The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Head to the TikTok Creative Center and pay attention to what's trending: Hashtags: Not all of these will be relevant to your business. B2B software company Canva takes a meta approach to these trends. For example, you can automatically create video scripts from blog posts with ChatGPT. How do you go viral on TikTok?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

I often used the minutes from SGA meetings to help me write my article, but I quickly realized that's about all they were being used for—SGA members never read them and usually forgot what they'd discussed in their meetings the next day. " That's the kind of meeting this template is for.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Your database—automated Store, edit, share, and automate data all in one tool. But its real strength is that, unlike a physical planner or to-do list, you can connect Podio to all your other business-critical apps with Zapier. Maybe you want to make sure you read all the new articles from your favorite industry blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Successfully running a company requires clear communication across the board: with employees, customers, investors, and any other stakeholders. It's designed to outline responsibilities and initiatives within the grand scope of the marketing strategy to keep teams aligned and informed. on an ironing board, not a body.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

If you work in IT operations, the work you do is basically the backbone of your company. Look for processes that mirror your initial success, then replicate and customize as you go. From onboarding new employees to granting app permissions, your job is to make sure those systems are fully functional (and automated) across your company.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Despite the initial confusion, building a CRM in Google Sheets can be a surprisingly effective way to manage customer relationships (and slightly less terrifying than whatever Skibidi Toilet is). For example, you might look at all prospects who had five or more interactions but didn't convert to identify areas for improvement.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

In this article, I'll explain the pros and cons of Wix and Squarespace so you can decide which makes sense for you. With Wix's robust all-in-one marketing suite, you can create websites (with the help of AI), organize leads, send emails, run ad campaigns, and manage social media. Wix is best for small businesses.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

And it's all thanks to its incredible insights into human behavior. Automatically extract data from your apps with Zapier Learn how And again, like oil, not all data comes out of the ground with the same properties. Descriptive text: Think names (of people, products, companies), categories, or titles of works.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic, however, forced many of us to initiate wholesale and all-encompassing pivots in order to stay afloat. . When those became scarce, the company found itself with few prospects. Arosh notes that “all these changes helped us, as we would have no income if it wasn’t for them.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. One of the most important articles I read during the entire year was David Brook’s op-ed article on “ The Haimish Line.” The travel companies offer brochures showing private beaches and phenomenal sights.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

With all the hype around AI, it'd be easy to forget that AI tools have existed for a while now. We're never paid for placement in our articles from any app or for links to any site—we value the trust readers put in us to offer authentic evaluations of the categories and apps we review. Privacy and IP controls. Extra features.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

All that functionality comes at the expense of simplicity, making it ideal for a different set of use cases than those Google Sheets is designed to serve. Whether your device has the juice to handle all that potential is a whole other story.) Your database—automated Store, edit, share, and automate data all in one tool.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The thing you need to be careful of, however, is only paying attention to big trends, because you never know when you're thinking big data and you miss the awesome direct sales jewelry company. PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. Reader beware.). Open Government.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2021

Not only did the struggles of entrepreneurship take away almost all of my free time, the stress I felt amplified to the point that I could no longer laugh. All these demands need to be juggled evenly, and at all times. I was running my security company and I had an Advisory Board. and more articles from the EO blog. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 10, 2024

Successful companies answer these questions with a resounding “Yes!” Create a single document outlining your brand in vivid detail, then design training to educate all new hires, and implement performance metrics based on brand values. You want customers to experience your Brand Promise every time they interact with your company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

So founders took fewer risks and at the societal level with fewer companies taking fewer expansion risks job creation is weaker. After all, if people feel more of a safety net for trying and not succeeding more people are bound to try in the first place and more innovation is almost inevitable.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 1, 2024

The initial excitement and passion for your idea can quickly give way to doubt, sleepless nights, and a constant stream of what-ifs. Before I started the company, I had been a partner in an investment firm for 11 years, so I felt a lot of excitement to be on my own but also a bit of trepidation on what was to come.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. But the honeypot of information in companies is still in email.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

This article originally ran on TechCrunch. Can’t list them all. Can’t list them all. The ingredients are all here. They have their successes; yet somehow all of the neurons don’t yet seem to be firing are powerfully as they need to be. I’m in Seattle this week. Of course I have.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

She endured the same discrimination that all justice-involved people face but was determined to rejoin the workforce. After applying to multiple companies, she got a decent job offer, only to have her hopes dashed when the offer was rescinded via certified mail the evening before she was scheduled to start.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Lennert’s cause initially focused on making surfing safer in the north. The venture quickly scaled beyond its initial vision. Surf the Greats has collaborated with a veritable tsunami of leaders in the sports industry: Patagonia, Rip Curl and Red Bull, as well as artists of all identities and backgrounds.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

If you're one of those people packing all those tasks and teams into a single, unified, potentially 4WD structure, these downloadable templates should help you set a workflow foundation and refine your project management skills. All your updates get logged in a Zapier Table for easy tracking. Try the template 2.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2023

” — John Quincy Adams As a member of EO for 25 years, I have had the immense privilege of partaking in countless initiatives that transformed my own experience along the way. Dr. Bell also agreed to come on board, and all together, we collectively built the programme’s strategy, structure, and content. All of them did.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This article was written by EO Vancouver member Calvin Johnson. Luckily, Vancouver is home to HootSuite, and not only did this company provide us an amazing space for our 2015 finals; they covered all the costs! The post The Power of People: How We Recast Our Expertise into Valuable Incentives appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Though EO did not have an official presence at the January 2023 WEF annual meeting in Davos, four EO members attended, having been invited through other initiatives: Nikhil Hirdaramani (EO Sri Lanka and EO Global Partnerships), Troy Armour (EO Europe Bridge), John Metcalf (EO San Antonio), and Pajani Singah (EO London).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2016

This article was written by EO Vancouver member, Calvin Johnson. Luckily, Vancouver is home to HootSuite, and not only did this company provide us an amazing space for our 2015 finals; they covered all the costs! Create Incentive. He explained, “I want to share the same opportunities I had.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 7, 2017

Brad Stevens is an EO Atlanta member, Chair of that chapter’s Accelerator program, and founder and CEO of Outsource Access , which helps companies grow by providing highly skilled virtual assistants. In part 2 of this article , he explains how he helped grow EO Atlanta’s Accelerator program. It wasn’t my initial plan.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I started off small, initially looking to create and sell pet toys on Kickstarter, but I ended up joining two others here and we decided to create our own app. I didn’t want to be the CEO and have all that responsibility. I hope to launch the company in Australia in 2016. I think the lab has definitely changed my life.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Yet, the benefits of having a technical co-founder make it all worthwhile. Consider all the smart business people who want to start tech companies, all with an idea or unique insight. If this is all new to you, take a short course on Entrepreneurship or read The Lean Startup.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. We list here all the active flexible VCs we have identified, broken into these categories: Revenue-based. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high-growth startups for all small communities.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

This is something I had to learn the hard way: What you hear in the media or read on a company blog post often simplifies the process, and sometimes fails to cover the trajectory that minority founders, in particular, must follow to secure funding. It is usually not given all at once due to what I consider to be a lack of trust.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

We gathered 30 invaluable strategies from SEO Analysts, Founders, and other experts, ranging from optimizing content with targeted keywords to crafting blog posts that answer key questions. Among all the strategies we employed, the most effective one for ‘CupsnChai’ was undoubtedly keyword research and optimization.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

19 Strategies for Managing Risk in a Startup In this article, we explore nineteen different strategies for managing risk in startups, shared by founders, CEOs, and other industry professionals. Instead of going all-in on one product, I launched a few different products, buying a limited quantity of units for each. All money is green.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 22, 2023

For bigger companies, this can be split even further, with each step of the funnel having a sub-team. When companies try working on growth before they have found product market fit, they risk spending time trying to build growth loops into a product that isn’t solving a problem well enough. Trust me; I’ve been there.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 21, 2024

Becoming one can improve your influence in your field and within your company. I was initially inspired to produce thought leadership content because I wanted to increase my company’s visibility on search engines and get more links to our website. I tried it dozens of times, and all I got was crickets.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

Keenly aware of the need to build, support and professionalize angel investing, they devoted their partnership energies over the last decade to writing books and articles about angel investing, as well as speaking, developing courses and teaching. For many years, I was a regular attendee at ACA meetings all over the country.

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