Posts by Paul Hickey
Data Driven Daily Tip 315 – The Data Around Voice
WATCH LISTEN READ As you may know by now from following my content, I’m very passionate about using Alexa and other voice assistants like Google Home, for business use. I’m also passionate about teaching all other businesses how they can become more efficient and effective, as well as reach their target audience better via Alexa,…
Read MoreHow to Publish a Custom Alexa Skill with Voiceflow – Data Driven Daily Tip 314
WATCH LISTEN READ Whether you realize it now, or realize it years from now, your business needs an Alexa Skill. If not to reach your target audience, then to do business more efficiently and improve operations. A year or so ago I found a tool called “Storyline.” It promised building Custom Alexa Skills without coding.…
Read MoreVoice User Interface Design – How To Test A Custom Alexa Skill In Voiceflow – Data Driven Daily Tip 313
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 MoreVoice 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 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 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 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 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 MoreWhat To Do When You Forget The Google Analytics Code From Your Old Website – Data Driven Daily Tip 307
WATCH LISTEN READ On a rare occasion, you may not have access to an old Google Analytics account, but you’re the one responsible for making sure that tracking code from the old website gets on the newly launched website. Or, you already launched the website and forgot. How do you go back and get your…
Read MoreHow To Verify Your Website With Bing and Submit a Sitemap – Data Driven Daily Tip 306
WATCH LISTEN READ Anyone with a website likely doesn’t think about verifying it with Google Search Console, let alone Bing Webmaster Tools, but even though Bing only makes up 5% or less of organic search related web traffic (according to our Data Download), it’s still super important to gain search engine visibility on Bing via…
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