Tag Archives: tutorial videos
Promo: SnapComms Stories
Interactive Demo: Online Billing
Usually, I produce my tutorials one video at a time, one topic at a time. That way, you can embed each one into the appropriate spot on your website, and direct users to exactly the help they need.
In this case, though, I was asked to create a set of related videos for an online billing platform, complete with an interactive menu to navigate between them. It took a little trial and error to get it to work properly, but I’m pretty happy with the result.
Mobile Demo: eyeWitnez Emergency App
Although most of my software demos focus on web-based or desktop applications, I’ve also created promotional screencasts for a variety of mobile apps. In this case, I was asked to explain and promote “eyeWitnez,” an app designed to help people in emergency situations stay calm, organize their thoughts, take photos of their accident, and get help. I used a combination of screenshots from the app itself and on-screen text to tell the story.
For a very different mobile demo, see my demo for the Todoist iPhone app.
Mobile Demo: Todoist for iPhone
I’ve created dozens of tutorials and promotional videos for Todoist, a powerful productivity tool, including overviews of their plugins for various web browsers, email clients, and so forth. In this case, they asked me to demonstrate their new app for the iPhone.
Tutorial: Studio Helper
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Studio Helper is an online system designed to help music studios, dance studios, or anyone with a small private school manage their students, teachers, calendar, and invoicing. They asked me to write, narrate, and produce a whole series of tutorial videos. In fact, 25 videos in all.
“Thanks for all your help with these videos. I think they turned out really well, and our customers are finding them very helpful in learning the software.” – Brandon Pearce, StudioHelper.com
To watch more of my Studio Helper videos, please visit their YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/studiohelper.
Tutorial: Form Lizard
I created a whole series of tutorial videos for FormLizard.com, a site that allows users to replace their old-fashioned paper forms and fill-in-the-blank contracts with easy, online interviews. Users answer a few questions, and end up with a clean, seamless, customized document, which they can print out or submit electronically.
Since then, FormLizard has brought me back in several more times to create additional tutorials about their newest features. This is one of those additional videos–specifically, about how to send a form to your client for a signature without wasting paper.
For more samples of my work for Form Lizard, visit their YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/blueburrosoftware/featured.
Tutorial: Modern Closets Direct
ModernClosetsDirect.com asked me to write, narrate, and produce a tutorial video to show new customers how to use their editor to design custom walk-in closets. The editor provides a lot of options, but they wanted to keep their video fairly short.
I like the way this one turned out–especially the ending, where we take the sample design we’ve been putting together and show how it turns into a professional design, and ultimately a finished, real-world closet system.
Also, as with any client whose website has a very distinctive look, I adapted my style so the video would fit in. Based on early reports, the client (and their customers) seem to like their new tutorial.