Howdy,
Dan Kennedy, a legend in direct marketing, has long advocated for the nimbleness and focus of small businesses over the cumbersome nature of large corporations. His experiences reveal a striking truth: smaller companies can swiftly implement clear, profit-driven goals, a feat often unattainable by their larger counterparts.
At the-Automator, we resonate with Kennedy’s philosophy. Large companies, with their intricate hierarchies and conflicting internal goals, tend to lose the essence of effective marketing strategies in a tangle of bureaucracy. In contrast, small businesses exhibit an admirable agility. They can quickly adapt and embrace direct marketing strategies, leading to immediate and impactful results.
Having worked at large companies for nearly 20 years, I love the fluidness & dynamics of how small business can make decisions and act on things without scheduling meeting after meeting.
Hence, at the-Automator, we too prefer collaborating with smaller companies. We believe in the power of direct, actionable strategies that small businesses can implement effectively. This approach not only ensures our work has a tangible impact but also aligns with our mission to empower businesses where every strategic move counts.
If you’re a small business owner, feel free to reach out to use to understand how you can automate tasks to get more done! You can reach me directly at Joe@the-Automator.com.
Now on with the show…
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How to use GitHub’s Copilot
If you’re spending time coding, and using VS code, stop what you’re doing and watch this video! Copilot is a GAME CHANGER! Our clients are noticing the difference in how much we get done during a session mainly because CoPilot is doing a LOT of our work for us! In this video Isaias shows Irfan how to configure CoPilot in VS code and some of it’s main benefits.
🤖How to Configure VS Code to use Use Copilot from github
Easily send Long Text, Images, or Hyperlinks with Clipster
It’s a bummer that, with built in Hotkeys or HotStrings, it isn’t easy to send a large amount of text, Pictures, or a “pretty” hyperlink but, with Clipster, it is very easy to do!
Easily sending text, HTML or pIctures with Clipster
Add a MouseOver to a GUI
GUIs are amazing (especially in v2). During this team meeting Isaias showed how easy it is to add a mouse-over to a GUI. If you’d like to learn more about creating GUIs, check out our GUIs are Easier course! Don’t forget, all of our courses come with a 200% money back Guarantee!
Adding a tooltip-MouseOver to a control in a GUI :tatm
Intro to Xpath
Irfan was doing some work on Abberium (the 19th way we can automate programs with AutoHotkey) but didn’t have a lot of experience working with Xpath so Isaias gave him a tutorial which you can see here. It reminded me when Maestrith gave me a tutorial using his Xpath class. While his class is v1, he did a great job teaching me the power of Xpath!
💡 Essential XPath Skills in AutoHotkey – Unleash Your Potential!
What we Automated this week #26
I almost didn’t record this video but, when I ran our script to see how many AutoHotkey files we’d worked on I was surprised to see 287 files… A big part of this was because we scraped all the v2 example files from the AHK Documentation during an AHK hero call but we did have quite a busy week. BTW- we’re working on scraping the v1 examples as well and make them a download.
What we Automated with AutoHotkey this week #26
Driving Behaviors with Behavioral Science
A client & good friend of ours (AJ Wilcox) had a great interview with Nancy Harhut (a behavioral scientist) and had some great points. If you’re trying to get people to take action, this video is a “must watch”. I’m currently reading Nancy’s book: Using Behavioral Science in Marketing which has lot’s of great gems to adopt for marketing your business / products / services.
BTW- AJ’s company, B2Linked, is top-notch working with LinkedIn advertising!
Nancy Harhut Behavioral Science Approach to LinkedIn Ads
📚 What we’re reading / Listening to
- Windows 11 is Removing Another System App
- Governments are Spying on You Through Push Notifications
- How to stop Criminals from Stealing Your Phone Number
- How to setup a Home Media Server
- I Gave My Goldfish $50,000 to Trade Stocks
🤖 AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage
- 6 things you can Do With Windows Copilot
- Orca2 Microsoft’s BREAKTHROUGH in open source LLMs
- AI is the great equalizer: ChatGPT is good news for employees who suck at their jobs
- How to get much better ideas from Chat GPT
⚡️Productivity tips: Pausing Videos in YouTube
If you’re using your computer to watch videos in YouTube, hitting the letter “k” will toggle playing/pausing the video playing
🤣 A spot of Humor
AHK Hero 🦸
AHK Hero 🦸Consider joining the 🦸AHK Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc.
They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and a 3 hours a week where we help people with their AHK issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to AutoHotkey.)
🗣️ 💭 Quotable quotes
- Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t; you’re usually right — Henry Ford
- Recognizing a problem is half the success in solving it — Sigmund Freud
- Winners are NOT those who never fail but those who never quit
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Joe, Isaias, Irfan, and staff
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