Find great events and RSVP in one reply

Let’s set up an agent together that finds the best events for you, based on your interests, your goals, what’s going to put you in a room with the people you actually want to connect with, what’s already on your calendar, and where you are. You give it the criteria, and your agent goes out, finds the best events, registers for you, puts them on your calendar, and takes all of that off your plate, so you don’t find out about the best events when it’s too late.

This is a great job for an agent because it probably already knows a lot about you and what you’re trying to accomplish in business, and it can go out and do the research to find the events that are relevant for you.

For this example, I’m going to set up my agent, Evie, to find the best events for me. She’s already connected to my calendar, but I want to make sure she can connect to Luma, because that’s where I find a lot of great events here in San Francisco. “Hey, I want you to connect to Luma in the browser so that you can find the best events for me and help me register for the ones I want to actually attend.”

I’m going to save this login to the agent, so if it ever gets logged out for some reason, I don’t have to handle that. It can just jump right back in and keep the work going.

Now that Evie is connected to Luma in the browser, I’m going to have her search for the best events and then Slack me the best ones in a channel I created called Events For Mark. “Based on everything you know about me, take a look at events coming up over the next 2 weeks, and send me a Slack message in the Events For Mark channel so I can tell you which ones I want to go to. Then register and RSVP for me for the ones that make sense.”

Once we have this working, I’m going to set it up so that once a week she sends me all of the events over the next 2 weeks that should be on my radar, and then I can choose which ones I actually want to go to.

Right now I just have my agent looking at Luma, but if I wanted her to check other event sites like Eventbrite, Meetup, or LinkedIn, or just look online in general for events that should be on my radar, she can absolutely do that too. So you can make the search as broad as you want. You can also have her limit it and say, “Only send me the top three events,” or the top 10, so you don’t get a huge list.

Here we go. So she found me 15 events. It says, “You can’t go on this day, there’s a team dinner. This day is booked.” So it’s only telling me about events when I’m available, which is cool.

At the bottom it says, “Reply in this thread with the numbers you want.” So let’s say I want to go to 4, 6, and 9. Let’s respond: “4, 6, 9.” Okay. “On it.”

And if we go back into Tasklet, you can see that the same Slack message showed up here, and you can see in the browser that she’s setting those up.

I kind of hate typing in my LinkedIn, grabbing the URL, my name, my company, all that stuff every single time, so the fact that she just jumped in and did all of it is pretty awesome, actually.

And I just saw that it said it’s adding those to my work calendar too. If I come back in here: “On it, registering you. Done! I’ve applied to all three.” They’re all pending, and they’re all on my work calendar. Great.

The next step I would take is to say, “Run this every Thursday and send me a list of events over the next 2 weeks. Have it in Slack for me to review by 2:30 PM each week.”

Perfect. So now I’ve got an automation, “Thursday event picks for Mark,” and it set it up for 1:47 because I said before 2:30. This is going to keep running from now on, so each week I don’t have to spend time looking for events. Anything within the next couple of weeks will be on my radar.