Here are some of the things I’ve automated. All of these fired at least once in the last 2 days.
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- Whenever a podcast episode goes live, it strips out a specific portion of the post text. That gets posted to 2 Facebook pages, LinkedIn and a Facebook Group. For Twitter, the text is shortened to 200 characters and 3 randomised hashtags are added. The square featured image gets extracted using a small script, which gets posted to Instagram with the text and some hashtags. Finally, it gets added to an RSS feed which is automatically pulled into my weekly newsletter.
- Every Friday, a random tool is chosen from a list of my favourites and is posted in my Facebook group, sometimes with an affiliate link.
- Every Thursday, a randomised question is chosen and posted to get people talking in my group.
- If I find a cool article that would be valuable to our audience of agencies, I click a button in Chrome and type a small commentary. The post and my comment get queued up on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. It’s also added to the same RSS feed that goes to my weekly newsletter. The featured image for that post is added to Google Drive for the lady that later creates the newsletter.
- At the end of a
5 day email course, a coupon code is automatically generated and emailed to the subscriber. 3 days later they get a reminder before the coupon gets automatically deactivated. - Various alerts when there are issues with our websites – these might come to email, SMS or Slack depending on severity.
- Synchronising contacts between payment gateways,
CRMs and various tools. Move new subscribers into the right systems and manage unsubscribes. - A refer a friend system
auto generates a specific coupon code they can share with friends. When it gets used, it addscredit to their account. - When a lead comes through, looks up their company size and if they are over 20, adds a
to do item for me to follow up with them manually. - If someone fills out a survey about how they found out about us, extend their trial.
- Monitor a list of changes that get made to our software, then roll them up into a list into Trello for me to summarise and send to customers.
- Totally random… but create a spreadsheet of every task I’ve completed so if I ever feel like I haven’t been productive I just have a look at my spreadsheet.
- Our community manager manually adds people to a Google sheet that request our newsletter. A zap picks these people up and sends them a confirmation. If they accept, they get added to the newsletter.
- If I tag someone who is an active user of our software, send them an email from me personally asking for some feedback. If they don’t reply, check in just in case they forgot.
Anyway… that’s probably enough. Again, these were just in the last 2 days of task history.
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