Chancebending with Ben Smith

These five mistakes can hurt your voice skill in more ways than you can imagine.

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Just got this question from a listener named Melao last night:

Q: Should I raise money for my voice skill?

I have a chance to raise about $150,000 from my family and a few friends of my Dad. 

Is this a…

The nice part about running Voice Entrepreneur is I get to talk to so many smart, interesting people every single day. But over the last few weeks, a disturbing trend has emerged.

People tell me they…

In this podcast, I go over answers to questions I received from the "OFFLINE marketing for voice skills" podcast episode last week.

Questions covered:

1) You mentioned tools. What tools do you use?

2) O…

I'm super psyched to share this live stream interview I did on the Founder Series with Seth Lugibihl this week.

We talk a lot about the current state of voice technology, and then get heavily into th…

We all know that the challenge with most voice skills today is discovery. How do you get people to learn about your voice skill? How do you get them to discover your new voice technology project? 

Her…

"We rarely talk about short-term mentors. These mentors work with us for a short amount of time, so people often disregard them as mentors even though they can have a lasting impact." --Shireen Jaffe…

As voice technology and voice platforms are now exploding it’s only a matter of time until we start to see the "Twitter for voice" happen. It’s also only a matter of time until we see the "Facebook f…

Advertising has become a tax on the attention poor. Our time and attention is our most valuable resource. 

Link to the original WSJ post here.

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I’d strongly suggest if you can create a discussion around topics that involve your business, brand, community or industry, you might want to start a FB group for it.

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I worked at Google and YouTube and all these fancy places, but they never taught me that one thing.

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1) My concern is how new changes in Net Neutrality laws from the FCC will effect the future of voice skills from a systems point of view especially the SEO / Ranking systems of A voice based internet…

If there is one skill that would serve everybody well it’s audience building. It’s going out there and getting people to try your product or service. How do you get people to try your stuff?!

And lots…

1) Did you finally decide if Voice Entrepreneur is a podcast or a flash briefing?

2) What’s your podcasting and flash briefing gear setup right now?

3) Should I record daily?

4) How would you optimize y…

WANT TO KNOW YOUR ENTREPRENEUR CREDIT SCORE?

Imagine if everybody had a entrepreneur score. Are you a 750 or a 450?

Wouldn’t you like to know just how great of an entrepreneur you are right now?

Imagine…

After I learned this secret power, I used it to help build and contribute to Google and YouTube, and then build and sell multiple venture-backed startups.

With this secret power, I’ve made more money …

As a startup CEO, I’m always expected to have all of the right answers. But I discovered a while back there might be even more power in having all of the right questions.    

You see, when I started a…

I got a question from Yana in California: "My voice skill has about 40 users a day. Is that good?"

We investigate how to measure voice skills in today's episode.

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1. Should I offer exclusive paid content in my voice skill?
2. How do you make money on Voice Entrepreneur?
3. I'm starting a diamond ring company, and have been planning it for over a year now. I created a sur…

Hi Ben,

I’ve been working on my very own voice skill for the last 3 months. 

I’m a single mother of 3 and have a day job. 

I’m worried that I’ll never finish my voice skill and when I do, it won’t get l…