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Why Conference Call Apps Can't Replace Virtual Events.

 

Conferencing calls or your regular meeting applications are easy, user-friendly but they cannot be used as a substitute to EVENT PLATFORMS. As an event organizer, you know what your stakeholders and attendees require, especially during these digital times - a true, engaging, and immersive virtual event. And this is exactly why your virtual event needs to stand out to be convincing, engaging, and worth their time.

Events are for everybody and definitely, you’d not want to put a number on it. The more the merrier, isn’t it? Therefore, it is another reason why conferencing apps can’t forge a Virtual Event Platform and allow n number of attendees to be at your virtual event. However, a virtual event platform is the opposite and ensures that an unlimited number of attendees can join your virtual event and make it a success! 


Also, can you ever use a conferencing app and call it engaging? We don’t think so. Today, the audience is super aware and holds every entity accountable for their time and attention. So,if you aren’t giving them a good time, along with content, the “it’s so boring” episodes might see a surge. So, you’ve got to up your game to stay on-point and rock an engaging Virtual or Hybrid event. 

So, here are a few limitations of just using a conferencing app for your event if you do not rope in an actual virtual events platform.

Read along!

●      Conferencing apps can be great for group calls or attend a friend’s wedding, but for organizations to interact and engage, a Virtual event platform is best with appropriate branding opportunities, setting banners, the intentional placing of virtual elements to hold the viewer’s attention - all in control!

●      Do you know conferencing can limit user experience with only showing their faces, raising a hand, and leaving the meeting if there is nothing else to do! And you as an event organizer, and for the love of the Audience, must focus on giving them a good time while they are at your Virtual Event. The ability to navigate through your event or access resources related to your event goes a long way if you wish to host a successful event

●      To entertain your audience, fun activities curated at your virtual event can go a long way. Starting from Scribble walls for the personal touch, attaching notes for your fellow speakers, to gamifying your event with an exciting incentive - such attention-seeking activities will surely hold your audiences’ attention & increase the retention rate at your virtual event.

●      To anyone who chooses Video Conferencing apps over Virtual events platform, have you ever thought that your event is an extension of you, your product, content, and your organisation? There’s a message encoded in every step you take for your organisation like hosting an event for your target audience or curating products or content for them. To get the right message across to them, a Virtual Event platform can do the job perfectly. The right platform can make you an impactful venue with the right exteriors depicting your real-life outdoors, office building, footfall during events, and highlighting your partners and sponsors. Sounds fancy? It is, but extremely easy when you have the right virtual event platform with you.

●      Conference calls are not the right replacements even when it comes to interactions. With the right platform, there is an added flexibility of integrating your or your audiences’ choice of communication mode like WhatsApp, Video Call, SMS, or Voice calls. It can be diverse as well as inclusive at the same time. It is a known fact that inclusivity for any event is a must-have for an event’s success.

●      And last, but the “Queen” of all features is the availability of rich and integrated reports from the backend. And this can only land on your screen provided you partner with the right virtual events platform.

So, why take up all the trouble when you can get professional help. Yes, getting a team - a virtual event partner will ease your responsibilities and you can solely concentrate on your event without having to put extra effort into the technicalities.

For an impactful, immersive experience, it is important for you to look beyond the conventional video conferencing apps and set your tone right for your target audience. For creating the right impression at any kind of event, making it much more than just face-to-face interactions and building them a space that caters to their senses and boggles their mind is important. 


Ibentos is one such platform having the right professionals and advanced technology to handle your virtual or hybrid event. To check out the range of ibentos virtual event products, head to www.ibentos.com

Resource: https://articles.abilogic.com/504612/why-conference-call-apps-replace.html

More Resources:

- Event Cancelled due to Covid 19? Reasons Why To Go With Virtual Event

- Why B2B enterprise has hybrid events in their 2021 marketing plan!

- How to engage a remote audience at your virtual event?

- Top 5 Virtual Event Platforms that got you through in 2020.

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