Tips to increase the Audience Engagement in events

Engage with the audience – Power of interaction

The speakers should directly connect with the audience through asking questions and encouraging them to answer.

There should be an eye contact with the audience while speaking to them. Avoid reading from a paper without making any direct connection with them. Dialogues should be initiated and monologues should be kept minimal.

Keep everyone engaged

• By way of asking questions and feedbacks from audiences, attendees will become participants.
• Make the participants introduce themselves. Divide the audience into small groups and give them a topic to discuss. This will enable greater level of interactivity.
• Conduct polls and encourage the audience to respond.
• Use mobile apps for getting responses. Even introverts can help themselves by expressing their thoughts through such tools.

Integrate social media

By using social media platforms, you can greatly engage the audience. They can twitter their opinions and use like option for your comments. You can encourage guests to start online conversation. Create a hashtag for your event in twitter and draw the audience`s attention to it.  

Interesting Event Schedules

To create an engaging experience to your guests, variation is the key. You can alternate talks with interactive sessions like workshops and networking sessions. Visual presentations that are short and clear with engaging content can leave a lasting impression on the audience too. You need to understand your audience and plan the event accordingly for better impact.

Make time for networking

For most events, time and place should be set aside for attendees to know and network with each other. Break time is important for this to happen. It changes the atmosphere in a dynamic way when the guests start interacting with enthusiasm.

Effective networking of attendees

Make sure the attendees have common business interests so that they can easily identify and connect with each other.

A lunch with round tables after the event or during the course of the event makes it easy for guests to be face to face with each other.

Create an atmosphere of hospitality

To create an overall impression of the event, the attendees should be provided with water and light snacks to lift their moods. Lunch over the event will go a long way to impress your guests.

WI-FI connectivity

To connect easily with each other on social media platforms, the guests should be provided with Wi-Fi connection.

Drive home your message with clarity

Avoid long boring presentations to your attendees. The content should be coordinated with precision, clarity and presented in an interesting manner to capture the attention of your attendees.