What Are Alexa Skills (and How to Leverage This)? | Ep. #329

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In Episode #329, Eric and Neil discuss what Alexa Skills are and how to leverage this. Tune in to find out how Alexa makes your life convenient and how Alexa Skills can help your customers access your product or podcast with ease. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:27 – Today’s topic: What Are Alexa Skills (and How to Leverage This)? 00:46 – You can teach Alexa new skills and reach different types of customers 01:01 – You can ask Alexa to play specific podcasts for you 01:29 – “It makes your life really convenient” 01:35 – Alexa automates your whole life 02:28 – If you have an Echo, you can listen to Marketing School by adding the skill 02:46 – From Alexa skill, Marketing school has had 136 new customers, 309 new plays and 6 plays per hour 03:24 – Don’t expect amazing results from the Alexa yet, but it should work out well 03:40 – If you’re in the consumer space, you should be leveraging Alexa but it’s not as important for B2B 03:55 – When someone listens to something over and over, it will be on the top of their head 04:22 – Listening to podcasts is powerful 04:57 – Just search for Alexa Skills Kit 05:05 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: Alexa automates your whole life. Consumers can easily consume your product or podcasts through Alexa Skill. Alexa Skills can track the new customers’ behavior right on the platform. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from
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0:51.3	Welcome to another episode of marketing school.
0:55.0	I'm Errat Sue, and I'm Neil Patel.
0:57.0	And today we are going to talk about what Alexa skills are
1:01.0	and how you can leverage them.
1:02.8	So this is really, really new.
1:05.2	And every time I say this, I'm staring at my Alexa
1:08.6	and it's just what it.
1:10.4	Yeah, yeah, it just talked back to me.
1:12.3	Anyway, so basically you are you're able to teach
1:16.7	Alexa a new skill and you can reach you know a ton of different customers with it right?
1:21.0	So the example of how this might work is, let's say you want to listen to
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