Automation recipes for Zapier

5 recipes for automating cancel surveys, social media, editorial planning, copying subscribers and donor thank you notes

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Lex Roman
June 17, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes

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It takes A LOT OF PROMOTION to run a media business. You’re busy and you don’t have time for all that. So what do you do?

AUTOMATE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

Anything that you’re doing on repeat is a candidate for automation.

We ran a live session on how to automate with Zapier (just for community bundle members!) and this post contains the 5 recipes we workshopped together, along with the session recording.

Zapier is a tool that connects two (or more) apps together. You can connect Squarespace to Buffer or Substack to Kit or Stripe to Airtable and more. They have 7000+ integrations and you can build your own integrations too (with some development work).

Get a free Zapier account and try some of these recipes below out! I included one click templates you can copy so it should take you mere minutes to start automating.

Lex

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