WATCH READ I sat down and spoke with new friend Dave Isbitski, who is Chief Evangelist for Alexa at Amazon. As Alexa Skills Marketing Employee #1, he has a very special message for CEOs, Entrepreneurs, Marketers and Small Business Owners attending Nashville Voice Conference. More information at https://NashvilleVoiceConference.com. “What if I told you, you could…

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WATCH   LISTEN READ For almost three years I’ve been making Data Driven Daily Tips, useful pieces of information for Small Business Owners and Small Marketing Teams to learn Web Design and Development, Digital Marketing, Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Blogging, Content Creation, Instagram Growth Strategies and more. There are almost 300 “DDD Tips” now, and…

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WATCH READ I’ve written quite a bit about why your business needs to have a presence on Alexa-enabled devices. Whether it’s from a content marketing, storytelling and communications channel like an easy-to-build Alexa Flash Briefing Skill, or via extending your application’s functionality into the Voice Realm through a real Alexa Skill, you need to evaluate…

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READ   Why does your business need a podcast? Let’s look at the data: I started my podcast exactly one year ago, yesterday, and I already have almost 5k total plays. That’s really without doing much active promotion. TechCrunch reports that one quarter of Americans listen to podcasts each month. 88% of 12-24 year olds…

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READ You’ll start reading more and more headlines about Voice-Enabled Smart-Speakers, and you may even have one of them in your home. If you do, chances are, you’re likely using it for streaming music, and that’s probably it. But over the next 24-36 months, you’ll start using it for much, much more, and may even…

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READ I had no idea if building my first Alexa Skill was going to work. But it did. Like a freaking charm. It never happens like that. And when it does, it kind of feels like serendipity. There are already more than 40,000 Alexa Skills in the Alexa Skills Store within the Alexa App (how…

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READ I have no idea if this is going to really work. This is usually close to the first thing I’m thinking when I learn something new and try implementing it for the first time. I just built my first Alexa Flash Briefing Skill – named Data Driven Daily Tip – and submitted it to…

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READ What is an Alexa Skill? Raise your hand if you have an Amazon Echo device. You know, the one that everyone calls Alexa. Okay, put it down, no one is actually looking at you right now. 🙂 Raise your hand if you’ve been frustrated with Alexa not knowing how to get her to do…

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