Posts by Paul Hickey
Recording A Business Podcast? Don't Get Too Fancy.
LISTEN READ I met and talked to a ton of great people at VoiceCon in NYC, all smart, successful business people who already have a podcast or are starting one. The number one comment or concern about their podcast was always audio quality. I’ll never knock anyone for wanting to put out quality content, but…
Read MoreThe only belief that matters is yours
READ The only belief that matters is yours. They’ll tell you you’re “too short,” or maybe “too fat, not cool enough, not pretty enough or not smart enough” or all of these. That’s good. Good for you. These are opportunities. These are opportunities to put a chip on your shoulder. This is also sweet because…
Read MoreQ and A with Gary Vee at VoiceCon VIP Dinner
WATCH READ I attended the VoiceCon VIP Dinner at Lafayette’s Restaurant in NYC to learn more about building Alexa Skills for Businesses and the Opportunity that exists for Data Driven Design to lead the charge. This is part of my conversation with Gary Vaynerchuk on the subject. Thanks for reading, and have a great day!…
Read MoreListening to Voice: What‘s Next and What’s Here Now.
READ Why am I investing time and money at VoiceCon in NYC? After all, I’m a digital marketer and web developer. Why do I need a podcast? Or what do I care about Alexa Skills? Well, this isn’t about using Alexa to listen to music or finding the best podcasts to listen to. This is…
Read MoreSpeaking "Client"
READ Speaking Client is Important to Us. Here’s what it means. Unfortunately, there’s still an “anti-client” sentiment or at least undertone out there in many agencies. There are “client memes” and “client jokes” as well as “age old adages” that agencies yuck it up over. Some call them “war stories.” This is because most agencies…
Read MoreData Point: LinkedIn Posts Get More Visibility Than Articles
READ I post in the LinkedIn news feed Every Day. And I post an article on LinkedIn Every Day. The two are different. Like everything we do at Data Driven Design, there is a MACRO and a MICRO. The MACRO is to have a presence in front of our target audience, CEOs, CMOs, Marketing Directors,…
Read MoreIs My Business Showing On Google's Map? The Data Always Tells The Accurate Story
WATCH READ So I’m 100% empathetic to all sides on this issue. The issue is, when a user Google’s a local business name, they don’t ALWAYS see that business on the map results. This doesn’t mean that the business is not on the map. Google controls map results based on several search factors. If you’re…
Read MoreSmall Business Tip: How to forward your personal email to your business email using GSuite
WATCH READ Yo Check it. Small Business Owners need to prevent injuries by stretching (aka, using Google Business Email / GSuite). We’ve covered that. So now we can get into some intricacies of how to make your life even easier as a business owner. You were doing business with a personal gmail account prior to…
Read MoreWeb Development Tip – How To Comply With GDPR Laws
WATCH READ 🙂 I’m smiling because I know how this stuff goes. There have been TONS of emails and headlines about GDPR – the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation. You’ve seen it on Facebook. You’ve seen it on Google Analytics. You’ve seen it everywhere. Right? Well, if not, that’s even better. ‘Cause this…
Read MoreGutenberg: What WordPress Developers Are Talking About
READ At this point, I’d be totally lying if I sat here and wrote a blog about being an expert on Gutenberg, the next revolution of WordPress that is coming soon to browsers near you. However, I can tell you that what WordPress Web Developers are talking about – not just at Front End Development…
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