The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Today you can make calls using FaceTime, Messenger, WhatsApp, or dozens of other call apps, and virtual phone systems do the same for your office number. Download an app to start making calls from a desktop, laptop, and mobile phone in a matter of minutes. Getting started with VoIP is super simple. Select your phone number(s).

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

Every season, I use a Google Sheet that tracks player stats, waiver wire targets, bye weeks, injury reports, and a deeply personal grudge list of everyone who's tried to hoodwink me into a lopsided trade. You can schedule calls and meetings directly in your CRM, often with calendar integrations that sync with Outlook or Google Calendar.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Table of contents How to set up an on-call agent Set up your agent's instructions Configure your action apps Test and turn on your agent Before you begin Make sure your team's on-call rotation schedule is clearly set up in your Google Calendar. To set up a new calendar, open your Google Calendar.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

I tested both apps to see how their features compare and what teams they're best for. It was smooth sailing navigating the calendar. You also have multiple calendar view options: day, week, month, and list. For example, in order to manage alerts, you're navigated to Opsgenie, a totally separate Atlassian app.

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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). Of course, you can also build your own CRM spreadsheet from scratch in Google Sheets if you prefer.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

We use them so often, in fact, that it blows my mind that none of the major chat apps come with them by default. Or, with Zapier, you can connect Slack to thousands of your other go-to apps. That way, you can use Slack emoji to automatically do things like add a new item to your to-do list or add teammates to a calendar event.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Wolves often struggle with consistent sleep routines, so it's important to set boundaries—both with your devices and your calendar. Other times, it's reading a book or playing with dozens of apps to find the best one. Alternatively, you can Zapier to automatically create calendar events from your preferred to-do app.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Get started But pair Claude with Zapier, and it becomes part of something bigger: an AI orchestration engine that connects your apps, data, and logic across your entire processes. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. It only takes a few minutes to set up.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

Build—and interact with—AI assistants in other apps Ever wanted to have your own AI assistant that can chat with team members or customers and solve issues in other apps, like Slack or Gmail? Check out OpenAI's pricing structure and other supported GPT-4 models.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

I considered and researched dozens of apps and did in-depth testing on the top 20 contenders to narrow it down to these eight form plugins for WordPress. How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Imagine an AI email app that automatically screens your incoming emails. Once it has a plan, the agentic system takes action using the agents and other tools it has available—typically through APIs, though there are now dedicated protocols like Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Google Calendar Google Calendar's new Find Busy Periods action makes scheduling easier than ever. Join the Zapier Community for even more updates to your favorite app integrations. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

As a database and spreadsheet (respectively), Airtable and Google Sheets are a lot like this, but with way less vitamin C. I spent a bunch of time in each of these apps, and here's how the Airtable vs. Google Sheets showdown went.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

While Notion operates as a broader productivity tool to manage your projects, knowledge, and files, Obsidian works more as a highly flexible writing app. This process is unlike what you'd come across on any other note-taking app, which can make it confusing if you're not a deep tinkerer.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Your CRM should seamlessly integrate with the tools you already use, such as your email, calendar, social media, and direct MLS/IDX feeds for up-to-date listing data. Mobility and accessibility: As a real estate agent, you're often on the move, which is why the CRMs below have a capable mobile website or a dedicated app.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. Some bloggers become so successful that they turn blogging into a full-time business. million per year from their blogs. What is a blog?

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. Some bloggers become so successful that they turn blogging into a full-time business. million per year from their blogs. What is a blog?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier That's what project management templates are to project managers: replicable systems of organization that keep everything efficiently structured. And it plays nice with thousands of other apps. Try the template 2. Try the template 5.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. Some bloggers become so successful that they turn blogging into a full-time business. million per year from their blogs. What is a blog?

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Time blocking " Time blocking (I do it with Google Calendar) can be especially helpful because it allows you to easily see your entire schedule in one place, and it can help you stay focused, prioritize better, and be productive by creating a clear plan for your day. 9 time management strategies at work 1.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 7, 2016

This Octane app, in many ways, would offer our loyal readers—and eventually, non-members—real-time information as it relates to the organization, as well as videos, social media, feature stories and other forms of vital communications. The app, in many ways, could do a million things … but we needed it to do a set few things perfectly.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

5 things you should automate today Start automating The tools and features I've included in this article are all ones I've used in the past, but keep in mind: the apps you're already using might have similar features. One of my favorites is the world clock, which lets you add different time zones to your calendar.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

While email services haven't changed a lot over the past two decades, email apps keep getting better. There are some great native Mac email apps that make the whole experience better and more Mac-like. 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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the best tools you can use to achieve productive marketing, how to apply them and how much they cost. This tool helps organizations track and measure their overall performance of their Google Ads. App integrations. Integration with all major calendars. AdWords Performance Grader.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Marketing/social media : Hootsuite (social media management), Mailchimp (email list and audience management), and Google Suite. . Simultaneously, we’ve been coordinating firm-wide data across far too many silos, listed below in descending order of importance: Google Contacts. I’ve been my own Salesforce admin for over a decade.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 23, 2023

Although the form saved the team a home visit, it required highly skilled engineers to spend a ton of time meticulously tagging homeowner photos and log info across at least six different Google Suite tools. Smart Charge America’s quote request workflow uses Zapier to connect Copper, Airtable, Google Maps, and Google Drive.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

In all the podcasts I listened to and blogs I read, there was a consistent refrain: "You need to set aside time to think big." Get the Zapier blog in your inbox Subscribe So, I crowdsourced the answers. Keep a journal or a running Google Doc to jot down notes and reexamine them later. But what did it mean ?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 13, 2021

In this blog post, I’ll share what we learned setting up our remote-first startup. Uizard is a tool for designing mobile apps and websites that runs entirely on your web browser. We found that the tricks we learned and that are listed in this blog post are applicable in both of these contexts. Reason 1: P eople.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 27, 2022

From our experience, a good scheduling app is a boon for any business that needs to conduct multiple meetings a week. It’s highly customizable and easy to integrate with existing calendars and platforms. The app also frequents the top slot for “best of” meeting schedulers in articles comparing app options. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 6, 2024

Anyone – yes, even you – can build a web app, saving you both time and money. Well, allow me to say with the same confidence: Anyone can build an app. What ends up happening is that, for the sake of time (or lack thereof), we resort to Excel or Google spreadsheets. Anyone can build an internal tool.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

No two service-based businesses are alike, which means it can be hard to find an appointment scheduling app that works for you. In my years as a small business owner, I've experimented with several appointment scheduling apps—and I've learned what makes a tool stand out from the rest.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

Explore now The Zapier ChatGPT plugin lets you connect thousands of apps (like Google Sheets, Gmail, or Slack) and automate tasks directly inside ChatGPT. This saves you the time and hassle of context switching, as you can just ask ChatGPT to perform a task in another app for you. No unnecessary writing needed from you.)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Google, DuckDuckGo and other search engines help you find information from the web. A Y Combinator-backed app called Needl is helping users with that. Needl is a cross-platform application that lets you search across your local file system and accounts like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Notion and Slack.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Hate every journaling app? Journaling apps can help you figure this out and help you establish a daily writing routine. Journaling apps can help you figure this out and help you establish a daily writing routine. Click on any app to learn more about why I chose it, or keep reading for more context on journal apps.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

But producing content, handling the posting schedule, and finding what your audience wants to read can be hard—even with a standard social media management app. Here are the eight best AI apps for managing your social media. I only considered apps that have this kind of AI at work in the background. But AI is changing the game.

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