Spending $10,000 or more on a platform to deliver live and recorded content for your virtual event is out of reach for many businesses. Despite this, you can still host your very own virtual event using a combination of tools without spending tens of thousands of dollars.
In this series, you’ll learn what you must have in your virtual event toolkit that will ensure that speakers, exhibitors, sponsors, attendees and your virtual event team have a pleasant experience participating in your virtual event. This is part 3 in a 5 part series.
Must Have Tool #3 – A Way to Deliver Recorded Content
Not every attendee can attend the live sessions. Many factors contribute to this – whether it’s timezone differences, an unexpected meeting, impatience with hiccups that happen in the live environment, learning style or difficulty following along in a language that’s not their mother tongue, offering the live sessions as downloadable content is an attractive feature to attendees.
This is what makes virtual events unique from non-virtual events. Most conferences I’ve ever attended never sell the recordings of the sessions after the conference is over. What a missed opportunity to monetize content. Of course, this is an advantage that most virtual events have due to how simple it is to record content over the phone or via the web.
I use Audio Acrobat to upload and then share recordings with attendees. Why?
- I can quickly generate HTML code for the play buttons. All I need to do is click on a few radio buttons, click Submit and then I can copy and paste code that I can place on my password protected webpage. The play buttons appear instantly without me having to call a graphic designer or webmaster to help me out.
- I can enable or disable the download link easily. So, if I only want attendees who paid a higher admission fee to be able to download the recordings, I can do this through Audio Acrobat.
- Another wonderful feature is that I can encrypt the URL of the audio recording. This is critical because some clever people can do a view source in their browser and find the exact location of the MP3 file in the code. That means that although the download link isn’t visible on the page, viewing the source code through your browser will reveal where the MP3 file sits on my server. With Audio Acrobat, I can encrypt the URL so that even if the person does a view source in their browser, all they’ll see is a series of jumbled numbers and letters in the URL, thus making it impossible to know the exact location of the MP3 file on my server.
Three powerful reasons to use Audio Acrobat to deliver recorded audio and video content to attendees.
Ready to Build Your Very Own Virtual Event Platform?
In just a few days, I’ll post details on a virtual bootcamp where I’ll teach you step-by-step how to build your very own virtual event platform. You’ll get to peek over my shoulder as I show you via videos how to build a virtual event platform from scratch – even if you’re not technical.
