The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

As anyone who's ever seen a cartoon plumber knows, the best pipeline management tool is a monkey wrench. But if you want to know the best sales pipeline management tool, unfortunately, you should probably read the next several thousand words of in-depth software analysis.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

A customer relationship management tool (or CRM) is a critical hub for sales and marketing teams—but it's not just a place to store contact details. When used effectively, your CRM becomes a central command center for tracking relationships, managing pipelines, and coordinating touchpoints across your entire customer journey.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (5000+ reviews) ActiveCampaign Sales-focused automation Deep CRM integration $15/month 4.5/5 5 (13,000+ reviews) Constant Contact Event-focused businesses Email + event management $12/month 4.1/5 5 (1000+ reviews) HubSpot Integrated marketing & sales Full CRM integration Free (paid from $15/month) 4.4/5

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StartupNation

MAY 21, 2025

Choosing the right Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system is a critical decision for any startup. The trick was to list out what we truly needed: easy integration with our e-commerce platform, simple contact management, and basic sales tracking. They gave me the real scoop on what worked for them and why.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Antonio Vidal , Senior Growth Manager at Ashby , faced this exact challenge. Before Zapier: limited visibility and manual work Before Zapier, the team could technically connect LinkedIn ad performance to pipeline and revenue, but it took a ton of manual work to get there. And the beauty? Once set up, they require zero manual effort.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

You can manage all the conversations directly within Brevo to handle any questions easily and quickly, and built-in chatbot and automation features can reduce your customer service load. Since it has unlimited contacts, you'll never hit a wall, and you can even set up a sales pipeline to keep track of deals you're negotiating.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (13,000+ reviews) Constant Contact Event marketing Built-in event management & ticketing $12/month 4.1/5 For agencies, Campaign Monitor offers a range of features to simplify client management, including client dashboards, multi-account access, and custom user roles. Free plan; pricing starts at $12 USD/month 4.7/5

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Here's what you need to know to decide between using Stripe vs. PayPal for your sales needs. for online sales. Sure, there are plenty of separate fees for optional services and specific scenarios, like ACH transfers and wire payments, but for the vast majority of domestic sales, you'll know what fees to expect.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (5000+ reviews) ActiveCampaign Sales-focused businesses Advanced automation and CRM integration $15/month 4.5/5 For agencies, Campaign Monitor offers a range of features to simplify client management, including client dashboards, multi-account access, and custom user roles. “ Campaign Monitor is the best. ” — Shaley M.,

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Contact Sales With proper AI orchestration, these previously isolated AI tools and workflows communicate with each other, share data, and work together toward common goals. Unlike simple rule-based automation , AI automation manages repetitive workflows by learning patterns and optimizing processes over time.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Most of us are visual creatures, and good workflow management is built on clarity. Standardize processes: This is the core of business process management (BPM). Project management: Kanban boards Kanban boards are a fantastic visual workflow option for general project management. High-fives all around.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

At some point, I realized I wasn't just managing a team—I was managing relationships. Boost your team's productivity Automate your CRM Turns out, a CRM (customer relationship management) app is like my fantasy setup, but for people with actual responsibilities.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 3, 2025

Theres gold hiding in plain sign in your sales data and CRM (Customer Relationship Management system). Yet sales data is often neglected or forgotten. Or at best, lacking the care necessary to maximise every sales opportunity. TWO ASSEMBLE YOUR SALES DATASHEET This is where the fun begins.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

user/month (billed annually) LinkedIn Sales Navigator Advanced prospecting Connections filter helps identify shared contacts Paid plans from $99.99/month user/month (billed annually) LinkedIn Sales Navigator Advanced prospecting Connections filter helps identify shared contacts Paid plans from $99.99/month LeadDelta pricing : From $9.80/month

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

Table of contents Enrich lead data Generate and share content Track trending topics Generate images Extract information from images Enrich lead data When you get a new lead, it's probably down to your sales team to do a quick background check to gather key details around the company. That's useful in itself.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Contact Sales I work at Zapier, an enterprise that not only helps other businesses automate their workflows, but relies on automation to power our own internal operations. For example, maybe you want to trigger onboarding workflows for new hires, or sync lead data across marketing and sales tools. The sheer sprawl of tools.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 18, 2025

Here's how to use Zaps—Zapier's automated workflows—to streamline your document management. With document automation, you use workflows and processes to create and/or manage electronic documents without human intervention. Manually managing documents is inefficient, error-prone, and difficult to scale. New to Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

You need something to keep things straight when juggling client management, property listings, and the looming threat of being upstaged by that insufferably smug agent from the office across the street. Workflow management: Real estate involves numerous tasks and deadlines, and a CRM that can streamline your workflow is essential.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

This is part of my ongoing Sales & Marketing Series. In the first part of this post I talked about how sales in a startup is often evangelical , requires as consultative sale and needs constant adjustments based on customer feedback. We had 4 or 5 sales reps that had been around since the early days.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

A while back I wrote a bunch of posts on Sales & Marketing and have been meaning to get back to that theme for a while. Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. You learn by asking.

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Dream It

APRIL 2, 2019

“We look for founders who have achieved early product-market fit but still need help growing their pipelines more quickly, closing enterprise sales and increasing revenue from growth with existing customers,” stated Dreamit Managing Partner Steve Barsh.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

But can sensible management team even do anything about it? So those bullish pipelines your teams have developed that may be completely real in this market environment but at some point will stop materializing. I’m not saying don’t hire sales staff or market your products aggressively.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Mel Shakir , Securetech Managing Director with over 15 years of experience in bringing innovative cybersecurity solutions to market, is back to give his tips on product management. Recently, Mel served as the SVP of Product Development at Securonix and Director of Product Management at RSA NetWitness.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

What the explosion in startups really means for our industry is a much bigger pipeline of potential deals if we VC’s can be patient. For starters we saw a huge influx of inexperienced managers enter the VC industry proving clearly that being a VC is not a purely quantitative job. Bottom of the sales funnel. Morning in VC.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

. “Our technology at Arrikto helps companies overcome the complexities of implementing and managing machine learning applications,” Arrikto CEO and co-founder Constantinos Venetsanopoulos explained. “We make it super easy to set up end-to-end machine learning pipelines. Arrikto CEO Constantinos Venetsanopoulos.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Organizing information about prospective deals is a challenging task for B2B sales teams, since salespeople usually rely on multiple tools (email, Zoom, WhatsApp, etc) to talk with buyer committees. It becomes even more unwieldy when sales teams work remotely. Singapore-based sales productivity platform Nektar raises $2.15

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

That’s according to Reveal CEO Simon Bouchez, who alongside Gautier Machelon, Perrine El Khoury, and Alex Sadones aims to build a platform that allows B2B companies to more easily identify sales opportunities with their partners. With customers including Qualtrics, Tealium, Contentsquare, and Vonage.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2023

CRM Software offers Small Businesses a Way to More Efficiently Grow Sales Sustainable growth for any small business is tied to building sufficient operational infrastructure to support a growing customer base. On the revenue side, how well a company builds and manages it sales staff is also a determining factor of long-term success.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Pegasus will select startups with products that “fill a market need” and give them up to $350,000 in Azure, GitHub and LinkedIn credits plus backing from advisors, as well as “access to the best Microsoft tech,” according to Hans Yang, general manager at Microsoft for Startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

After securing $16 million in Series A funding last April, Databook , an AI-powered consultative sales intelligence company, is back, this time with $50 million in Series B funding. However, sales reps are often missing the strategic insights, relevant business use cases and personalized content needed to sell to executives.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

Register Mark & Company, led by CEO Kyungpyo Hong, has announced the establishment and management of a new venture investment fund in partnership with Yoonmin Creative Investment Foundation, chaired by Minseop Sung. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Better lead and customer management will let you produce a better ROI. Have marketing and sales team accountability. You get to have a clear view of the company’s marketing and sales pipeline so you can identify which aspect you need to improve the most. Enabling B2B social media management can be a lot of work.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

“There’s an urgent need for a global air traffic management solution to enable safe and efficient drone and urban air mobility (UAM) operations, and Terra Drone aims to be the leading player building the digital infrastructure in the sky.” . Terra Drone’s uncrewed traffic management.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

To learn more, Karan Bhasin and Ram Iyer interviewed: Maëlle Gavet, CEO, Techstars Niko Bonatsos, managing director, General Catalyst Colin Beirne, partner, Two Sigma Ventures “We’re probably going to see consolidation in the VC class,” said Gavet.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We managed to go a long time without raising more funding,” Zeiler told TechCrunch. “We That opportunity included having the right team in place to execute enterprise sales, he added. Clarifai product pipeline. The company will also invest in sales and marketing, as well as an international expansion.

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