02:14 - Why automate? Are there cases where you shouldn’t automate?
- The Eventual Millionaire: Procrastinate on Purpose with Rory Vaden
- Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time by Rory Vaden
- "The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency." -- Bill Gates
12:29 - Templates 15:26 - Figuring Out What to Automate and Delegate
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
26:17 - Creating Benefits; Not False Improvements with Automation 28:35 - Automation Wins
- Zapier
- Unfollowers (Now Statusbrew)
- Trello
- Gravity Forms
- SendGrid
36:58 - Getting Started With Automation
- McDonald's Corporation: A Real Estate Empire Financed by French Fries
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
- The 80/20 Rule in Business by Perry Marshall
- Summary of the Perry Marshall 80/20 Sales and Marketing Book
48:30 - Chuck’s Eliminations 52:22 - Tools For Automation
- Drip
- Zapier
- Gravity Forms
- Calendly
- Google Docs
- Evernote
- Upwork
- Dropbox
- Streak CRM
Picks
- Process Street (Philip)
- "The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency." -- Bill Gates (Philip)
- McDonald's Corporation: A Real Estate Empire Financed by French Fries (Philip)
- Summary of the Perry Marshall 80/20 Sales and Marketing Book (Philip)
- The Membership Guys (Reuven)
- Reuven's Technical Training Facebook Group (Reuven)
- MemberPress (Chuck)
- Slack (Chuck)
- The Freelancers’ Show Facebook Group (Chuck)