Live is the most important part of the webinar setup process. This is where you can plan your interactions with the audience in the live room ahead of time, allowing for a smoother webinar experience for everyone. 

Interact with your audience. You're competing with a multitude of other things your attendees have available to them and need to grab and hold their attention. Polls, product offers, videos, handouts, and slides can make your content more compelling and keep everyone engaged. 

Pro tip

For every 10 minutes of webinar run time, have at least one interaction that engages the audience in a task. Polls and chat are two of the most effective ways to engage your audience.


Polls and quizzes

Polls and quizzes are a great strategy to interact with your audience and hold their attention. 

To prepare polls before the webinar: 

  1. Click Change on the right 
  2. Click Add new poll 
  3. Enter your poll question and answer options and click Add in the upper right
    • Enter the answer options exactly how you’d like them to appear
  4. Click Save on the right

Edit Webinar Poll configuration template


Product offer

Plan your product offer before you start to build.

  • Write your offer name, headline, and any text you’d like to display above or on the button 
  • Select a compelling image
  • Decide where the offer button will link to, like your sales page or product checkout
  • Decide if you’d like to apply scarcity and urgency settings. These settings simulate  limitations in quantity and time and are only available if you create the offer in the configuration wizard.

Webinar Offer configuration settingsTo create an offer:

  1. Click Change on the right 
  2. Click Add new offer
  3. Enter your offer details and click Add in the upper right
  4. Click Save on the right

Videos

Videos allow you to play a video clip during your webinar. The system will switch from your live broadcast to the video and back to live broadcast when the video is over. Set up your videos ahead of time so you can play them during your live broadcast with the click of a button.

  • Click Change on the right 
  • Click Add new video
  • Select the location of your video (Kartra, YouTube or External URL)
  • Enter the video name and URL and click Add in the upper right
  • Click Save on the right

Files handouts

Upload all files you’d like to share with your attendees during the webinar and eliminate the need for last minute uploads.

  1. Click Change on the right 
  2. Click Addnew file
  3. Select the file type
    • Documents
    • Images
    • Audio 
  4. Find the file in your User gallery (if it’s already uploaded in Kartra) or click Select files to upload it from your device 
  5. Select the correct file and click Confirm in the upper right
  6. Click Save on the right

Documents Library configuration menu.


Slide presentation

Set up your slide presentation ahead of time and share it during your webinar with the click of a button. 

  1. Click Change on the right 
  2. Click Add new presentation 
  3. Find the file in your User gallery (if it’s already uploaded in Kartra) or click Select files to upload it from your device 
  4. Select the correct file and click Confirm in the upper right
  5. Click Save on the right

Documents Library configuration with slides.