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Jump on a Quick Zoom Call
When someone wants to jump on a quick call, just use the Zoom extension to start a meeting rather than creating a calendar event.
Building Predictive Power at CTC through Marginal ROAS Calculations
Justin and Shana have been looking for a way to view marginal ROAS to start projecting how a campaign might perform in the future.
Check out this video on the initiative:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14j5Mu2wDukmWkNc_7NqNNM0n5bE5SA-Y/view?usp=sharing
How to Integrate Gmail & Slack
Here is the Integration page on the Google Workspace Marketplace. You will need to install the integration here first.
The Slack Add-On for Gmail helps you move conversations along by bringing context from an email into a Slack channel or direct message. You can add a message and include attachments along with the email as well.
When to send email into Slack:
- Email chain getting too noisy. Send it into Slack where you can discuss quickly and move forward.
- Have an idea you want to share with your team? Send it along to a relevant channel with a note about your insights.
- Need to coordinate a response to a customer question? Flag your teammates in Slack and use the email content to set context.
How the Add-On works:
- Start by installing the Slack for Gmail Add-On.
- Open any email and click on the Slack icon in the right-hand side of your inbox.
- Choose the channel or person you’d like to forward the email to inside of Slack.
- Add a message and include attachments if you’d like.
- Voilà! The email is forwarded into Slack where anyone in the channel or direct message you shared it to can see the email content and open attachments.
Use Timy to Respect the Rest
Just found an app built into Slack called Timy that allows you to use /send to schedule a message to send within 24 hours. This is especially useful if you want to put a thought down outside of working hours but don’t want to bug people.
Improve Statlas (the Growth Data Tool)
Statlas is an ever-evolving organism that you can help improve. If you discover an error or a problem and just move on, someone else will suffer the same setback in the future.
Instead, every time you see a problem, report it, and help us progressively fix and evolve the tool very rapidly.
Right now, we generally tag Kwa in the Growth Data channel. By next week, we’ll have a community resource center that includes bug submissions, forums for discussion, and Loom videos of uses for the tool.
Every Friday from 12-1, Taylor will host a Growth Data Tool jam session, showing off some ways that he finds value in using the tool.
Take the AO Path to Twitter Domination
Aaron Orendorff loves Twitter. One thing he loves even more is CTC banding together to crush Twitter as a big happy social media family.
Start by checking out and bookmarking this doc of his 10 biggest tips.
Go even deeper by watching this 1 hour recording of a workshop he recently ran on the topic. (log into youtube with your CTC account to view the video)
Now get out there and get tweeting!
Integrate Slack with Your Google Calendar
Justin: Among many phenomenal Slack integrations is one that will notify you of upcoming meetings and events on your calendar. Explore all the awesome Slack integrations out there to see if one can help!
GDocs Revision History is Preserved in Copies
Google docs revision history is retained when you make a copy of a document. If you’re going to copy a template, make sure it’s a blank template. Do not take an old doc with a bunch of information filled in, make a copy, change it, and then send it out.
Stay Creative at Home with Ash Thorp
CTC Creative Cafe presents Ash Thorp: A guided conversation covering three topics:
- Staying Creative with at home creative workflows.
- Unlocking Creative Potential
- The future of Creative in COVID world
Watch it here: Ash Thorp Q&A (log into youtube with your CTC account to view the video)
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Asana
Keep information condensed and consolidated in Asana. Please stay on top of your boards and task assignments. If there’s an issue, we are going to be checking there first to see how we can provide support and gather relevant information!
Google Calendar
Please be on top of your calendar accepting invites making sure no old meetings are still on the board and updating meetings as changes need to happen, as well as filling out the agenda! This helps everyone stay on track and know what’s happening due to the fact we can’t go and hunt each other down to make updates and pull people into meetings.
Slack
Set your status to let people know what you’re up to! It’s a great way for people to check in and see if they should expect a response from you, maybe you went to lunch, maybe you’re in a meeting, maybe you had to run out in your bathrobe to move your car because of street sweeping. Setting your status in slack can help give others an idea of when you’ll respond. Also – just a reminder the difference between @(channel) and @(here) is that channel notifies everyone regardless of being online, and here only notifies those currently online indicated by the green bubble. Helpful integrations for slack: https://slack.com/apps
- Google calendar – Helps set that status automatically, get meeting reminders to jump on before the meeting, see event invites and the agenda all in slack.
- Asana integration – Take action on tasks right from notifications or an Asana link. You can see the task details, complete the task, change the assignee and/or due date, add it to a project, or open it in Asana. You can get notifications for tasks assigned to you and for tasks you’re following. Link a specific Asana project to a Slack channel. The channel will receive notifications when updates and changes are made to the project. Keep track and respond to comments directly in slack.
- Slack for Gmail – Forward emails chains to slack to keep your team up to date on important emails.
- Google Drive – Share and grant instant access to files, reply directly to comments using threads, Create and import new files
Use Slack Integrations and Slackbot
Slack Integrations and Slackbot can grab data and metrics we need.
Justin: We’ve been giving daily account updates in the buyer channel. I was thinking it’s a lot of work to format and type that out. So, I have been teaching myself how to make a Slackbot to take data from a google sheet and retrieve sheet metrics to drop them in a channel. It almost works. If we get it fully working, it would be fantastic to use for anyone.