The Zapier Blog

JULY 27, 2025

So this guide is here to help you walk that line: how to adopt AI in a way that's thoughtful, strategic, and maybe even fun—without losing your mind (or your team's trust) along the way. It's the process of thoughtfully integrating artificial intelligence into the way your business runs.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 27, 2025

Become an AI orchestration expert Get the complete guide Across industries, teams are layering AI tools and automations together to create smarter, faster, and more dynamic systems than anything a single tool could do on its own. Here's how AI orchestration works and how nine real-world businesses are actually putting it into practice.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Ready to find your perfect email marketing match? TL;DR) ConvertKit alternatives at a glance Tool Best For Key Advantage Starting Price Reviews Campaign Monitor by Marigold Professional businesses needing on-brand emails Highly customizable emails and powerful prebuilt automated journeys Free Plan; Paid from $12/month 4.7/5

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

But there's a big difference here: ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that's flexible enough to handle just about any task you throw at it, while Jasper is a specialized AI marketing tool. Jasper is built for marketing teams and is better for creating marketing content.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Visualize, plan, and automate business-critical processes Try Zapier Canvas That's the entire premise of a visual workflow. You might stumble upon it eventually—a form of accidental gap analysis—but it's hardly efficient. Standardize processes: This is the core of business process management (BPM).

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

It offers business and productivity tools that run the gamut from sales and marketing to finance and legal to IT and analytics. But even on its paid plans, Zoho is an affordable alternative among its competitors, making it a great option for small and medium-sized businesses. Table of contents : What is Zoho?

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

We’ve tested 18 alternatives that might be a better fit for your email marketing needs. 5 (1000+ reviews) Mailchimp Small businesses All-in-one marketing platform Free plan; paid from $13/month 4.4/5 5 (13000+ reviews) Constant Contact Event marketing Built-in event management $12/month 4.1/5

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

The best WordPress SEO plugins Yoast SEO for content analysis and guidance Rank Math for a free plan and affordable scalability Squirrly SEO for AI-powered suggestions SmartCrawl for balancing features with simplicity The SEO Framework for speed and automation Slim SEO for beginners What makes the best WordPress SEO plugin? Extra features.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Ready to discover which email marketing solution might be a better fit for your needs? 5 (1000+ reviews) Mailchimp All-in-one marketing Comprehensive marketing stack with strong AI features Free (paid from $13/month) 4.4/5 5 (13,000+ reviews) Constant Contact Event marketing Built-in event hosting and ticket sales $12/month 4.1/5

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

In this guide, we'll look at how it works and the benefits it brings to your accounts payable workflow. Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack. Learn more. Skip ahead What is invoice automation?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier In the business world, this same kind of boundary-slipping shows up as scope creep—when a project quietly expands beyond the original plan, often without additional resources, timelines, or support. "Could we just add this one small feature?"

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A lot of people go out and start their first business and try to make it a venture-backed startup. I think the right move is to start a business that can make you $100k+ per year in profit. It could be something as simple as a consulting or a services business, or a digital product like a course, newsletter, or subscription podcast.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Reviewing these applications is fundamental to our core business and we’re looking for an Admissions Officer to review those applications and help manage the overall admissions process. This is a unique opportunity for somebody who loves data and startups to help us build definitive points of view to guide investment decisions.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

What Is Your Process for Developing New Business Ideas?: 16 Experts Weigh In Sixteen entrepreneurs, from Founders to CEOs, unveil their personal blueprints for birthing a business concept. I never care about competition because I know potential competitors can’t do bottom-of-funnel targeting the way I can.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

S&P Global Market Intelligence . Pratt’s Guide . annually between 2015 and 2020, its market size topping $1.3B connects startups to experts in building new businesses. Not surprisingly, the tighter your relationship with the firm, typically the more money you will earn: . At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“We don’t just add tasks to a Trello board for them to complete, we discuss the goals, why and how best to achieve them with cost/benefit analysis in mind.” “We don’t just add tasks to a Trello board for them to complete, we discuss the goals, why and how best to achieve them with cost/benefit analysis in mind.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

“And while much of the oxygen has been soaked up by large legacy companies hitting the public market, there have been smaller deals that indicate a hunger for better creative adtech.” Companies that haven’t created an ideal customer profile and performed a SWOT analysis are making big bets on guesswork and intuition.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Back in the early 1990s, I was a married father of two very young children working as an investment banker in a small, boutique firm. We were small and very entrepreneurial in our approach. He began to describe his latest business acquisition and—suddenly!— My first entrepreneurial opportunity. The payoff.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . 2) Market .

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

No content marketing. We provide commentary and analysis that helps our readers leverage the news. It’s okay to be broad and provide non-technical background as the audience tends to be business-minded readers who may have a small percentage of their net worth in crypto or none at all but are thinking about it.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

We thought we were going to be talking about scale today, but we’re actually going to talk about having small dogs and raising dachshunds, based on what we were catching up on backstage with Claire. Over the past seven years, she’s been responsible for scaling Stripe’s worldwide business operations.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 30, 2024

The experience and insights I gained during this time have been invaluable in guiding me toward my true passion: developing world-class HR technology solutions. As a wellness enthusiast, I actively participate in marathons and triathlons. ’ in Goa. This event challenged me to complete 1.9

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Market Size. It’s ok to target a small market and you can probably build a niche business that is extremely valuable to you as an individual. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The complete guide to finding truly special talent Image by author Suppose you want to digitize your business “for real”, where you have a sensible digital strategy and development of existing teams and recruit the digital stars who can close the gaps you have internally. In that case, several different criteria apply.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

Arcadia guides companies on homeworking energy costs. The FDA has granted De Novo Marketing Authorization for the breakthrough Hominis robotic surgery system developed by Memic – a notable first. Medisafe raises $30M for AI that helps people take medication. Volvo unit teams with Israel’s Foretellix on autonomous safety.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

This week, we published a four-part series about how Klaviyo co-founders Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen bootstrapped their startup into an e-commerce marketing automation platform now valued at $4.15 Part 1: How Klaviyo transformed from a lifestyle business into a $4.15B email titan. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Most every marketer is familiar with A/B testing, but few have a consistent framework for prioritizing what to test. About the Author Michael Taylor Mike was a co-founder at Ladder , a 50-person growth marketing agency with $50m spent and 8,000 experiments run, for clients like Booking.com, Monzo Bank, and Facebook Workplace.

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HPA

MARCH 23, 2020

Over the last couple weeks, HPA has been working diligently to build a resource guide with aggregated content. As we all navigate this unprecedented time, we wanted to equip you with helpful information and important resources as it relates to your business. Chicago Small Business Resiliency Loan Fund (IL). (

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propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

Around the same time we started that analysis, I met scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab who were looking to commercialize an electrochromic glass technology and wanted a co-founder who had been through the startup lifecycle before. Then, I basically had a one year startup hiatus where I was trying to figure out what to do next.

energy

Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 7, 2019

At my company, customer feedback has been at the core of building and growing the business. Listening to customer input and responding with product tweaks is business 101. However, our success has been driven by going a step further to operationalize how we analyze feedback, so the insights become a guide for future innovation.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

I've spent a lot of time reading and developing style guides, and this article will tell you everything you need to know about building a content style guide, from what it is, to whether your company truly needs it, to how to put one together. What is a style guide? Do you need a style guide: Non-negotiable or time-suck?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Let’s get down to the basics of why preventing churn is a must for your business’s growth and how you can tackle it effectively. It’s pretty simple math, but the repercussions for a business are significant. Either way, understanding churn gives you a clear picture of where your business stands. That’s churn.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The biotech industry is built on one of the cleanest go-to-market strategies in existence: if you make a safe drug that really works, patients are likely to receive it and payors are likely to pay for it. If you’re building a horizontal business model (e.g., Gantt chart for the fundraise Where does this round of funding get your team?

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

WizeHire , a hiring service for small- and medium-sized (SMB) businesses, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global with participation from Amplo and Mercury. Small business owners often need help writing effective job ads, he says, as well as the the flexibility to post opportunities in more places.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

The common guiding principle for content marketing is providing the right content to the right people at the right time. Brand journalism is a content marketing strategy that leans into what "be interesting" means to your target audience by defining "relevant" broadly. You're welcome.) Always be relevant.

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