Marketing how-to

How to plan a webinar with Claude.

Most B2B webinars produce low registration, low attendance, low pipeline. The ones that work follow a different planning pattern: topic chosen by demand signal, promotion sequence designed for show rate, post-webinar nurture built to convert. Claude accelerates each phase. Here is the workflow.

The premise

Why most B2B webinars underperform

Common pattern: marketing picks an "interesting" topic, builds a registration page, emails the list once, attendees are low, attended-to-pipeline conversion is even lower. Webinar is declared "not worth it."

The real issue is that the topic was picked without demand signal, the promotion was a single touch, and there was no nurture sequence to convert attendees into pipeline. Each of these is fixable with AI assistance.

The 5-step workflow

How it actually works

1. Topic selection from demand signal. Use Claude to mine your top 10 most-asked sales questions, top 10 search queries that landed on your site, top 10 LinkedIn topics with engagement. The intersection is your topic.

2. Outline and promise. Build the registration page promise around a specific outcome the attendee will get. Vague topics = low registration.

3. Multi-touch promotion sequence. 4-5 emails + 5-7 LinkedIn posts + sales team outreach to relevant prospects. Single email = low registration.

4. Webinar execution + recording. AI does not run the webinar. But you can use AI for follow-up planning and chat moderation during.

5. Post-webinar nurture sequence. Attended vs. registered-but-no-show vs. registered-and-engaged. Three different sequences. AI generates each.

The topic-selection prompt

Step 1

I am selecting a webinar topic for [SEGMENT] in [QUARTER].

Here are the top 10 questions our sales team gets repeatedly: [LIST]
Here are the top 10 search queries that landed on our site in the last 90 days: [LIST]
Here are the top 10 LinkedIn topics with high engagement from our audience: [LIST]
Our expertise areas: [WHAT WE CAN CREDIBLY TEACH]
What product or service we want to drive interest in: [SPECIFIC]

Identify the 3 strongest webinar topics — the intersection of:
- Real demand signal (multiple sources point to it)
- Our credible expertise
- A natural path to our offering

For each topic:
- Working title (specific, outcome-driven)
- The 1-paragraph value promise that drives registration
- 5 specific takeaways the attendee gets
- Why this topic now (the timing argument)
- Why we are the right teacher (the credibility argument)
The post-webinar nurture prompt

Step 5

Build a post-webinar nurture sequence.

Webinar topic: [TOPIC]
Key takeaways the webinar promised: [LIST]
Product/service we are driving interest in: [SPECIFIC]

Build 3 different sequences:

A. Attended (showed up live):
- Day 0: Thank you + recording link + 1-page summary
- Day 3: Deep-dive on the one takeaway most attendees engaged with
- Day 7: Soft pitch — relevant offer
- Day 14: Case story

B. Registered but no-show:
- Day 0: "Sorry we missed you" + recording link
- Day 3: 1-page summary of what they missed
- Day 7: Same soft pitch as attendees

C. Engaged in chat (asked questions, etc):
- Same as attended sequence, but Day 7 swaps the soft pitch for a personal direct outreach from a named human (sales rep or founder)

For each email: subject, preview, body, single CTA. 100-150 words max.
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