- Hey, everybody, how'd you like to increase
your automated workflow by using something called Zapier?
That's what we're talkin' about in
this video, so let's get started.
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Now, if you're not familiar with Zapier,
it's been around for quite a while.
It basically takes an existing process that you have
and automates it through what they call actions
and triggers and it puts it into a workflow system
so it will output something on the other end.
Now, that sounds like a complicated process
but Zapier makes it very, very easy.
So, the best way to document how you exactly do this
is to show you a couple of great examples.
Zapier is a freemium platform,
so when you sign up, you'll get a 14 day trial
and you can use all of the premium
features that Zapier comes with.
After the 14 days, you can stay on the free plan
and you can have up to five Zaps that are at your disposal.
So, I'm on the free plan.
I've been using Zapier off and on.
I wanted to start kind of fresh here to give you
a good perspective if you're just startin' out with Zapier
and so, some of the things that I used to be doing
are no longer here but I'm still connected to a few of
the social networks that I was using it for.
So, let's get started in looking at
the entire interface here that we have.
So, in the explore tab, I would have to say
there's probably at least, I don't know,
a couple of hundred options here
that you can go through and pick.
Some of these things I haven't even heard of
like Realvolve and Appointlet and so
it has a ton of applications that
you can connect your Zaps to.
I'm going to keep it kind of basic but feel free
to go through here and pick the ones that you know
and will increase your automation workflow.
Now, some of these, you'll notice, are premium
which means you'll have to, obviously,
pay to get them unlocked but there are
at least a couple hundred that are free
for you to use for up to your five Zaps.
So, you can sort them by popular, alphabetical,
and recently added and then, there's your premium again.
Then, we go into the Zaps tab and this
is where all your Zaps would live.
You have drafts and then, you have active drafts,
or, sorry, active Zaps, and your drafts
and then, you can go into your task history
and it will show you all of your Zaps at work,
and then, your last tab is connected accounts
and, again, I have quite a few that are connected,
and as you go through your automation workflow,
you'll have to connect your account
so that Zapier can talk to both ends of whatever
you're trying to do for your automation workflow, okay?
Alright, let's start making some Zaps.
So, we'll go on over to the explore tab
and I've selected YouTube in this list
and they've given me some popular Zaps for YouTube.
Now, this is probably the easiest way to make some Zaps
or you could go into the button up to the top here
to click on make a Zap and do something
a little bit more manually, more granular,
but I like this one down here.
It says, "Post YouTube videos from users to Facebook."
Now, this is an interesting choice and so, let's see.
We're going to click on use this Zap
and it explains a little bit what this does
and we're going to click on create this Zap
and, right here, it says, "New video, trigger when a
"new video is uploaded by a specific YouTube username."
So, it can be any username.
Click continue, connect a YouTube account.
I'll do that one.
Click allow.
Test, save and continue.
So, you do have to connect your YouTube account
but not necessarily do you have to put in your username
for what to add to Facebook which is rather interesting.
So, I could type in any username here.
I think Social Media Examiner is a pretty good choice,
so I'm going to copy their username up here
and I'm going to go over to our Zapier
and paste it in and click continue.
Then, I fetch and continue.
Alright, now, we're going to click our
continue here and connect our Facebook account.
So, it's going to create a new page post.
Connect our Facebook account.
Okay.
Save and continue.
Now, it's going to ask you what page do you want to post this on,
so I'll select Security Marketing Solutions
and their latest one was Twitter Cracks
Down on Twitter Bots and Automation
and this is the link and we'll click continue
and we will send a test, no, we will skip the test for now
and we'll click finish.
The Zap is on; we've got "our Zap is working"
and we can see it on our dashboard.
So, here it is right here
and we can click run, we can edit it, we can rename it,
we can see what the task history is,
so let's go over to task history.
We don't any task history yet.
Alright, let's go back to explore.
Let's do something with WordPress.
What are our choices here for popular Zaps?
Here you go, how about this one,
buffer your WordPress posts, we'll use this Zap.
It'll tell you again how it works.
We'll create the Zap.
So, any new post.
We'll create an account.
Yes and continue.
Okay, let's test that out.
Save and continue.
Continue.
Alright, let's fetch and continue.
Alright, click continue again.
Now, let's add our buffer.
Connect our account.
Allow access.
Test, make sure we have a good connection.
Good to go, save and continue.
Alright, and then, we select our profile.
Where do we want this post to go out, what account?
So, we'll do,
we'll do Twitter
and the last one that went out was
JotForm Online Form Builder Tutorial.
So, we will click continue on that
and send test to buffer if we want or we could
just skip the test, which we will, and click finish.
So, now that that Zap is on, anytime a new post,
WordPress post, gets put up on Security Marketing Solutions,
larrysnow.me, it will go up to buffer
and then, it will be scheduled out to
go out on through my Twitter account, pretty cool.
So, I highly recommend Zapier.
Some of the, like, active campaign and convert fit,
convert kit, I know that they recommend Zapier
to make those connections happen from, like,
a WordPress membership type of situation
going into active campaign or convert kit.
Patreon is another example where they're using Zapier
to make more engagement and more important workflows
to enable Patron or Patreon, Patreon and Patrons
of your Patreon to get more engagement
that way through the use of Zaps.
So, I highly recommend Zapier, free to check out.
You can go to Zapier.com for more information.
Thanks for watching this video, I hope it was useful.
If it was, give it a thumbs up.
For more information about me, go to larrysnow.me
and I'll see you in the next video.