101 W U AYS TO SE 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 2 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 3 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. 4 Part I: Automating Your Inbox 5 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. 6 1. Save Email Attachments to Dropbox File management and email don't get S Z IMILAR' APS 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. 7 2. Create Tasks and To-Dos from Emails Email is meant for communication, S Z IMILAR' APS 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. 8 3. Archive Emails for Reference Having a storage place for all of your S Z IMILAR' APS 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. 9 4. Create Tasks/To-Dos/Cards by Sending Email When you're on-the-go, it's sometimes S Z IMILAR' APS 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. 10
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