101 Ways To Use Zapier - Amazon Web Services

142 Pages·2013·5.03 MB·English

by  Chelsea Foster

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Table of Contents
Introduction 4
Part I: Automating Your Inbox 5
Part II: Automating Time Management 12
Part III: Project Management 18
Part IV: Automating File Management 28
Part V: Archiving and Backing Up Your Work 34
Part VI: Social Sharing 39
Part VII: Social Media Monitoring 45
Part VIII: News, Notifications, Alerts and Monitoring 52
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Part IX: Lead Generation and Nurturing 60
Part X: Customer Support 78
Part XI: Reports, Charts and Dashboards 88
Part XII: E-commerce 94
Part XIII: Accounting and Invoicing 102
Part XIV: Web Development 108
Part XV: Making The Web Work With Your Database 115
Part XVI: Having Fun with RSS 122
Part XVII: The Random, the Fun, and the Obscure 126
Part XVIII: Using Zapier in a Zap 138
Conclusion 142
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Introduction
Zapier is your swiss army knife for the web. It's one
of those tools you can constantly come back to for
automating mindless tasks on the.
Like a swiss army knife, if you keep it in your back
pocket, it's always there, ready to do the job for you.
This ebook will show you 101 Zaps you can use to get
the most out of your Zapier account.
Let Zapier do some work for you and try one (or
more!) of these 101 Zaps today.
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Part I: Automating
Your Inbox
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Everyone has to deal with an
email inbox and very few of us
have it under control.
Here are some Zaps to help you
hold the email tides at bay
and take back control of your inbox.
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1. Save Email Attachments to
Dropbox
File management and email don't get S Z
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along. This Gmail to Dropbox Zap
helps you save all the incoming
1. Gmail to Box
attachments entering your Gmail
inbox to Dropbox.
2. Gmail to Google
Drive
If you don't need all of your
3. Gmail to SkyDrive
attachments to go to Dropbox, you
can filter specific Gmail labels to give
you more control.
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2. Create Tasks and To-Dos from
Emails
Email is meant for communication, S Z
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but far too often it winds up as a to-do
list. The easiest way to clear out the
1. Create a Trello
to-dos from your inbox is to Zap
card from Email
emails to your favorite to-do or
project management app like this 2. Create an Asana
Gmail to Basecamp to-do Zap. task from Email
3. Create a Google
Simply start labeling your emails that
task from Email
are actually to-do items and Zapier
will Zap them over to Basecamp.
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3. Archive Emails for Reference
Having a storage place for all of your S Z
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past email is great because it gives
you a backup of your emails and a
1. Save Emails to a
place to reference anything you might
Google
need. A favorite Zap for handling this Spreadsheet
is archiving your Gmail emails to
Evernote. 2. Save Emails to a
Dropbox text file
Simply label or tag the emails you
want to save for reference or backup
and Zapier will Zap the email straight
to Evernote.
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4. Create Tasks/To-Dos/Cards by
Sending Email
When you're on-the-go, it's sometimes S Z
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a lot easier to just send an email than
to open up a dedicated app. Zapier
1. Create Asana task
can give you a dedicated email
via email
address that you can use to trigger
Zaps. This lets you easily send an 2. Create Pivotal
email to do things like creating cards Tracker story via
email
in Trello.
3. Create Basecamp
This will work for any of your favorite
to-do via email
project management or task
management software tools. Check
out a few of our favorites on the right.
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