Enabling Automation for Business #Meetup #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.