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 marketing tips to grow your business Ready to turn TikTok into a high-performing marketing channel? So let's dive in. TikTok Shop was the fastest growing online retailer last year.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Let's talk about what it really means—and why your business desperately needs it. It uses structured logic and adaptive intelligence to decide which tool should act, when, and how—so your business moves faster without giving up control. " This guide will teach you everything you need to know about AI orchestration.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

These plugins check for on-page SEO factors like meta tags, schema markup, keyword density, and readability to ensure your content is in good shape. For example, if you switch from Easy to Advanced, you can turn on image SEO to add image alt tags and title tags on the fly. Extra features. But you can easily switch between them.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack. Pro tip: Start small. But tagging contacts and segmenting them manually can be a real drain on team resources, especially as your audience grows. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Improve your real estate business with automation Automate your CRM But with countless options on the market, how do you know which software is right for you? ​​I When shopping for a CRM, you should weigh these criteria against your personal and business needs. Here are some workflows to get you started.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 2, 2010

Too many entrepreneurs start out their business endeavors with an investment pitch. So if we’re talking everyone getting funded without getting the benefit of an experienced set of mentors in a small, focused program like TechStars, or a lead investor who will spend a lot of time with you upfront, I’m not on board with that.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As the co-founder and CEO of PropFuel , Dave is a one-of-a-kind entrepreneur dedicated to creating a place for unique conversations with successful founders and business leaders. Launching a podcast will require an investment from your business. If you can answer yes to this question, then a podcast is right for your business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

Contributed by Chris Kirksey, an EO member in Austin who is the founder and CEO of Direction , an SEO software and services company that helps entrepreneurs set their online strategy in the right direction to accelerate sales, grow the business, and dominate your market. Accompany each subtask with relevant details and deadlines.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Of course you’ve probably known of Meg as a business leader for many years, formerly as President and CEO of Hewlett Packard and the CEO of eBay before that, but since late 2018 she has been the CEO of Quibi (joining founder Jeffrey Katzenberg as the first employee). This is an entirely new way of filming Personalization ?—?to

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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. I spoke about this yesterday on Fox Business News. I recently spoke at the business school at UCSD. Show some energy!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

It takes less to start a business these days – We all know that it takes less to start a technology company these days. But it takes the same amount of money to scale a big business and this is where outsized returns are earned – If you want to build a big business you still need big bucks.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As businesses of all sizes approach the end of the year, retailers are pushing hard to grasp their customer’s attention with effective holiday marketing campaigns and hit their end-of-the-year targets. Shutterstock. This year is no exception, presenting a huge opportunity for retailers. In the U.S. from 2020 results of 8.5%.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

WhatsApp is used by more than two billion around the world, and is an important tool for many small businesses. But as they scale up, even WhatsApp for Business might not be able to keep up with their needs. Built on WhatsApp for Business’ API, WATI has customer sales and engagement tools created for the messaging app.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

For Spotify’s core business, which charges consumer subscriptions for the ability to have unlimited mobile access to an enormous music library, music as the audio source converts high engagement minutes into recurring revenue via subscriptions. I may pay something small to listen to those or to hear really amazing interviews.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 14, 2022

The Mark Zuckerbergs and Evan Spiegels of the world have shown how software businesses can be a fast track to fame and fortune. Yet it’s because of these drawbacks that I’d rather create a t-shirt brand than a software business at this stage of my life. And when I wasn’t working on the business, I was thinking about the business.

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Red Rocket

OCTOBER 4, 2022

If you are a consumer business, maybe that is men vs. women buyers, or older vs. younger buyers, or which target products they are most interested in (e.g., If you are a B2B business, maybe that is customers from one industry or another, or buyers at different levels of the organization (e.g., enterprise vs. small businesses).

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2020, they were named one of the Best Places to Work in Financial Technology 2020, and the TAG FinTech ADVANCE program recognized Autobooks as one of the most innovative U.S. Coming out of stealth mode in 2020, Signal Advisors is a Detroit startup that’s growing their business and their team. FinTech companies. Signal Advisors.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

If you’re not growing your business online in the current climate, you will likely leave a lot of money on the table. To ensure your business continues to take advantage of the changing tide, here are 21 ways to help accelerate the growth of your new business in the year ahead: Become a prolific content creator. year-over-year.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

People would come and ask questions, and they would put topics on them, and other people would sign up to answer questions, and they would tell us about what they knew about by tagging themselves with these topics, and we would try to route the questions to the people who knew about the particular topic. And it was all manual.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Moeller spent several years researching and developing prototypes and business plans for what would eventually become Keep Technologies. He left for business school at Harvard University intending to make a career switch to investment banking. What he found was a gap in the market and an opportunity to fill it.

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OurCrowd

MAY 26, 2022

The company’s machine-learning platform understands how consumers see webpages and improves its automatic-tagging abilities over time while automatically adapting to website changes. Its small-cell cocktail dramatically speeds up muscle fiber production and increases production capacity in a laboratory setting.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Kayvan Moghaddassi , Business Strategist, Kayvan Consulting Establish Cross-Functional Teams Collaboration among startup team members is essential for developing creativity and achieving overall success. It’s more than just planned events; it’s the small moments. Perhaps a coffee break in the morning or a chat after work.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The features in Flickr seeded the consumer web gene pool for the following 7 or 8 years--tagging, favoriting, commenting, permalinks direct to content, newsfeeds, social consumption of media, sharing and embedding. He said that Flickr taught us all about social applications--and gave birth to Web 2.0

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Not only were they files in the cloud, but they had all sorts of attached metadata like tags, comments, and groupings that didn't come in a neatly packaged desktop file. It became increasingly apparent that cloud applications were becoming a more critical aspect of not only people's personal lives but their businesses as well.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. And here, too, investors can find early stage businesses looking for an angle.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

” you can bet that some small part of them meant it sincerely. “It’s a company with operations and supply chains in China targeting the global market, with nearly no business in China.”. 3 issues to resolve before switching to a subscription business model. Why Amazon should pay attention to Shein. You’re curious.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Brian Staver , CEO, Net Pay Advance Hold Weekly Alignment Meetings I’ve worked with dozens of startups, and the best way to get the most out of teams—big, small, remote, or fractional—is to over-communicate, document weekly, and complete your tasks on time. But here’s the clincher: we didn’t stop at just digital tools.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If a business transmits the wrong sensory cues, it could attract the wrong customers. Small films with limited budgets must grab attention, but also act as a clear warning for action fans who may be disappointed with the lack of explosions. Tag each example with relevant “memes.” Credit: Marketing Memetics 2.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2020

If you want to build a big business, the road ahead is still long and windy, and you’re going to need every bit of help you can get. On the steep slope between failure and success in this business, vesting longer is a powerful way to help the company will deliver the most back to them after the hard work of the early days.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Hardik Parikh , Designated Partner, Hardik Parikh Associates LLP Delegate Based on Personal Investment Personal sovereignty is something we appreciate and connect with in our business, so quite often this can dictate how the delegation of tasks works, at least if they are on an ad-hoc basis. Trust is the hardest part.

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Dream It

JANUARY 13, 2021

I like to start my calls with quick small talk, then jump right into an overview of Dreamit, where we play, and how we add value. It’s critical you help the associate context switch by clearly describing your business model, industry sub-set, who you sell to, and how everything fits together.

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MARCH 29, 2010

What if you weren’t just a platform for distribution of deals, but a kind of local virtual chamber of commerce or small business organization—with some social networking features so that retailers could get together to share best practices, work with each other, cross-sell, etc. Community is one solution I had in mind.

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AUGUST 22, 2010

More and more, I'm seeing it as important to the process of shepherding local efforts to building great businesses. It's not that we don't want to interact with others who aren't doing what we're doing--we're all just pretty damn busy, that's all. It's not a small town--and you can hide a reputation pretty easily.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

If I’m interested I get to spend more time with them, if I’m not I don’t have to – A few companies per month come in that have fascinating business ideas that warrant my spending more time trying to understand their people, company, technology and market. The upside for entrepreneurs is the equity in their business.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife. It caters well to several previously successful LA businesses.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

of its iPhone app, which allows you to “‘Check-in’ to businesses when you are out to tell your friends where you are.” In the long history of bigger companies thinking they can beat out the small guy that only thinks about this one thing, the small guy just about always wins. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here: [link]. DNAnexus is recruiting an experienced leader to take charge of their business development efforts. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Wooden blocks. Erector Set.

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