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Digital Adoption Platforms (DAP) are used by businesses worldwide to simplify the user experience using guiding capabilities, engagement and user behavior insights. DAP have positive benefit on retention rate, conversion rate and on user satisfaction. Usetiful is the Digital Adoption Platform  that allows you to iterate on user adoption without any prior experience. Usetiful is designed to be friendly and seamless when setting up, while being powerful in supporting all your use cases. Read more to learn how Usetiful can help you improve your user engagement. User engagement and activation User engagement is how frequently and for how long does user engage with your software product, website or app. High engagement indicates higher interest in your product as user invests more time and energy, effectively creating a habit and giving you more opportunities to monetize. Before we jump into improving the user engagement, it is necessary to step back and define which parts o

We are happy to introduce Usetiful for Chrome , a new browser extension that enables you to preview all your Usetiful product tours on any site without touching the code. Just follow the steps below to preview your product tours: Install plugin and preview your tour 1. Enter Google Chrome Web Store and install the  Usetiful: Product Tours  extension. (Note: Usetiful: Product Tours browser extension works with Chrome browser only) 2. When the plugin is successfully installed, the Usetiful icon will appear in the browser top bar with the following message. 3. Click on the Usetiful icon and log in using your Usetiful credentials. If you are currently logged in to the Usetiful, the plugin will connect to your account automatically. 4. Go to the page where you want to preview your tour. The bottom panel indicates whether the selected tour is available. (Note: Only tours that are allowed to be shown on given page will be offered - see Page Targeti

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  To associate tour steps (pointers) with specific elements on your site, you need to hook to the selectors of elements. Selectors are used to "find" the HTML elements on your site. It is not difficult to find out the selector of a specific page element. The easiest way is to use our Chrome extension . Usetiful for Chrome extension (Recommended) 1. We recommend you to first install  the extension  - it enables you to preview product tours directly on your page without embedding the code. When on the page, it allows you to get the element selector on just one click.   2. Inside the tour editor, the " Element"  field require you to enter the selector of the HTML element on your site. Click on the  "Select element"  action on the right side of the field.  The following dialog will appear if the Usetiful browser extension is enabled. 3. Enter the address of your web page and click "Open page" 4. To select the ele

Once you installed Usetiful, you can start to publish product tours and begin collecting data for their analysis. The only thing you need to do is to embed a bit of javascript to your website. If you use tools like Google Tag Manager , you don't even have to touch your website code. If you are not a developer, send the code to somebody who can help you. If you need any assistance from our side, feel free to contact us . Google Tag Manager Google Tag Manager (GTM) is a free tool that allows you manage and deploy tags (snippets of code or tracking pixels) on your website (or mobile app) without having to modify the code. Using GTM requires to be registered and their javascript code on your website. Then you can manage your code online. 1. To add the Usetiful code to GTM , login to your GTM account and select the appropriate container for your website. 2. Open your Tags section from the menu and add a new tag. 3. Edit tag configuration and choose tag type Custom &g

To preview your Usetiful product tours before they go live, you have 3 options: Option 1: Use Usetiful for Chrome Extension The first and the easiest way to preview your tours is to install our Usetiful for Chrome extension. Just follow these instructions . Option 2: Use External Browser Plugin Many browser plugins enable you to run a javascript code locally on any website. If you are using the Chrome browser, we recommend using the  User Javascript and CSS plugin, because it's easy to use and work perfectly with Usetiful. To preview your tour follow these instructions: 1. Install the plugin . 2. Navigate to the page where do you want to preview the tour. 3. Click on the plugin icon in the browser toolbar. 4. Click on the "Add new" button. 5. Navigate to the  Usetiful Overview page and view your script code by clicking on the "Embed code" button. 6. Copy the code to the clipboard (without the HTML markup!) and paste it to the lef