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Re: Training videos and promotional techniques



There is nothing to worry about on this one.  No drivers, no files to
download, nothing except for the training.

I provided it as an exe option for simplicity.

Linux, MAc and Windows are available.

I promise there is none no and will never have any spyware, adware,
maleware, or anything else badware....

This is as simple as an MP3, but an mp3 or mpg cant support me showing you
how to use software and provide an interactive way to do it...

Brett


"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:tM6dnXR9nbkj0lrfRVn-tw@xxxxxxxxxx
> Brett wrote about his training video/program:
>
> <Note - I split up the three different threads that were evolving into
> separate messages>
>
> > > I looked around at your site and found the sample training you
mentioned
> > > but
> > > it was an exe file.  What's in it?  Is it a program, a compressed MPG
or
> > > what?
> >
> > It is a compressed file made using Macromedia Captivate.  The program
> > creates the movie and compresses it for sending over the internet.  It
is
> > still 20 mb, it is not a Mpeg, but a proprietary format Macromedia uses.
>
> Proprietary format?  Hmmmmm.  Hmmmmmmmmmmm.  Does it run under Unix?  What
> needs to be installed under Windows to get it to work?  Is Captivate going
> to annoy me to death with upgrade reminders like some other, similar
> programs did?  (Until I booted them off into deep space, that is!)
>
> > The cool thing about Captivate it allows me to create interactive
> trainings.
> > I basically instruct, and the viewer has to click thru, so far the
> feedback
> > is everyone like the interaction with the training.
>
> Well, here's your first NEGATIVE feedback.  If you're trying to sell me
> something, make it easy for me to evaluate the quality of the product.
Put
> something in a format that's not protected or proprietary.
>
> Right now, I'm sorry to say you haven't interested me enough to want to
> download and install yet another flipping program I may never use just to
> evaluate your product.  It feels a little like fancy Active-X sites that
> scold me for not being able to see their demos because I don't use
Internet
> Explorer.  Don't vendors know there are 100 other sites that  have the
same
> content?  I simply click on to another site that doesn't force me to
comply
> with their terms.
>
> It seems to me if you created something that had your logo, business and
> copyright information prominently displayed and played in a standard
format
> it might promote your business better.  Yes, it will be copied and passed
> around, but that may not be such a bad idea for your consulting business.
> Buts it's your call.
>
> It's sad that adware and spyware have made many people reluctant to
explore
> new software, but that's what's happened.  By now there probably aren't
many
> people who *haven't* installed a shareware app like Kazaa that ending up
> infesting their machine with scumware or worse.  In this day and age, when
> you ask someone to run a program you're providing, you're asking them to
> trust you.  I'm one of those "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and
Must
> Submit to a Strip Search" kinda guy.  :-)
>
> --
> Bobby G.
>
>
>




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