Harish Palaniappan's

Looks like people are bored of reading content online.. given that almost all businesses have entered into online modes parallel to their offline businesses. Be it reading News, or, looking for a map of Chicago, or, reading a friend's thoughts... its all text, text, text now.

Everything in life all of a sudden started becoming Text, adding up to the already busy SMS messaging mediums.

No, Its not unfortunate. People like doing up things online, because, being online is easier and even costs less money (but more time, looks like nobody bothers about this very often.)

So, its now obvious that there should be businesses which provide services that can talk-enable a website.. for a real low price. Yes, they are there...but even more popular in recent years.

And you say, "What's so inventive about this.. I have seen some talking characters on sites even in 1999". Yes! but back in 1999 or till last couple of years how many people did you know use this for business, or how often have you heard some business say it improved sales 10% because of the talking characters?

That's what is happened in the past couple of years and now!

One such service called 'SitePal' of oddcast Inc has expressed its case study that it can improve your business considerably with very little costs. Check up their case study

Oddcast claims it has got more than 3000 customers for the service, serving around 65 million characters every month.

Yes! that number is the News. I believe it was never this popular until recently.

While a lot of news has been already talked-off of the opportunities virtual talking characters open-up for online marketers, many people have been campaigning for years for the idea of implementing virtual characters to bring near-to-real study environment for online distance learning programs.

In my opinion:
Talking on your websites definitely makes people know about you or your work easier than reading those numerous pages. And a plain end-to-end graphical demo would be nice but it wont be as effective as these talking characters because people start feeling you make the demo presentation with an eye of marketing alone, whereas these talking characters dont open a new demo page, and just talk the content that actually relates to what is there on the website of your business.

Sideline: I am not setting this up on this webpage.. huh! I know you really love and enjoy reading my content! Lets keep it that way ;o)