Archive for April 2019
PODCAST EPISODE 179: WHAT IS AN ALEXA BLUEPRINT? HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN ALEXA SKILL
I asked Amazon Alexa Skills Marketing Employee #1 Dave Isbitski about Alexa Blueprints. What are they? Essentially they’re a way to use a free, visual dashboard to create your own Alexa Skill. This is something all businesses should be aware of. What is an Alexa Blueprint? Dave says “one of the things I’m most excited about that…
Read MorePODCAST EPISODE 174: WHAT EXACTLY IS ALEXA FOR BUSINESS?
What Is Alexa For Business? “While Alexa was started as a Consumer Product, it has evolved into a couple different areas. Business Skills, like the one Data Driven Design has built to allow clients to ask Alexa how their web traffic is doing… Skills that are only available to employees of a particular business. This…
Read MoreAlexa Skill Business Use Cases: Ask Data Driven Design
If you think a service-based business has no use for an Alexa Skill, you’re crazy. For example, my company, Data Driven Design, builds websites, digital strategies and custom software. We do so always based on data over opinions, thus, when a client launches a new website with us, we want it to be as easy…
Read MoreWhat Kind of Alexa Skill Makes Sense For Your Business? Wedding Singer Example
Alexa Skills are starting to make more and more sense for any kind of business to have. Data Driven Design is getting asked to brainstorm how many of our clients can partake in building a voice-based extension of their product or service to be available on Alexa, Google Home, and other “smart speakers.” A great…
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