Week 15 - Spending time on automation, or just keep doing things manually? 🤖

Remember, some time ago, I said that I needed to try AI agents to automate my manual processes? 🤓 So just after 6 weeks, the time has come to try it 😅

So I want to automate my weekly task “transcribe one new episode of the Creator Spotlight podcast and learn something from it”.

I’ve gone to make.com since I’ve heard it’s an easier one, and asked ChatGPT to automate my step-by-step process that looks like this:

1. Download a YouTube video.

2. Transcribe it using Turboscribe.

3. Put the PDF into ChatGPT and ask to prepare an answer with a specific prompt.

4. Copy-paste the result in Notion.

So, while having a back-and-forth conversation with ChatGPT, I learned that I can’t easily download video, transcribe text (because Turboscribe doesn’t have an API, and I need to use another tool), I can’t connect my personal Google Drive to Make because of some restrictions, so basically it’s not that easy to make the “half-manual” fully automated.

I was like “Okay, it really takes too much time to make things work, taking into account that it takes like 10 minutes of my time a week”. I mean, downloading, transcribing, and making a prompt to ChatGPT takes me close to zero time, and I definitely do not wait for the results because when it’s downloading, I do smth else, same with transcribing and prompting.

Yes, it’s not perfect, still it works okay, and I get the result that I want (to learn smth new from the new episode) in less than 10 minutes.

So, for now, I’ve learned that sometimes building a “half-manual” process is okay.

This means that even though I decided to skip this specific process automation part, I’m not giving up on building my first AI agent. So, I’ll be searching for a process that takes me a ton of time to execute that I can automate, and I will definitely do it.

Also, when I wanted to try n8n, the first thing I noticed was that I had to use “company email”, and that’s exactly why I tried Make first, but after not getting a result with Make, I’ve just tried to use my normal gmail, and it worked 🤓 So I’ll also play with n8n, and hope it’ll be easier and more intuituve than Make 🤞

Other than that, I really didn’t think I worked on my business for 30 minutes daily this week 😲 Still, since there are so many people sharing their feelings about Freelance Unlocked, I literally tracked each post about the conference, especially those where folks tagged me (and will keep doing it next week), and wrote a really meaningful human comment (and continued a conversation if the person answered to it).

What’s the point of it?

One person messaged me and said, “You’re everywhere on LinkedIn, how do you do that?” 🤓😅

So I guess the point is that you don’t really need to make a lot of posts yourself to stay visible, just go and be active in the comments of the posts of others 😉

And one more thing that hit me hard this week is what I’ve read in “The Revenue Growth Habit” book: “Discipline is the distance between knowing and doing.”

So yeah, that’s what I’m going to work more on - not just collect knowledge, but making this distance less by adding more and more tweaks to my current processes 🤓

Daily actions:

• remind 5 people to join the database of amazing humans

• invite 10 people to support the post with my services

• participate in a secret LI support group

• read a self-development book/listen to a professional podcast for 15 minutes

• make a valuable post/comment on LinkedIn

• work 30 minutes solely on my business 😎

Weekly actions:

• transcribe one new episode of the Creator Spotlight podcast and learn something from it

• transcribe one new Simon Quibb’s video and learn something from it

If you have any thoughts, ideas, or questions, please 👇

And if you’d like to walk The Road To $1M+ Freelance Business with me 👇

See you next week! 👋