The Summit Host Hangout Podcast

Hundreds of episodes filled with real stories, real strategies, and real numbers to help you make your virtual summit (and the launch that follows) as streamlined and profitable as possible.
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How to Use a Facebook Group to Increase Virtual Summit Engagement

Let’s cover why you need a Facebook group for your summit, how to create a thriving community, getting attendees to join, and tips for managing it all.

Engagement is a major key to hosting a profitable and community-building virtual summit. One of the best ways to boost engagement is with a Facebook group (or other community) just for the summit.

A summit community means having a place to come together, learn, implement, ask questions, and have a good time.

It's totally worth the “extra” work to have a community for your...

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Your Speakers' Role in Promotion and Pressuring Them to Promote

It is hard to host a summit that skyrockets your email list without speaker promotion. But it's not your speakers' responsibility to make your summit successful.

It is hard to host a profitable summit that skyrockets your email list without speaker promotion. Like, really hard. Maybe even impossible if you don't have a ton of money to throw into paid ads.

But here's the thing...it's not your speakers' responsibility to make your summit successful.

It is yours.

A lot of speakers will promote your event at the last minute or even as it's going on. And...

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Manage Your Time to Launch a Virtual Summit as a Side Hustler with Kari Roberts

Learn how to host a virtual summit as a side-hustler without the stress. This 3-step process is about to make your summit prep go a whole lot more smoothly.

You know a virtual summit is a great way to grow your email list, boost revenue, and get your name out there, but how do you fit it in along with an already busy side-hustle?

It's all about how you manage your time.

Today, Kari Roberts is here to share how she hosted a summit without stressing herself out as a side-hustler and how you can do it too.

Her 3-step process...

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All-Access Pass Q&A

Selling an all-access pass is a little different than your typical digital product. Let’s clear up some confusion with a rapid-fire Q&A covering common questions.

Selling an all-access pass is a little different than selling your typical digital product. Along with those differences can come confusion, so let's clear it up today with a rapid-fire Q&A with the most common questions I hear about selling an all-access pass.

We’ll cover:

  • When to give buyer’s access to the all-access pass.
  • When to expect people to upgrade.
  • How to...
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All-Access Pass Tech + Logistics for your Virtual Summit

Here’s what the backend of your virtual summit’s all-access pass setup should look like, what tech goes into that, and I’ll share my recommended tech options.

Your all-access pass is an incredibly important part of hosting a profitable virtual summit. It's your first chance to make a solid offer to those who sign up for your event. However, it is a more technical part of the summit-hosting process.

All-access pass tech can feel like a lot but doesn’t have to be scary. As long as you understand the process, you'll have what you need to put the...

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How to Price an All-Access Pass

What should you charge for your summit’s all-access pass? Learn how to price an all-access pass, based on your offer, and get the highest-converting price range here!

You've got an incredible all-access pass offer ready to go for your virtual summit...but how in the world do you decide what to charge?

I know it's easy to assume that someone isn't willing to pay for what you have to offer. But more often than not, it's a mindset issue on your end more than anything.

After all, people pay to have their problems solved every single day. And that's exactly...

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Create an All-Access Pass that Gets Virtual Summit Attendees Hitting 'Buy Now'

Create an all-access pass that has your virtual summit attendees hitting “buy now” by learning what a high-converting all-access pass looks like (and what to avoid).

An all-access pass is a powerful way to make money through a virtual summit, but only if you do it the right way.

It’s totally possible to create an all-access pass that has your attendees jumping for the "buy now" button, but it's also possible to make one that totally flops.

No one wants ongoing access to presentations for $20. Your offer needs to be more appealing than that.

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Use a Quiz to Increase Virtual Summit Engagement and Attendee Results with Jenn Zellers

Here’s how to use a simple quiz to segment your virtual summit presentations and increase attendee engagement and results. Plus, they’re just plain fun!

If you host a summit with even as few as 10 presentations, anyone who watches them all is going to wind up overwhelmed, frustrated, and feeling like they can't succeed.

Instead, show your attendees how to choose presentations that will get them the biggest return for their unique situation. One way to encourage this is to create a quiz to help each attendee narrow down to the best...

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Add a Physical Element to Your Virtual Summit with a Custom Box with Mark Stern

Custom boxes are a powerful way to create an incredible experience and increase engagement for your virtual summit attendees by combining physical with digital.

You can create an incredible digital experience through a virtual summit, but have you considered what it would look like to bring a physical element into the mix?

I don't recommend that everyone creates a big custom box for a virtual summit, but creating something smaller, that's designed to complement and enhance the experience of your event, can go a long way.

To walk you through how...

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The Best-Kept Secret to Virtual Summit Engagement with Jordan Aspen

When is the last time you thought outside the box to get your audience to engage with you? Here’s the best-kept secret in increasing your virtual summit engagement.

When is the last time you thought outside-the-box to go above and beyond in getting your audience to engage with you and your brand? 

A summit that isn't engaging means it's less likely anyone will stay interested long enough to get a real transformation. That's why I encourage you to get creative with how you keep your summit attendees engaged.

Today, Jodan Aspen from ...

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