Video To Increase Trust
Video to Increase Trust...
Everyday consumers commonly think of online businesses as high
technology enterprises. While there are indeed some websites that deal in high tech
merchandise, most vendor websites trade mostly mundane
materials like clothes, beddings and linen and other ordinary stuff we
use in our daily lives. With common enterprises like these, the website is only another selling
point for their inventory. What will be mostly displayed in these websites are pictures and short
text descriptions of products. On the other hand,
vendors that deal with high tech materials design their websites in such a way that it
reflects the level of technology they work with.
In the eyes of a common consumer, websites that do not exhibit high
technology design are probably failing or disreputable. When browsing
consumers find your website somewhat lacking in style
and technology, looking for another website that will satisfy their
expectations is highly probable.
While it would be considered crass and distasteful to make your website look like the command
center of the starship Enterprise, a few smatterings of high tech
applications can give your website design reputation a good
boost. In the beginning days of the internet, people tried to make
their websites attractive by using lots
of blinking and animated pictures in their websites. As website design matured, a more
professional and modern feel gradually took over the blinking internet
kaleidoscope world.
Today, website design is usually
patterned or themed after the owner’s profession or business.
Simple but tasteful and professionally elegant are now the norm in
designing websites. However, this norm, like
technology, is fast becoming obsolete.
As internet availability, data transmission speeds and bandwidths
increase, the more options people have for designing a web site. In the
beginnings of video streaming, video vendor sites were those that
usually contained audio-video streaming capabilities. They
used video clips or trailers of a movie
to entice a customer to buy the whole video. Today, almost all vendors
of video and audio have portions in
their websites reserved for viewing
movie trailers and listening to audio teasers.
Of course, it would be a mistake to discount or limit the use of video streaming to video and audio websites. Common vendor sites like
Amazon.com can surely use video streaming to further enhance
the shopping experience of a customer. After all, a customer would like
to see the merchandise before she actually makes a purchase. Video streaming provides this
specific aid to both vendor and consumer. Aside from viewing videos of the product from different camera
angles, a short demonstration of the product can be included in the video just like they do in TV
shopping channels.
Outside of video specific and trade
merchandising businesses, video and audio streaming is also
useful when it comes to other industries such as medical transcription,
online education, medical facilities and personnel interconnectivity,
online tutorials and instructional modules recorded in video format.
Most importantly, the spread of internet video streaming usage signals an
advance in technology. With advances and discoveries, opportunities for
new ideas and enterprises abound.
To your success, Michael Thomas
P.S. While it is great to have new technology available to, we need to
put it to good use for it to be beneficial to us. In the case of websites with video streaming, the customer is
assured that the products they sell are workable
and crafted with quality. As internet shopping becomes more and more
popular, vendor websites will have to see to it
that they provide their customers a good look at their product.
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