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Website demosare powerful web-based communication tools that help e-businesses show the features and functionality of their websites. Most companies put the compelling demos onto their websites to bring forth their products and service.

Here we would like to see a demo from Yahoo!. This demo will show you how to advertise your business with Yahoo! Search Marketing:

This demo introduces the key features of the service of Yahoo! Sponsored Search. It simply and thoroughly illustrates how to advertise your business in search results on Yahoo! and other popular sites.

Maybe you would say, my website is just a small website, and the service is quite easy for users to understand. But the fact is the users are not as smart as you thought. If they are not familiar with your website, they may spend more than 10 minutes to figure out an entry for a certain field. And some guide video or we can say some demos will direct them to their destination helpfully.
Let’s see another sample from http://www.oblinq.com/. It is an effective way to guide users to set up their accounts.

Why website demos are popular? There are some decent reasons:

Website demos can illustrate your web features and functionality thoroughly

Demos are effective to introduce your website products and service to your users. They can demonstrate your e-business, not matter products or service, in an unconventional way.

Website demos attracted more users to Subscribe or register, or make them your customers

When the value of the products or service can be illustrated clearly to users, they are willing to do more with your website service and products.

Website demos can enhance users’ experience

Demos are friendly to users. They mean to serve to users and make them get what they want with ease. Users will feel comfortable to stay on your website.

Website demos reduce service costs with online customer self-service

Demos could be the solutions when users meet the trouble using your service and products. If they can find the related solution demos on your websites, users can get the problems done by themselves most of times.

If you would like to make demos for your websites, you can work with some professional companies to get it done, but that is quite expensive. Or you can try some demo software like DemoCreator, which is an enhanced screen recorder for making website demos and software tutorials.

With DemoCreator, you can quickly and easily make website demos on your computer screen and then immediately publish as Flash or Avi to share to all. Consider recording “tips and tricks” of key operations, it makes it easy for audience to understand what the website is for and how the website works.

Posted at 11:08PM Dec 01, 2008 by Chinier Fu in presentation  |  Comments[12]