The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Softr is a super flexible no-code app builder. But once your app is live, managing users, forms, emails, and data across platforms can cost you valuable time. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. And that's where automation can help.

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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. Zoho has approximately one zillion apps that cover you across your organization, and here, I'll walk you through everything on offer.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 18, 2025

We have documents, PDF files, emails, forms, and more… all scattered across different apps. Plus, when you automate your processes, you remove the risk of human error (like forgetting to move a file to its proper location on your Google Drive). Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. New to Zapier?

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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). It includes a pre-built Customer Data sheet to store lead/customer info, an Interactions tracker, and a Dashboard with some basic reporting.

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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. I take fantasy football way too seriously. Activity scheduling helps ensure important actions don't get forgotten.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. With it, you can store data, trigger automations, and connect all your organization's apps and workflows to your spreadsheet data. Here are five ways to get started.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

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. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier.

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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). Here's how.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier We really could have used RACI. And it plays nice with thousands of other apps. Spreadsheet RACI chart template Make a copy With the help of my design team, I made a simple, easy-to-use RACI template in Google Sheets.

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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 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

JULY 21, 2025

There are some solid manual approaches, using spreadsheet apps like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, but I'd much sooner recommend automated approaches, where you let software with forecasting capabilities do most of the grunt work for you. Just be aware: they cost a pretty penny.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

From CRMs to helpdesks, project management platforms, and beyond, it's down to IT to manage those apps, assign seats, and monitor their infrastructure. But when those apps don't work well together or connect through an integration, IT teams end up with fragmented systems and siloed apps.

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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 30, 2025

Google Sheets boasts a staggering 10 million cell limit. Table of contents: Google Sheets cell limits, explained What you need to know about the 10 million cell limit What you should actually do if you need 10 million cells What if I need to reduce the number of cells in a Google spreadsheet?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier Even if the most meticulously laid plans are at the mercy of a capricious host with a skinny microphone, starting with a project plan template lays a foundation of order and direction in a world where the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

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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. It's also completely free.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

This agent processes lists of news article links, summarizes each story, and categorizes them into an organized report—all automatically delivered to Google Docs. The agent then compiles everything into a final report in Google Docs. You'll need to connect a Google Docs account. Learn more. Click Create.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 23, 2025

I was in the room at Microsoft's Copilot launch event in New York City in 2023, where Satya Nadella pitched a vision of Copilot across all Microsoft's apps and services. Excel Copilot examples Copilot in Excel vs. Gemini in Google Sheets Add AI automation to your spreadsheets What is Microsoft Copilot in Excel?

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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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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I also use several living Google docs to maintain the minutes and the group agendas for my fixed weekly meetings. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 3) Raise capital.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I also use several living Google docs to maintain the minutes and the group agendas for my fixed weekly meetings. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 3) Raise capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). We talked about Facebook.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

By one metric , ChatGPT is the fastest-growing app in the world, having reached 100 million users within the first two months of launch. 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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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 12, 2023

If you find that the tool itself isn't quite right for you, don't write off the intention behind the app—keep searching till you find the one that works for you. One approach is to use the GPT for Sheets add-on to generate personalized outreach messages en masse within Google Sheets.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

In this blog post, we’re not going to talk about different business models, seat-based VS usage volume pricing, or subscription VS pay-as-you-go. In this blog post, I’ll highlight a pretty neat data-driven approach that we used at Uizard to identify the initial price for our SaaS monthly subscription plans.

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OkDork

JANUARY 27, 2023

Basically, to be a content remixer, you turn long-form content like YouTube videos and podcasts into blog posts, tweet threads, LinkedIn posts, Instagram Reels, and TikTok videos. Business Idea #13: Rideshare Delivery Apps It probably goes without saying, but this is one of the lowest-friction businesses.

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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. Google Workspace.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2023

Here’s an easy way to think about it: Every time you or someone in your company performs a standard action online — browsing a website, receiving an email, using an app, or Googling something — you use up data and energy. Also, encourage employees to send texts or use messaging apps to communicate.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

Search engines like Google and Bing use their own safety mechanisms to reduce the chances unreliable content rises to the top of results, but these results can be gamed. In 2020, Pinterest leveraged a quirk of Google’s image search algorithm to surface more of its content in Google Image searches, according to The New Yorker.

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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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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

When apps lack built-in integrations, Zapier's automated workflows ensure a seamless connection between data sources and analytics. Zapier is the leader in no-code automation—integrating with 5,000+ apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Learn more.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2021

Whether you’re selling a blog, eCommerce store, or app, it is important to understand how much your business is worth. For example, a content blog is up for sale for $3,000 with a multiple of 2x. Are visitors able to easily find the information they’re looking for on your blog? Valuate Your Business. Website Data.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

It is true that every few years a fund exits that delivers smashing results because it has Facebook, Google or Twitter in it. 2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. And to finally admitting that ads weren’t evil so that Google could copy the model of the fast growing Overture. 33% of the world is on the Internet on average of 3.1

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Google Play. One of the applications we were talking about was a marketing application, was how do you get found on the Internet, how do you get found in Google and social, how do you get found in the blogosphere? They were living in Google, living in social, living in the blogosphere. 30:20 – Freemium. SoundCloud.

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