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.

Keyboard shortcuts for launching programs- Start any program with 1 click

keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcutsA close view of a laptop keyboard and touchpad with a small blue USB port and cables visible at the edge, shown in a tech blog post

Keyboard shortcuts can be a great time saver (especially for specific programs, folders, actions) that you do dozens of times a day.

 

Over a decade ago I put the below file together documenting the most frequently used Windows / Office shortcuts

keyboard shortcuts

MS word file great keyboard shortcuts

Two women smiling and looking at a computer screen together in a bright office, one pointing at the monitor.

Now-a-days AutoHotKey to create my own shortcuts (of which I have over 100 which do various activities by a simple click of the key/button.)  AutoHotKey has a function for this called Hotkeys which are a great way to launch programs / scripts /folders that you use frequently.

This video walks through how easy it is to set up hotkeys to launch programs, scripts, etc.