Hello, hello everyone. I hope you're doing well. Welcome. Welcome to another live stream.
Let me know. I was messing around with some audio, always something that you do. And actually,
yeah, let me know if you're watching how this sounds because I think my noise gate is pretty
aggressive. I set my noise gate up. This was very stupid to do like right before a live
stream. But I was thinking about it and I'm recording a lot today because I'm going on
vacation tomorrow. Let's see. Yeah, it's like super aggressive. Okay. So I'm going to make
an adjustment here. Always good. This is good live stream content. So I'm going to make
an adjustment here really quick. Let's see. I'm going to reduce the attack. No, increase
the attack and lower the threshold and the range. Test check one to test check one to
test. Yeah, so I think that's good. I wanted to filter out breaths, but I don't and like
mouth sounds, which I find myself editing out a lot lately. And like why right because
I should be able to just like do this with my equipment. So anyway, let me know in the
comments if you are watching how this sounds seems like it's pretty
like if the attack so the attack is super low, then that's like the amount of time it
takes for it to kick in I think. But it might be I might have maybe I mixed up with the
attack does because this seems to I can I have like a little graph on my roadcaster
pro showing me like when the noise gate kicks in and it it seems to be okay now. And in
my monitors it sounds okay, but if you're watching and something sounds weird and choppy, let
me know. And I will make the adjustment. Also, I noticed that I'm not streaming to X anymore
because I don't have I don't have a premium account. I have a basic account. And so I
guess I can't stream to X anymore. Oh, well, I guess such as life. So let's see, I'm going
to double check here on LinkedIn to make sure everything's good. Yeah, that sounds pretty
good. That sounds pretty good. Okay, good. So I am on Twitch, YouTube, and LinkedIn. Okay,
so today what I'm going to do I'm woefully on let me tell you my friends, I have been
recording all morning slash afternoon, because I'm going on vacation on Saturday. And so
I want to make sure I get a bunch of content in the tank. Like, you know, a couple weeks
worth, since I'm doing podcast workflows twice a week now. And one of those is like
a news based show. So I had to come up with something different for that. But I also want
to get this live stream out. I'm experimenting with, you know, a way to put these live streams
in a podcast feed using rss.com. And ultimately, what I think I could do to improve my workflow
because rss.com uses the live item tag now is like not even need to to upload this audio
later. I just haven't. I want to do that for a video for rss.com. And so I haven't done
it for myself yet. But that's neither here nor there. Where is here we go. I am working
on I'll share my screen now. Lovely. Okay, so this is obviously not done. But I am working
on I love the YouTube channel alt shift X. I think it's excellent. The guy who runs it
is is super smart. And he does like dives into YouTube content. I'm sorry, Game of Thrones
and House of the Dragon. And I just love the way he runs his live streams. Like it seems
like he has all of these resources up and like he so he's not you don't see him you
never see him in the videos. So it's probably like a little bit easier for him to like not
have to make eye contact and just kind of like read and look for stuff. But I loved that
idea. So I started using a whiteboard in Canva to pull in some of my graphics and other slides
and stuff so that I can reference them during the live stream. So we'll see how that goes
today too. If you are just joining. Hello and welcome. Thanks so much. I see some people
trickling in. Let me know where you're coming from. This is I'm going to be talking all
about automations and how you can start automating and then if there's time, I will maybe build
out an automation so you can see how it works. But if you are just joining us, let me know
who you are where you're coming from. If you have any questions and since you missed my
preamble, I stupidly messed with my noise gate before right before this live stream
went on. And so if I'm like cutting out or my audio is choppy or anything, definitely
let me know so that I can fix that. Also, because because LinkedIn does not work with
because LinkedIn does not work with E cam live. I also need to go to LinkedIn and log
in and keep an eye on the comments there. So if you're watching on LinkedIn and I don't
answer or address immediately, it's it's nothing against you. It is that LinkedIn doesn't send
comments to E cam live. So okay, with that, let's let's look at some automation stuff.
Okay, what is what is this? How do why did that happen? Oh, now you can see this. I'm
editing a video. Oh, yeah, there we are. Okay, great. So, okay, first of all, I'm going to
go through some of these things. But when you're so I have a lot of content on this
already. And if you're on my newsletter, which you can go to podcast workflows.com slash
join. I talked a lot about it in this week's newsletter and the articles I'm doing.
Looks like the live stream is gone from LinkedIn. I lose internet. Am I still here? Am I dead?
No, okay. Anyway, so I talked a lot about this in general, I've talked about my I think
I've shown this before, but the automate per task framework, where it's like you perform
the task, you evaluate the task and then if it makes sense, you remove the task and you
do that for every task in your workflow. But you know, sometimes it feels like, you know,
in one of my articles, I say like imagine you're told you have to get to your wedding
and that's it. Like you're not told where the wedding is or what time it's at or anything
like any other details. You're just told you have to get to your wedding. That's kind of
what it feels like when someone says you need to automate, right? Or you need to do anything
that like requires skill. There's a ton more. There's like a lot more stuff that you need
to know before you actually start automating. And so I had a coaching call with someone
yesterday like a discovery call with them. And you know, they were telling me like how
overwhelmed they were feeling because they know that there's places in their process
they can automate, but they're not sure like what what those processes are. And I said at
one point, I'm like, you know, just look for low hanging fruit. And I'm like, if you don't
know what low hanging fruit looks like, like how would you like how could you determine
that? And so I recognize that there is a lot of stuff around automation that can be confusing.
And so I want to try to tackle a lot of that in today's live stream. Something I'm toying
around with as well. And you'll have to tell me if you like this idea is I want to create
a course on automation for podcasters. So I basically teach you everything I know about
podcasting. I'll float this to my newsletter too. But it's it's something that I've been
thinking a lot about. Because it's that's a hard and confusing place to start is is
with automation. So anyway, okay, let's get let's get to the actual stuff here. So first
of all, there are four questions I usually tell people to ask themselves when they're
walking through their process, which is make a list of everything you do. Ask do I personally
need to do this? Ask does a person need to do this? And then see if automation tools
can do it. And this is nice and high level and everything. And you can definitely make
a list of everything you do. And you can ask do I personally need to do it because the
answer in most cases is going to be no. You don't need to do most of the stuff that you
do. It's only like the things that you're especially skilled at, or your opinion, your
voice, your insight, especially when it comes to podcasting. And so like it's good for
you to offload a lot of that stuff. But then when you get to does a person need to do this,
that's where like big question marks happen. Like how do I know if a person or a robot
can do this? And the answer there really lies in the inputs and the outputs. So in the automate
per task, I have when I have you evaluate, I tell you to determine, are the inputs clear
and are the outputs clear? Because if the inputs and the outputs are clear, then there
is a better chance that you'll be able to automate it. The main key to automation, when
you're automating processes like this with a tool like Zapier or make is there needs
to be some event that kicks off that automation, and then a very repeatable set of tasks need
to happen. So one example of this is and I'll you know, I'll bring it up here and we can
do a little show and tell. Maybe see bring up the sidebar here. No, do you not want to
do this for me right now? I know you can't see it, but I can. I think so. Okay, I'm just
this is going to be like in the back of my mind a little bit, but it does sound like
the noise gate is mostly good. And I'm hearing like some dropout at some points. So it's
probably still a little bit too aggressive, but not so aggressive that I can change what
I'm doing for the live stream when I'm recording a podcast, it's definitely going to be too
aggressive because like once it's gone, it's gone, right? Like once the audio is gone,
it's gone. But anyway, let's let's look at a really simple automation. Yeah, it just
dropped out there, right? Let's look at a really simple automation. I think I probably
want to adjust the attack and the release. Can I like just set this back to whatever
the defaults were? Can I do that? Do you do doing things live? Is that good? Threshold
attack? Yeah, okay, that's back to that's back to where it was. So now there's probably
some adjustments I'll be able to make, but I'll adjust for podcast studio. And we'll
go from there. You just heard that breath. I just heard that breath. It's fine. Everybody
needs to breathe. Okay, so let's this is what I get for doing stuff like right before I
have to go live. Okay, so here's a really simple, right make like doesn't I love make
and like the way they zoom is terrible. So here's an example of an automation. A really
simple automation. Watch database items. And then when something changes in that database
item, create a new database item. So this is notion to notion. Maybe this isn't a great
example, but it is really simple. Because inexplicably notion doesn't do this natively.
So what I'm saying here is, in my CRM, when a person in my CRM is has a status has changed
to one, which means I won the job or whatever, creating new database item in my like current
clients database. And the reason that there are two separate databases here is because
this one is for like project management and this one is my CRM. And you can't do that
natively in notion. Again, inexplicably, like notions, automations are real bad. Like real
bad. I can't believe they shipped them like that bad. But anyway, this is so this is a
really simple automation. Another one that's maybe worth looking at where you're connecting
two items is let's do this one, right? This is really good. So this is when somebody fills
out a form on my website, I use a tool called gravity forms, add them to notion. The input
is really clear here. The input is the information that was put into this form. The output or
the actions are also very clear. Take this stuff that was input into the form and add
it to notion. So inputs and outputs are clear. This is a very simple automation where you're
basically connecting two tools that wouldn't otherwise be connected. And you can sub out
anything for this, right? So you could say like, tally form or Google form and you can
swap out notion with air table or Google sheets, your or Trello, right? Like whatever tool
you use can usually be connected here. So that is that's generally what I look for when
I'm asking the four questions. Does a person need to do this? Like another way you can
ask that is like, does this task require critical thinking or multiple steps? Like multiple,
let's say, multiple steps where adjustment is needed. Because like a robot can't do that,
right? A really good example of this is I could set up an automation for streamlined
solopreneur where when the item is is published automatically create a post on my WordPress
site. That is something that is automatable, right? A person does not need to do that part.
However, I want a number of things to happen with that blog post. I want the transcript
to be put into an accordion so it's not like making a forever long page. I want the embed
to be in a specific section next to my buttons for my calls to action. I want the sponsors
logos to be listed and there's no place in transistor for me to put sponsors and logos
and links. So while that task could be automatable, there are some inputs that change. The inputs
aren't clear and exactly the same every time. And so my VA does that because we have a process
in place where she can find the sponsor logos and links and she knows how to add them. She
knows how to add the transcript to the right section. She knows which template in WordPress
to use. So that's kind of the difference. When you're going through a task, maybe the
best way to think about it is this. When you're going through a task, if there's a little
hiccup, make a note of that hiccup and that might have the potential to require a person
to do it. Not always as I'll show you in a minute, but it could. Okay. So let's look
at what kind of tasks you should automate because this is another, like what, well,
I don't even know what's possible. I could ask, does a person need to do it? And I don't
really know the answer to that. So here are four types of tasks you can automate. Common
easily repeatable tasks. When someone fills out a form, add it, add the information to
notion infrequent high level of effort tasks. I would qualify booking guests for your podcast
as this because at least for me, right? Cause for me, it's not just filling out a calendar
reform. It's doing a bunch of things. And I'll show you that in a little bit as well.
Specific timing required. So this is like someone becomes a member of your podcast and
gets a private podcast feed. You don't want them to have to wait until you're at your
computer to give them access to the private podcast feed. And then finally, can't forget.
So this is something where it's a task that needs to happen at a specific time or based
on a specific thing and you might forget, right? So when I was giving a talk like this
last week, someone said like copying and pasting is easy. And I'm not going to pay for a subscription
to basically just copy and copy and paste information into my app. So this is for something
later. Switch back to this camera. They said like, I'm not going to pay endless. They said
they use the words, uh, endless subscriptions. Um, and like, yeah, copying and pasting is
easy, right? I could copy and paste, uh, someone's, uh, calendar information into Notion myself
or I could copy and paste a standard, uh, hey, we're recording tomorrow. Here's what
you need to know. Email and send it. But what if I forget to do those things? Then my schedule
won't be complete. Then my guest won't get crucial information that they need. Why would
I leave that up to chance when I have a tool that could send those emails out for me, right?
Obviously and savvy Cal and Cal.com all have send an email one week before the event, one
day before the event, one hour before the event, and you can set the timing. So yeah,
like maybe it's not worth it to pay to copy and paste, but it's worth it to not to never
have to forget about it. And so that's the type of automation tasks that we're looking
at. Um, so some of my favorite automation tools. So if you go into this to that with
this in mind, I need to update this graphic, but, uh, my favorite automation tools are make,
which we just saw alternative is Zapier. Uh, you connect lots of lots of apps that way.
Right. So like, um, you have lots of apps that can be connected through Zapier and make.
I also use shortcuts on my iPhone. Uh, this is mostly for information gathering. So like
I do a three things in podcasting episode every week and I'm gathering stories, uh,
from across the internet. I have a shortcut to copy the crucial information from that
story and paste it into obsidian so that I have like a little repository, repository
of stories I can pull from Google assistant and other on device automation tools exist
for Android. Um, air table, I say alt notion notion is not good at automation. So like there's
no alternative. In my opinion, notion is no longer an alternative for air table, right?
But like it is one for storing a bunch of data and sending information there, but air
tables, automations are incredible. They're the thing that I miss most about air table.
And then scheduling, I use Cal.com now, but Calendly and Savi Cal, they all do the same
thing. I use Cal.com because, uh, it's free and does everything that Calendly and Savi
Cal do and more, um, their models really interesting. Uh, but I like Calendly and Savi Cal. Uh,
I have a question coming in here. I think maybe I'll be able to read it. Uh, uh, uh,
maybe not. God, I like really can't stand LinkedIn. Um, for this sort of thing. I like,
okay. So I see, can I go to this notification? Um, I'm also really sorry. I'm probably, I
don't want to mispronounce your name. I think it's 10, 10, 10, 10, you. Um, I, I am seeing
this is very frustrating. I'm seeing part of your comment. Uh, so let's see. Perhaps
the most common automation. Oh, oh, nope. That wasn't a question. You just liked it.
That was very dumb on my part. I'm sorry. Um, no wonder I couldn't see it. There was
nothing there. Um, this notification just looked like, uh, a question. So sorry about
that. And thanks for the like and for being here. I appreciate it. Um, if you are joining
in, uh, and you have questions or comments, feel free to leave them. Um, it looks like
most of you are watching on LinkedIn right now. So I will, uh, try to do my due diligence
and check LinkedIn for questions and comments that come in. Okay. So we just walked through
automation tools and the four questions I want to tell you about the components of automation
right now. Uh, and then I'll move on to like building one and how this works. Right. Um,
so, uh, there are four components to automation. One, the first one is the trigger. Some event
needs to kick off the entire automation. This could be someone fills out a form. Uh, someone
visits a website, right? That could be a trigger. Um, someone sends you an email. Uh, someone
books a time on your calendar. These are all triggers. Something happens and that signals
to your automation tool to do a bunch of stuff. Uh, the next component, number two is actions.
So once an automation is triggered, one or more actions need to be performed. This could
be a copy the form information into a notion. It could be, um, send an email, right? I had
an automation for a while and I was trying to respond to like horror, a horror, which
is helper reporter out, uh, requests that whenever I got an email from helper reporter
out that had the word podcast or podcasting or podcaster in it, copy a link to that email
into Google sheets. And then I would check Google sheets once every couple of days. So
instead of having to sifting through all of the horror requests that were coming in, I
was just surfaced. The ones that I felt were relevant to me. So that's an action. Copy
a link to the email into Google sheets, right? One or more actions. Condition number three,
you can also check to see if certain conditions, um, meet, uh, uh, if certain conditions are
true to continue to those actions. So, um, you know, maybe you only want to read emails
from people named Jim, right? So the trigger is you get an email. The condition is if name
contains Jim, uh, then add it to spreadsheet or, you know, send me a push notification
about it or whatever, right? Um, there are a number of triggers. Again, I'll show you
like one of my more complicated automations so that you can kind of see all of this in
action. Um, but you can also choose the, and then number four is you can choose the timing
of your automations. So, uh, you can choose them to run immediately or at specific intervals.
Um, for some, it doesn't need to run because the more you run, the, the, the higher your
cost will be for some of these services, right? You're using a lot of resources. Um, for the,
my helper reporter out automation, I knew I would get emails that I think it was six
a.m. noon and five p.m. or something like that, or maybe it was seven p.m. Uh, and so
I would run the automation once at seven 30 p.m. Right. And, uh, then it would, you know,
get the last three check to see if it had my keywords and if it did add them to the
sheet. So, uh, those are the four components trigger actions, condition timing. If we zoom
out here, let's see, did I capture everything? I have some examples here. And then this is
the, uh, an info graphic for automating per task. If, um, this is going to be up at podcast
workflows.com. So if you want to grab this graphic, you can. Um, but you know, I think
the biggest part here is the, are the inputs and outputs clear? That's the main question
you want to determine if you need to give it to a person or a computer. So, um, let's,
let me, uh, open up, make again, and we can look through some of these things. And then
I can also, uh, build out an automation for you. So let me just, I'll just, uh, check
the comments and questions here really quick. I don't see any questions or comments coming
in. Um, so let me move on to, uh, the actual, the actual, uh, automation side of things.
So, um, let me do, where's cal.com? Here it is. This is again, this is one of my more
complicated automations, right? So the trigger here is someone books with me through cal.com.
This lightning malt bolt means that it happens immediately as data arrives. And so as soon
as someone books with me, this automation kicks off. That's the trigger. The conditions,
this is something called a router. So when there are multiple conditions, um, in Zapier,
this is called paths. But when there are multiple conditions you want to take, you're going
to need to basically tell, make or Zapier what to do if these conditions are met. And
so if the name of the event contains streamlined solopreneur, I wanted to do one thing. Uh,
and then my fallback, but I also have kind of the specific, uh, filters for this. Um,
really ultimately I'd have a fallback with no conditions on it. Um, but I don't necessarily
want that at least at this point. So, uh, the conditions are if, if the event contains
the word discovery or 15, because I do like a 15 minute discovery for people who fill
out my coaching form, then do separate things. And so let's walk through this path first.
The streamlined solopreneur one, there's a number of things I want to happen here. One
is create a Google doc. This is going to be the show notes doc. It's based on the show
notes template and it fills the information out, um, with the information from Calendly.
So I can show you, let me, uh, let me bring that up here so I can do show notes and I'll,
I just want to like sanitize. Oh, that's not, is that right? Let's see. Uh, I'd like to
sort by, oh yeah, this is right. This is, uh, why is it in alphabetical order? Um, doesn't
matter. Let me pick one. We'll do Justine. Uh, and I just, I want to sanitize her email
address. Um, because I don't like making other people's information public. Okay. So, uh,
you can find, so here's the kind of final result email address website. Also this is
legacy. I don't use that anymore, but all of this information is sent via the form, the
cal.com form. Um, and then we get into like the summary and the top takeaways aren't,
but all of this information, her links that she's included, uh, her bio, the topic we're
talking about email address and website. I don't look, okay. I could copy and paste
that from cal.com into a document, but I'd have to remember to do that. And I'd have
to do it for every guest that books with me and like, yeah, it doesn't happen that often.
I interview like maybe 40 people per year and that number is going down now. But why
should I have to remember to do that? Which, you know, copy and pasting it might take me
15 minutes per person, right? So 15 times, uh, 40 is what that's like 10 hours. Did I
do that right? Um, that's 10. That's a whole work day, right? Uh, or more. And that doesn't
even include the fact that like it takes mental energy to start to like stop a task and start
a task. And so why would I do, and that's only one part of this. So like when, you know,
once a day I would maybe churn through or once every couple of days I would churn through
the people I've booked with and then separately create a new Google document for each of them.
And then that's only one part cause I also have them added to the notion database, which
includes the Google doc. And then I send an email to my task manager, which is things
reminding me to do a post, uh, interview summary. So it sends the recording date and the guest
and then the due date is the recording date. So I know when I record with them, I want
to am meat. Like I want to do the summary that same day. So that's fresh in my mind.
I can capture all the things, uh, quickly. So that is one route, right? Based on the
condition event is called streamlined solopreneur. The other route is a lot simpler. Someone
fills out my discovery form. I want to add them to the notion database. And so, uh, this
is much simpler. It grabs the information from that form. It puts it in notion. It
marks them as a lead and it, um, marks them as they found me via, uh, via my email list
because, uh, if they fill out the form, they're marked set. Like if they fill out the form,
that also just automatically goes to notion. Um, and so that's what this Calendly router
looks like. So that has all the components, right? Um, if we look at one that is, uh,
like, okay, this is a good one, right? Because this is for when people want to apply, uh,
when people apply to be a guest for my podcast, this is watching, uh, notion databases. This
happens every three hours. To be honest, it could probably happen once a day. Um, but
it will look for database items in the guest application notion database. And if they are
accepted, send the accepted email. If they are rejected, send the rejected email. I
could just send those emails, right? But then I'm copying and pasting. I'm looking for their
email address. Here I just move them into the accepted or rejected column in notion
and everything else is taking care of for me. Because it's the same email, right? Hey,
thanks so much, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Uh, for the accepted email, it's like,
Hey, name, thanks so much for submitting to be a guest. Actually, and I need to change,
this is dumb. Um, and never change this. I'd love to have you on. And then like, I do build
a link based on the information, uh, that they, um, filled out. So this is, I missed
this part. I thought I got everything. Um, and then the rejection email looks similar,
right? Um, Hey, thanks so much. You know, I, unfortunately, I don't think you're a good
fit for the show, blah, blah, blah. Uh, here are some reasons why. Yeah. And this is pretty
candid. I'm just like, Hey, you probably pitched me a founder story, even though I explicitly
say I don't do founder stories. Okay. Let's build an automation. Anybody watching here?
Use here. Couple people. Great. Um, so I'm going to create a new scenario. Let's do,
um, oh wow. Open AI. Sure. Let's, this is like, I should have thought of this ahead
of time, right? Um, okay. Why don't we, this is good. Watch for when a new document is
created. That's really good. Um, in the folder coaching. Great. Okay. So I've already, first
of all, I've already connected my Gmail account. You know, you, you'll get, when you sign up,
you'll get instructions for like how to connect to your Gmail account. This is one place where
Zappier is better than make. Um, I think Zappier like probably has a deal with make.com. Um,
I'm sorry with Google, I think Zappier probably has a deal with Google to make life easier.
Uh, or they just kind of, or the, I mean, maybe the worst scenario is they just kind
of like skirt the security things, but I don't think Google lets them do that. So anyway,
you'll connect. They give you pretty, like they give you clear instructions on how to
do that. Um, okay. So when a document is added to the coaching, um, form, uh, let's, uh,
let's add it to a Google sheet, maybe. Um, I guess the other thing that like you, you
would maybe do is create a tweet, right? Like maybe you have the text of a tweet in here.
Let's do that. That's stupid. Uh, when like doesn't require real information. Um, so,
yeah. So actually here's what I'll do. Uh, drive.google.com. I will create a folder
called tweets, new folder tweets. Cool. All right. So now we'll go back here. I'll change
the document. It's going to pull the fresh list and there's tweets. So when I add a document
to Google sheets or Google docs, this could also be a Google sheet, right? Like maybe
that's better. Um, well, let's see. Uh, probably if I show advanced text media quote post.
Uh, yeah. So it's not like I can schedule this here. This is going to happen immediately.
Right. So, um, maybe I grab, let's see, document ID, thumbnail, capabilities. Where's the content?
Uh, export links. Did I miss it? Link. Document ID name. Parents spaces. Owners owned by me
capabilities. Okay. Let's actually create one. All right. So we'll create a new doc.
This is like such an academic example. Um, hello. This is an automated tweet from my
live stream from my live stream. And then I guess my YouTube link. How about that? Okay.
So we've got that. So if we go back to make, and I just run this module only, it will grab
this information, found it. I mean, did it find it? Let's see. Owners permissions. Okay.
So then like over here, now I should have like real information here. This is crazy.
It doesn't get the content. This is all falling apart. This can't be right. Um, that's all
right. I'll change it. This is part of automation, right? Like some of you are probably thinking
now, if Joe doesn't even know this stuff, like if Joe's not making it look easy, how
can I possibly do it? Um, it's a lot of, it's a lot of trial and error. I honestly, I bet
there's, let's see. I'll put it here. Can I do that? I'll delete this module. Put that
there. I bet there's a way, yeah, get content of document. That's dumb. Um, by mapping,
ID, document ID. Okay. So that's a two step, right? I didn't anticipate that. That's okay.
And then create post. The post is going to be the content, uh, like all of, how about
all of the content? Title revision, suggested view text content. There we go. Uh, so now
if I run this once, I might have to create a new one. Yeah. Cause it didn't, okay. So
it didn't, uh, find that it didn't find that again. It, it'll only find a document once.
This is another drawback I think of make where like, I think Zappi is a little bit better
about this. You can really only like test a thing once, which is silly. Um, and I'm
going to add an extra exclamation point here so that it runs properly. So that like we
know, hello with two exclamation points means it worked. Okay. So we'll run this again.
Okay. Now we'll go over to Twitter slash X. Hello. This is an automated tweet from my
live stream. Great. So we've built an automation. It frankly didn't go as smoothly as I would
have liked, but, um, it is, it is a lot of trial and error. Right. And so what I would
recommend you do is kind of explore. Also, Zapier has pretty good AI. I haven't tested
it in makes, but Zapier, build me a scenario that looks at a Google sheet and schedules
a LinkedIn post for a specified time. Let's see if it can do this. I had this is I'm testing
this live
the blueprint. This is taking a while. Okay. Like modified the one I was looking at. That's
crazy. Watch new rose. This is dumb. I mean, I guess I guess I was in this and so I asked
it, but it did put these two things together for me with the right action. And then, okay,
so I got to connect my account. Okay. That was super weird waiting for authorization.
Do I actually need all this, man? This is not having. Oh, there we go. Okay. I don't
know what I did before. Yes, this is what you want. That was unclear as well. I'm really
glad that this is going as well as I thought it would. Content media type visibility. Re-sharable.
So it looks like, oh, mentions. That's cool. It looks like there is no scheduling available.
So like I want to be able to do that. But this is this would allow me to create a LinkedIn
post based on, you know, a Google sheet that I'm looking at. So I'm not going to sit here
and tell you that it's easy and you can just do it really quick. It is a learned skill.
I think that some are, some tools are more user friendly than others. I think Zapier
is more user friendly than make if I'm being honest with you. And Zapier does have a nice,
a lower priced plan now. When I left Zapier, my plan was like $75 a month and my make plan
is $10 a month. And so like I get like pay for the tools worth paying for, but also I
had two tools that could do the same thing and one is 90% cheaper. So that's something
to consider. Now I will say like I do help people with this and if you want help building
automations definitely reach out. I think I don't have that lower third prepared, but
sign up for my mailing list at podcastworkflows.com. I talk about this. I'm going to be talking
about automations more, I think because I get a lot of questions about it. And I feel
like this is a place where I can more or less differentiate my content from the content
of lots of the great pot like people who are podcasting out there and giving really good
advice. So that's it for this live stream. Thanks so much for watching. I will not be
here next week because I'll be on vacation, but I'll be back the following week until
then have a great end of July and I'll see you in August.