Posts Tagged ‘Alexa Skills’
How An Alexa Skill Differentiates Your Business
WATCH LISTEN READ What’s up everybody, Paul Hickey here with Data Driven Design. Businesses ask me all the time, “what can I do to differentiate myself and drive customers?” I’ve got a perfect example for you: Carmen Johnston Gardens, a landscape designer in Georgia, built an Alexa Skill with Data Driven Design. “Alexa, launch Carmen…
Read MoreEntrepreneurship Is…With Voiceflow CEO Braden Ream
WATCH READ When I sat down and talked with Voiceflow CEO Braden Ream with QuHarrison Terry at Project Voice 2020, I expected to have a conversation mainly about Voiceflow being one of the top up-and-coming SaaS products and no-code solutions in the Voice Space. While that certainly happened, and you can see the full interview…
Read MoreHow A 22-Year Old CEO Went From Selling Children's Stories To Getting Funded By Amazon: Exclusive With Voiceflow CEO Braden Ream
WATCH LISTEN READ How The CEO of Voiceflow Turned An Interactive Children’s Storybook Into One Of The First No-Code Tools to Build Alexa Skills and Google Actions I can remember first starting to build Alexa Skills back in 2017-2018, and researching “no-code” tools to do so. At the time, coding Alexa Skills from scratch seemed…
Read MoreHow To Add Voice To Your Digital Marketing Strategy: Guest Appearance On Inside VOICE Podcast
WATCH LISTEN READ If you’re a small business and you’re not sure how or why to add voice to your digital marketing strategy, CEO of Data Driven Design, Paul Hickey explains exactly how it can help you. He talks about how and why he’s such a fan of digital marketing, the voice skills he’s created,…
Read MoreHow A Dentist Builds Content Strategy For Alexa And Social Media: Exclusive Interview with Dr. Chithra Durgam
WATCH LISTEN READ Dr. Chithra Durgam and I randomly started following each other on Twitter in 2017. Around the Fall of that year is when I started creating and publishing my Data Driven Daily Tips. Part of that process was not only publishing the content to my website, but also to all social media outlets.…
Read MoreProject Voice Takeaways: Why Our CTO Thinks Samsung Bixby Could Be The Next Big Voice Platform
LISTEN READ I’ve known our CTO Joe Wallace since 2011. He’s one of the most thoughtful people I’ve ever worked with. NOT “touchy feely” thoughtful. Thoughtful about his work. Period. He – and I mean this in a complimentary way – is NOT easily impressed. And as he admits in this wonderfully done podcast interview…
Read MoreHow To Get Found On Alexa: Exclusive Interview With Amazon Alexa Evangelist Jeff Blankenburg
WATCH LISTEN READ Getting found on Alexa (let’s call it “SAO” – Search Alexa Optimization) – At Project Voice, I asked Amazon Alexa’s Jeff Blankenburg how businesses can get found on Alexa. While waking Alexa with a phrase like “Alexa, how do I make a Jack-o-lantern” I’ve noticed more frequently over the last 6 months…
Read MoreHow To Teach AI And Proper Voice Application Design (with David Code of LinkedIn)
WATCH LISTEN READ David Code has an interesting story. He got a job at LinkedIn teaching AI to people with a non-STEM background. He got fed up trying to learn AI from AI experts who couldn’t teach well, and decided to write a 140-page textbook and post it to Reddit. Well, LinkedIn found him and…
Read MoreWould You Marry Amazon Alexa? Interview with Project Voice Founder Bradley Metrock
WATCH LISTEN READ Those of us building Voice Apps for Alexa and Google Assistant have naturally become evangelists and power users of the voice assistants and smart speakers. Case in point, I don’t know anybody who knows more about How To Use Alexa than creator of Project Voice and CEO of Score Publishing, Bradley Metrock.…
Read MoreMust Read: What Will Happen In Voice In 2020
READ 2020 is going to be a HUGE year for Voice. Specifically, 2020 is going to be the year that most businesses start to get entry-level Voice Apps, just like they started getting websites in the early 2000s. SMBs Will Get A Voice What does this mean? It means that your local HVAC repair business,…
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