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<h4>Stop being ignored by your audience</h4>
Get 90%+ open rates on your messages. Send your subscribers a notification on their Alexa device, as easy as sending an email with 4x the results.
WHEN YOU WANT TO GET YOUR AUDIENCE’S ATTENTION, DO YOU…
Send out an email blast, only to get ignored by 80% of your subscribers?
Post everywhere on social media, only to get just 4 or 5 likes?
Buy ads on social media and search, only to barely break even or even LOSE money?
What if you could just send a custom message to them through the talking robot in the living room, Amazon Alexa?
Alexa is the ultimate in-home chatbot: She sits in the living room, interacting with your customers every day. To get closer to customers, the smartest brands in the world have leveraged Alexa for years.
Finally, here’s the tool that lets anyone use Alexa to make your community stronger. <a href="https://shoutworks.com/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wpreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Shoutworks</a> is the world’s top one-click Alexa skill creator for WordPress. 
It helps you use Amazon Alexa to reach more people, drive more leads, and sell more stuff. Without needing to hire or rely on a developer!
<h4>How does it work?</h4>
Step 1 
Create an Alexa skill in 30 seconds with the Shoutworks WordPress plugin (in just a few clicks).
Step 2 
Share your Alexa skill with your audience, and they’ll subscribe to get your announcements, promotions and updates.
Step 3 
Send (or schedule) a custom message to all your Alexa subscribers just by typing & pressing Publish, as easy as sending an email.
Then in your subscribers’ homes, Alexa will go ‘boop’ and announce your message. Here’s the look and feel:
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Alexa notifications are proven to get over 90% open rates, and in many cases can get over 99%. If you are trying to get your audience’s attention, there is no better way than this.
Go to our website for access to <a href="https://shoutworks.com/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wpreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">free training</a> and learn how Amazon Alexa can help you win back the attention and customers you’re losing.
WITH SHOUTWORKS, YOU CAN…
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<li>Drive customers into sales funnels. Use a perfectly timed promotion on Alexa to drive people to buy right away.</li>
<li>Drive traffic to your content. Don’t get lost in the inbox. Drive more traffic to new articles, episodes, and posts when it matters.</li>
<li>Boost attendance at events & webinars. Use timely reminders through Alexa to get more engagement, leads, and sales.</li>
<li>Create an Alexa skill for your Podcast. Create a skill for your podcast to drive discovery and grow your listener base in one click.</li>
<li>Let people contact you hands-free. Alexa is your personal support rep in the living room. Anyone can send a message to you just by talking to Alexa.</li>
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Reach people who prefer audio. Alexa narrates your blog posts, making your content more accessible to your whole audience.
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“Shoutworks was so, so easy to use, and the team has been so helpful and supportive all the way through. They are really a team of people who care about your success and do everything they can to help you succeed. Thanks to Audrey and the team!”
<ul>
<li>Mitch Sonders</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
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</ul>
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<h4>FULL SHOUTWORKS FEATURE LIST</h4>
You can use <a href="https://shoutworks.com/portfolio/free-plan-explained/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wpreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Shoutworks Basic</a> for free just by installing this plugin, or you can <a href="https://shoutworks.com/plans-and-pricing/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wpreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">start your 30-Day Free Trial of Shoutworks Standard</a> to gain access to all our powerful features.
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<a href="https://shoutworks.com/portfolio/alexa-notifications-in-action/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wpreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Send Unlimited Alexa Notifications</a> – Create and send short custom messages with a proven 90%+ open rate. Use them to drive traffic to sales funnels, lead magnets, events & webinars, new content, and more. There is NO LIMIT on how many notifications you can send or Alexa subscribers you can have.
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<a href="https://shoutworks.com/offers/podcasts/?plan=PLAN_999&affiliate=17" rel="nofollow ugc">Podcast Alexa Skill</a> – Create an Alexa skill for your podcast to drive discovery and grow your listener base. Just drop in your RSS feed link, add a name and picture, and click Publish. Then your listeners can say, “Alexa, open [your podcast]” and your latest episode will start to play. Don’t make your listeners search through third party apps to find you – put your podcast right at their fingertips.
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<a href="https://shoutworks.com/portfolio/make-money-through-alexa-developer-rewards/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wpreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Make Money Through Alexa Developer Rewards</a> – With Shoutworks, you don’t need to be a developer to get paid through this Amazon incentive program. If your skill becomes one of the most popular in your category, you could get paid $5,000+ per month from Amazon. Shoutworks only takes 30% plus transaction fees of any Developer Rewards your skill earns, you keep the rest.
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<a href="https://shoutworks.com/portfolio/what-is-an-alexa-skill/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wpreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">A Custom Alexa Skill</a> – Create your own custom Alexa skill listed on the Amazon Alexa skill store, available to all 4+ billion Alexa-ready devices worldwide.
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<a href="https://shoutworks.com/a-tour-of-the-all-new-shoutworks-alexa-skill-creator/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wpreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Full Access to the One-Click Alexa Skill Creator</a> – Get unlimited access to the Shoutworks One-Click Alexa Skill Creator, our easy-to-use platform that allows you to create, test, and publish your Alexa skill in a few quick clicks. Set up and submit your skill for publication in under a minute (we timed it).
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<a href="https://shoutworks.com/portfolio/update-your-alexa-skill-instantly-in-real-time/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wpreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Real-Time Instant Updates to Your Skill</a> – Your skill’s content updates instantly as soon as you click Update. Change, edit, and add as much as you want.
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<a href="https://shoutworks.com/portfolio/add-a-custom-name-and-image-for-your-alexa-skill/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wpreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Skill Name & Image</a> – Name your skill whatever you want, and give it an image consistent with your brand. Use your existing logo, or make a new one. It’s up to you!
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<a href="https://shoutworks.com/add-a-custom-introduction-to-your-alexa-skill/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wpreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Skill Introduction</a> – Keep your skill brand-consistent by telling Alexa what to say to introduce your skill to new subscribers.
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<a href="https://shoutworks.com/portfolio/the-4-custom-skill-sections/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wpreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">4 Custom Skill Sections</a> – Create different sections of your Alexa skill to share any kind of content you want. Create a “Special of the Day,” “Joke of the Week,” or “Small Business Tip of the Month.” Name your Skill Section anything you want: “Flash Briefing,” “Blog Reader,” “Today’s Homework,” “Halloween Costume Ideas,” “Holiday Gift Guide” – the canvas is yours! Users will say, “Holiday Gift Guide” and Alexa will respond with whatever you want – just type in the text and she’ll say it.
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<a href="https://shoutworks.com/support-your-people-better-through-amazon-alexa/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wpreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Voice Contact Form</a> – Let anyone contact you through Alexa. This cool feature turns Alexa into your personal in-home support representative. It allows subscribers to say “Send a Message” to your Alexa skill and Alexa will introduce you to the subscriber via email, message included.
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When you sign up for Shoutworks, you also get FREE access to:
<ul>
<li>The mini-course, “6,000 Leads Per Day” which teaches you step-by-step how to use Alexa to generate thousands of leads and sales in less than 30 days.</li>
<li>The “6,000 Leads Per Day” PDF checklist which you can execute to get to 6,000+ leads per day and $5,000+ in cash from your Alexa skill.</li>
<li>LIVE trainings with our team each week</li>
</ul>
<h4>The Shoutworks Story</h4>
We believe that when your community is stronger, your business is, too. That’s why we set out to make Shoutworks.
When we got started, it was common for big brands to hire expensive developers to build Alexa skills that could help them stay close to their customers. On the other hand, we saw smart developers growing to massive success with their Alexa skills – getting 6,000+ leads a day and making $10,000+ a month from Alexa alone.
We thought: With over 4 billion Alexa-ready devices, why weren’t more entrepreneurs and business owners getting in on this massive opportunity? Then we realized: The technology was too hard and too expensive. So we decided to do something about it.
We think driven entrepreneurs like you and me should get the same opportunities as the big brands, without having to spend thousands. You shouldn’t have to be a programmer to create for Alexa’s massive platform – that would be like making Facebook or YouTube exclusive to developers. That’s not just silly, it’s unfair.
So we’ve taken those tools and made them incredibly easy for anyone to use, no matter your skill set. With Shoutworks, you can now leverage Alexa to get closer to your community just as well as (or better than!) the best brands in the world.
Ultimately, our goal is to help you rise above the noise, grow the business you want, and achieve the freedom you deserve.
I would love to have you share and learn with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/shoutworks.voice.marketing.and.growth" rel="nofollow ugc">our community of forward-thinking entrepreneurs and business owners growing with voice</a>.
Yours Vocally, 
Christian Petroske 
Co-Founder, Shoutworks

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Alexa Flash Briefing Plugin for WordPress
This is a WordPress plugin that creates a new post type of “briefing” that lets you create Alexa Flash Briefing compatible posts just like you would anything else in WordPress. It uses these posts to create a feed for Alexa skills through the API.
Create your briefings like regular posts. Here’s how it works to determine a text to speech or audio file:
<ul>
<li>If you have ANY links/URLs in the post content, the plugin takes the FIRST link and uses it as the audio stream. It does not validate or catch errors!</li>
<li>If there’s no link in the post content, it will assume you want text to speech (but this must also be selected on your Amazon dev end too).</li>
</ul>
It is safest to just put a HTTPS url to your audio file, but you may add other text in the post if you are also sending people to your site to listen. WordPress will oembed the MP3 file you post, so users will be able to listen on the web.
<h3>Alexa Usage</h3>
Use this URL for your Alexa skill:
<pre><code>https://your-domain.com/wp-json/alexa-fb/v1/briefings/
</code></pre>
That will post the latest briefing from all categories (1). To change the limit (be advised Amazon’s limit is 5), use:
<pre><code>/wp-json/alexa-fb/v1/briefings/?limit=5
</code></pre>
If you want to create multiple feeds, use categories. Just add the category param to the end point:
<pre><code>/wp-json/alexa-fb/v1/briefings/?category=myflashbriefcat
</code></pre>
This lets you use the same install for many feeds!
The feed API will cache in transients the result per category per limit for a default of 1 hour. To change the cache time or turn off caching per feed, use the cache param. 0 turns off caching for that feed, 1 for 1 hour (default), 3 for 3 hours, 0.5 for 30 mins, etc.
Just add the cache param to the end point:
<pre><code>/wp-json/alexa-fb/v1/briefings/?cache=0
</code></pre>
All params can be used together.
<h3>Notes</h3>
<ul>
<li>You MUST use a secure domain and secure links to your audio files (https for the audio files and the feed URL).</li>
<li>Your briefing content shouldn’t contain any HTML tags if you want to use TTS (text to speech).</li>
<li>You can also draft and schedule briefings like regular posts.</li>
<li>You can use the excerpt and featured image options if you will be sharing your briefing on social media without interfering with Alexa functionality.</li>
</ul>
(This plugin is not associated with Amazon in any way.)

WP Alexa Flash Briefing

I am biased, of course, because I wrote it! But this has saved me hours of work a week with my flash briefings.

Saves me hours of work a week

This plugin lets you create Amazon Alexa and Echo flash briefing posts and automatically generates an Alexa-formatted feed. Supports text and audio.

Shoutworks vs WP Alexa Flash Briefing