this webinar framework work for a cold or corporate audience?

      Yes, with the short pitch. For cold or corporate rooms, go for a booked call instead of a sale, and let the one to one chat do the selling.

      What is the difference between a sales webinar and a training webinar?

      A training teaches you how to do something. A sales webinar changes how you think about your problem, so buying becomes the obvious next step. Same skills. Very different build.

      How do I fill my webinar if I have no audience?

      Build partners instead of a list. Find five people who already have your ideal clients and set up a collaboration. One good partner can put more of the right people in your room than a year of posting.


       

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      About the Author

      Simone Vincenzi

      Simone Vincenzi is the co-founder of GTeX and an international speaker who has delivered over 2000 presentations worldwide. Featured in Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine, and recognised in the House of Parliament as one of the most influential migrant entrepreneurs in the UK, Simone helps coaches, consultants, and expert entrepreneurs scale their businesses through the power of webinars and authentic marketing.

      His flagship methodology, the GTeX Method, has helped more than 5,000 entrepreneurs simplify their strategy, amplify their message, and build businesses that create lasting impact.

      Together we grow exponentially.

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      Episode #520 How Long Should My Webinar Be? The Real Answer (2026 Guide)

      Episode #520 How Long Should My Webinar Be? The Real Answer (2026 Guide)

      Welcome to another episode of Expert To Authority Show, brought to you by https://gtex.org.uk/

      I am your host, Simone Vincenzi, The Experts Strategist, and this is the podcast for experts who want to become the ultimate authority in their niche while making an impact in the world.

      We have created the Webinar Conversion Kit where you will get access to:

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        • How to choose the perfect length for YOUR audience, offer, and sales goal

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        How long should my webinar be?

        How long should my webinar be?

        How long should my webinar be? How long should I run it for? I get asked this all the time, and it is a completely fair question, especially if you are running webinars because you want to get clients from them.

        So let me give you the answer, and then let me show you how to work it out for yourself.

        Here is the rule. The longer people stay on your webinar, the more likely they are to buy.

        And when you think about it, it makes complete sense, right? The more time people spend with you, the more relationship you build, and the easier the sale becomes at the end of it.

        I have taken over 600 businesses through the Webinar Conversion Accelerator, and the pattern is the same every time.

        Most people think about this the wrong way

        Before we get into the actual numbers, I want you to understand the mindset, because this is where most people go wrong.

        A lot of people believe that the less time somebody stays on a webinar, the better it is. 

        They say to me, Simone, my people are busy, they do not have time, so I do not want to run something long.

        I get it. I really do.

        But let me break that completely.

        It is very hard to sell something in 10 minutes, or 15, or 20, or 30, or even in an hour, because there simply is not enough relationship built yet. 

        So your job is not to protect people from your webinar. 

        Your job is to keep them in the room for as long as you can, and to make it so good that they actually want to stay there.

        People do not stay if the webinar is bad

        Here is the caveat though. 

        People do not stay on a long webinar if the webinar is not good.

        Think about it like a YouTube video. 

        If you do not like the video, you are not going to keep watching it, are you? 

        You click off and you go somewhere else. A webinar is exactly the same.

        So the more value you give, the more entertaining you are, the more aha moments people get, the more they can interact and ask you questions and start to see a real possibility for themselves, the longer they are going to stay. 

        And the longer they stay, the more they buy.

        So before you worry about the length, worry about whether the thing is any good.

        The 30 to 45 minute webinar

        There is absolutely a case for a short webinar, and it comes down to three situations.

        The first one is if you are working with corporations, or with leaders who are incredibly busy and only have a small window of time to give you. 

        In that case, 30 to 45 minutes works really well.

        The second one is if you do not have much time yourself and you want to build a stronger relationship without selling anything at the end. That is a perfectly good reason to keep it short.

        And the third one is if you are already great at presenting and you are a household name in your world. If people have been following you for a while and they already know you, then yes, you can convert in 30 to 45 minutes, because they do not need as much time to make up their mind about you.

        But if they do not know you at all? 

        Then those first 30 to 45 minutes are really just there to show people the value you can give them and to start building the relationship. 

        Do not expect a cold audience to buy something big in that window.

        The 60 minute webinar

        Then you have the standard one, which is 60 minutes.

        60 minutes is not my favourite, and it is not the one that converts the most. But it is the one that gets the most people in the room.

        Why? Because we think in hours. 

        We have been trained and conditioned to think in 60 minute slots. So when you say to somebody, hey, it is going to be an hour, they know exactly what that means and they can block it out in the calendar without really thinking about it.

        And it works with any audience you like. 

        Leaders, organisations, corporates, entrepreneurs, general public, all of them.

        Can you make a sale in 60 minutes? 

        Yes, you can. But it works best when what you are selling is an easy yes. Something affordable, something that does not take a lot of thinking about, a really good deal, or simply an invitation to book a call. 

        If the call to action is simple, 60 minutes is great.

        The 2 to 3 hour webinar

        If you want to sell something at a higher level, this is the one I would go for.

        And I know that for some of you, reading 2 to 3 hours makes you think, oh my God Simone, do I even have enough content for that?

        If that is what you are thinking, it probably means you are not ready for it yet, and that is completely fine. Start with the 60 minute one instead.

        But if you have been delivering presentations for a while, you already have all the material you need. You do not need new content. 

        You take the exact same presentation you were running in 60 minutes and you expand it, with exercises, with Q and A, with more interaction. 

        You expand the time or you contract the time using the same material.

        And here is why 2 to 3 hours works so well. 

        In that time you build such a strong relationship that people can see you really know your stuff, and if it is good, the sale becomes the easiest sale you will ever make. 

        Because after spending three hours with you, they are not guessing whether they like working with you. They already know. 

        So the only question left in their head is, do I want more of this?

        And remember, most of the time you have given them all of that for free. 

        So they are sitting there thinking, this person was willing to spend three hours helping me solve my problem. 

        That does something to a person.

        So if you are selling a high ticket directly on the webinar with no sales call, go for 2 to 3 hours. 

        If you are inviting people to book a call instead, then 60 to 90 minutes will do the job nicely.

        The half day and the full day

        And then there is the last one, which is the half day or the full day.

        Now we are moving more into online event territory. Half day events, full day events. I ran this model for years, and I have even run three day ones.

        These are the best in terms of conversion, and again, it is the same reason as always. The more time I spend with you, the more likely I am to buy.

        You can literally take somebody from I have no idea who you are, all the way to a high ticket sale, inside a single day.

        And the other nice thing is that you can charge people to attend a half day or a full day, which changes the quality of the room completely.

        The trade off you need to know about

        The longer your webinar is, the fewer people will register for it.

        That is just how it goes. A full day is a much bigger ask than an hour, so people have to find more space in their calendar, and some of them simply will not.

        So registrations go down, but the conversion rate goes up.

        Although, and this is the interesting bit, sometimes people see that it is a 2 to 3 hour session and they think, wow, that must be really valuable, and they register more. So it can go the other way too.

        Which is exactly why I am inviting you to play with this. 

        There is no magic length that converts better than every other one. It depends on your skill, on the audience you are targeting, on how long they have known you, and on the price point you are selling at.

        So the real question is this. What is the goal of your webinar? 

        If the goal is just to get the lead and build a relationship, 60 minutes is fine. 

        If the goal is to make high ticket sales, then a half day or a full day will make you more money even with fewer people in the room.

         

        Webinar length at a glance

        Webinar length

        When it works

        What happens

        30 to 45 minutes

        Corporates, very busy leaders, or an audience that already knows you well

        Lots of people register. Hard to sell unless your brand is already strong

        60 minutes

        Any audience at all. Simple offers, low ticket, or booking a call

        The most people in the room. You can sell, but it is not the best converter

        2 to 3 hours

        High ticket sold directly on the webinar with no sales call

        Fewer registrations. Far stronger relationship and a much easier sale

        Half day or full day

        Premium programmes and paid online events

        The best conversion of the lot. Smallest room. You can charge to attend

         

        How to build up to longer webinars

        If you are starting out, start with whatever is comfortable for you, and then build from there.

        • Start where it is comfortable. Is 30 minutes comfortable? Great, start there. Is 45 better? Try 45. Is 30 minutes still too much? Then run a 15 minute one. Nobody is judging your first attempt as harshly as you are.
        • Move up to 60 minutes. Once the short one feels easy, book the hour. This is the one most of your audience will actually turn up to.
        • Stretch it out to 90. Add a proper Q and A and a stronger call to action, and you have just added 30 minutes without writing a single new slide.
        • Try 2 to 3 hours. Add exercises, add interaction, and see whether you can hold the attention that long while still giving people a great experience and something to buy at the end.
        • Go half day or full day. Do this when you want the maximum conversion you can get and you are ready to hold the room for that long.

        There is no shortcut through those steps, and there is no rush either.

        My final tip: give people space to buy

        You have to give people space to buy, and most webinars never do.

        In 30 minutes you are asking yourself to deliver the content, get people to know you, explain what you are offering, and get them to buy it. That is a lot to squeeze into half an hour.

        Because here is the thing. 

        The moment somebody leaves your webinar, you are not important anymore. 

        Whatever is next in their calendar becomes more important than you. That is not personal, that is just life.

        So while you have their attention, use it properly. 

        Keep them in the room for longer, give them longer to make the decision, and let them book the call or make the purchase while you are still there with them.

        The longer they stay, the more they buy. Every single time.

         

        Frequently asked questions

        How long should a webinar be to sell a high ticket offer?

        Two to three hours if you are selling directly on the webinar. Sixty to 90 minutes if the webinar leads people to a sales call instead.

        What is the best webinar length if I am just starting out?

        Whatever you can deliver well. If that is 15 minutes, run 15 minutes. Get comfortable first, then add the time in stages.

        Do longer webinars get fewer registrations?

        Usually yes, because people have to find more room in their calendar. But the conversion goes up at the same time, so a smaller room often makes you more money than a full one.

        How long should a webinar be for a corporate audience?

        Thirty to 45 minutes. Senior leaders rarely have more than that to give you, and you are usually building the relationship rather than selling from the screen.

        Is 60 minutes too short to sell anything?

        Not at all. Sixty minutes works when the call to action is simple, like a low price offer, an easy yes, or booking a call. It gets much harder when the offer is expensive and the audience is cold.

         

        Your next step

        1. If you are new to my world and want to explore my free content to help you get clients with webinars, check my youtube videos on webinar strategies here >>

        2. If you want to see my full webinar methodology and are ready to go deeper, register for the free training GET CLIENTS WITH WEBINARS here >>

        3. And if you have enough or browsing around and are ready to create and launch your high-converting webinar in 30 days, even if you don’t have a big audience, apply for the Webinar Conversion Accelerator >>

         

         

        Together we grow exponentially.

        Simone Vincenzi | Webinar Expert and Founder of GTeX

         


        About the Author

        Simone Vincenzi

        Simone Vincenzi is the co-founder of GTeX and an international speaker who has delivered over 2000 presentations worldwide. Featured in Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine, and recognised in the House of Parliament as one of the most influential migrant entrepreneurs in the UK, Simone helps coaches, consultants, and expert entrepreneurs scale their businesses through the power of webinars and authentic marketing.

        His flagship methodology, the GTeX Method, has helped more than 5,000 entrepreneurs simplify their strategy, amplify their message, and build businesses that create lasting impact.

        Together we grow exponentially.

        Simone Vincenzi

        The Webinar Conversion Expert | GTeX