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Channel leads

Have visitor sign up for channel updates

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Written by Dina
Updated over 2 weeks ago

A channel is a page where your target audience can find a list of all your webinars. It’s a great way to give your audience a good overview of what you have to offer. They have the option to register for webinars and webinar updates.

Collecting channel leads

You have the ability to allow visitors to subscribe to channel updates, in order to generate a list of your channel leads. Follow these steps:

  1. Click 'Channels'

  2. Select the channel you want to collect leads for

  3. Click 'Settings'

  4. Make sure that he switch next to 'Visitors can subscribe to webinar updates' is enabled

Visitors can subscribe to the channel through the button on the channel page.

Start collecting webinar leads by activating the visitors can subscribe to webinar updates options

Add channel leads to an email list

Automatically add your channel leads to your mailing list. After creating a connection with one of the available marketing tools, you can set a trigger.

Follow these steps to add channel leads to an email list in one of the available marketing tools:

  1. Click 'Account'

  2. Click 'Integrations'

  3. Choose the integration you want to use

  4. Click 'Add new trigger'

  5. Select 'New channel lead'

  6. Choose the desired action

  7. Click 'Add trigger'

Window showing various triggers for the Mailchimp integration in WebinarGeek, 'new channel lead' is selected.

Send out an update email

You can send out an update email to your channel leads after adding a webinar to your channel. Follow these steps:

  1. Click 'Channels'

  2. Select the channel you want to send an invitation email from

  3. Click 'Invitation emails'

  4. Next to the webinar you want to send an email for, click 'Send email'

You can use the 'Preview email' button to see a preview of the email.

You can send an update email once per webinar. Currently, the update email cannot be edited. The email will be sent using the address noreply@webinargeek.com as sender.

Sending invitation emails

Exporting channel leads

Follow these steps to export your channel leads:

  1. Click 'Channels'

  2. Select the channel you want to export channel leads from

  3. Click 'Statistics'

  4. Click 'All channel leads'

  5. Click 'Export to CSV'

In the CSV file you’ll find the email of the lead and time of subscription. The column ‘Subscribed’ indicates if someone is still subscribed (or has unsubscribed from the channel).

Blocking channel leads

You can prevent channel visitors from subscribing to your updates by adding them to your blocklist. When email addresses and domains on your blocklist try to subscribe to your channel, they will receive the error message “Email is not on the list of invited addresses”. Here you can read how to edit your blocklist.

Existing leads will not be affected. You can remove existing channel leads in the channel statistics.

Removing channel leads

Follow these steps to remove channel leads from a channel:

  1. Click 'Channels'

  2. Select the channel you want to remove channel leads from

  3. Click 'Statistics'

  4. Click 'All channel leads'

  5. Click the 'Unsubscribe' button next to the channel lead you want to remove

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