{"id":6146,"date":"2013-06-03T15:01:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T20:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=6146"},"modified":"2023-10-02T08:23:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T13:23:21","slug":"automate-manual-processes-with-messaging-and-scheduled-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/automate-manual-processes-with-messaging-and-scheduled-tasks\/","title":{"rendered":"New feature helps you automate manual processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SaveTime.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SaveTime.jpg\" alt=\"Save Time\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>In a recent article, I outlined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/5-common-it-practices-that-waste-your-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">5 common IT practices that waste your time<\/span><\/a>. One such practice listed in that article: Repeating manual tasks. If you find yourself repeating the same task on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, you should ask yourself this question: Can this task be automated? Chances are, automation could save hours of time.<\/p>\n<p>The question becomes&#8230;\u201dHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re an m-Power user, we recently released a new feature that will help you with automation: The Messaging and Scheduled Tasks enhancement. It lets developers build applications that perform tasks or send email and\/or sms messages based on a predetermined schedule or event. While this is useful in all types of ways, here are a few tasks it could automate for you:<a name=\"20130531\"><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Automatically correspond with customers<\/strong>: If a customer submits a support request on your site, the application could automatically send a confirmation email to the customer. Or, the application could automatically email customers who are behind on their payments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatically alert businesses to problems<\/strong>: Rather than constantly monitor your data for problems, an application can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sender.net\/automated-email\/\">automatically send email<\/a>\/sms messages to the appropriate executive any time a time-sensitive business issue occurs (such as a customer account cancellation).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatically run and distribute reports<\/strong>: Rather than handle reporting manually, this feature lets you automatically run and distribute reports on a predetermined schedule.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, those are just a few ways the Messaging and Scheduled Tasks enhancement can help you with automation, but the possibilities are endless. If you\u2019d like to learn how to start using this feature, we&#8217;ve written up a tutorial and placed it in the techblog. You can find it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/techblog\/?p=9063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">Messaging and Scheduled Tasks<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article, I outlined 5 common IT practices that waste your time. One such practice listed in that article: Repeating manual tasks. If you find yourself repeating the same task on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, you should ask yourself this question: Can this task be automated? Chances are, automation could save &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/automate-manual-processes-with-messaging-and-scheduled-tasks\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New feature helps you automate manual processes<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"New feature helps you automate manual processes - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"In a recent article, I outlined 5 common IT practices that waste your time . 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