Stay ConnectedWelcome to AutomationTown! A podcast about regular people, building automations for the problems we all share.
First time here? Start with S02E01 “For When You Need A Chatbot”
What are the things you do each day that you’d rather forget?
Chad & Jason explore common pain points for knowledge workers, and track down the people & tools necessary to automate trivial to-do’s.
Copyright: © 2022 Jason Staats & Chad Davis
"Well that was a great chat bot experience!" Said no one ever... This week, we launch a call-in radio show in AutomationTown, talk through a few chat bot building tools, discuss when to use a chat bot, and when you're better off with a web form.
Bring your automation questions to us live at 7pm on 104.7 The Buzz.
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Voiceflow: https://jo.my/flowxo
FlowXO: https://jo.my/voiceflow
Amazon Chat Bot: https://jo.my/amazon-instructions
Slack Apps: https://jo.my/slack-app
Pawfinity: https://jo.my/pawfinity
Calendly: https://jo.my/calendlylink
Stripe Payment Links: https://jo.my/stripe-pmt-links
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Chad & Jason sit down with AutomationTown resident Elizabeth Ruh to talk through her experience automating a labor-intensive process in her business, and how it helped her get back to doing good. A feel-good tale about reaching out to friendly Canadians on the internet, and having the courage to ask for help.
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Elizabeth's company: https://jo.my/elizabethruhcompany
Make: https://t.jo.my/integromat-make
Cognito Forms: https://jo.my/cognito
Wealthbox: https://jo.my/wealthbox
Learn Regex in 20 Minutes: https://jo.my/regexin20
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6 million years of technological development has brought human kind to... scrolling feeds. Feeds of fart jokes, life hacks and twerking.
Is this peak human experience? Or the beginning of the end? This week we talk about building your own feeds, unplugging from big feed and taking back control of your attention span.
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Pocket: https://jo.my/getpocket
Evernote: https://jo.my/evernoteat
RSS by Zapier: https://jo.my/rss-zapier
Miniextensions RSS: https://jo.my/miniextrss
RIP Google Reader: https://jo.my/googlereader
Razr Phone: https://jo.my/razr
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[klaxon] Your attention span is under assault, and our world's brightest minds have been tasked with distracting you.
Chad & Jason call an emergency meeting to take back control of our mobile notifications. You can turn them off, you can leave them on, but how do we do something in the middle? We pull in some tools to take back control of exactly the notifications we want, and cut out the fluff.
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Let Calls Through on Android: https://jo.my/androiddndbypass
Pushover: https://jo.my/pushover
Hey: https://jo.my/heyemail
Email by Zapier: https://jo.my/emailbyzapier
Relay Financial: https://jo.my/relay
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What do you do when you need to generate a whole bunch of documents?
Chad & Jason talk through his struggles bulk-processing flyers for his dog walking business, how old-thymey mail merge has evolved into the tools we use today, and the most accessible methods to making a whole bunch of a specific thing.
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Mail Merge: https://jo.my/mailmerge
Google Document Templates: https://jo.my/googletemplates
Formstack: https://jo.my/formstack
Airtable Document Automator: https://jo.my/document-automator
Aron Korenblit: https://jo.my/aron
Bannerbear: https://jo.my/bannerbear
Placid: https://jo.my/placid
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Jason Staats
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Sometimes the old ways are the best. This isn't one of those times, but in this case we didn't have a choice. We talk through how to put a new-age spin on an old-age technology, and built automations around that crusty ole fax machine.
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History of the fax machine (don't click on this please): https://jo.my/faxmachine
HelloFax: https://jo.my/hellofax
mFax: https://jo.my/mfax
eFax: https://jo.my/efax
MyFax: https://jo.my/myfax
Phaxio (very promising): https://jo.my/phaxio
Clicksend: https://jo.my/clicksend
Integromat/Make: https://t.jo.my/integromat-make
PDF.co: https://t.jo.my/pdfco
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Did someone just microwave fish in the office lounge? What about copying you on that passive aggressive email to the VP? Don't worry, this week we've got you covered with tips on how to automate the age old topic of revenge.
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Cat Facts: https://jo.my/catfacts
Bag of Ducks: https://jo.my/bag-ducks
Zinc API: https://jo.my/zinc-api
Pizza Belt: https://t.jo.my/pizzapouch
Amazon Tide Button: https://jo.my/amazon-dash
Zapier Webhooks: https://jo.my/zapier-webhooks
Credit Card Number Math: https://jo.my/creditcard-numbers
Cart Narcs: https://jo.my/cart-narcs
Tremendous Gifts: https://jo.my/tremendous
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We're talking about loss. Specifically, not being able to find things and whether there's a way to get them back. Along the way we learn about infrared, hubs, and how to build an automation for Chad's bathroom fan.
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Zigbee: https://jo.my/zigbee
HarmonyHub: https://jo.my/harmonyhub
Z-Wave: https://jo.my/zwave
SmartThings: https://jo.my/smart-things
HomeKit: https://jo.my/homekit
Matter: https://jo.my/matter
Jason's Logitech Fancy Remote: https://jo.my/logitech-harmonyremote
Broadlink RM4 Pro: https://jo.my/broadlink-rm4pro
Broadlink RM4 Mini: https://jo.my/broadlink-rm4mini
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What do you do when a website doesn't offer a connector for the info you want? Hop a trolley down to the AutomationTown coworking space as Chad & Jason run through methods to scrape the goods you need from any site on the web.
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URLOOKER: https://jo.my/urlooker
SEMRush: https://jo.my/seosemrush
Wayback Machine: https://jo.my/waybackmachine
Wachete: https://jo.my/wachete
VisualPing.io: https://jo.my/visualping
CryptoKitties: https://jo.my/cryptokitties
App Advisory Plus: https://jo.my/appadvisoryplus
SimpleScraper: https://jo.my/simplescraper
Scraping Bee:https://jo.my/scrapingbee
Hexomatic: https://jo.my/hexomatic
ParseHub: https://jo.my/parsehub
Data Miner: https://jo.my/dataminer
Bright Data: https://jo.my/brightdata
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Someone ever tell you to check out Zapier? Happens all the time. Why? Because they're freakin great, that's why. In this episode we cover why it's a must-have tool to know, how we use it and some advice on where to start.
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Zapier: https://t.jo.my/zapier
Zap Editor Drafts Beta: https://jo.my/zapdraft
Webflow: https://jo.my/webflow
Sync O365 to Gmail Calendar: https://jo.my/365caltogmailcal
Zapier Pricing: https://jo.my/zapierpricing
Transfer by Zapier: https://jo.my/transferbyzapier
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Jason Staats
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Youtube: https://t.jo.my/jason-youtube
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