{"id":37553,"date":"2021-10-07T07:39:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamf.com\/?p=37553"},"modified":"2022-01-10T00:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:05:26","slug":"when-is-the-best-day-to-have-a-webinar-hint-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamf.com\/when-is-the-best-day-to-have-a-webinar-hint-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"When is the Best Day to Have a Webinar? (Hint: Thursday)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you want engagement, webinars are the way to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, there&#8217;s a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since they&#8217;re based online, they&#8217;re also at the mercy of human behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, you&#8217;ve got to adapt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this quick guide, we check out when is the best day to have a webinar and what you can do to improve your attendance rate.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-table-of-contents-block ub_table-of-contents\" data-showtext=\"show\" data-hidetext=\"hide\" data-scrolltype=\"auto\" id=\"ub_table-of-contents-b96f1b65-eae8-4596-b49e-db92631a702a\" data-initiallyhideonmobile=\"false\"\n                    data-initiallyshow=\"true\"><div class=\"ub_table-of-contents-header-container\"><div class=\"ub_table-of-contents-header\">\n                    <div class=\"ub_table-of-contents-title\"><strong><em>Table of Contents<\/em><\/strong><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ub_table-of-contents-extra-container\"><div class=\"ub_table-of-contents-container ub_table-of-contents-1-column \"><ul><li><a href=https:\/\/bamf.com\/when-is-the-best-day-to-have-a-webinar-hint-thursday\/#0-when-is-the-best-day-to-have-a-webinar->When is the best day to have a webinar?<\/a><ul><li><a href=https:\/\/bamf.com\/when-is-the-best-day-to-have-a-webinar-hint-thursday\/#1-why-monday-and-friday-dont-work->Why Monday and Friday Don&#8217;t Work<\/a><\/li><li><a href=https:\/\/bamf.com\/when-is-the-best-day-to-have-a-webinar-hint-thursday\/#2-how-about-weekends->How About Weekends?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=https:\/\/bamf.com\/when-is-the-best-day-to-have-a-webinar-hint-thursday\/#3-when-is-the-best-time-to-have-a-webinar->When is the best time to have a webinar?<\/a><ul><li><a href=https:\/\/bamf.com\/when-is-the-best-day-to-have-a-webinar-hint-thursday\/#4-skip-the-early-morning->Skip the Early Morning<\/a><\/li><li><a href=https:\/\/bamf.com\/when-is-the-best-day-to-have-a-webinar-hint-thursday\/#5-heres-the-best-time-to-have-a-webinar->Here&#8217;s the Best Time to Have a Webinar<\/a><\/li><li><a href=https:\/\/bamf.com\/when-is-the-best-day-to-have-a-webinar-hint-thursday\/#6-dont-do-the-afternoons-past-3pm->Don&#8217;t Do the Afternoons! (Past 3pm)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=https:\/\/bamf.com\/when-is-the-best-day-to-have-a-webinar-hint-thursday\/#7-the-timezones->The Timezones<\/a><\/li><li><a href=https:\/\/bamf.com\/when-is-the-best-day-to-have-a-webinar-hint-thursday\/#8-takeaways->Takeaways<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"0-when-is-the-best-day-to-have-a-webinar-\"><strong>When is the best day to have a webinar?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Short answer: Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the middle of the week and most of the urgent things that your audience needs to do will probably all be done by this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You get their full attention spans, they&#8217;re not really anxious about anything pressing, and you&#8217;re not messing with the beginning of their week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, you&#8217;re making it easier for them to choose to attend your webinar and that makes all the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"1-why-monday-and-friday-dont-work-\"><strong>Why Monday and Friday Don&#8217;t Work<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday is the start of the week \u2013 as we said earlier \u2013 and Friday is when it ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You want an attendee&#8217;s full focus and you can&#8217;t have them distracted thinking about what their plans are after work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"2-how-about-weekends-\"><strong>How About Weekends?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Never let your audience, prospects or leads, make a choice between you or their personal lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They might choose you, but it&#8217;s a hard sell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You want to make the experience of dealing with your organization as easy as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/bamf.lovelacecreative.co\/whats-the-best-time-to-post-on-linkedin-hint-not-monday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">When\u2019s the best time to post on LinkedIn? <\/a>Here, we\u2019ve figured it out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"3-when-is-the-best-time-to-have-a-webinar-\"><strong>When is the best time to have a webinar?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"4-skip-the-early-morning-\"><strong>Skip the Early Morning<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, people have a lot of work to do, and most of the time they try to get most of their urgent stuff in order at the beginning of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you hold a webinar early in the morning, you&#8217;ll be competing with the beginning of their work and that won&#8217;t sit well with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You need to make things as convenient as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"5-heres-the-best-time-to-have-a-webinar-\"><strong>Here&#8217;s the Best Time to Have a Webinar<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There are experts who say 10 am onwards is the best, but some argue for 11 am because it gets a little more traction than the hour before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We say try to set your webinar time to <strong>11 am<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you think you&#8217;re going to go past 60 minutes then 10.30 am isn&#8217;t so bad. (Although we will strongly advise you don&#8217;t do this unless there&#8217;s momentum towards the end.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You don&#8217;t mess with lunchtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Nobody<\/em><\/strong> has webinars during noon to 1 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next best time would be <strong>2 pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 pm is also an option but let&#8217;s think about it this way, your audience will be sleepier right after lunch, and not everyone clocks in at exactly 1 pm. You want to give them a little time to stretch and get their energy back before they get on a webinar with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"6-dont-do-the-afternoons-past-3pm-\"><strong>Don&#8217;t Do the Afternoons! (Past 3pm)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the problem with the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They might be done with all the urgent stuff during the day and they probably have a lot of free time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, you know who you&#8217;re competing with?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attention spans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afternoons can get slower and they might have less energy compared to before or after lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/bamf.lovelacecreative.co\/when-is-the-best-time-to-post-on-facebook\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How about Facebook? Does that follow a posting schedule?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"7-the-timezones-\"><strong>The Timezones<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What matters the most are the timezones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You want to plan your webinar to coincide with the timezone of the majority audience. This is especially critical if you\u2019re working with a global audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, how about if it\u2019s limited to the United States?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be strategic about the affair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If most of the people joining are coming in from the East Coast, then you\u2019re better off planning your webinar at 2 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Given the three-hour time difference you\u2019ll be hitting the West at 11 am which is the webinar primetime.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your audience is actually split with a 12-hour difference then you\u2019re going to have to do something about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can have two runs, do a recap, or have a repeat of the webinar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, there are plenty of ways to maximize what you can do after you&#8217;ve hosted the webinar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"8-takeaways-\"><strong>Takeaways<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When\u2019s the best day to have a webinar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday at 11 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, this is just a general rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can\u2019t really pull it off, then just stay close to the recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember webinars are extremely powerful and you want to take advantage of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make sure you get the marketing rolling and work on turning your attendees into real conversions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s what matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you need help bringing in engagement? 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