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Marketing Your Business - Marketing Strategies for Business Owners

230: Why Most Webinars Fail (It's Not What You Think)

Marketing Your Business - Marketing Strategies for Business Owners

Stu McLaren

Business, Marketing

4.9679 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

My client Lisa came to me and said, "Stu, I am terrible at selling." She wanted to revamp her entire webinar presentation. But when we broke down the numbers, we found something she never expected.

 

Lisa wasn't bad at selling at all. Her close rate was actually strong. The real problem? She wasn't getting enough people into the room in the first place. It was a traffic and show-up problem, not a selling problem. And once we identified that, the solution became simple.

 

In this episode, I walk you through the 6 conversion points in any webinar funnel -- the chain of events that determines whether your webinar works or falls flat. Most business owners look at the whole thing and say "this isn't working." But when you break it down link by link, the answer becomes obvious.

 

In this episode, you'll learn:

• The 6 conversion points in every webinar funnel (and how to diagnose each one)

• Why "I'm bad at selling" is almost never the real problem

• How to tell if your bottleneck is traffic, opt-in, show-up, stay-on, close, or follow-up

• Why attendees who interact through Q&A and polls are 30% more likely to buy

• The follow-up stat most people ignore: 25% of webinar sales happen after the event

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You ever thought to yourself, I'm just not good at selling? Well, what if I told you that might

0:04.7

not be true at all? What if the real issue has nothing to do with your ability to sell? And it has

0:10.0

everything to do with the fact that you're probably looking at the wrong problems in your business.

0:15.8

See, if your marketing feels stuck or if your launches feel flat, or if you've been putting in the

0:20.7

work and the results

0:22.3

don't match the effort, this episode is going to give you a completely different way to look at it.

0:27.7

And once you see it, you can't unsee it.

0:30.2

Welcome to marketing your business. I'm Stu McLaren, co-founder of membership.io and author

0:35.0

of predictable profits. Now here's the truth.

0:37.7

You are one great marketing idea away

0:40.3

from transforming your business.

0:42.7

One strategy can be the difference

0:44.3

between struggling and thriving,

0:46.2

between a business that drains you

0:47.6

and one that fuels your life.

0:49.9

Every episode, you're gonna get specific tactics

0:52.6

you need to build your audience,

0:54.1

attract more customers, and scale your business, all without the burnout.

0:58.3

These are real strategies, real numbers, real behind the scenes.

1:02.4

Buckle your seatbelts, my friend.

1:03.8

Let's go.

1:05.8

So I want to set the scene here because one of my clients, Lisa, came to me and she said,

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