Automation

Not just for lazy people

What is it?

• Recent term (1947 - Ford)
• Technology used to reduce or replace labour
• Consistency of product (reduce human errors)
• Increased throughput
• Better quality products

Early examples

Water powered cotton spinning job replacer

Early Examples

Automation is

1. Identifying manual processes
2. Isolating monotonous or repetitive steps
3. Applying technology
4. Scaling
5. ???
6. Profit

Automate your mind

• You do boring stuff every day
• What part of it is manual?
• How can you automate it?
  1. Can you use tech?
  2. Can you pay someone else to do it?
• How much time will you save?
• Will automating it save you time?

What to automate?

• Everything
• Bullet Two
• Bullet Three

Email rules are easy

You suck at coding

• It's okay so do Adam and Anna
• But what if you didn't have to code...

Meet Zapier

What Zapier do?

• Integrates with many disparate services
• Automate sequenced workflows
• Does it (mostly) without needing to code

What do we use it for?

What can you do with it?

• Automatically respond to twitter mentions
• Share Wordpress posts on social media (like buffer)
• Record new followers to google sheets (Instagram/twitter)
• Automatically email new Stripe customers
• Notifications of code commits to Slack
• Save Mailchimp subscribers to a list

Demo time

Practical Time

More Examples

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