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How to Turn
Registrants to
Revenue
A Proven Five-Step Framework to Double
Sales Pipeline within 90 Days with Webinars eBook
2025
-By Bob Hanson
©2025 Bob Hanson’s Must-See Webinars™, Quantum Leap Marketing, Inc.
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Table of Contents
Introduction 03
Conclusion 27
About Hubilo 28
Introduction
Imagine you could clone your best salesperson and through
marketing automating and scale the process of getting the right
message in front of the right prospects at the right time.
My name is Bob Hanson, a B2B Marketer With some trial and error and a lot of
who got his start using a specific event patience from the CEO through weekly
marketing system called Seminars for webinars we eventually dominated our
Results to reach and influence executives niche, created a 76,000 name opt-in
and B2B decision makers and drive over database, and quickly scaled ARR from $1
$1.45 billion in qualified sales leads.
million to $20 million.
My first head of marketing gig was for a In the 20 years since, as a fractional
small SaaS provider who was marketer and webinar series producer I’ve
“bootstrapping its way to success.” With since helped with over 2,000 webinar
no budget for seminars, I piloted webinars programs and video funnels for start-ups
to build a marketing database and drive and leaders like Fidelity, Natera, and Trend
qualified buyers to sales conversations. Micro. With each client, program, and
campaign I’ve tried to improve on what I call
my Must-See Webinar System™.
Let’s Start
This White Paper, sponsored by Hubilo, reveals How to Turn Registrants to
Revenue: A Proven Five-Step Framework to Double Sales Pipeline within 90 Days
with Webinars.
The framework and tips and case studies shared in this White Paper can help any
B2B Marketer:
What really drives webinar registrants, revenue and sales pipeline may surprise you.
Let’s start…
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1.
Engage
Pro Tip Nurture Convert Sale Customer
journey
Virtual Summit Educational Problem Solution Demo Video Demo Video
Platform
Pro Tip
Leverage webinars in all stages of the buyer journey. The biggest ROI opportunity and
where most organizations can see immediate sales impact is at the BOFU or Sale stage
as represented in this graphic.
For example, sales organizations that hold 1:1 demonstration meetings virtually can run demo
webinars for groups with the same presenters and content. Organizations with an ABM
strategy can leverage webinars to prioritize and sell specific accounts.
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2.
Many organizations think a name or outside speaker alone will be enough to cut through the
clutter and get the attention of B2B decision makers.
Others throw out a product overview presentation and hope for the best. Still others put all
their promotional effort into social media and miss a big opportunity.
When it comes to webinar promotion and messaging strategy, the topic is the #1 reason
prospects will register for your events.
When it comes to webinar promotional channels and marketing mix, email and direct
invitations drive 80% of webinar registrants.
The bottom line is many organizations fail to focus the messaging strategy levers and don’t
optimize the marketing mix.
Avoid these mistakes and watch your registrant and attendee numbers climb.
Pro Tip
Pro Tip 1: Create and test topics designed to attract buyers like a magnet.
Pro Tip 2: Leverage email and direct message channels both through internal and
external lists.
For example, select the top pain point or buying trigger from ICP feedback and use AI to ideate
two possible topics for your next Bottom-of-Funnel Webinar.
Leverage the A/B test feature of your Marketing Automation like HubSpot and test these two
topics as your subject lines and select the winning topic from the email which gets more opens.
For one weekly webinar series, we A/B tested to a segment of the list for each new topic and
drove an average of 38% more webinar attendees by letting the market decide the winners.
An example is mining “dead leads” in the marketing database with a compelling webinar title like
How to Take Control of ___ (insert top buyer frustration) and well-crafted invite.
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3.
When it comes to virtual audiences, having a product manager page through 90 detailed
PowerPoint slides over 90 minutes is typically not the best way to get and keep attention.
Many organizations give little thought to how your content will play to a virtual audience who
may be doing other things and can come and go at any time. The sad fact is that many of your
attendees may be showing up late, leaving early, and failing to engage with your
presentations.
Over time, they may even stop showing up to your events entirely. Hmm, no wonder webinar
registrants fail to convert to sales. There are many specific and tested ways of engaging a
virtual audience that can be easily employed in all your webinars.
Asking questions of your audience early and often is one way. Taking audience questions at the
end of the webinar is another. Webcam video that covers a prominent portion of the screen is
one way. In-session video like a case study or customer story is another engagement strategy.
In addition, a purpose-built webinar technology like Hubilo will make engagement and
interactions easier.
Pro Tip
Leverage common webinar engagement strategies like multiple presenters,
questions, polls, chat, in-session video, in-session CTAs, and Q/R codes to drive
attention and engagement.
For example, prepare an energetic introduction summarizing key topics covered in the entire
webinar and ask two questions upfront. The first elicits a response in the chat and the second
launches a poll so the attendees can see how they stack up against their peers.
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4.
“Our webinar solution does not provide that capability with our
webinar videos nor does it integrate well with HubSpot or the
MarTech Stack.”
Don’t let the tail wag the dog when it comes to your webinar technology.
For example, webinars and the resultant videos can help power a portion of the Marketing
Content Flywheel.
A simple example is taking memorable moments from the webinar presentations and creating
snackable video content for social marketing.
Many webinar solutions like Zoom Webinar make this difficult or impossible.
Others offer limited attendee interaction features and/or require lots of manual reporting
steps which is not scalable. For example, attendee poll and question data should be
automatically pushed into the marketing automation platform.
Pro Tip
5.
Webinar Series
Many organizations are missing a goldmine of sales leads and pipeline by assuming all the
qualified prospects will find their way to your demos or trials and complete that process.
Yet, a SaaS organization which leverages Inbound motion may find the majority of their
marketing contacts are “stuck” in the middle of the marketing funnel which is commonly called
the Nurture phase.
Other organizations may be employing webinars successfully at the top or mid-funnel, but
then trying to convert webinar attendees to individual meetings and not giving these
prospects the option of attending a more product or sales-oriented webinar.
Still others are employing an ABM go-to-market strategy and failing to recognize webinars can
be highly-profitable tactic to support this strategy.
For higher value sales some organizations even hold a webinar for a single decision-making
persona and even a single target account.
I’ve used this successfully dozens of times and it works because since webinars are
Narrowcasting the more targeted and specific the webinar the higher the likelihood of
converting the registrant to revenue.
Pro Tip
Supplement your overall marketing with Bottom-of-the-Funnel webinars
A simple example of BOFU webinars is your best sales presentation given by your best
presenter. For a financial services client who previously struggled with webinars, we converted
a winning seminar presentation to an online event. With heavy emphasis on email invitations
and existing social channels, we multiplied attendance by 9X and sales pipeline by 20X versus
previous efforts.
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Sales Pipeline
Simply by avoiding the above mistakes your organization will be on your way to competitive
advantage and webinar success. A very specific webinar strategy is to pilot a single BOFU
webinar then scale out a series at the Bottom-of-the-Funnel stage in the buyer journey.
This type of webinar series works best when it has some or all of the following characteristics:
How can you bring all these ideas together in a proven system to start with a single, pilot
webinar and scale to as many as one winning webinar per week and as much as 20x ARR with
webinars alone as I have?
Here is…
Imagine you could clone your best salesperson and through marketing automate and scale
the process of getting the right message in front of the right prospects at the right time.
Here's a proven framework any B2B marketer can leverage to re-ignite dead leads, convert
more Inbound motion into meetings/demos/trials/customers, and increase the ROI on all
your marketing with a Bottom-of-the-Funnel Webinar program purpose-built to drive sales
pipeline revenue.
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2.
3.
4.
5.
This framework could help any growth-oriented B2B firm multiply demos/trials/appointments
and double sales pipeline in as little as 90 days.
Pro Tip
One of my B2B clients in HealthTech found that customers generated through
webinars were 22x cheaper than the average of the overall marketing mix. One reason
why? We mined the existing marketing opt-in database for gold through a robust
BOFU webinar program and dramatically increased customer conversion rates from
this segment.
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2,000
North America but no brand recognition,
no buyer intent, and no way of prioritizing
the contacts for outreach.
On-demand videos generated Over 2,000 registered for the series and
the on-demand videos generated over
20,000 views on the non-profit’s YouTube
Channel. Because of the demonstrated
buyer intent and name recognition gained
from the series, the salespeople were able
Bottom-of-the-Funnel Webinars
8,500 500
Opt-ins from all sources Individual sales appointments
500 4 figure
Additional sales appointments Deal size
A B2B services firm targeted financial advisors as one of its niches and leveraged
Inbound motion for a few years comprised almost exclusively of SEO, PPC, and
placement of articles with a CTA on third-party media. It generated 8,500 opt-ins from
all sources and with automated follow-up, email newsletters, and the occasional email
campaign generated 500 individual sales appointments.
The firm continued the Inbound program and I piloted and added monthly BOFU
webinars to the 8,000 prospects “stuck in the nurture” phase as well as new Inbound
leads. It quickly found the formula (similar to the framework above) to double the yield
from the Inbound program alone, creating another 500 sales appointments with
roughly the same sales win percentage and initial deal size which was in the four-
figures for new customer commitments.
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Bottom-of-the-Funnel
$4,995 5 Figures No
As first-year
New annualized Sales
discounted price revenue each quarter bandwidth invested
A growing, Series A B2B SaaS provider The program was automated and ran well
used a combination of Inbound into the high five-figures in new
Marketing and in-person and virtual annualized revenue each quarter with
events to build a large prospect almost no sales bandwidth invested.
database. It was in the process of Surprisingly, when suspect names like
focusing more sales resources on contacts with “no-company information”
Enterprise sales so needed a way of and contacts with “gmail addresses” were
“selling ‘em in bunches like bananas” as invited, Enterprise contacts surfaced and
the phrase goes with smaller some smaller sites of Enterprises bought
organizations of less than 100 seats.
the solution from the webinar as pilot sites
for an eventual Enterprise purchase.
It tested out a “Small Organization
These “found” Enterprise customers led
Webinar” two weeks before the end of
to an additional six-figures in annual
the quarter using its best sales
recurring revenue for this upstart firm.
presenter and its best presentation, a
version of How to Take Control of Your
IT Environment. A special, limited-time
offer was presented on the webinar
and promoted in follow-up with a
unique bundle of special pricing and
group training at a highly discounted,
$4,995 first-year price.
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Next Steps –
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Schedule an upcoming Bottom-of-the-Funnel Webinar
Pick a date for a webinar which gives time for ample promotion and any content
preparation. Four weeks out and a webinar day and time of mid-week and mid-day
are good starting points. Midweek webinars allow for sales and lead follow-up that
same week for more conversion.
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Select a Specific Audience for the Webinar
Webinars are most successful as a narrowcast. Select one ideal prospect role and
title and a common buying trigger or pain point. Companies often start with a
segment of their existing marketing database like those stuck in the Nurture Phase.
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3
Promote and Run the Webinar
Email and direct invitations still generate 80% of webinar registrations. Ideally
integrate with your existing marketing automation and sales databases. For
example, if landing pages and registration forms are built with HubSpot and Eloqua,
leverage those for your webinar registration forms. Plan the post-event follow-up
BEFORE the event, but avoid sales touches and qualification until AFTER the event.
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Be Sure to Engage the Audience, including with the Right
Webinar Technology
Generally, a webinar attendee who engages on the webinar is a much higher-value
prospect than a non-engaged attendee or registrant only. Engage attendees in the
webinar session with verbal questions, chat, polling, video, and content which
presents the case for trying or buying your solution. Technologies like the Hubilo,
Inc. webinar solution which are purpose-built for all these interactions.
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“Nail then Scale” the Webinar Conversion to Multiply Results
Your next webinar is unlikely to be your best but will give you valuable data to inform
you how to “Nail and Scale” your BOFU webinars to maximize sales. A weekly
webinar series can start with a single pilot. Increase sales conversion with devices
like a special, limited-time offer presented on the webinar and in post-webinar
follow-up. For example, a SaaS provider may combine bonuses like onboarding
training with a special Year 1 price as an incentive to act.
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I have seen massively successful webinar programs which generated over 8-figures in
sales start with a pilot BOFU webinar with only 10 attendees and a single sale.
BOFU webinars ROI rides more with the number of attendees like your best prospects and the
conversion rate from attendee to sales conversations, opportunities, pipeline, and revenue.
Audience One topic/Audience Selectively add topics/Audiences Many topics & Audiences
Content Proven content, Presenter More content, Presenters Multiple media, many funnels
Channels Segment of database Existing media, Channels Existing & new media
The graphic above shows how an organization can go from pilot to scale and perhaps multiply
pipeline within 90 days!
Conclusion
As author, marketing guru and my former personal mentor Dan Kennedy said about
webinars that drive sales, “A Buyer is a Buyer is a Buyer. The success of webinars with
sales objectives is often determined by the number of “Buyers in your virtual room.”
Some of my best BOFU programs have started with the FIRST webinar with as few as 10
attendees and a 10% conversion to your next step.
In fact, one initial B2B SaaS webinar with a small attendee list was so successful in
“product-market-webinar fit” that one of the webinar attendees was an executive who
convinced his employer to buy the entire company for eight figures in cash within
90 days.
Pilot your next BOFU webinar within the next 30 days and start to experience the
amazing benefits of this marketing strategy done right.
This happened to me as a first-time head of marketing for a SaaS firm when we tested
and developed many of the ideas contained in this eBook.
Best for your webinar and marketing success and to advance your career!
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Virtual events and webinar series powered by Bob Hanson's Must-See Webinar process have
generated 76,000 opt-in names for a B2B software firm, built a successful 10-part series for
a healthcare company which helped add $50 million in ARR, and increased webinar results
12x within 60 days for a financial services company.
Bob’s proven, five-step framework has helped dozens of B2B leaders like Fidelity, Natera, and
Trend Micro increase revenue over $1 billion and power a frictionless content marketing
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