10 ways to use IFTTT to solve business problems

Subject to automate business tasks truly inexhaustible. And where automation is often the simplest methods can work most effectively. Among the universal service for online automation occupies a special place IFTTT.com. We have already We discussed it in the pages of "Layfhakera," but today there is a reason to come back to it again. It's about 10 ways to automate business tasksWith which entrepreneurs / bloggers / journalists / internet marketers face every day:

1. It snowed or stepped heat? It is time to announce the seasonal discounts / promotions / products in microblogs.

Responding to local events and factors that determine the demand and business opportunities small business - an important part of your online activities. In the city of snow? Will the demand for towing ropes, snowshoes and shovels to clear lawns. The period of the heat? Time for discounts on soft drinks. If you work in retail or services, the publication of the seasonal nature of discounts on social networks - a convenient and important tool for you.

2. I entered a new order by e-mail? Add it to your spreadsheets in Google Docs.

Make it as easy to work with new orders that will allow you to not get lost in the business correspondence and mark received a letter with orders / requests as the target mail, as well as to make all such letters in a separate table.

3. You mentioned on Twitter? Add a reference to the list of references.

Simple monitoring of social media you can develop, and without resorting to complex platforms. Check that you write about and discuss in what manner.

4. Your client / business partner's birthday? Do not forget to congratulate him.

Little things that make up the constructive work and good impression about you start with attentiveness to personal details like birthdays.

5. Your competitor wrote in his blog a new post on your professional subject? Do not miss the information.

Stay up to date with all the news of the local and regional industry can and should be - enough to set up the correct notification that the write / announce / offer your local competitors.

6. Your photographs like users of Instagram? Link in the Google-save the document.

Photographs within individual platforms such as Instagram, collect quite a large number of responses. Systematize and analyze the nature of these responses can be in Google separate table Spreadsheet, - and then the most active of your subscribers to award discounts or bonuses to buy goods / services.

7. Wrote a new post on your WordPress-blog? Share on publishing your page to Facebook.

This is the easiest and fastest way to automate your work with social networks.

8. Spend an event scheduled on your Google Calendar? Announce it to Facebook.

Local visitors / customers / subscribers will always be aware of your actions, if you synchronize the planned calendar with your page in the social network.

9. Post a link to Facebook? Save it for tracking and collecting conversion statistics.
Tool Bitly links reduction offers also the possibility of tracking conversions and clicks on your links from social networks. Your links on Facebook you can bookmark for tracking by Bitly, to count the total number of collected transitions.

10. Sales are growing? Keep track of sales on Etsy and other sites with text notifications.

Online sales easier and faster to track when each new purchase on online sites will be accompanied by a notice via SMS. A IFTTT greatly simplifies this task when it comes to sites selling copyright goods like Etsy.

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