Custom Automation

Automation is a great way to save time, eliminate the need for manual tasks, and generally just avoid doing work. The problem is that automation can cost a lot of money. Opening up accounts with multiple companies, buying expensive software licenses, and learning new skills are all part of the job requirements. But what if there was another way? What if you could save hours or even days on your day-to-day tasks without investing too heavily in new skills or technology?

Introducing custom automation...

The idea of custom automation is simple. It's the process of using existing tools to automate your workflow. Briefly, most users have their social media, email, and other accounts configured on some type of dashboard or online service. The actual tool doesn't matter as long as it provides the ability to post on multiple accounts at once or at scheduled times. The great part is that most people are already using these services for one reason or another. All you have to do is take advantage of them yourself!

There are many possible uses for custom automation...

Here are a few examples...

Automatically post on your Twitter account whenever you write a new blog post for your website.

Schedule an innocuous post to Facebook at midnight, which you can then monitor in real-time.

Schedule a tweet for your latest blog post and monitor it for popularity and engagement within a few hours of publication.

Blogroll your favorite blogs and set up a dashboard where you can access these lists in an instant.

All of these examples require some sort of technical knowledge, but it's well worth the effort! As you can see, custom automation is about taking advantage of existing tools and services to add value to your life just by creating automated workflows around them.

A little about me...

I'm Chad Smith, the founder of CleverAutomation and a pretty well-known automation website. I've been writing about automation for over a decade and have a long list of automation clients who rely on my expertise to make their lives easier. My goal with this website is to help make your life easier while simultaneously adding value to our site, cleverautomation's readership, and my own social media following.