@mijustin!!! Means a lot from a guy that is great at esthetics.

I witnessed Omar, Nicole and their distributed team put the final touches to the last iteration. It was such hard work and they did a great job. I am a big fan Justin, Product People was recommended to me by a fellow SaaSter a while back :)

Great question @spencerfry! Let me preface this by saying that the teams at Facebook created a great tool with FB Live and this is not to put them down. It’s to show you the difference between FB Live and webinars. The main difference between using Facebook vs. webinars comes down to the control you have...control of your long-term marketing and relationship building with potential clients. 1. With webinars, you collect your attendees' email addresses. This allows you to later follow up and build a relationship with your audience. You can give them more value and eventually make an offer to them. With FB Live there is no way to follow up and you cannot contact them directly via email. You can only really comment below the video and that post gets buried in FB quickly. 2. Webinars are a controlled environment. When your attendees are on your webinars there are no other distractions like notifications, updates or other things in the feed on the page. With FB live your attendees are a scroll away from leaving your presentation. There's a crazy amount of distraction with tons of other content everywhere. 3. With webinars (especially with WebinarNinja 😉), you can be a whole lot more interactive. You can run polls, take questions (separate from the chat), even display offers right on the webinar page at anytime. You can also email them before or after the webinar to give them updates or reminders. 4. With our built-in follow-up sequence you can choose to automatically send your webinar replays to your attendees. You can customize that message to include any other offers or copy. 5. With webinars on WebinarNinja, you can share your screen and presentation slides. This means you don't need to be on camera all the time. You can talk over your slides or whatever your choose to share on your screen easily with no other software. 6. When attendees register and attend a webinar, they are coming with a different mindset. They are coming to learn and to stay for the length of the workshop. On FB Live, most are really only attending if they happen to be on FB at the time of your live video, with no intention to watch your live video to the end. There is a whole lot less commitment in this situation. To sum up, Facebook Live is a good tool within the social ecosystem but not so great for acquiring targeted leads and building trust with potential clients. Webinars are like presenting in a private auditorium with a captive audience. While Facebook Live is like having a stall at the county flea market, shouting for attention.

@bizrepublic Interesting to see your thoughts on this. Actually there is software you can use that means that you can run polls and take questions and share your screen on Facebook live. The integration of Messenger bots and getting people to subscribe by email is also changing Facebook Live today. I also see increasingly people asking for email addresses to then optin into a live stream on Facebook is a closed group that they only can access having gone through that landing page. What I am interested in is how tools like WN could be integrated into the platform that @spencerfry created (which I happen to be a customer of) - his platform is a great though I would like to see an integration with live streaming - I messaged him about this last week! Perhaps the two of you should talk as a user I can see some interesting synergies that would be great for both of your customer bases. P.S. Just a coincidence that I see Spencer asked the question as I was scrolling through the comments!

@happygezim Hey Gezim! Starter plans for sure include Automated webinars (which is the same as evergreen webinars). When you say recurring webinars...are you speaking about live webinars that happen over and over? You can clone any type of webinar at anytime. The knowledge base suggestion is an automated message via Intercom to try to help you while one of our support team members servers you. If you can give me a bit more detail of what you are looking for in terms of recurring webinars, can see if our team can add it to our roadmap :)

@bizrepublic Hi Omar. Thanks for the response. It just occurred to me that Intercom was blocked by Ghostery on my browser so I missed that. I realize Starter plan gives you automated webinars but I don't need that. I want to send out a webinar link to each new user that registers and have them choose a time from a list of 3-5 times during the week. I then want to do each webinar live when the date/time comes. Cloning doesn't work for me because I'd have to do a lot of manual work and send people 3-5 links. Am I making sense at all? Thanks again, Omar!

@happygezim Yeah that makes total sense :) and something we can consider adding to our road map. Good suggestion!

@noahkagan 😀 You've been a great person I've called upon for advice along the way. Appreciate you brother.

Thanks @brennandunn! Loved seeing you grow as well my man. You're doing amazing things. Love this question because our users requested this a few months back and we've been working on it! We are hoping to release a whole new feature later this month called On-site Registration. This will allow you to use any landing page or/with ESP to register your attendees to the webinar. It will work with anything that allows an HTML form embed. We currently have a Zapier integration but are also working on full featured integration with major ESP's like Drip that will allow you tag to your hearts desire within WN based on actions like 'registered but did not attend' or 'left before your offer was shown'. This second feature is due later in April/May. Needs crazy testing as you can imagine 😅

Hey @lkr ! Good question! WebinarNinja focuses on making the experience better for hosts and attendees. We don't try to cram in features or catering to enterprise clients. We are totally browser based (you got to download software with Zoom) and make it easy to set up a webinar with our 10-second creation (it's 10 steps with WebinarJam) We also include all types of webinars with our plans so you don't need to buy separate software to run automated/recorded webinars (like WebinarJam. Zoom only does live). We include Live and Automated webinars with all our plans and offer Series & Summits &Hybrid webinars with our other tiers. We also, in my opinion have the BEST replay experience ever. When live you can change your layouts to show screens (i.e. host video, share screen, slides, co-host) in different arrangements including picture in picture. The magical part is that we reproduce this experience in the replay recording so it matches the live experience as well. Other webinar software just give you a replay with a default grid of the screens. Not so cool when on live you had your slides on full screen and people can't read the slides on the replay with this silly girded layout. This replay functionality was one of the most challenging aspects in building 5.0 because no one has done it before 😉 We really work hard to allow you to be in full control with your webinars without all the clutter and complication. Lastly, our support team is the best. I LOVE THEM! We know that our users use webinars to grow their business. It's high stakes. They want to look great in front of their audience. Our team not only helps with getting started with the app but how to prepare and deliver a great webinar experience as well. We see ourselves more than just a tech company. We believe its just as important to provide the training and support you need to win with our product, as the product itself.

@bizrepublic What are the new 5.0 features? Is iOS fully supported now in all features and functionality?

Hey @wkeving! Yes. iOS is fully supported now (thanks to Apple allowing WebRTC in iOS11). We really worked on an improved experience in creation, presenting and interacting with features like: - Upload your PowerPoint slides & docs right inside WebinarNinja! - Faster webinar creation - Insert YouTube videos at anytime during the live broadcast - Dynamic layouts - Improved chat with Emojis 😎 - Our new Series & Summits webinars - A powerful webinar search engine, The Webinar Finder, to help hosts get more attendees. ...and a whole lot more...for a quick walkthrough of 5.0 and its features, you can check out our features page at: https://webinarninja.com/features/ 😀

@antonmccarthy It's all good Anton 😎

@antonmccarthy lol :) enjoy!

@prsarahevans I'll keep you top of mind Sarah! 😀

Brian! You're an inspiration man. You are our go to source for working on our SEO for WebinarNinja. We are doing well on that front thanks to you but got more work to do, as always the case with SEO 😀 Got Backlinko bookmarked!

@nuthinking Thanks Christian! Appreciate you :)

@nuthinking Awww thanks!

@leonhitchens - Great question! The best way I can answer it is by sharing our own experience. When we started WebinarNinja in 2014, we were NOT a browser based software. One of the biggest reasons we moved to being browser based was quality control. A couple of years ago we made the move to being browser based. With the vast majority of the app's computing is done on our scaleable AWS servers, it allows us to to provide a consistent, reliable experience for our users. Apposed to desktop software where you have to trust the user's computing power will hold up and not crash (cough Skype). This is normally fine with apps where a reboot is not a drama. But with live video, an interruption is no joke. Not to mention. updates are much easier for us and users, as it's a seamless experience with no need to prompt the user to update their software. Thanks for checking us out 😀

Hey @mefranco! Thanks for the question. GoTo has been a solid app for some time but it's not created with business owners and marketers in mind. You will need a more than just GoTo to market your webinars and follow up with your webinar attendees. WebinarNinja prides itself as an all-in-one webinar solution, giving the host everything they need to run webinars- registration pages, thank you pages, email notifications, built in marketing with our webinar search engine-The Webinar Finder and more. There is nothing to download with WebinarNinja. We are totally browser based so your attendees don't need to download anything to attend your webinars. This equals higher attendance rates. As a former H.S. and college teacher, I am obsessed with the learning environment so we mad sure interaction is done easily with our Studio area. A separate Q&A area, insert YouTube videos at anytime live, Dynamic layouts, as well as the ability to upload your PPT slides directly in WN so you can manage everything on one screen. No need to share screen (you still can thought if you want). Oh! One more I should mention. GoTo Doesn't offer the wide range of webinar types we do- Live, Automated, Series & Summits and Hybrid. Plus we're just nicer to look at :)

Means so much @brian_baulch to hear that. Thank you.

Hey Angel! Thanks so much for being a Webinar Ninja. Just a heads up as you might of missed the announcement late last year- We are fully mobile compatible -iOS and Android. Even though we have a Zapier integration with 5.0 we are adding direct integrations with Email Marketing Services in the near future :) Thanks again 😀

Thanks Ryan! Your words are like a power up from a classic video game- giving us renewed energy! But seriously, it's so nice to see how much our work is appreciated and pays off for our users.

Gotta admit, Omar and the team have been working hard on this, and they're developing improving it each time I see it!