Pricing a webinar is not as simple as ABC. This is because there are a number of factors to consider in determining what price will be best suited.

Paid webinars for your audience

There are a couple of questions you can ask yourself to find the right balance:

• Who is your audience?
• What is your content?
• Who are you?
• What webinar platform are you using?

Let’s go over them in more detail.

Your audience

Who is your target audience? You wouldn’t charge a bunch of students the same price as a group of corporate tycoons. Not just because of their earning capacity, but the level of value you will be offering to them. Students may perceive value at a different degree compared to corporate tycoons, who represent not just themselves but their organizations at large. The rule of thumb is that the more affluent your audience, the higher your webinar’s price should be.

But even then, it’s a fine line to walk. You do not want to seem extortionist, but at the same time, you do not want to come off as a mediocre expert by setting the price too low. Here is where other factors come into play.

Your content

Even though big companies may have money to spend, you should still be realistic about your content’s value. Do market research in advance. Google what your competitors are doing and see if there is anything that sets you apart. Ask yourself: how unique is your business proposition in comparison?

Do you offer specialized knowledge that is otherwise hard to get? Do you have an original perspective or teaching methodology? Why is it that you can offer your audience something that they cannot Google themselves? Answer these questions before you can go about the pricing.

What kind of content will you offer to your audience? If you just want to advertise your product or service, then it wouldn’t be smart to charge for a webinar at all. It would only alienate your audience, and, as a result, you will not make any sales.

If you are making educational content, then you should evaluate it based on its depth and originality. There is plenty of information already available on the internet, so if you just paraphrase articles from Wikipedia, you won’t make much money or provide much value to your customer.

The more specialized, authentic, and rare your content ideas are, the higher your pricing can be. Providing high-quality, unique content that stands out from the vast online pool and convincing your audience of its value grants you greater flexibility in setting prices.

Read also: Wise Use of Webinars for Customer Experience Enrichment.

Your personality

Sometimes it is not about the content, but rather about a person. There are so many talented webinar creators out there who may not be the biggest experts on Earth, but they win people over with their unique personalities.

Do you think you can move the masses? Do you feel you have what it takes to make people trust you? Do you believe you can make your webinars fascinating and interactive, even if the topic is quite over saturated? In this digital age, there is a flood of content, and the best way to stand out is through your personality. Humans connect with humans, so if you are able to make your audience laugh, keep them glued to their screen watching you teach and incite them to ask genuine questions, you stand a better chance of confidently defending your pricing.

I would add that apart from personality, it also helps to have impressive credentials. Did you graduate from one of the best schools in your field? Did you get invaluable working experience that you are dying to share with others? Basically, who are you, and why should your audience pay to listen to you?

The more proven expertise you’ve got, the more you can charge for a webinar.

Your platform

Another important thing to consider is the webinar software itself. Does your target audience have to purchase software to participate in your webinar? Do you have a limit on the number of webinar participants? A multitude of factors related to your platform can affect cost and pricing. It is important to consider just how user-friendly your platform is because your audience will not be willing to pay high for a webinar on a platform that gives them stress.

It also pays to be aware of the fees that these software packages can put on you as the host. There can often be limits on data, storage, or upload and download speeds. Many of these limits are removed in higher-tiered versions of the software. To accurately price your webinar, you have to actively consider your hosting costs as well as the intricacies of your webinar platform. This way, you don’t end up undercharging to the extent that you can’t even cover hosting costs, which is a loss for you and your business.

Consider pricing strategies

There are three main pricing strategies and models: cost plus, market-based and value-oriented. You should consider all of them when determining the price of your webinar.

Firstly, monitor carefully how much time you have spent on creating a webinar. Of course, time does not equal quality, but if you did thorough research and found innovative approaches to teaching and presenting, it wouldn’t be fair to keep the price too low. So, don’t be afraid to raise your pricing in accordance with the time you have dedicated to making your webinar high-quality.

Secondly, take a look at how much the competitors are charging. It does not mean that you should just blindly adopt their prices. They may have a better or worse value proposition than you do, and in that case, the prices cannot be the same. In essence, only use their prices for analysis and comparison purposes, to help you decide what is best based on what you are offering.

Finally and most importantly, know what value you bring to your audience. If your offer is truly one-of-a-kind, you will find your paying audience, even with a price a bit higher than on the market. People will always be willing to pay for high value, especially nowadays that anyone can just wake up and put out content without any expertise or true value. When you stand out from the crowd, pricing your webinar will not be a hassle.

In summary

We are sure you will succeed with paid webinars to make a good money and the webinars platform MyOwnConference will help you with this.