12. Robbie Samuels is a TEDx speaker, keynote speaker, and relationship-based business strategy coach. The Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Lifehacker, and Ascend recognize him as a business networking expert. Robbie is the host of the On the Schmooze podcast and the #NoMoreBadZoom Virtual Happy Hour. As a Virtual Design Event Consultant and Executive Zoom Producer, he helps organizations bring in-person events strategically online. He also runs a program for presenters to become certified virtual event professionals.
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Today, Robbie joins me to discuss his work before the pandemic, where he helped people make the most of their events. He shares how some of those effective strategies from in-person events can work now in the online age of Zoom and how the pandemic is changing the way we focus meetings. He explains how the online nature of today's business world has removed some of the constraints of in-person events and why it's crucial to examine the goal of an exercise. He also shares the tools you can use in Zoom to facilitate interaction and create a better experience online and how and why he started his program to help people become better online presenters.
"Once we get comfortable with the technology, the technology actually supports us doing our work." - Robbie Samuels
"Online facilitation is a technique. In-person, there are certain things that are sort of assumed." - Robbie Samuels
"Everybody should host something on a regular basis, and that will help them get better in their hosting, better at the speaking, and they'll create something for other people, which has been a great way to identify new prospects." - Robbie Samuels
This week on Hypnotic Language Hacks Podcast:
- The work Robbie was doing pre-pandemic to help people and businesses make the most of events
- How some lessons from in-person events are carrying over into the new age of online meetings
- How the pandemic has helped to re-examine the purpose of each meeting
- How moving online has removed some of the constraints that come from in-person events and logistics
- Why a defined goal of an exercise is more important now that we are moving to online interaction
- Tools within Zoom you can use to encourage interaction
- Advantages of moving online and the new opportunities it presents
- How the strategy is more important than the platform
- The difference between being cinematic and theatrical
- How Robbie designs and produces his online events to keep people engaged
- What skills we can use as the speaker to change up the delivery and mode
- The settings you need to enable in Zoom for effective use of the tool
- Why having a checklist for each session is essential
- The possible long-term effects and next phase in business events after the pandemic
- How Robbie’s Zoom program started and what it covers
- The turning point for Robbie that made him want to create his new offering in his business
Resources Mentioned:
- The 5% Advantage Program
- Croissants Vs. Bagels: Strategic, Effective, and Inclusive Networking at Conferences
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