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Step by Step: How to Integrate Landing Page Forms With Lion Desk Using Zapier

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Here is a step-by-step outline that shows how to integrate a non-supported website with Lion Desk using Zapiers email parser. This will allow you to create a single "ZAP" that will automatically assign new leads to the correct Lion Desk source and auto-pilot even if you have multiple leadpage websites. For this to work, the emails from the separate websites must look the same. i.e., have the same information in the same place in each email from each website. And the email must contain a field that passes the correct "source index" for each of your Lion Desk sources. 1. In Lion Desk, create the source and the auto-pilot that you want for that lead source. This process is well covered in the Lion Desk documentation and will not be covered in this tutorial.  IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU CREATE THE SOURCE AND AUTO-PILOT BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE! Once you have created the source and auto-pilot, write down the souce name and the source index.  You will need this la

Learning To Make Music

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Today I have been cleaning my electronic closet! In other words, deleting old files from my computer hard disk.  I ran across this letter that I had written back in 2009. I don't remember who "Hank" was, but evidently he was having problems playing without seeing the notes on a piece of paper. I thought perhaps the letter might be pertinent to someone who is struggling to overcome their past musical training. ------------------------------ Hank, That is because you were taught backwards when you first began on your instrument. Does a baby learn to read before they learn to speak?  Of course not! Why do we expect musicians to learn to read before they learn to make music? If babies were taught to talk the same way we teach children to play music, then they would not be able to say anything without reading it from a script. How popular is the guitar? One of the reasons it is so popular is that is not taught in school! Most guitar players learn to play by picking up