Skip the Webinar: Why ‘Free’ Webinars Suck and How to Run One People Actually Attend
Release Date: 12/15/2025
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S1:E7 Webinars. I run them. I attend them. And I fucking hate them because most of them are just an infomercial wearing a headset. In this episode, Eric Vincent and Dr. M tear into the modern webinar dumpster fire: cameras off, crickets in the chat, “fake live” bullshit, and the classic move where they “reveal the secret” at minute 59… which is surprise! "Buy my $199 program!" Total BS. We hit what actually makes a webinar worth anyone’s time (topic timing, promotion, interactivity, tech that doesn’t melt, and giving people something real), why “free” kills attendance,...
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S1:E8 Everybody wants “luck” like it’s a coupon code. Newsflash: luck isn’t a strategy—it’s what people call it when they’re too scared to admit they didn’t do the work. Eric Vincent and Dr. M go at it on whether luck exists in business, why “right place, right time” still requires you to get off your ass and show up, and how mindset, environment, and your circle either fuel momentum… or keep you stuck with the drama addicts and sourpusses. We hit “vibrational energy,” law of attraction, long-game companies (hello, Netflix), and why the internet trained everyone...
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S1:E9 You hired an expert… so why the hell are you arguing with them like you watched a YouTube video once? In this episode of How, Why, What, Eric Vincent and Dr. M unload on the epidemic of business stupidity: fake gurus, Canva designers who don’t know what an f-stop is, clients who want champagne results on a beer budget, and people who think AI, webinars, or WebMD magically make them smarter than professionals with actual experience. We’re talking staying in your lane, respecting expertise, why rushing grants and RFPs is a guaranteed way to lose, how angry B2B clients forget...
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Webinars. I run them. I attend them. And I fucking hate them because most of them are just an infomercial wearing a headset.
In this episode, Eric Vincent and Dr. M tear into the modern webinar dumpster fire: cameras off, crickets in the chat, “fake live” bullshit, and the classic move where they “reveal the secret” at minute 59… which is surprise! "Buy my $199 program!" Total BS.
We hit what actually makes a webinar worth anyone’s time (topic timing, promotion, interactivity, tech that doesn’t melt, and giving people something real), why “free” kills attendance, when you should charge a small fee to filter for serious humans, and why AI is about to flood the market with soulless bot-webinars that make the whole thing even worse.
If you’re doing webinars to “generate leads,” congrats - you’ve generated a list of people who will never show up and will unsubscribe the second you email them. Do better.
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