Pros
- "Just-in-time" webinars
- Email question box or live chat
- Automated audience interactions
- Offers have up to 3 call-to-actions
- Rich webinar analytics dashboard
- Lifetime access for a one-time fee
Cons
- No custom fields on the registration page
- YouTube webinar video can be paused
- Email formatting problems with custom text
Best or unique feature
- One-time price for a lifetime access
Webinar Types & Setup
Audience Interactions
Presentation Tools
Pricing & Trial
Webinar Funnel Pages
Video Engine & Support
Webinar Replay
Email Reminders
Mobile Devices
Analytics & Exports
WebinarKit is a new player in the live and automated webinar software scene. It’s a lightweight solution that delivers all the necessary features to create highly converting webinars that run on autopilot. In this WebinarKit review, you’ll learn:
- What are the possible automated interactions?
- What is WebinarKit Live and how is it different?
- What can you learn using the webinar analytics dashboard?
- How fair is the pricing and how to get a lifetime access with a big discount?
WebinarKit Automated Webinar Setup
The webinar setup flow is quite simple. There’s a basic setup flow you have to set up, which will specify:
- the webinar scheduling
- the registration pages
- the automated interactions
WebinarKit asks you to specify the webinar duration, which is a bit odd, because you’d assume that the webinar is as long as the video.
As the main webinar video, you can paste the video URL where your webinar video is hosted. This could be a YouTube, Vimeo or Amazon hosting link, basically any video hosting provider works here.
To upload your webinar video directly to WebinarKit, you’d have to upgrade to the WebinarKit Pro plan.
The webinar can be scheduled for every day at a specific time. Or even multiple times per day.
The “Just in time” scheduling sets your webinar to be always starting in <15 minutes for each visitor. That’s a great way to not keep your visitors waiting and have them join the webinar with minimal waiting time.
The Issue with Webinar Presenters (Resolved)
WebinarKit has been working tirelessly to enhance their platform and resolve known issues, and they have successfully addressed a specific issue that used to bother users when it comes to webinar presenters.
Previously, once a presenter was added to your webinar, you couldn’t change their details. That may be irritating, especially if you needed to make changes or corrections. But, WebinarKit’s hard work and dedication have resulted in this issue being resolved in their latest version.
You may now update presenter information whenever you want without having to delete and re-add them, giving you more flexibility and ease. This improvement is a game-changer as it saves you time and effort, allowing you to maintain accurate and up-to-date presenter details throughout your webinars.
It’s great to see how WebinarKit values user feedback and works hard to improve the user experience.
WebinarKit Live 2.0
Just recently WebinarKit has launched their live webinar solution.
Some of the key features of WebinarKit Live 2.0:
- Pre-upload your slides
- Powerful whiteboard tool
- Share screen, show slideshow and webcam simultaneously
- Live questions box and live chat separated
- Live webinar offers
WebinarKit live is a rather new product. However, it’s already proven to be a very powerful, yet lightweight platform to use for hosting live webinars.
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Webinar Registration Page
The WebinarKit registration page setup looks quite simple at first.
You’ll notice that there are different registration page layout templates:
- Standard
- Right side cover (Available on WebinarKit Pro)
- Left side cover (Available on WebinarKit Pro)
- Right side image (Available on WebinarKit Pro)
- Left side image (Available on WebinarKit Pro)
The most standard registration page layout just has a single-color background, or with a slight gradient effect. The layout is fixed and looks like this:
All the other well-designed webinar registration templates are available on the WebinarKit Pro.
However, you can still add a video to even the standard registration page. But you’d have to provide the URL to the video.
Custom Fields
With Webinarkit, you have complete control over the information you collect from your registrants. You may now add custom fields to your webinar registration page in the updated version. This implies you’re no longer limited to just the basics.
You may add fields for hobbies, interests, expectations, or even survey questions and polls. Basically, anything you want to know from your attendees can be added as custom fields.
It’s a fantastic feature that allows you to collect more relevant and important data, letting you to personalize and adjust your webinars to your audience’s preferences.
The Thank You Page
After the attendee has registered, you can automatically redirect them to the “Thank you” page. The thanks you page could be:
- A WebinarKit thank you page – You can customize the text, add image and a call-to-action button, which could redirect to your offer page
- A custom URL – With this option you could redirect them to your offer page right away
Here’s how the WebinarKit Thank You page would look like:
Webinar Email Reminders
There are 3 automatic emails you can set up in WebinarKit:
- Registration confirmation email
- 1-day reminder email
- 30-minute reminder email
These reminder emails only make sense if your webinar is happening once a day, for example. But if you have “Just-in-time” webinars enabled, it doesn’t really make sense, because the webinar would always start in less than 15 minutes, whenever the attendee lands on the registration page.
For each email, you can add a custom message.
What I’m missing here is the email shortcodes. For example, I’d like to address the attendee by their name (that they’ve used to sign up with). Other webinar platforms usually have this feature, so I can start my email with “Hey {first_name}”.
If you have the automatic emails enabled, but leave the fields blank, WebinarKit will send the default message.
It’s important to note 2 things about the webinar emails. First, your custom message will be added at the beginning of the default message. Second, your formatting (i.e. new lines) won’t be reflected. As you can see my custom message is all jammed together when the attendee receives it.
More Timing Options
WebinarKit has made incredible improvements that provide you with additional timing options for sending email reminders. You may now schedule automated email reminders to be sent not just a day before the webinar, but also a few days or even a few hours beforehand.
But wait, there’s more! WebinarKit extends this functionality by allowing you to send reminders according to specific activities. You may send reminders when attendees join the webinar or watch a certain portion of it. This degree of personalization guarantees that your audience is engaged and informed throughout the webinar experience.
Additionally, you can set smart automated follow-up emails based on how much of the webinar did each attendee watch:
- Automatic email if attendee did not attend the webinar
- Automatic email if attendee watched 25% of the webinar
- Automatic email if attendee watched 50% of the webinar
- Automatic email if attendee watched 75% of the webinar
- Automatic email if attendee watched 100% of the webinar
- Automatic email if attendee clicked webinar offer
- Automatic email if attendee did not click the webinar offer
Email Personalization
Additionally, WebinarKit has taken personalization to a whole new level by introducing the ability to add text variables that change dynamically for each recipient.
This means you can now include personalized information like their name, title, company, or even add a custom link specific to each recipient. It’s super easy to do this by using short codes such as {{first_name}}, {{last_name}}, {{link}}, {{title}}, {{date}}, and so on.
By leveraging these text variables, your reminder emails become highly personalized and tailored to each individual. This degree of personalization makes your attendees’ experience more engaging and meaningful, making them feel valued and appreciated.
So, go ahead and use these powerful features to fully personalize and enhance your webinar email reminders.
WebinarKit Automated Audience Interactions
Even though WebinarKit has only automated webinars, you can still set up audience interactions. The main ways to interact with your webinar attendees is allowing them to ask questions – either using the email questions box or the webinar live chat. These are box available on the WebinarKit Basic Plan.
The email question box basically allows attendees to ask questions during the automated webinar and the questions would be sent straight to your inbox, so you can conveniently answer them and increase conversion. For the attendee, it looks like this:
And you’d get that email instantly into your email in this format:
The webinar live chat is an even better way of interacting with your attendees. It’s great for creating live-like automated webinars, where you’re there for the attendees to have a conversation with them and answer their questions. For the attendee, it looks like this:
It’s possible to have both email question box and live chat enables as well, but it could be a bit confusing to the attendee. The live chat definitely hooks your attendees better. If you can’t be there moderating, use the email question box.
When you’ve upgraded to the WebinarKit Chat Simulator, it’s also possible to set up simulated chat messages. Basically, you can set up messages from simulated attendees to comments at specific time marks during the webinar, which makes the webinar feel more live-like.
This is useful for asking and answering some common questions that your attendees usually have at any point during your automated webinar presentation. It makes your attendees feel more included and engaged, which will have a positive effect on the webinar view duration and offer conversion.
WebinarKit Live Interactions
During a live webinar session, you can also trigger the same interactions.
In addition, you can show webcam, screen share and show your slides.
As you’re sharing your slides, you can toggle if your want to show your webcam as well, or if you just want to show your slides in full screen mode.
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Webinar Offers and Call-to-Actions
One of the definite highlights of your webinar should be when you launch the offer to your attendees. For that, WebinarKit has a quite detailed setup enabled:
The offer setup is one of the most customizable features that I found during this WebinarKit review. It’s very convenient that you can customize the call-to-action text, when to launch the offer and when to hide it again.
A great conversion-booster is the offer countdown timer. It shows for how long is the offer still available and creates a sense of urgency for the attendees. Here’s how an offer would look like:
You can actually configure up to 3 call-to-action offers, in case you have more than one option for your offer. All of these 3 call-to-actions can redirect to different links.
Automated Polls in WebinarKit
Setting up polls is quite easy in WebinarKit, all you have to do is specify:
- Your question
- Start time & end time
- Answer options
The only problem with WebinarKit is that you can’t edit the poll once you’ve created it. If you try to press the poll, it doesn’t bring up the edit pop-up. If you’d want to change the poll, you’d have to delete the old one and create a new one.
Here’s how the poll would look like for the attendee during the webinar:
The voting results would become immediately available after the attendee has casted their vote. But this could backfire easily – if the attendee is the only one attending this automated webinar, after voting, they’d see a “100%” on this vote and just make it very obvious that it’s an automated event and wouldn’t give much value.
Video Engine & Support
One downside I’ve found on this WebinarKit review is the automated webinar video player. When you’re using a YouTube URL for the webinar video, then any attendee can pause the video by clicking on it. For example, when I’ve injected a YouTube video as the webinar video, when paused, it looks like this for the attendee:
Right then the attendee could click on any recommended videos or even the video title to be taken to YouTube instead. That’s not a very good solution, because your goal is to keep the attendees watching your webinar on the platform and engage with the interactions you’ve set up.
However, if you’re on the WebinarKit Pro plan, then you can just upload your webinar video straight to the platform and clicking on the video wouldn’t have any effect. In that case, the attendee can’t pause the video.
In any case if you run into troubles, the customer support is very friendly and replies in under 24 hours, even during the weekends.
Presentation Tools
There aren’t many presentation tools available, since WebinarKit only has automated webinars. However, it is possible to set up handouts, like presentation slides or a handbook PDF. You can set up the handout URL and the start & end time for making the handout available for the attendees.
For the attendee, the handout would become available like this during the webinar:
It should be noted that the handout feature is only available on the WebinarKit Pro.
User Interface & Mobile Optimization
Webinarkit has made some big adjustments to the user interface in recent years, with the goal of improving user experience whether you’re on a desktop or a mobile device. The enhancements have resulted in a more refined and user-friendly layout, making it easier to browse and access the services you need.
Not only that, but WebinarKit has prioritized mobile optimization. They have worked hard to guarantee that the platform runs well on mobile devices. One significant enhancement is the improved video autoplay capability on mobile devices, which provides a smoother and more engaging viewing experience when on the go.
So, whether you’re accessing WebinarKit on your desktop or using your mobile device, they’ve got you covered with an improved user interface and optimized mobile performance.
Mobile Devices Optimization
The webinar registration page and the “Thank you” page is fully responsive on mobile. Here are 2 different webinar registration pages on mobile, as the attendee would see it:
As I was joining a webinar on my mobile phone during this WebinarKit review, I noticed that the webinar video didn’t start immediately. After reloading the page, I started playing.
To be honest, the webinar room elements are a bit off-place. For example, the logo appears at the very bottom. Here are examples of 2 different automated webinar sessions:
Webinar Replay & Email Integrations
There’s one important email feature that’s gotten way too little attention on WebinarKit. That is the follow-up emails. It’s hugely important to follow up with your webinar attendees, in case they still have doubts about buying your product. An automatic webinar replay email is only available with the WebinarKit Pro package, but there is very limited customization you can do on it.
A good practice would be to send the webinar replay and a call-to-action in the webinar follow-up email. Luckily, there’s still a way to set up a follow-up email sequence using the integrations. WebinarKit offers integrations with the most popular email autoresponders, like:
- ActiveCampaign
- Aweber
- Constant Contact
- ConvertKit
- Drip
- GetResponse
- MailChimp
- MailerLite
- SendFox
- Sendinblue
- Sendlane
And you could create webhooks with Zapier.
WebinarKit Analytics Dashboard
The analytics dashboard on WebinarKit is quite rich, which surprised me during this WebinarKit review.
First, you can have a very clear overview of when did attendees drop out of your webinar session.
Compare this chart with your webinar video and you might find some reasons why your attendees are leaving. These are the parts of your webinar you can improve upon.
Another insightful part of the WebinarKit analytics dashboard is the Traffic, Conversion and the Engagement part. You’ll learn:
- How many visitors reached your registration page
- What’s your webinar attendance rate
- What’s your webinar replay attendance rate
- How long do attendees spend watching your webinar on average
- How many attendees clicked on the offers
Of course, WebinarKit lets you see each attendee information separately as well. For each attendee you can see their personal details, when they registered and their engagement activity. You can also export this data into a spreadsheet.
If you’d like to use 3rd party tracking tools, you can insert custom tracking scripts to the:
- Registration page
- Thank you page
- Webinar room
WebinarKit Pricing and Lifetime Access
WebinarKit is currently the only webinar software that allows you to register for a lifetime access with a one-time payment. Although, WebinarKit is a rather new webinar platform and some features still need some ironing out, it’s still an extremely generous deal.
There’s no trial, but there is a 14-day money back guarantee.
The creators of WebinarKit have said that the lifetime access is a temporary pricing strategy and they’ll soon be switching to monthly subscription pricing packages, like all the other webinar platforms out there.
That being said, the WebinarKit Basic package has some design and feature limitations that you should know about before subscribing.
WebinarKit Live 2.0 Pricing
Just recently WebinarKit launched its live webinar platforms. The pricing for the live webinar platform is on a per-month basis.
There are a couple of extra add-ons for WebinarKit. For example, you can schedule automated chat messages with the WebinarKit Chat Simulator.
The lifetime offer is a limited-time only offer. It will soon turn to monthly-subscription, like the other webinar platforms. If you subscribe today, you’ll get a lifetime access for a one-time flat fee.
WebinarKit Review Summary
To summarize this WebinarKit review, it’s an excellent solution for hosting automated webinars. The setup is a bit clunky at some parts, but the overall quality of the webinar is great for the attendee. Also, the lifetime access makes this an awesome deal.
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