513: Online Meetings & Virtual Events During COVID-19

Everybody. This is Steli Efti. And this is Heat and Chop. And today on the Solove Chat, we wanna talk about online meetings, webinars, conferences during COVID nineteen. I think we like talking about more than just sales and marketing. We just wanna bullshit and chat about business business and life. And hopefully, while we're doing that, provide a lot of value to people. The world's best business podcast. Oh. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. We did it. For people trying to get shit done. No. Yeah. We don't wanna give you feedback that's bullshit. And we want you to do your best. Is it a good idea? Is it a bad idea? Is it gonna Yeah. What is happening in the world around the trying to bring physical events online? What are we experiencing, observing? We both felt like it's an interesting thing that's going on around the world. Zoom fatigue and other things popped to mind. And so, we just wanted to chitchat and see how we what we're observing, what we think will happen next, how to think about these things. Let me ask you first. So I, I have just the amount of invitations to online events and conferences for me has just ramped up drastically. Obviously, because this is like conference summertime, I guess, and a lot of conference organizers decided to try to do the events completely online. But also just the amount of webinars that companies give, the amount of meetings that you I mean, we always because we were remote, always had a lot of Zoom meetings, but it's gotten even more because now I do Zoom meetings with friends. I do Zoom meetings, calls with family members. I just do a lot more of these virtual video conferencing calls. And, yeah, I'm curious. I I you also I've I've done a few conferences. I've done a bunch of webinars and everything in between so far, and I'm starting to try to figure out how I feel about all this and if I wanna do more or less and what what's gonna happen in the in the market. What about you? What are what's kind of been your experience over the last couple of weeks? I see there's been a lot of exuberance for online events, like, more than I've ever seen in my life. And I'll start that way. Because, like, I still don't know what to think because of what I just said. Like, there's been more than ever. And for the moment, it feels like people are into it. Intuit meaning there's enough people that are still into it where if you throw some online something or other and have some way to promote it, people will show up. Because it's not that they don't have anything better to do, it's that they're seeking connection. They're seeking this. Yeah. I led a few over the last two or three weeks. I wouldn't say an insane amount, but definitely more than …