A few weeks ago, we were working with a client that had been relying on an integration between Zapier and Facebook to take data out of the lead card product and integrate it with a CRM. This is pretty common practice, and nowadays there are better ways to do this. One common problem when cleaning this data, however, is removing the non-numerical characters from a column of phone numbers.

I consume more media than I should. I do it myself, I’ve got a Google Alert built out for everything I find or have found interesting, and like many of you, I’m relying on IFTT and Feedly to render that content in a slightly more useful form. If you can niche your alert keywords well enough, it’s not that bad. Until I can find something better though, I find myself checking the SearchEngingeResultsPage movement of big hitter keyword categories like “Marketing” once a week.