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Top Five Ways Businesses Are Using Alexa Skills: Data Driven Daily Tip 270
“Hey Alexa, help my business” isn’t necessarily a phrase you expected to hear when the smart speaker became available on June 23, 2015, and it’s still probably not a phrase many expect to hear into the future, but I do.
The same way I’ve stuck with my Amazon Echo device that my mother-in-law bought me for my 34th birthday back in 2015, I’ve decided to stick with the idea or concept that businesses can use Echo, Echo Dot and any other Alexa-enabled device to improve their business.
It was when I realized there are these things you can add to your device called Alexa Skills — apps for Alexa, basically — except voice apps — but added the same way you add something from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store — that things changed for me related to my Echo.
I realized I could not only add Spotify and podcasts, but that I could also develop these skills myself, or with my team of developers at Data Driven Design. Boom, then I was in.
