Alexa Skills
How To Create A Gamified Lead Generation Funnel Using An Alexa Flash Briefing
WATCH LISTEN READ Small Business Owners are curious about Alexa Skills, but the main question I always get asked is – “how can an Alexa Skill or Flash Briefing actually help me generate leads for my business?” This conversion with Dr. Teri Fisher, host of the “Alexa in Canada” Flash Briefing, walks viewers and listeners…
Read MoreHow To Voice Enable Your WordPress Blog Content for Alexa and Google Assistant – DATA DRIVEN DAILY TIP 376
Reasons to voice-enable your WordPress Blog/Website: – More than 500 million active users get their information from Alexa and Google Assistant – Accessibility – It’s super easy with The Voice Designer WordPress Plug-in This video shows you the tactics and strategy to voice-activating your blog content for Alexa and Google Assistant. https://thevoicedesigner.com
Read MoreHOW TO PROMOTE YOUR ALEXA SKILL USING QUICK LINKS – DATA DRIVEN DAILY TIP 375
One of the main challenges with Alexa Skills is discoverability. How do you find them? Marketers and business owners are constantly telling me – “hey Paul, all this Alexa Skill stuff is cool and everything, but how do I let people know about it? Does our business have to promote it in order to gain…
Read MoreHow To Generate Leads With Your Alexa Skill and Google Action Voice Apps
What’s up everybody? Paul Hickey here with your data driven daily tip. Today I’m very excited to talk to you about how to generate leads via your Alexa Skill or Google Action voice apps. We’re gonna use a tool called Voiceflow. I primarily use two different tools to build my Alexa Skills and Google Actions. One is The Voice Designer by…
Read MoreHOW TO SET UP AN AMAZON ALEXA DEVELOPER ACCOUNT – DATA DRIVEN DAILY TIP 371
The first step towards creating your Alexa Skill or Alexa Flash Briefing for your brand, start-up or small business, is to create an Amazon Alexa Developer Account. It’s one of the easiest possible steps in the entire experience of building Alexa Skills, but it still feels good to get started and know that you’re in…
Read MoreHOW TO PUBLISH AN ALEXA FOR BUSINESS PRIVATE SKILL & INVITE MANAGE USERS – DATA DRIVEN DAILY TIP 350
I love Alexa for Business. You just need an AWS account to deploy Private Alexa Skills to employees of your organization. You can also use it to manage company-owned devices and which company private skills can be used on personal employee devices. What you’ll need: 1. An Alexa Skill built and ready to deploy for your organization/employees/specific private…
Read MoreHow To Change and Replace Alexa’s Voice – Data Driven Daily Tip 349
I was recently asked a question while presenting about how to build voice apps that caught my attention. The attendee asked if I thought that human interaction would change to a dulled down monotone voice with each other, because so many people are talking to Alexa, and that’s how Alexa talks. My answer is NO,…
Read MoreHow I Built An Alexa Skill With My 10 Year Old Son – Data Driven Daily Tip 348
There are basically four main ways that I build Voice Apps (Alexa Skills and Google Actions). 1. Amazon Alexa Blueprints and Google Action Templates – these are pre-built Voice Apps that allow content marketers and developers to change and customize the content in the flow. These can include some cool functionality though, such as Business…
Read MoreHOW TO BUILD MULTIMODAL VOICE APPS USING ALEXA PRESENTATION LANGUAGE – DATA DRIVEN DAILY TIP 339
Before I get into defining Alexa Presentation Language (APL), I have to define “Multimodal Voice App.” What the heck is a multimodal voice app? By now, we’re all somewhat familiar with what we can ask Alexa to do. Some of us way more familiar than others. And by now, we should at least have…
Read MoreHow To Test Your Alexa Skill Without A Device – Data Driven Daily Tip 341
Alexa Skill Development is a skill set that is becoming more and more recognized in the mainstream. I recently met a community college professor at a speaking engagement in Nashville who is trying to build a Voice Design / Voice Development program at his school. PHENOMENAL. This will happen. SOON. And as it happens, project…
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