Automating repetitive tasks is an easy way to save hours of work, especially if you’re a busy blogger or business owner. Learn the easy ways you can incorporate Zapier into your everyday task flow.
What is Zapier?
Zapier is a project management tool that you can use to increase your efficiency. The software can complete many tasks that a personal assistant can help you with. Creating spreadsheets, backing up your work, and even setting up unique notifications that send you a text or email if a team member completes a certain task.
“Zapier is a tool that allows your customers to connect apps they use every day to automate tasks and save time. With Zapier’s library of over 1,000+ connected apps, your customers can connect your tool to their other business apps to create their own automated workflows.”
–Zapier
Use Zapier to Keep Track of Blog Post Updates
If you have a lot of blog posts, keeping a spreadsheet with the dates each post was last updates is a huge time saver. Sorting through hundreds of blog posts individually can take hours.
Updating your blog posts is an important task for increasing traffic and for SEO. You can set up an automation in Zapier, so every time you update a blog posts, a spread sheet row with the date, time, title, and category of the post will automatically be created by the software.
You can add almost anything to a spreadsheet automatically, which saves hours of documentation you would need to do by hand otherwise.
Use Zapier to Keep Track of Every Blog Post on Your Website
Each time you publish a new post, it’s best to save the hyperlink in a document so you can easily review your list of posts and plan your editorial calendar.
You don’t need to do this manually.
You can set up an automation in Zapier, so every time you publish a new blog post, Zapier will save the new title and hyperlink to a list of posts.
This is very helpful when you’re doing a SEO content audit and determining which posts are underperforming on your blog.
Use Zapier to Add Members to Your Email List
If you have a membership program on your blog, you can use Zapier to add subscribers to your email list as long as you are in compliance with GDPR and other internet marketing laws.
Membership forms often have an option for new subscribers to sign up for a newsletter. In Zapier (depending on which membership platform you’re using) you can trigger a new subscriber to be added to your list if the proper consent is given when a new member signs up.
