Why spend time doing things a robot could do for you? Well… maybe not a robot exactly, but trust us, you are doing too much. Join us for this week’s Divi Chat episode where we discuss how automating tasks in your business can free up a surprising amount of time and mental energy. Let’s conquer that ToDo list!
We are super excited to welcome James Rose to the show this week! He is a self confessed Automation Addict, the creator of an automation course called Zapier Mastery, and a pretty entertaining guy on top of it all. Don’t miss out on the many gems he’s sure to share.
Hosts Present:
- Stephanie Hudson – FocusWP / FB / Focus On Your Biz
- Tammy Grant – Brand Elemental / FB / @yourblogplace
- Tim Strifler – Divi Life / FB / @timstrifler
- James Rose – JimmyRose.me / FB / @_jimmyrose
Resources Mentioned:
- Content Snare
- Grow Your Web Design Business by Content Snare (FB Group)
- WP Fusion
- Text Expander
- Zapier Mastery Course
This was a great podcast.
You guys are right, you are scratching the surface. Zapier and IFTTT are great tools for small businesses to automate simple tasks. Imagine automating the entire onboarding of a new employee. I don’t mean simply digitized “paperwork” going back and forth, but imagine this logic;
“….when a new applicant accepts an approved offer with start date and the offer letter has been digitally signed, then provision an O365 account, create a request for IT to create a phone account, baseline a laptop and provide other gear, create an account in system X, create a request for a new security badge…etc.”
Anyone who has been in this business for a while is able to translate a customer’s requirement into a reality on a site, create functionality. We are in a unique time in history, with the baby-boomers heading into retirement and their positions are being left unfilled and technology at a point now where we can create workflows tieing in disparate legacy systems to create efficiency where there is none. We are uniquely suited for this task, translating customers crazy requests into reality.