Free Up Your Time with Make.com’s Powerful Automations

We live in an age of information overload. Between endless emails, social media notifications, and an ever-growing to-do list, just keeping up can feel utterly overwhelming. According to one study, the average office worker receives over 120 emails per day and spends nearly 3 hours managing them. It’s no wonder people feel buried and burned out.

Thankfully, there’s a simple yet powerful solution – automation. Research shows that automating repetitive tasks can free up significant time, allowing you to focus on high-value priorities. That’s where Make.com comes in. Their intuitive platform makes it easy to set up automations between your favorite apps, eliminating tedious manual work. In this post, we’ll explore 10 brilliant ways Make.com can supercharge your productivity.

Automatically Save Gmail Attachments

Manually saving attachments from Gmail to Google Drive can be an incredibly tedious and time-consuming process. When an email with an attachment arrives in your inbox, you first need to download the attachment. This means clicking on it, waiting for it to download, and then navigating to the downloads folder to open it. From there, you have to go to Google Drive, create a new folder or navigate to an existing one, and upload the downloaded file. This repetitive workflow eats up valuable time that could be better spent on more important tasks.

The manual process also leads to frequent frustration. It’s easy to forget to save attachments or accidentally misplace downloaded files. You may later struggle to locate the correct document when you need it again. According to a survey by Make Automations, 73% of Gmail users report losing track of email attachments at least once a week. With hectic work schedules, it becomes challenging to stay organized when juggling so many attachments from various senders.

Fortunately, automating this workflow through Make.com provides a simple yet powerful solution. By seamlessly integrating Gmail with Google Drive, new email attachments can be automatically saved to the cloud in just a few clicks. This eliminates the need for tedious and error-prone manual management.

Post new WordPress blog articles to your social media

Promoting your latest blog content across social media can be incredibly time consuming. You likely have to manually share each new post on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more. But Make.com offers an automation to simplify this entire process.

By connecting your WordPress site to your social accounts through Make.com, you can configure an automation that automatically shares any new post you publish on WordPress across your selected social media profiles. This “set it and forget it” approach ensures your content gains maximum exposure with minimal manual effort on your part.

As noted in this Jetpack article, their Social plugin for WordPress can automatically share new posts to social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and LinkedIn. And Make.com provides similar functionality to remove the burden of manual social promotion.

With Make.com’s WordPress automation, all your hard work creating amazing content can now instantly reach your followers without you lifting a finger. You deserve to spend time doing what matters most, not performing repetitive social media tasks. Automate your content promotion with Make.com and enjoy the benefits.

Get Slack Notifications for Typeform

Real-time feedback is invaluable. That’s why Make.com offers integration between Typeform and Slack. With this automation in place, you’ll receive a Slack notification instantly when someone submits a Typeform response. This delivers feedback and insights in real time, allowing for rapid decision making.

According to Typeform’s help documentation, “Use this integration to get responses sent to Slack the moment someone completes your typeform. Share responses with multiple channels and direct messages in a few clicks.”

As soon as a new Typeform response comes in, a Make.com automation can post it to a designated Slack channel. You can customize which response fields are included. This makes it effortless to monitor lead generation, survey responses, or any other Typeform data that matters to your business.

Zapier also highlights the value of connecting Typeform and Slack: “Set up the Slack trigger, and make magic happen automatically in Typeform. Zapier’s automation tools make it easy to connect Slack and Typeform.”

With real-time Typeform notifications delivered through Slack, you’ll stay up-to-date on critical information without any manual work. Make.com streamlines sharing data across your favorite tools for maximum productivity.

Save Shopify Orders to Google Sheets

Tracking orders gets difficult at scale. As your Shopify store grows, manually keeping tabs on all your sales and fulfillment details can quickly become an overwhelming task. Fortunately, Make.com offers an automation to effortlessly save new Shopify orders into a Google Sheet for simplified tracking and analysis.

This integration provides numerous benefits for ecommerce merchants. Storing your orders in a spreadsheet gives you a central hub to monitor and manage your sales. You can view order details, add notes, update statuses, and more. Google Sheets also makes it easy to create charts and graphs to identify sales trends over time. With the ability to share Sheets, your team can collaborate on order fulfillment.

Setting up this automation is quick and easy in Make.com. You simply connect your Shopify store and designate a Google Sheet. Then Make.com handles the heavy lifting, seamlessly copying new order data into the Sheet automatically. This eliminates the need for any manual exporting or uploading on your part. Advanced customization options even allow you to specify precisely which order fields to capture.

According to Shopify experts, this integration is invaluable for ecommerce merchants handling a growing volume of orders: “With Make.com, you can get new Shopify orders sent straight to Google Sheets for easy tracking and analysis. It’s a total game-changer for order management” (source). For any Shopify store owner struggling to stay on top of burgeoning sales, this automation delivers the perfect solution.

Create Trello Cards from Evernote

For those who use Evernote to jot down ideas and Trello to manage projects, Make.com offers a seamless integration. Configure Make.com to create a new Trello card each time you add a note in Evernote. The note’s title and body are mapped directly to the Trello card fields. By tagging your notes, they are effortlessly transformed into organized action items within your Trello boards.

As Trello’s website states, “Easily attach notes or create new notes directly from cards, and see real-time information for any notes attached to cards. The Evernote Power-Up for Trello allows you to clip webpages and screenshots straight to Trello cards” (https://trello.com/power-ups/55a5d915446f517774210003/evernote). This integration essentially transforms Evernote into an ideation tool that feeds directly into your task management in Trello.

Trello’s integrations with tools like Evernote allow you to “Connect Trello to the apps you use everyday. With over 200 available integrations, Trello ensures every team can meet their business goals” (https://trello.com/integrations).

As one user states, “I think it’s more a productivity app to track projects. I also have an “Evernoted” list, connecting my Evernote with Trello” (http://www.nearnormalcy.com/2014/02/building-content-libraries-with-trello.html).

Automate Data Entry

One of the most tedious and time-consuming tasks is manual data entry. Whether it’s inputting information from paper forms into spreadsheets or databases, or transferring data between systems, it can drain productivity. According to Automating Data Entry & Driving Productivity Gains, 34% of daily office tasks consist of data entry. Make.com provides the solution through automations that eliminate repetitive manual work.

By connecting your data sources to Make.com, you can set up workflows to automatically transfer information between systems. For example, new survey responses in Typeform can populate a Google Sheet. Customer details from Shopify can flow directly into your CRM. The automation handles the data transfer seamlessly behind the scenes, freeing you from the drudgery.

This accelerates the process by automating data entry tasks in spreadsheets, ensuring productivity gains within your organization due to less time spent on manual work. Make.com’s automation removes human error, improving data accuracy. It also enables you to scale data tasks as your business grows. Automated data entry through Make.com is the catalyst for unlocking efficiency and innovation.

Schedule Social Media Posts

Manually scheduling social media posts can be extremely time-consuming. According to Buffer’s guide on creating a social media content plan, the ideal mix is around 5 updates about you/your content, 5 updates about others, and 5 responses/engagements per day. With so many posts to schedule, plan, and publish, it’s easy to see how social media managers can get overwhelmed.

This is where Make.com’s social media scheduling automation comes in. You can connect your accounts on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more to Make.com. Then, you can plan and schedule unlimited posts in advance, specifying the exact date and time you want them to publish. Make.com will automatically post your content on your designated schedule.

By scheduling social media posts in bulk for the week or month ahead, you free up a tremendous amount of time previously spent on daily post planning. This automation eliminates the stress of remembering to constantly share new content. According to Later’s guide on scheduling posts in 2024, a consistent posting cadence is one of the top best practices for social media success. Make.com makes this easy to achieve.

Say goodbye to scrambling to post at the last minute. With Make.com’s scheduling automation, you can take back control of your time while making sure your followers still get a steady stream of updates.

Sync Google Calendar and Asana

One of the most useful Make.com automations is syncing your Google Calendar and Asana projects so all your plans and tasks are connected. According to Asana’s integration guide, this automation allows you to “plan, schedule, and stay on top of your day”. By linking your calendar and project management system, you get a holistic view of everything on your schedule in one place.

Specifically, the Make.com automation can sync task due dates and completions to and from Google Calendar. As Asana notes, this helps you “meet deadlines by syncing your tasks”. No more worrying about missing due dates for tasks and projects. The integration also automatically updates your calendar when a task is marked complete in Asana. This saves you from manually removing calendar events.

With your calendar and Asana in sync, you’ll stay on top of your schedule and tasks effortlessly. The automation eliminates double bookings, missed deadlines, and redundant data entry between the two platforms.

Back Up Files to Google Drive

Automate backups for peace of mind. One of the most powerful automations you can implement is to automatically back up your important files and documents. This provides an extra layer of protection against data loss, ensuring your files are safely stored in the cloud. With Make.com, you can effortlessly set up automatic Google Drive backups from a range of sources.

For example, you can configure Make.com to automatically copy new files from Dropbox, OneDrive, or your computer’s local folders over to Google Drive on a schedule. This takes the stress out of manual backups and gives you confidence that your latest files are always saved offsite in Google Drive. According to an article on Rewind.com, automatic backup software provides “an extra safeguard for your data” and “more security and protection” (source).

In addition, you can use Make.com to automatically sync any changes or edits made to existing files. This means if you update a document stored locally, the revised version will be automatically pushed to Google Drive as well. Overall, implementing automated Google Drive backups through Make.com’s seamless integration provides peace of mind knowing your data is safe.

Get Email Alerts for Website Issues

Monitoring your website’s uptime and performance is crucial for any business. Make.com offers an automation that helps you stay on top of potential issues by sending email alerts when problems arise.

This automation connects your website monitoring service like Pingdom or Uptime Robot to your email. You can configure it to notify you immediately if your website goes down or if page load speeds cross a certain threshold. For example, you can get emailed anytime your homepage takes over 2 seconds to load.

By setting up alerts for key performance indicators, you’ll be able to address problems quickly before they impact your visitors or search engine rankings. Customizable notifications ensure you’re only notified when necessary, without getting bombarded with non-critical alerts.

According to research by Forrester, a 1 second delay in page load time can result in a 7% loss in conversions, making speed a key factor for revenue and customer experience. With Make.com’s monitoring automation, you can rest assured your site’s performance issues will be swiftly detected and resolved.

As noted in this article, having real-time observability into website performance is crucial for rapid remediation when issues arise: Automating application performance monitoring and real-time observability with IBM Instana

Create Invoices from Expense Tracking

Manually creating invoices can be an incredibly tedious and time-consuming process. But with Make.com, you can easily automate invoice generation based on your expense tracking. This creates a seamless, hassle-free billing workflow.

By connecting your expense tracking app like Expensify to your invoicing platform such as QuickBooks Online or Xero, Make.com can automatically generate an invoice when you mark an expense as billable. The client name, amount, and other details are pulled right from the expense entry.

According to research by Rossum, invoice automation can save over 80% of the time spent on manual data entry and reviews [1]. This allows you to focus on more important tasks than administrative work.

Automated invoicing also minimizes human error that occurs with manual data entry, ensuring accuracy for every bill. This improves the client experience and your ability to get paid on time.

As noted by NetSuite, keeping track of expenses and linking them to invoice generation in real time is a huge time saver [2]. With Make.com, you can achieve accounting efficiency and accelerate your billing cycles.

If you’re looking for a frictionless way to create professional invoices while saving hours of manual work, connect your expense tracker and invoicing platform with Make.com. Hassle-free billing is just a few clicks away.

Sync Sales Data

Centralizing your sales data from multiple sources is a game-changer for gaining visibility into your business performance. With Make.com, you can seamlessly sync key sales metrics across platforms like Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Sheets, and more into a single dashboard. This gives you a comprehensive overview of your sales pipeline and activities across teams, products, and regions.

According to HubSpot, over 74% of high-growth sales teams rely on dashboards and analytics to guide their strategy (source). By compiling data from CRMs, marketing automation, spreadsheets, and other systems, Make.com eliminates data silos and provides the unified view you need to identify trends and opportunities.

Make.com’s sales dashboard consolidates essential KPIs like deal volume and velocity, win rates by rep, average sales cycle length, and more. With customizable filters and segmentation options, you can dig deeper into the numbers by region, product line, deal size, or other attributes. Real-time syncing ensures the latest data is always at your fingertips for data-driven decision making.

Getting started is easy – Make.com connects directly to your existing tools in just a few clicks. You can even enrich the dashboard with custom metrics unique to your sales workflow. If you’re struggling to get a clear picture of sales performance across your organization, Make.com’s sales dashboard automation is the game-changing solution.

Automate Lead Routing

Manually assigning and routing leads to sales reps can be incredibly time consuming. According to HubSpot, implementing automated lead routing based on custom rules can increase sales productivity by over 30% (source). Make.com makes it easy to set up intelligent lead routing to get new prospects in front of the right salespeople.

With Make.com, you can create customized lead routing rules based on:

• Lead source (e.g. website form, LinkedIn, etc.)
• Lead location
• Lead profile attributes
• Account size
• Products/services of interest

Leads can be automatically assigned to specific sales reps or routed in a round robin fashion. Make.com enables you to ensure that your best leads reach your top performing reps, while still distributing leads evenly among your team. This prevents lead inequality and makes your sales process much more efficient.

If you’re looking to scale your sales team, implementing intelligent lead routing with Make.com is a must. You’ll be able to grow your business without compromising the personalized sales experience your prospects deserve. To learn more about optimizing your lead management workflow, contact me for a free consultation.

Conclusion

The Make.com automations outlined in this article demonstrate the immense potential for businesses to optimize workflows and boost productivity. By connecting apps and automating repetitive tasks, you can achieve significant time savings and free up staff to focus on more strategic initiatives.

Of the automations discussed, the most impactful include automatically saving Gmail attachments to Google Drive, posting WordPress content to social media, creating Trello cards from Evernote, syncing Google Calendar and Asana, and backing up files to Google Drive. According to recent research, workflow automation can reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks by 60-95% (https://profiletree.com/business-automation-statistics/).

Automation is driving business growth and efficiency like never before. Over 90% of workers report increased productivity from automation solutions, allowing them to accomplish more in less time (https://hbr.org/sponsored/2023/04/how-automation-drives-business-growth-and-efficiency). Make.com puts these benefits within reach of any business.

To learn more about how Make.com’s integrations and automations can transform your workflows, please contact me at https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/justinadamski. Let’s discuss how we can streamline your business operations and unlock new levels of performance.