The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Sell more and keep your customers happy Automate your eCommerce You need to make sure the processor you choose can integrate with your selling platform, that it supports the transaction types you use, and that it has the features you need.

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

This frees up capacity and allows the business to pursue greater ambitions. Instead of scrambling to find another job in law, I chose to bet on myself and our small business. And I never again want to build a business that owns me. I wanted to work more directly with people and have a lasting impact on their financial lives.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 2, 2025

You run a business. And while you might feel very attached to the email account you opened when you were a pre-teen— dragonmaster93[at]gmail.com does have a nice ring to it—it's time to swap that out for one that ends with your business domain name. Instead, you can connect your custom domain to Gmail.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Case in point: as a business owner, I grew my new TikTok account to over 1,200 followers and 150K views in a matter of months. TikTok Shop was the fastest growing online retailer last year. TikTok marketing tips to grow your business Ready to turn TikTok into a high-performing marketing channel? So let's dive in.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

That's when I started experimenting with LinkedIn marketing tools to find a sustainable rhythm that actually works for lead generation and business growth. month (billed annually); Business plan from $12.36/profile/month month (billed annually); Business plan from $12.36/profile/month But Taplio's not perfect.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 22, 2025

It's very possible that your marketing emails, and even your transactional emails, will never make it to the recipient. But we did have some tips for how to improve email deliverability, so you can be sure your messages don't go to spam and result in long-term damage to your business email account.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 28, 2025

Quotas shift, targets creep up, and the playbook that worked last quarter now falls flat. It's not just about how many calls your reps make or how much revenue they bring in—it's about whether your sales system is actually built to sustain success. Sales performance measures the overall success of your sales team.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Done right, it's a great way to come up with new ideas and solutions to tricky problems, outline an article or presentation, and generally just get your thoughts in order. Pen and paper set a very high bar to clear, but these are the six best mind mapping apps that manage to clear it. It offers an unlimited canvas.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 27, 2025

No idea what anything cost, no idea who to trust, and somehow, despite watching multiple YouTube videos, I still managed to burn $150 in about 12 minutes. If you've ever dipped a toe into Meta Ads Manager, you know exactly what I mean. Cost per click (CPC) is what you pay every time someone clicks on your ad.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 21, 2025

So let's take a look at how revenue forecasting works, why it matters, and the software you can use to help you get your business's version of a shiny new console. Automate your forecasting with Zapier What is revenue forecasting? Table of contents: What is revenue forecasting? That's it.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 8, 2025

Most recently, he’s led Aether through breakthrough talks with multiple CEOs, where he will operate as product manager in his division as he helps scale a student-focused career tool into the hands of thousands. What motivated you to launch your startup? Product not done yet already I’ve spoken to 3 CEOs in the last 3 days.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier Even if the most meticulously laid plans are at the mercy of a capricious host with a skinny microphone, starting with a project plan template lays a foundation of order and direction in a world where the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Last weekend, I spent 60 seconds watching an AI tool create a website for me. Site-building tools have made incredible leaps over the last two decades. Sell more and keep your customers happy Automate your eCommerce Wix and Squarespace are two of the most popular website-building apps. Wix is best for small businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

I don’t meet many rational invests (VCs or LPs) who believe this will last but of course nobody knows whether we have 6 weeks, 6 months or 2 years. On the other hand a certain amount of growth is fauxmentum caused by the over-funding of the startup markets and ebullient buyers of technology products (both businesses and consumers).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Get out of your comfort zone.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2021

The opportunity to meet personally (or virtually in 2020) with a group of trusted entrepreneurs who run a variety of businesses, to be able to share experiences, and to be able to learn from each other in a safe and trusted environment is second-to-none. Business, in and of itself, is hard. Out of the 28 million businesses, 99.6

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. I've seen about a dozen companies in the last year trying to help me figure out what to do with my time and how to collaborate with my friends around events. Open and free seems nice until stuff stops working. Reader beware.).

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Make your Google Sheets work for you Automate Google Sheets Here, I'll dive deep into Google Sheets' capabilities and limitations, exploring whether this kind of space is actually useful for your data projects or if it's a sign you might need to look beyond spreadsheets altogether. How many rows can Google Sheets handle?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

So it was a thrill for me last month to be able to have dinner with Joel and shoot the breeze. Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software. But I loved reading them and so did my team.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of ‘swing-for-the-fences’ investment at early stages – and neither does your town. Imagine your company hiring in the Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. If you think “ Don’t Stop Believing &# was first recorded on the show Glee I’m talking to you. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier That's what project management templates are to project managers: replicable systems of organization that keep everything efficiently structured. Table of contents: What are project management templates?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5 In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5 He presented a system where your search results would be ranked based on companies bidding for placement and where merchants would be charged on a “cost per click” basis (CPC). It is different. Structural.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 13, 2020

At Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) , our mission remains engaging business owners at every stage with the tools, education and community necessary to learn and grow to new levels of leadership , in business and beyond. His organization has continued to work remotely. . Caring for Employees. Maintaining Customer Focus.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

But I personally don’t know if working at Away is any more difficult of a work environment than your average inner-city school classroom, factory floor, or post office, not having worked in any of those places—or whether various stakeholders and onlookers just have different expectations of female founders. Perhaps she was right not to.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 23, 2021

By March 2015, I had stopped attending college and had started going to other colleges and industries, asking them to install solar. We managed to deliver a net sales of nearly $25 million in under 2 years and by the end of 2016, it seemed like nothing would stop us. Getting arrogant is the first step of losing your values.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

Most intelligent people accept that computers attached to your car can predict movements that would interfere with your driving (say, a bicycle that is about to zoom in front of you from the right hand side of the vehicle) and respond more quickly and with fewer errors than a human. How many times is your child waking up?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

When it comes to running a business, there is no go-to manual for greatness or a secret recipe for success. When I quit, my manager told me about a new position he thought might suit me better, but I had already made up my mind. I grew up in an entrepreneurial family, so that instinct to start a business has always been in my DNA.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

committed capital over the course of a decade, according to the last reported data from Cambridge Associates, and 1.5x, according to PitchBook, I believe the answer is a resounding “yes.”. For starters, venture capitalists need to stop engaging in self-delusion about why a valuation that is too high might be OK.

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StartupNation

JUNE 15, 2021

The following is adapted from “ Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams” by Matt Blumberg. In April 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning to wreak havoc on markets, commerce, communities and the general public, I started a business along with a group of friends.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

15Five — an early mover in the world of building technology to help motivate teams, and to improve performance management for execs overseeing those teams — has raised $52 million in a round of growth funding that it will be using to expand its own performance. Hassell said the startup was not disclosing valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Branch , which aims to power faster payments to contract workers with its technology, has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round that has closed just six months after it announced its last financing round. Branch has also launched the ability to instantly issue a business debit card and a new cash back rewards program.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Go1 , which provides curated online learning materials and tools to businesses using “playlists” that tap content from multiple publishers and silos, has closed a round of $200 million, a Series D that the Australian company’s CEO and co-founder Andrew Barnes confirmed values the startup at over $1 billion. (To

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

Last week, we talked about the rough road ahead for Coinbase. To get this in your inbox every Thursday afternoon, you can subscribe on TechCrunch’s newsletter page. billion for its fourth crypto fund, more than doubling the size of its last fund. Hey everyone, and welcome back to Chain Reaction. 4,500,000,000.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

startups raked last year. It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa. Please tell us what your company does. Fara Ashiru Jituboh , co-founder and CEO, Okra.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The shipping business in Africa has for years been inefficient and costly due to the traditional ways of managing operations – traditional in the sense that a shipper has to physically look for a transporter, sometimes through a middle-man, and often, once goods are delivered, the trucks almost always make the return trip empty.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Clothing, electronics, toys, automobiles, musical instruments, furniture — you name it and you’ll find a manufacturer in China who can turn your intangible concept into mass-manufacturable reality in mere days. After selling ELEX Technology, Tang didn’t go back to the business that netted him his first pot of gold.

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