Having reached one million users, The CEO of Eseminar is looking for international activity
According to the IDEA, Eseminar webinar platform has exceeded one million. He believes that if the conditions of the second half of 2022 had not prevailed in the country, they would have reached this goal much sooner.
He also emphasized that the absence of Iran in a global free market has caused their international growth to be much slower. But he emphasizes that they will soon continue their activities with a greater focus on the global market.
“Manuel Ohanjanians”, CEO and founder of Eseminar, in an interview with Digiato about how Eseminar was started, said: “The idea of this complex was formed in 2013 and the work on its development started in the second half of 2017, but finally in 2018 we were able to launch this product at the Samsung Innovation Center located in Amirkabir University.”
Ohanjanianians announced that this startup has started its work with a personal capital of ten million tomans: “We have only had two rounds of fundraising so far, and once for 330 million tomans in 2018 and once for 800 million tomans in the second half of 2018. In the second year of 2019, we attracted capital. In total, we attracted a little more than one billion tomans.”
According to Ohanjanianians, this collection has more than 20 thousand organizers and during its years of activity it has hosted more than 50 thousand events in the field of various activities, including management, entrepreneurship, information technology, finance, personal development, language, medicine and health, psychology, technical and It has been engineering, sports, art, etc.
If it wasn’t for last year’s conditions, we would have reached this record much earlier
Ohanjanians believe that they could have achieved this record in the summer of 2022. He emphasizes that they were experiencing good exponential growth at that time and were supposed to attract a large amount of capital, but in the end, due to the events that happened in the second half of 2022, they even went to the verge of bankruptcy: “In 2023, we were able to Let’s go back to the field and change our records. One of our most important records was that we were able to earn the most in October 2023. The same income in October was equal to our total income in 2018.”
Ohanjanians, in response to this question, what obstacles did they face during the duration of Eseminar’s activity? He told Digiato that there were many obstacles and challenges in their growth path, but one of the biggest ones was the issue of taxes: “We paid a lot of taxes every year, while, for example, we made a loss that year.”
We were cut a strange tax that we had to pay. The lack of economic stability in the country also causes a decrease in people’s financial purchasing power, and as a result, there is a decrease in investment for skill training in families.
People must have the spirit and motivation to hold an event; But the reality is that the political conditions of the society often do not allow this to happen, and we get involved in these political problems along with the society. A worried society, a nervous society, or a frustrated society affects our statistics, and this is a completely normal matter.
He also emphasizes that the financial challenge is one of the things that almost all startup actors are involved with, and Eseminar is no exception: “We can reach a bigger market by attracting large capital, because we have to do something to create culture.”
Increase people’s use of webinars and their desire to learn. Our market needs a fundamental jump and these issues may have come to the eyes of people more during Corona, but now they have fallen out of consideration again.
The future of Eseminar is tied to international activity
Ohanjanianians told Digiato that they have foreign customers whose goal is the Iranian market and they want to enter the Iranian market and interact with them based on cryptocurrencies: “However, the sanctions and our being Iranian make us unable to advance in international development as we should we get into trouble. Our plan is to operate in the global market either under our own name, Eseminar, or under another name, so that we can reach this market.”
Finally, the CEO of Eseminar expressed his hope that they will soon be able to attract good capital, both from inside and outside the country, so that they can achieve their ambitious goals as soon as possible; Because in his opinion, these goals are not far away.
New features have been added to Eseminar
At the same time as recording this record, Eseminar has unveiled new features on its platform. These facilities have been designed and implemented to meet the diversity of the organizers of this startup and their needs in various fields. Installment purchase of webinar hosting services is the first new feature of this collection, which is intended to facilitate hosting of webinars.
In this way, webinar organizers can prepare webinar services, including webinar subscriptions and information and advertising packages, and pay for it in installments for up to 18 months.
Sending invitations to webinar followers and registrants is the second possibility added to Eseminar. With this possibility, after creating their new webinar, organizers can notify users who have registered in their previous webinars via email and SMS.
Organizers can also send emails and SMS to people who have followed them in the seminar. So, by creating a webinar in Eseminar, you can also shape your network.
The feature of the Eseminar service market is one of the latest facilities that this collection has provided to its users. In this market, it provides them with the things that an organizer has to hold their event. In this section, the commercial partners of Eseminar provide various services to the organizers, such as advertising on social networks, click ads, dedicated training management system, etc.
The last feature that has been added to Eseminar is the preparation of webinar subscription packages. Organizers can prepare one-month, three-month, six-month and one-year subscription packages according to their needs.
With the monthly subscription of Eseminar, the organizers can hold their webinar without any limit on the number of hours with any software available on the site.
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