Online chat offers several benefits to attendees at hybrid events, such as being able to ask questions and participate in discussions with presenters and other participants in real-time. However, if you aren’t using the right tools, the chat can be frustrating and unproductive.

This guide highlights three tools that will help you maximize RumbleTalk chat during hybrid events. Therefore making the most out of the opportunity to connect and interact.

What are hybrid events?

Hybrid events are those that fall between in-person and online. They usually include a combination of seminar-style talks and networking time.

With so many different ways to engage, hybrid events provide a great opportunity for personal connections to form. This is something in short supply in an online environment.

That said, hybrid events can be difficult to navigate as an attendee. Here are some great ways to support them and supercharge their overall event experience.

Create real-time conversations

Embed a group chat next to your event to give your audience a space to interact. Not only is it an excellent way to build engagement between you and your audience, but it also gives them a venue to ask questions and get responses from each other! It’s essentially their own live chat room that you can monitor and moderate in real-time.

Furthermore, it allows you to reach new audiences, build community, keep attendees engaged and get more sales opportunities. The possibilities are endless!

Attendees who interact in your group chat have a high propensity for being buyers themselves. So, having open discussions about challenges they face and how your solution could be beneficial for them is a great way to increase awareness of your brand, products, or services.

Get people engaged with fun conversational prompts

During a live event or webinar, polls are an easy way to help get participants involved and keep them engaged. You can use polls to ask questions and display results to those in attendance. Moreover, you can simply use them to get people talking about topics that interest them.

Polls are also handy for gathering more information about attendees; asking where they’re from, what their background is, etc., is a great way to gauge audience reactions and see if what you’re presenting is on-target.

Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to use polls.

Versatile and fully customizable chat rooms

One of the visions RumbleTalk has is to make the chat rooms fully customizable, both for novice users and professional developers. Our chat comes with pre-made skins and themes you can choose from. And, it has full CSS capabilities. Perfect for when you want to completely personalize your chat to make it look and feel like your own.

This feature allows organizers to take full control over their rooms. They can do this by choosing which elements should be present and where they should be placed on the screen. Furthermore, the easy-to-use design tab eliminates the need for any backend coding, which makes RumbleTalk a super versatile tool to have in your hybrid event arsenal.

Here.’s a video on how to customize your chat using CSS.

Maximize Your Speakers’ Time with Q&A Tools

Moderating a Q&A between your speaker and audience is a great way to create two-way communication during your hybrid events. This makes sure that audience members get answers to their questions.

However, it’s also easy for Q&A sessions to get out of hand. And in fact, most attendees will tell you that poorly moderated Q&As can actually be worse than no Q&A at all.

Use the Moderated Chat to keep your event running smoothly. This chart type allows you to ap[prove or reject messages, or questions before it goes live. You can also mute all users, ban spammers, and slow down the chat as needed.

Supercharged networking experience

Easily add value and connect with your virtual attendees. How? Just embed a powerful chat plugin beside your hybrid events.

Our tip is to encourage all of your panelists and speakers to use the chat room while they’re speaking so you can have an immediate conversation. It’s more engaging rather than just watching the event without any interaction.

Go ahead and get your free chat now! We’d also be glad to help you set up for your next event, just email us at support@rumbletalk.com.

Looking to host a virtual event that will impress and wow your audience? If you’re not sure where to start, the following tips and tricks are the perfect place to begin brainstorming. Let’s get started!

Host your virtual event on your website, with a twist

Adding a RumbleTalk chat alongside your virtual event not only helps with engagement. It also increases interactions between presenters, attendees, and speakers while encouraging live discussion on both topics. It adds another layer of dimension to the overall experience.

Imagine your attendees expecting the same old online event, and be surprised with a lot of gimmicks along the way.

Gamify Connections

If you’re looking to run an event online, there are plenty of game-centric options to boost engagement and sales. For example, create a flash or word puzzle as part of the event. This game allows your audience to connect with other users. Also, you can use this game to give them a chance to unlock prizes or coupons they can use to purchase from your website.

Another example would be hosting a trivia event with questions about your brand. For each question answered correctly, one person who answers gets a point for their team—and then some bonus prize at the end. Furthermore, this also helps incentivize participation throughout your event.

Speed Networking

One of our favorite methods for creating excitement for an online event is to set up a speed networking experience. This gets users to interact with one another, which builds a strong sense of community.

Creating multiple chat rooms for online networking events allows you to keep different sets of people separate. For example, hosting a professional event, like a speed networking session or online dating.

Likewise, a business conference might benefit from separate rooms. How? They can use the private rooms for online meetings, consultations, or brainstorming. In addition to that, they can also use the video and audio calls for free.

Learn how to create multiple chat rooms HERE.

Health and Wellbeing Activities

Online health and wellbeing activities are a great place to start if you’re looking for an engaging afternoon with a group of people. Host a slew of valuable activities such as learning about nutrition, weight training, active lifestyle, healthy meal plans, and more. There is no shortage of online health and well-being community activities. It is much more enjoyable when you share it with like-minded people.

Some of these community groups are also focused on helping others. They do this by donating proceeds made from selling certain products back to charitable causes. They can also monetize the activity through pay per admission.

As a RumbleTalk chat owner and event organizer, you can monetize your events through our paid access (PayWall). Learn more about it HERE.

Invite Influencers

Influencers are becoming an essential part of any marketing strategy. Even if you’re just getting started, it’s never too early to start building relationships with key influencers in your niche.

Offer them a seat at your upcoming online event and they’ll be sure to spread the word—and likely share some insights as well. You can also ask them to be one of your speakers. Moreover, you can easily host a moderated Q&A session where your speakers can interact with your audience.

Surprise your virtual event attendees with delivered giveaways

Handing out branded giveaways to conference attendees, customers, or clients helps build a positive association with your brand. Surprise people with a gift they weren’t expecting. For example, something fun like a stress ball, stickers, a fun pen, even candy. Or why not something from your product line?

People may not remember what you say during an online chat but they’ll definitely remember how you made them feel. If your budget approves, go ahead and take that extra mile!

Exclusive virtual event experiences

Whether you want to share knowledge, impart your ideas, sell your product or service, or simply engage with the online community, we all want to create events are full of entertainment, education, and engagement. All these things will keep your audience talking about it long after it’s over.

So, by taking these unique, creative, and impactful ideas into consideration, you’ll be able to bring your next event to life in a big way.

Are you looking for a more efficient way to redirect your group chat audience into a specific webpage or file? Try RumbleTalk’s InText Keywords. This system only takes minutes to set up and doesn’t require any type of special coding knowledge or website design skills.

Get started today with everything you need to know about this feature.

What is RumbleTalk InText Keywords?

The InText Keyword feature is an exciting tool available on your RumbleTalk Chat. This turns single words or phrases into dynamic hyperlinks. Therefore, allowing you to associate any word with any webpage, download file, online document, PowerPoint presentation, Excel spreadsheet, PDF, video, or affiliate link of your choice.

With RumbleTalk InText Keywords, you have complete control over your links – if you want the link to go to one place or another and what happens when it’s clicked on. Not only that, but your links will be permanently associated with your targeted keyword phrase – even if the page address changes or the page moves around on the site or changes names altogether!

Where can I use InText Keywords?

InText Keywords can be used for anything. For example, live events, website communities, education, trade shows, conferences, and one-on-one consultations.

The idea is to never send the link over and over again. So just type in your keyword and it will automatically be clickable – redirecting your audience to the file, webpage, or form you want them to see. Here are some of the ways you can use an InText Keyword.

For online job fairs, use it to send people directly to a website where they can see the job listings. How about an online application form? Sure!

For conferences, use it so your audience can fill out a survey form. This way, you can easily get their feedback without sending the links again and again.

For education, use an InText Keyword so that your students will have easy access to key documents and presentations.

For e-commerce website chats, use your keywords so that your community can download the menu easily. Moreover, you can also send them to your order form.

For online consultations and medical advice, typing in the key term will generate links directing your patients directly towards web pages where they need to fill out the registration form. You can also redirect them to instructional videos on Youtube without copy-pasting the Youtube link.

How do I create an InText Keyword?

Creating your keywords is simple, you can set it up in no time. Just follow the steps below:

1. Go to your admin panel.
2. Go to Settings and select Keywords from the drop-down menu.
3. Enter the keyword(s) and URL that you want to associate it with.
4. Click Save.

That’s it! Your keywords are now active.

Don’t be limited to just a single word. InText Keywords work for phrases as well.

The number of keywords you can add to a group chat depends on your current plan. Don’t worry though, you can upgrade your plan and add keywords at any time!

A simple solution to make your conversations more efficient

RumbleTalk’s InText Keywords is a great tool that lets you create keywords and easily turn them into dynamic links that redirect to anything! Finally, this feature optimizes your chat to make your conversations more efficient and interactive.

Create your free account now. You can also send us a message at support@rumbletalk.com and we’d be glad to assist you with a free demo.

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