Ya'll...this is going to be one of those posts that uses lots of exclamation points and you may see words such as "Gems, keys, amazing and lit" used throughout.  Why?  Because today I'm talking about one of my favorite topics...Automation!!!!  Listen, I am an automation junkie...not because I'm lazy, but because I'm strategic.  Why waste time on tasks that robots can do for me (and a lot of times for free!)?  It just makes sense.  Today I'm going to discuss my two favorite automation resource programs, Zapier and IFTTT (aka If This Then That) and explain their pros and cons.

Automation...I love it!  Set it and forget it?  I'm all about that.  Automation may be seen by some as lazy, but I see it as smart.  Why waste time on things that are considered busy work when you can be using that time to work on more pressing tasks that you HAVE to be directly involved in?  It's the 21st century...if you're not using some form of automation in your day to day blog/biz functions, you need to start...like...today.  Computers can be your personal assistant when the money isn't flowing to pay a human just yet.  If you are manually performing any of these 9 tasks, you should stop and hand them over to your robot friends!