Posts Tagged ‘Business Owners’
Evidence For Voice-Based Apps For Businesses
WATCH READ In my speaking appearance at Nashville Design Week, I spoke about Designing For Voice. In this snippet, I cover the Data that shows businesses why they should take building voice apps seriously. Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO / Lead Strategist at Data Driven Design, LLC and founder of The Voice Event, and The Voice Designer, has created…
Read MoreHow To Create A Unique Presence For Your Small Business
WATCH READ All small businesses need to differentiate themselves from their competitors, and the data says that 100+ million users are now getting their information from Alexa and Google Assistant. Getting your business an Alexa Skill that can be found on in the Alexa app is a way of getting found that your competitors probably…
Read MoreHow Law Firms Can Benefit From Alexa Skills
WATCH READ I spoke with Jeff Blankenburg, Senior Developer Evangelist at Amazon for Alexa, at The Voice Event 2020, about what Alexa Skills all law firms should consider building and how they can benefit. I really like talking to Jeff about this stuff, because the practical ideas he comes up with make a ton of…
Read MoreHow To Meet Your Customers Where They Are
WATCH READ With Alexa and Google Assistant now in home offices, meeting rooms, waiting rooms and in cars, headphones and more, it makes more sense than ever to have a voice-enabled / voice-based version of your website. At Nashville Design Week, I reiterate the importance of this from a marketing perspective. At Data Driven Design,…
Read MoreWhat Is The Difference Between Alexa Quick Links and Tasks?
WATCH READ Discoverability and shareability of Alexa Skills (applications that businesses can build for Amazon Alexa-enabled devices) is continuing to improve. In 2020, Amazon launched Alexa Quick Links and Tasks. Alexa Quick Links are for marketers. Alexa gives you your own quick link that you can promote. No coding or additional work necessary. Every Skill…
Read MoreHow Dental Practices Can Benefit From Alexa Skills
WATCH READ What are some ideas for Dental Practices to create a better customer experience, improve internal efficiencies and operations as well as beef up their marketing simply by using Alexa and creating Skills for their business? I talk to Jeff Blankenburg, Sr. Developer Evangelist for Alexa, at Amazon, who’s father was a dentist until…
Read MoreHow Hair Stylists Can Use Alexa To Improve Their Business
WATCH READ Shana Berkeley of Corner To Corner, Jeff Blankenburg of Amazon and myself talk about how Hair Stylists, Restaurants and Catering businesses can use Alexa to “scale themselves” at live events or at their store fronts and create an interactive, memorable experience that will be shared on social media. This video explains how Alexa…
Read MoreHow Realtors Can Build Their Business On Alexa By Using A Brochure Website Concept
WATCH READ My guy Jeff Blankenburg (Sr. Developer Evangelist at Amazon for Alexa) is back again, this time talking about how realtors can build their businesses on Alexa. But what I really like about this is that he’s talking about simple stuff, like Alexa Skills that realtors can build using Blueprints to answer frequently asked…
Read MoreHow Restaurants Can Use Alexa To Engage Their Audience (with Jeff Blankenburg of Amazon)
WATCH READ Listen up restaurant owners, this one is for you. I asked my friend Jeff Blankenburg, Sr. Developer Evangelist for Alexa at Amazon, to break down exactly how restaurants need to think about using Alexa to engage their audience, and here’s what he had to say. For people that own or manage restaurants, one…
Read MoreThe Importance of Voice Activating Your Business Website
WATCH READ In this full presentation at Project Voice 2020 in Chattanooga, TN, I explain the concept of Voice-activating your website. Not only that, but I explain the data and the rationale behind voice-activating your website. I also explain how all businesses should voice-activate their website, using The Voice Designer – and the VUI (Voice…
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