Hello everyone! It’s been a few weeks since we last shared a newsletter of cool tools and ways to push your business forward. Today’s newsletter is going to take you through how to maximize your research and get the information you need quickly without spending your precious hours drowning in links, papers, and emails.

In This Flow

• Even out the playing field against big corps with web scraping information

• Video: How do you move the data you scraped to other platforms?

• Apps: Tools to extract data, search data, and convert data

• Auto document the purpose and steps of your Make scenario

• Problem Solved in Make and Airtable

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Turning Online Data Into Smart Strategies for Growth

Most small businesses are out here guessing. Guessing what to charge, what to offer, and how to stand out. Web scraping ends the guesswork. It gives you direct access to real-time data from competitor sites, customer reviews, product listings, job boards, and anywhere your market is talking or shifting. This isn’t about being sneaky. It’s about being strategic. When you have this kind of visibility, you stop reacting and start making power moves with confidence.

🛠️ Ways Small Businesses Can Use Web Scraping Research

• Monitor competitor pricing and promotions
  Scrape product listings and sales pages to stay ahead of your competitors' pricing strategies.

• Track customer reviews and sentiment
  Gather reviews from sites like Yelp, Google, or Amazon to understand what people love, or hate, about similar businesses.

• Spot trending products or services
  Pull data from marketplaces (like Etsy, eBay, or even TikTok Shop) to see what’s flying off the virtual shelves.

• Find leads and partnership opportunities
  Scrape directories, social platforms, or forums for potential clients, partners, or event opportunities.

• Collect content ideas
  Mine blogs, forums, and Q&A sites for questions your audience is already asking then create content that answers them.

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Scraping websites for research? Follow this method to automate the data flow

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Tools to extract data, search data, and convert data

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• Have you ever gotten worried about the data collected on your personal browsing? Try these other internet browsers for safe and private browsing.

• Ensuring you are documenting your automation scenarios takes time. This Make user created a prompt to help with just that:

You are a Make.com scenario documentation expert. Please use the provided Make.com JSON blueprint and tell me what it does, what types of apps it connects to, what actions it takes, etc.
1) Start with a paragraph that explains what this scenario does in plain language.
2) Include the scenario "name". 
3) For each flow item create a description of what the module does, also include the "id", "module", "version", "name", "mapper" data, "metadata" name. Include all flow modules, including "builtin" and "onerror" module types.
4) Please describe what this scenario does in plain language, but include technical indicators as needed for technical people.```

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We love it when a community comes together

See this weeks finds of solved questions in the Make and Airtable communities and tweak to fit your needs.

❓Sometimes in Airtable you want to hold off an automation trigger in Make/Zapier and the best way to do this, is to set up a button. Learn how these guys did it in their interface.

❓How did this user take a Zoom recording, transcribe it, run it through OpenAI, and push the result out to Slack? Find out here.