-: This lesson is all about Zapier.
Now, Zapier is an amazing tool for saving you time.
It's an automation tool and it allows you
to automatically connect the different apps
that you like to use.
You could connect your email to Slack to a Google Sheet,
and when one thing happens,
like a new email comes in from a client,
it can automatically send a message to, say, Slack
if you're using that to communicate to your coworkers.
And then it can automatically send the contents of
that message or part of the contents of that message
to a Google Sheet or a Google Doc.
Now, where AI comes in makes this all even more
interesting because you could have a client,
if you say run a creative agency or something,
and they could, you could have a prompt that says,
please give me a detailed description of what you're
looking for when you send the email
or when they fill in your intake form.
Then the form can get sent to Slack so your team can see,
okay, there's like a new client coming in,
a new potential project.
And you can also send that to ChatGPT,
who can then start working on potential ideas
and then can automatically put that in a Google Sheet.
So a client can just send an email
and you can already have a Google Sheet, a Google Doc,
or however you like to work, can already be pre-generated
with ideas from ChatGPT.
So the first time you even look at it,
you'll also see some different answers that are ready to go.
This is very exciting, and diving into the world of Zapier
really opens up new possibilities
in ways that I have never seen before.
So let's dive right in.
So there are some different plans here in Zapier
and there is the free plan starter,
professional team, and company.
Obviously getting significantly more expensive
the more tasks that you want to pay for.
And I would suggest while getting started,
maybe using the starter pack.
After you sign up for Zapier,
I had to use a work email to sign up for Zapier.
That means instead of doing my name at gmail dot com,
I had to use my name at my company dot com,
which means it's just a Google work email.
So once you've created an account with your work email,
selected your tier, you can start to create your Zaps.
So in the next lesson,
we're gonna dive into creating some Zaps of our own.