The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

I started tracking how long it took me to edit an article on my own versus with help from AI. At Zapier, 89% of our team uses AI in their day-to-day work—writing code, tracking brand mentions across social platforms, analyzing customer sentiment —all in the name of working smarter. " So I put it to the test. The difference?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

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. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Collaboration features.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

I dug deeper into both apps for this article, exploring how each one works in detail to help you choose between them. It's been growing for over two decades with features, and since it was acquired by Intuit, it's become an all-in-one marketing beast.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

In 2025, AI has become a game-changer for small businesses looking to streamline operations, boost productivity, improve customer experiences, and gain a competitive edge. SEO Tip: Incorporate ChatGPT to generate long-form SEO articles, FAQ content, and keyword-rich product descriptions to drive organic search traffic.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Get started Here, I'll explain what AI automation actually is, why it's useful, and how you can start using it to offload all the worst parts of your job, so you can focus on the human stuff. Benefits of AI automation You're probably already envisioning all the ways AI automation could make your life easier.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Sell more and keep your customers happy Automate your eCommerce You need to make sure the processor you choose can integrate with your selling platform, that it supports the transaction types you use, and that it has the features you need. Credit cards accepted: Both Stripe and PayPal can accept all major credit cards.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

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. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 27, 2025

In an era where trust is currency, PR plays a crucial role in shaping how a business is perceived by customers, investors, and the wider public. A well-crafted media story, a thought leadership article in an industry publication, or a compelling presence on social media can be far more effective than a direct advertisement.

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

Career reinvention is a powerful journey, and this article showcases real-world examples from successful entrepreneurs. But for me, it was the unexpected permission slip I needed to go all in. So, on this small startup team, I became a QA/Customer Service/Social Media Manager. I soaked it all in. It does nothing for you.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Make your own custom AI chatbot Try Zapier Interfaces I've spent countless hours using both apps in my personal and professional life. At this point, all the AI models in play are incredibly impressive, so you're unlikely to detect any significant difference in content quality.

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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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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

And they're a must-have for sales teams to track leads and convert them into paying customers, keep pipelines organized, and make sure every interaction stays neatly in one place. But the minute you try to build a report that's even slightly custom, you can hit the limit of what the tool offers or a big "Upgrade" button.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

With Zapier's automated workflows—called Zaps—you can share important Grain meetings across channels, distill conversations into insights, and direct customer feedback into product boards. Create tasks from meetings and recordings We all have those routine tasks that we have to do after a meeting. New to Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

This article is a good starting point to test your connection speed and see how that may affect VoIP calling. Plug-and-play hardware, intuitive software portals, and helpful onboarding are all big pluses. Value: Each platform should offer value for its price based on a combination of all of these factors.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

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. The 3 main types of CRM software Boost your customer relationships with automation Customer relationship management FAQ What is a CRM?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

I used to work at a children's shoe store, and we kept all our customer information on index cards (.yeah). So when a customer came into the store asking about their previous shoe size, naturally, we had lost their information and couldn't help them. But which one should you go with? user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month*

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

All saved posts end up in Collabwriting's Inbox, which you can organize further using themed boards and tags like "AI positioning" or "Thought leadership." month (billed annually); Business plan from $12.36/profile/month month (billed annually); Business plan from $12.36/profile/month But Taplio's not perfect.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

As you'd expect, there's a text-to-image art generator and a text generator, but you can also create a custom template from a prompt, automatically remove backgrounds, and reformat templates into different dimensions. Still, for all that, Canva isn't the only design app. For all that, Express is also a good value.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

Promote and publish your WordPress articles with automation Learn how If you're looking for a WordPress SEO plugin to improve your chances of ranking higher in the search results, you've come to the right place. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Investing in a unified platform—where all your apps are connected via a shared system—can simplify data management, prevent silos, streamline communication, and reduce operating costs. Voice Sales A business phone system to help customer-facing teams communicate and engage with customers.

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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. But potential customers don't have to be actively searching for a particular location to discover your videos. AI voice generators like ElevenLabs to turn text into speech for voiceovers.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

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. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Not all free plans are worth it.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 24, 2025

If you'd asked me a year ago whether I could turn my barely-there coding knowledge into fully functional apps, internal tools, and custom widgets without hiring a developer, I would've smiled politely and quietly choked on my LaCroix. Even configuring a custom domain is similarly straightforward.

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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. You can customize it, import past notes, and tweak fields however you want.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 27, 2025

Meta looks at all the eligible ads for that user at that moment and decides which one to slot in based on this formula: Total value = bid + estimated action rate + ad quality Bid: How much you're willing to pay (per click, view, conversion, etc.) Just be sure to optimize your creative for all placements to avoid performance drops.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Done right, it's a great way to come up with new ideas and solutions to tricky problems, outline an article or presentation, and generally just get your thoughts in order. " But by getting all these branching concepts down on paper, you can start to see the relationships between different things and generate new ideas.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

A lot of AI chatbots all feel the same. You can now source data from ChatGPT, do analysis, and create interactive charts, all in a matter of seconds. So if ChatGPT is an incredibly competent jack of all trades, where does Perplexity fit in? Still, all of this can feel a little beside the point.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Customize it for your project, assign roles, and let the workflow do the heavy lifting. This template has all the basic elements of a RACI chart, with space for you to fill in your project tasks and team members. Determine roles Next, identify all the stakeholders and roles involved in your project.

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A Smart Bear: Longform

JULY 12, 2025

A Smart Bear » Specificity: A weapon of mass effectiveness All Articles Topics Author Moon Sun All Articles Topics Author Subscribe By Jason Cohen on March 28, 2011 Reading time: 5 min Simple eReader (Kindle) Rich eReader (Apple) Printable PDF Specificity: A weapon of mass effectiveness by Jason Cohen on March 28, 2011 Want to write better?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 18, 2025

In a perfect world, we'd have our documents all neatly organized in a centralized location. We have documents, PDF files, emails, forms, and more… all scattered across different apps. Zapier connects with thousands of apps , so you can customize your workflows to include all of your business-critical tools.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

I wanted to find the tools that actually deliver on their promise to streamline all that stuff they promise to streamline and help you and your team reclaim time, enhance accuracy, and give you crystal clear control over your outgoing cash. One size definitely does not fit all in this world. That's Ramp.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Invoices come in from all over: think your email, cloud folders, and payment processors. Someone has to process them and make sure it all ends up in your accounting system. Some are all-in-one accounting suites with built-in accounts payable (AP) tools, while others focus strictly on automating your AP workflow.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Those are all examples of email marketing. They're intended to deliver timely, personalized content to you, the customer, to deepen engagement and encourage repeat purchases. Your own customers need it. Personalize your messages based on behavior One-size-fits-all emails rarely work anymore.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Add meeting attendees and engagements to your CRM Whether you work in sales and regularly chat with leads or you routinely source feedback from your existing customers, you'll want to make sure you add those meeting notes to your CRM. Plus, it helps you keep a running log of all your meetings.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Our team has created thousands of custom Slack emoji to speed up communication. In no particular order, here are 22 of our team's go-to Slack emoji—you can download them all here. Custom Slack emoji to make decisions faster There are a few ways you can poll your team in Slack. Yeah, no one can see that.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Your database—automated Store, edit, share, and automate data all in one tool. Try Zapier Tables Podio has a lot of great features, from custom project structures to collaboration tools for working with others, that elevate it from the lowly notebook. For a more dynamic automated system, try Zapier Tables.

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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). I'll also give you a step-by-step guide to turning a blank canvas into a bustling hub of customer interactions.

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