Automation Recipes
Automation Recipes brings this topic into one place so the full arc is easy to follow. Start anywhere, or move through the pieces in order to build a cleaner read on automation recipes. The Series The Content Publishing Pipeline: RSS to Ghost to SocialCustomclankerThe "Connect Everything" Workflow: n8n
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You're logging into Ghost, then Stripe, then Google Analytics, then Kit, then Search Console — every Monday morning, pulling numbers into a spreadsheet by hand, trying to remember what last week's numbers were so this week's numbers mean something. The entire ritual takes 45 minutes,
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AI customer support is the demo that sells itself. A chatbot that answers questions instantly, never sleeps, never gets frustrated, and costs a fraction of a human support agent — who wouldn't want that? The problem is that the demo shows the bot handling a softball question with a
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An untested backup is a wish. You have a file called "backup" somewhere, maybe on a drive you haven't plugged in since last year, and you're treating it like insurance. It's not insurance. It's a label on a folder that
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You don't need Salesforce. You probably don't need HubSpot either. What you need is a way to track who you're talking to, what stage the conversation is at, and a nudge when something goes stale — and then to do the actual talking yourself. That&
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Your site went down three days ago. You found out because a reader emailed you. Google found out before you did — and Google holds grudges. Monitoring automation exists to close that gap, and the good news is that the practical version of it costs nothing and takes twenty minutes to
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If you sell subscriptions, products, or services online, the post-payment workflow is almost entirely automatable. Stripe processes the payment and fires a webhook. Your automation platform catches the webhook and handles everything downstream — sending a receipt, provisioning access, notifying you in Slack, updating your accounting records. The payment itself is
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AI can read your article, generate a tweet thread, a LinkedIn post, and a Bluesky post — each formatted for its platform, each hitting different angles from the source material. It can do this in under a minute per article. The output is usable roughly 70% of the time, meaning it
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Email automation is the highest-ROI automation most publishers will ever build. It doesn't depend on social platform APIs that break quarterly. It doesn't require monitoring for token expirations every 60 days. Once a welcome sequence is running, it sends the right emails to the right subscribers
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You built the automations. The content pipeline, the email sequences, the payment notifications, the social distribution, the reporting dashboard, the monitoring stack, the CRM follow-ups, the backup workflows. You built all of it. And now you spend four hours a month fixing the things that break, checking the things that
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Your social media posts stopped going out two weeks ago. You didn't notice because the automation was supposed to handle it, and the whole point of automation is not having to check. The workflow failed silently — an expired API token, a 401 response, no error notification — and for
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At some point you stop building individual automations and start wiring them together. The content pipeline triggers the social distribution which triggers the tracking update which feeds the weekly report. n8n becomes the central nervous system — the orchestration layer where every tool in your stack connects through workflows that react