Automate Creation of Google Tracking URL’s

It’s always great to use open source software, especially when it cuts down on workflow time as much as automation scripts.

Check here for the first example of what I mean: 

Automation Example #1: Creating UTM Tracking Links for Analytics – Script Media

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Enabling Automation for Business #Meetup in LA

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Have you ever wanted to have a robot complete all of your mundane, boring, menial and outrageously tedious tasks for you?!?!? Yeaaaa???… Me too -_-

Unfortunately, automation is not the “set-it-and-forget-it” solution most imagine it to be. Yet, it can still be a very useful and powerful method for attaining scale and efficiency in your business. The bright line between using automation as a “pipe-dream” machine and making it your power-performance tool is a proper set of software, thorough planning of systematic processes, and plenty of support from active online communities.

But let me take a step back and tell you what I’ve learned to do in the past year, without using paid automation services, so you can have an idea of what I’m talking about:

• Gather info from commonly used web-analyzer tools using client specific variables.

• Download reports from a secure website and email clients monthly updates.

• Make endless scripts to process images/video/files from one form to another.

• Create craigslist posts using info from a spreadsheet.

• Auto collect relevant posts from Twitter, Instagram, and Fb to sort through later.

• etc

During this meetup, I hope we can explore tips, tricks, advantages and disadvantages of Automation. Specific “types” I want to focus on involve these platforms:

• Mac Based – FakeApp, Keyboard Maestro, Automator, Applescript

• Every Device and OS – IFTTT, Infusionsoft, Google Apps Script, VBA.

Whether it be for purposes of email marketing, web scraping, social media maintenance, file organization, etc., I feel like every entrepreneur and business owner can greatly benefit from gathering in a like-minded, scale-seeking communities to share ideas. Who knows, it may even help us “laymen-coders” with dreams of automated efficiency to form another community and save a semblance of sanity in our busy lives.

For those newer than I to the world of Automation, I’ll be sharing a bit of what I know during a brief 15min opening, then we can all break off into groups, online and in person, by topic/OS/understanding etc.

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Enabling Automation for Business #Meetup #LA

RSVP

Have you ever wanted to have a robot complete all of your mundane, boring, menial and outrageously tedious tasks for you?!?!? Yeaaaa???... Me too -_- 

Unfortunately, automation is not the "set-it-and-forget-it" solution most imagine it to be. Yet, it can still be a very useful and powerful method for attaining scale and efficiency in your business. The bright line between using automation as a "pipe-dream" machine and making it your power-performance tool is a proper set of software, thorough planning of systematic processes, and plenty of support from active online communities. 

But let me take a step back and tell you what I've learned to do in the past year, without using paid automation services, so you can have an idea of what I'm talking about:

• Gather info from commonly used web-analyzer tools using client specific variables.

• Download reports from a secure website and email clients monthly updates. 

• Make endless scripts to process images/video/files from one form to another. 

• Create craigslist posts using info from a spreadsheet.

• Auto collect relevant posts from Twitter, Instagram, and Fb to sort through later. 

• etc 

During this meetup, I hope we can explore tips, tricks, advantages and disadvantages of Automation. Specific "types" I want to focus on involve these platforms: 

• Mac Based - FakeApp, Keyboard Maestro, Automator, Applescript 

• Every Device and OS - IFTTT, Infusionsoft, Google Apps Script, VBA. 

Whether it be for purposes of email marketing, web scraping, social media maintenance, file organization, etc., I feel like every entrepreneur and business owner can greatly benefit from gathering in a like-minded, scale-seeking communities to share ideas. Who knows, it may even help us "laymen-coders" with dreams of automated efficiency to form another community and save a semblance of sanity in our busy lives. 

For those newer than I to the world of Automation, I'll be sharing a bit of what I know during a brief 15min opening, then we can all break off into groups, online and in person, by topic/OS/understanding etc.