SitePal does the talking

Go to your favorite “offline” store and listen to the finest salespeople. They all talk their way into selling whatever the boss has to offer. Face-to-face selling pitches work and it’s been that way, well… forever!

Nowadays, with countless potential customers storming the web for all sorts of products and services, opportunity knocks for any savvy marketer who feels the power of talk can apply to their online business model, namely through the use of a SitePal talking avatar.

Differentiation from other web sites really matters.

Whoever can get the right message through to the visitors is likely to ring up way more e-sales. Having a talking character doing all the right talking for you, 24/7 without taking breaks, could appeal to potential customers looking for a more personal e-shopping experience.

Oddcast, the New York-based company behing the SitePal talking characters, covers many specific business needs, such as (1) viral marketing, (2) e-learning, (3) rich media ads, (4) mobile avatars, (5) telephony, (6) blogging & social networking, (7) small businesses and (8) web-2-broadcast.

The characters can talk in many popular languages and you can extensively customize yours to match your web site’s looks. These virtual creatures talk in a way people will recognize as being somewhat automated but it’s surprisingly close to real human speech, especially for shorter sentences.

Like any salesperson on your payroll, this animated persuader doesn’t work for free. Fortunately, Oddcast has managed to devise price plans that appear to be affordable for any serious e-business.

Tags: sitepal, avatars, talking characters, virtual people, online sales, e-business