We all know there are things we have to do day in and day out that can be mundane. Repeating the same tasks repeatedly, sometimes for hours on end, isn’t exactly my idea of fun.
That’s why automation is so fantastic – it lets you take care of those
time-consuming tasks quickly and easily so you can move on to more interesting
things. Most of us have been using simple automation in our inbox for quite
some time. Using rules or filters to file emails away or having emails deleted
after a certain amount of time.  

There are several advantages of using simple automation. One
of these is taking away human error. The more times we transfer the information
from a form or an email into a spreadsheet the more chance there is for us to
make an error. What if an email arrived, and all the relevant and correct
information was transferred to the correct Trello card or spreadsheet? How
fantastic and timesaving would that be. In this blog post, we’re going to take
a look at some of the best simple automation tools available today –
Integromat, Zapier, and MS Power Automate.

Make (Integromat) is a great automation tool that can be used
for a variety of tasks. For example, you can use it to automatically add new
contacts to your CRM, send out automatic follow-up emails after someone fills
out a form on your website, or even post to social media when you publish a new
blog post. Make as it is now called can pull emails out of designated folders
and forward them on when certain conditions are me. It has logical thinking and
can be very intuitive to use even if you don’t have any coding experience. Make can integrate with thousands of other apps and the list is growing.

Zapier is another great possibility for simple automation.
With Zapier, you can automate tasks between different apps and services that
you use. For example, you could set up a zap (automation) that automatically
adds new contacts from your CRM to your mailing list. Zapier is coming up with
some really exciting automations such as using alexia or google assist to voice
activate your time tracking apps. Zapier is well worth looking at and is
always looking for new apps and zaps for us to try.

Microsoft Power
Automate helps you automate business processes. This means that anyone with
knowledge of how a process works can create a flowchart that will trigger the
process and do it for them. Power Automate can do more than just simple
workflows. It can also remind you of past due tasks, move business data between
systems on a schedule, talk to more than 275 data sources or any publicly
available API, and even automate tasks on your local computer like computing
data in Excel. Microsoft
Power automate is a powerful tool within the Microsoft suite.

So, there you have it, just a few of the
best simple automation tools available today. Automation is a fantastic way to
save time and take away human error. So why not give one of these tools a try
and see how much time you can save?