General Talk About Optimization
Optimization has gotten quite popular in recent years with all the new self help tech books. With how tempting the lure of having robots doing all your work can be, one must be careful to take a step back and ask, "is this a task that needs to be optimized?" We could all benefit from optimization, and we all have areas of life that may be optimized too much. If a system is more efficient, yet ineffective, said system is just increasing ineffectiveness.
Also automation is less flexible. Robots are not as adaptive as humans. I have a client who sends one email blast every few years, yet is obsessed with automating his mass emails.
Plugins
Concepts
Using Social Media
In Wordpress
Wastes of Time
Browser Extensions
Outsourcing
* if you see an asterisk, topic is more about efficiency
Mailchimp Plugins
Mailchimp for WooCommerce
WooCommerce Google Analytics Integration
Shareholic & AddtoAny
Instagram Feed
WordImpress Reviews Bundle:
YP
Google+
Yelp
Friends Facebook comments plugin
Twitter Integration
Pinterest integration
Time Management Software *
Project Management Software *
Focus on one social media platform. Spend 95% of your time on a single platform. *
Hootsuite
Schedugram
Other Instagram Automation
Scheduling for FB
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram *
Automation Overkill
Automated Email Replies
Turn off FB notifications… except AWP *
ManageWP
Building Sites that don’t break *
How auto can you go? (GoDaddy)
About Time *
Momentum Dash *
Grammarly *
Screenshot extension (for mockups) *
Woorank *
99designs
Fiver
Hiring people is a form of automation
Be thoughtful, but don't expect perfection