The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Visualize, plan, and automate business-critical processes Try Zapier Canvas For the past few years, I've tested dozens of online whiteboards to find the best ones for a variety of needs. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Presentation options.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Over the past several years of updating this list, I've tested close to 50 different mind map tools, many multiple times as they've been updated and added new features—AI included. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. could make for a killer summer ad?

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 25, 2024

Generative AI offers founders an opportunity to completely reinvent workflows — and will spawn a new cohort of companies that are not just AI-augmented, but fully AI-native. On the most surface level, we believe AI will help users do their existing work more efficiently. What can be abstracted away with AI?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

And while AI has since come on the scene, it hasn't replaced automation—it's made it better. Now, I delegate to AI automation. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers.

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Red Rocket

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for decades. But, what has recently caught storm is the use of generative AI in the creation of many marketing creatives. Industry Research There was a very good industry research study completed in March 2023 by Botco.ai , a generative AI cloud chat communications company.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

Over the past year, generative AI’s capacity for content creation has drawn most of the noisiest headlines: how AI models can instantaneously create Pixar-like shorts starring your pet chihuahua, or drum up the Drake-Kendrick Lamar diss track you never knew you wanted. Concurrently, the way companies view marketing is changing.

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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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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

At first glance, Jasper and ChatGPT seem similar—they're both generative AI tools that can create content in a split second. 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.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Here, I'll walk you through key differences and use cases and share some examples so you can understand how to use both to power your business. AI and machine learning also get on well with structured data. What is unstructured data? Structured data is particularly handy when you need clear, quantitative insights.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

But it's perfectly valid to take a break to see what other AI chatbots are available. Build your own AI chatbot with no-code Here's how Allow me to save you a dozen Google searches (or ChatGPT prompts). I spent time talking to some of the best AI chatbots to see how they measure up.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

But AI is changing the game. Use automation to share, engage, and cross-post without lifting a finger Learn how I researched and tested every AI tool for social media management that I could get my hands on, and I found a lot of useful options. Here are the eight best AI apps for managing your social media.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

One example: backend-as-a-service (BaaS) platforms like Supabase and Firebase let me focus on solving problems instead of getting lost in server configurations and database management. As a content marketer who's dabbled in building my own tools, I've learned to pick my battles carefully.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

I've been covering AI developments for almost a decade now, and the idea of AI tools that can be trusted to operate independently has always been exciting—and just out of reach. Agentic AI is the latest attempt to create a framework for what these tools would look like and how they could safely operate.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

The hype around ChatGPT , OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, hasn’t reached a peak yet. Associating with an app that visible, particularly one that’s in the red-hot generative AI space, is bound to get attention — a fact to which this article is a testament.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Take your transactional email to the next level with automation Automate your campaigns I've been using Mailchimp for years and have tested Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) extensively. I dug deeper into both apps for this article, exploring how each one works in detail to help you choose between them.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Google's Gemini era has been in full swing over the past year, integrating its Gemini family of AI models into nearly every corner of its product suite—from Google search to Google Workspace and beyond. Of course, the most obvious place Google deploys AI is its chatbot (formerly called Bard). Sign up for free.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Below are 15 sectors in which pi Ventures expects “disruptive innovation that will bring about key shifts in global businesses” in the next half-decade: Alternative protein: superfluous to vital. As it previously explained in a blog post , pi Ventures’ area of interest is “the art of possible.” ”

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Grow your business with marketing automation Learn how But for this article, I'll focus on creating a content style guide: the editorial guidelines for tone, structure, voice, and values. Can you deliver quality content that matters and meets business goals without a style guide? It depends.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Accern , which uses AI to analyze online conversations around particular companies, trends, and industries, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B round led by Mighty Capital alongside Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures, Gaingels and Fusion Fund and others. “More than 80% of the world’s data is unstructured.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Business scenarios are changing and growing more competitive post-Covid. Content in all forms, be it blogs, infographics, or podcasts, is still the preferred choice of businesses to connect with their customers. A good example of AR is the IKEA Place app. A good example of AR is the IKEA Place app.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The recent terms & conditions controversy sequence goes like this: A clause added to Zoom’s legalese back in March 2023 grabbed attention on Monday after a post on Hacker News claimed it allowed the company to use customer data to train AI models “with no opt out” Cue outrage on social media. Still, people were mad.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

It's no secret that artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way certain businesses operate. From AI-powered image generation to natural language tasks (like generating or summarizing text), AI tools are disrupting the workforce. Or write an email with GPT-3 —then send it via Gmail.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene last year, AI writing tools have been big news. In the right circumstances, these AI text generators can help you work better and faster, and create more polished and on-brand copy. Of course, all AI writing software needs human supervision to deliver the best results. Let's dig in.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Sometimes a product comparison can be like comparing apples to oranges, but sometimes it can be like comparing lemons to oranges: kind of the same thing, but not really. If you're looking for a refreshing breakfast beverage, you're probably not reaching for a tall glass of fresh-squeezed lemon juice. It's also completely free.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Whether that's turning a bunch of data into a live website or visualizing relationships between piles of notes, they've got you covered. Few do it better than Obsidian and Notion. I spent weeks testing Notion and Obsidian to see how they stack up. Here's what I found.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

4 workflows to better market your brand on social media Read now If you're stuck in this cycle, you can use AI to break it and get things moving forward. The process is similar for other social media platforms, so consider this inspiration for whatever AI-generated social media post you're looking to create.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

With that in mind, Sesamm enables businesses to track textual data from across the web — including news portals, NGO reports and social networks — and convert this into actionable insights. ” Example ESG dashboard produced through Sesamm. . ” Example ESG dashboard produced through Sesamm.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

But most smaller businesses don't have the budget to hire an expert developer. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. If you want people to find you online, you need a website. As I was testing, I was focusing on the following criteria: Ease of use.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When you type in a single word, you get a huge amount of data in various forms, such as dictionary definitions, videos, and blogs. Even in Korea, the market share of search services is shifting from Naver and Daum to Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, and many platforms are incorporating AI technology to increase their search market share.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article originally appeared on the PixelEdge Blog. “[The Client Business Information Director Problem A leading data aggregator for an entertainment sector came to PixelEdge to help maximize one of their offerings. The ideas … have been very exciting to me and my team.”

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Use automation to share, engage, and cross-post without lifting a finger Learn how So when AI became more accessible, content repurposing was one of the first use cases I thought of. There are tons of ways to do this, but here, I'll share a few of my favorite ways to use AI to improve your content repurposing workflow.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Tracking personnel activity in venture land offers a few examples. For example, Initialized Capital’s co-founder Garry Tan is leaving the firm to join Y Combinator as president. No one is incentivized to say that they aren’t doing business as usual, which creates a landscape of extremes. Argo AI says bye bye.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From optimizing your sales funnel to getting a head start with sales/marketing copy, here are 9 answers to the question, “How can a startup (with limited capital and resources) utilize artificial intelligence in their business?” Additionally, it might be worth considering using APIs instead of investing in a full-fledged AI model.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

That's why, at first, I wasn't sure if I had the technical savvy to try out Leap AI , a nifty image-generation tool that works on JavaScript and that folks can integrate into their own apps. What is Leap AI? Leap AI is a platform that lets you generate images (e.g., directly in any browser first.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Like many “solopreneurs,” home service professionals have to balance doing the work while also managing a business. New York-based Topline Pro, formerly ProPhone, does this by leveraging generative artificial intelligence to provide a way for these businesses to get discovered, build trust among customers and generate repeat customers.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Contents: What is B2B email marketing Why B2B emails require B2B strategies 6 key strategies for designing a B2B email campaign Best practices for B2B emails 7 B2B marketing email examples that stick the landing What is B2B email marketing? B2B email marketing is a tactic for promoting products or services to business-to-business customers.

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