Archive for June 2019
Voice User Interface Design – How To Build A Custom Alexa Skill Without Coding – Data Driven Daily Tip 312
WATCH LISTEN READ What is Voice User Interface Design or VUI? It’s a new buzz word in the design world, and it has to do with thinking through and planning out the user experience related to a voice-based application, like an Alexa Skill, Google Home Action or a Chat bot of some kind. While I…
Read MorePodcast Episode 219: How I Tested My First Custom Alexa Skill On The Amazon Developer Console
Listen Read In this episode I talk about how I tested my first custom Alexa Skill right on the Amazon Developer Console, a great tool. Tune in to learn more. Thanks for reading, watching and listening, and have a great day! KEEP MARKETING! Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO / Lead Strategist at Data Driven Design, LLC has…
Read MoreHOW TO CREATE AN ALEXA FLASH BRIEFING – COMPLETE GUIDE – Data Driven Daily Tip 311
WATCH READ I’ve blogged a few other times about Alexa Flash Briefings. How I built my first one, how to find and add them in the Alexa Skills Store, and why all small businesses should have them, but I’ve never put out a complete guide like this. As I say in the video, buckle up,…
Read MoreEpisode 218: Pulling From My Inner Childhood (Hip-Hop and Basketball In Business)
Listen Read As a kid I loved Hip-Hop and Basketball. Listen to a snippet of my story on how those two passions have helped my career in business. And there’s a special treat at the end! Thanks for reading, watching and listening, and have a great day! KEEP MARKETING! Paul Hickey, Founder / CEO /…
Read MoreHow To Make A WordPress Main Menu Navigation Link Open In A Lightbox – Data Driven Daily Tip 310
WATCH LISTEN READ I love WordPress, because you don’t have to be a hardcore web developer to do cool, tricky stuff, like make a main navigation menu link open in a modal window, also known as a lightbox. How To Make A WordPress Main Menu Navigation Link Open In A Lightbox In this video, I…
Read MorePodcast Episode 217: Business Use Cases For Alexa Skills and Alexa For Business – Franchisee Communications
Listen Read Do you know what Alexa For Business is? Do you know what a custom Alexa Skill is? You probably only think of Alexa for playing music at home or playing games, but you need to think of it for your business. Specifically, how you can train your large sales force using a custom…
Read MoreHow To Hook Up WordPress and Mailchimp via Gravity Forms – Data Driven Daily Tip 309
WATCH LISTEN READ Small Business Owners and Marketers, are you looking to have a form on your website that gathers email addresses that you later want to turn around and send automated or manual email marketing campaigns to? An amazing trio of tools is Mailchimp with WordPress + the Gravity Forms Plug-in. Gravity Forms offers…
Read MorePodcast Episode 216: Business Use Cases For Alexa Skills and Alexa For Business – Sales Training
Listen Read Do you know what Alexa For Business is? Do you know what a custom Alexa Skill is? You probably only think of Alexa for playing music at home or playing games, but you need to think of it for your business. Specifically, how you can train your large sales force using a custom…
Read MoreHow To Make Your Transferrable WPEngine Environment Your New Production – Data Driven Daily Tip 308
WATCH LISTEN READ I’ve used just about every single WordPress website hosting platform available, and recently switched to WPEngine after five years with GoDaddy Managed WordPress. GoDaddy just had too many issues with server space, and was super slow, going down too often, and allowing too many “known issues” to take place. And at one…
Read MorePodcast Episode 215: How To Create An Alexa Flash Briefing Skill Using Anchor.fm RSS Feed
Listen Read This is the fully detailed, step-by-step version of Episode 214. Starting from nothing, in Segment 1, I show you how to create a Gmail account. In Segment 2, I show you how to use that Gmail account to create an Anchor.fm account, then create your podcast, your first episode, and get your podcast published…
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