Using a strong Naming Convention & RegEx are keys to automating metrics!

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Naming Convention and Regular Expression (RegEx)

Having a strong naming convention can make reporting on your metrics a breeze when you use a regular expression to break out-decrypt the naming scheme. This video shows how easy it is for us to extract: Region, Language, Campaign Type, etc. from our campaign names by using a regular expression. It also points out that there is no need to be stuck with poor acronyms for your reporting.Group of coworkers seated around a table in a bright office, talking together with a green reusable water bottle in front of them

In my above example I use AutoHotKey with Excel.  If you add the function, Excel can do RegEx itself however (for some crazy reason) it isn’t built into it.

Automate sales emails with AutoHotKey and Excel

 

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I know a lot of very hard-working, but non-technical, sales people.  They spend a lot of time writing personalized emails to clients and spend even more time trying to track the responses.

There some decent mail merge tools on the market however they can be somewhat technical to use (and easy to mess up). I built a short script in AutoHotKey which allows for automating of emails but allows fore proofing & tweaking before deployment.

Paste plain text- Use 7 lines of AutoHotKey to easily strip complex RTF/HTML formatting

Paste plain text

I (Group of coworkers seated around a table in a bright office, talking together with a green reusable water bottle in front of themlike everyone else in the world) frequently copy-paste between various programs. While some programs like Word and Excel allow for paste plain text, a lot do not.

Paste plain text

I wrote a small script in AutoHotKey which takes the contents of the clipboard and strips it of HTML/RTF format. This way it allows me to paste as plain text in any program by hitting a key combination (Control+G).  What’s great is that I don’t actually lose the original format so, if I decide I actually wanted the original content, I can still just paste with Control+V and I’m good to go!

Below is the actual code to paste plain text in AutoHotKey.

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