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Share a weekly market watch with your team
Gather industry news from alerts and newsletters into one place, then post a short weekly market summary to your team's Slack channel.
When to use it
Every Monday morning
Step by step
Set up your news sources
Create Google Alerts for your industry, key customers and competitors, delivered weekly. Subscribe to two or three trusted trade newsletters.
Route them to one label
In Gmail's settings, under Filters, send all of these to a 'Market watch' label and skip the inbox. Outlook users can do the same with a rule and folder.
Block 20 minutes on Mondays
Add a recurring Monday event called 'Market watch' so it becomes a habit, and invite a colleague as backup.
Draft the summary
Copy the week's emails into your AI assistant with this prompt.
Prompt to copyWrite a team market-watch post from the news below for a [industry] business. Format for Slack: a bold one-line headline, then 'Need to know' (3 bullets max), 'Worth watching' (3 bullets max) and 'Customers and competitors' (any mentions). Each bullet: one sentence, source name and link. Keep it under 200 words, neutral in tone, and leave out anything without a link. [paste emails]Check, then post
Open each link to confirm it's accurate and current, then post in your team channel (Microsoft Teams works the same way). Start a thread for discussion.
What you get
*Market watch, 10 Nov: steel prices ease for a second month* Need to know: steel rebar down 3% (Builders Weekly, link). New site safety guidance published (link). Worth watching: two regional rivals advertising for estimators (link).
Tips
- Ask colleagues to react with a thumbs up to items they found useful, and use that to tune your alerts.