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Every week, we share a new guide or review about the automatons you might want to recruit into your army. You can find them below, and don’t forget to subscribe to follow along!
It’s Amazon Prime Day, which means some of our favorite home automation products are on sale today!
If you’re serious about saving time and money, it’s great to get a good deal along the way, right? I spent way too long going through some of my favorite home automation products on Prime Day and even found some new tools I couldn’t say no to—like the Eufy X10 robotic vacuum and mop, more on that in a bit—and now I want to share some of the best deals with you.
Now, let’s look at the deals!
What if you could automate your relationships? What if you could get reminders to keep in touch with the people who matter to you that were so perfectly timed that any time you send an email or a text, people said, “Oh! I was just thinking about you. I’m so glad you reached out!”
That’s where Cloze comes in. In this review of Cloze CRM, I’m going to take a look at how this personal CRM might help you automate your personal and business relationships. We’ll look at its main features, including AI-driven automatic reminders, unified contact management, and huge potential for integrations, as well as the pros and cons of the tool, pricing, and whether it might be a good fit for you.
One of the first tasks to create a new automation, system, or tool, is to decide what data you need to be working with. Sometimes, this is an obvious choice, like if you’re starting a marketing automation and just need the email and first name of a potential customer. Other times, it can be really confusing, like if you want to create say an automated tool to help writers determine their story structure, as we are.
In this article, we’ll talk about why you should decide the data your app will be working with first, how to determine your automation data, and how to structure it. I’ll also be sharing the data we’ll be using for this new project, and I’d love your feedback on it!
To help ease you into automations, I’m creating this new series called “Your First Automation” to help you learn the basics of automating everything. These guides should help ease you into automations, and also help show you a few tricks that you can use to create your own automations later.
The first automation we’re going to tackle in this series is one of the most basic, but also weirdly useful tricks: creating a duplicate of a spreadsheet.
Can you help me? I want to create a new automation specifically for writers, maybe even a tool that anyone can use or build to manage something in their writing process.
But I need your help deciding what to build!
It’s my birthday today! And so, in honor of my birthday, I’m going to show you how to create an automated birthday reminders system with Airtable and Zapier so you never forget to say happy birthday to a friend again!
“My wife forgets to turn off the lights when she leaves the house,” a reader told me recently. “I’d like a lights automation that turns them off when I leave home.”
Good news! If you want to spend less money on electricity, save time by not having to walk around the house before you leave, plus possibly save your marriage (or at least some annoyance with your spouse), there’s an automation for turning off your lights when you leave the house.
And it’s not even that hard!
In this guide, we’re going to look at the three best automations to turn off the lights: the easy way, medium way, and advanced way. Never leave the lights on again with these automations!
In this guide, you’ll learn exactly how you can create an ad spend tracking automation yourself, and make sure your actual spending is getting the results you want for your digital ad budget.
In this guide, you’ll learn how to create your own automated follow-up system so you’ll never fail to keep in touch with the people you need to keep in touch with.
I want to introduce you to my new website, Joe’s Automaton Army, which is kind of a tech blog, community, and place to figure out what’s happening in this world of automations and AI and productivity tools. Looking forward to hearing what you think and welcome to the Fight Against Tedium.