The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

PayPal has a seriously complicated fee schedule that adds up quickly, and even basics like a virtual terminal or a recurring payment tool require a subscription plan plus an added fee. It lets you create fully automated, AI-powered workflows to orchestrate your entire eCommerce business. Learn more about how it works.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Here's a quick overview, but keep reading for a deep dive into my experience with the apps and who they're best for. Plus, Brevo now includes meeting scheduling and phone features, so you can manage all your sales communication in one place.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

TL;DR) SendGrid alternatives at a glance Tool Best For Key Advantage Starting Price Reviews Campaign Monitor by Marigold Visual marketers & agencies Intuitive drag-and-drop editor with exceptional templates, automated journeys Free plan; pricing starts at $12 USD/month 4.7/5 But the best thing? Let’s dive in. (TL;DR)

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

AI is bringing efficiency to small businesses as never seen before. Five top AI tools are presented that have directly increased the productivity of staffs and departments of small businesses. As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly evolves, its no longer just enterprise-level companies reaping the benefits.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

As anyone who's ever seen a cartoon plumber knows, the best pipeline management tool is a monkey wrench. But if you want to know the best sales pipeline management tool, unfortunately, you should probably read the next several thousand words of in-depth software analysis.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Let’s dive into the best Brevo alternatives on the market today. (TL;DR) TL;DR) Klaviyo alternatives at a glance Tool Best For Key Advantage Starting Price Rating Campaign Monitor by Marigold Visual design & ease of use Intuitive drag-and-drop editor with mobile-ready templates, prebuilt automated journeys, and high delivery rates.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

TL;DR) ConvertKit alternatives at a glance Tool Best For Key Advantage Starting Price Reviews Campaign Monitor by Marigold Professional businesses needing on-brand emails Highly customizable emails and powerful prebuilt automated journeys Free Plan; Paid from $12/month 4.7/5 Ready to find your perfect email marketing match?

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

TL;DR) ActiveCampaign alternatives at a glance Tool Best For Key Advantage Starting Price Rating Campaign Monitor by Marigold User-friendly email marketing with visual impact Intuitive drag-and-drop editor with superior design capabilities, transactional emails free plan; pricing starts at $12 USD/month 4.7/5 Let’s dive in. (TL;DR)

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Frameworks give teams set guidelines, processes, and best practices for finishing projects on time and under (or at least within) budget. Timeline: Project management timelines turn lifecycles into the actual planning and scheduling processes. Those are the ones I'll cover here. It even comes with its own manifesto.)

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

To help you decide between the two: Personal is best for individual creators because it gives access to creator monetization tools and a wider audio library. Business is best for brands that want more detailed analytics, clickable links in bio, and access to the commercial music library only. AI can speed up every part of the process.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

This is where swimlanes can be your best friend. It also ensures nothing gets dropped by outlining how and when to schedule routine follow-ups. Here are some top choices: The best marketing automation software The best pipeline management software Visual automation builders Visual automation builders represent a powerful evolution.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Bookings Sales An online scheduler app to create calendars for client appointments, with sync features for other calendars like Google and Microsoft Outlook. Social Marketing Manage all social media activities in one place, including scheduling, monitoring, and analyzing the performance of posts.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

We independently review every app we recommend in our best apps lists. 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. 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 19, 2025

With the addition of generative AI, GoTo Connect has further improved performance and quality assurance. Connect your VoIP platform to your business apps automatically Learn how And with so much work being performed at home or in combination with an office, the need for clunky desk-hogging wired phones just seems impractical.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

The best way to translate all those different data streams coming at you from Sales, Customer Service, Marketing, and the intern's experimental TikTok strategy into something that resembles coherent business information is with CRM technology. Activity scheduling helps ensure important actions don't get forgotten.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

For example, I used Collabwriting to save Ryan Baum's post about using AI as a creative partner rather than a replacement (shown below) so I could reference it later for a client's LinkedIn content strategy about responsible AI use. Once you've got a direction, Taplio's AI steps in to help you write.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

(TL;DR) GetResponse alternatives at a glance Tool Best For Key Advantage Starting Price Rating Campaign Monitor by Marigold Professional design-focused businesses Superior deliverability, drag-and-drop email builder, and prebuilt automated journeys Free plan; pricing starts at $12 USD/month 4.6/5

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack. Payment scheduling.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

In this guide to email marketing automation, we'll walk you through what it is, how it works, best practices, and how you can get the most out of it with Zapier. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

That means automation tools need to meet enterprise-grade security standards and offer transparency into how AI is being used. Here are a few of the most common approaches to enterprise automation (each of which might use a mix of BPA, RPA, integrations, rule-based automation, and AI). Access and permissions.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Once you understand your chronotype—and start using that understanding to schedule your daily tasks—your productivity will get the boost it needs. Lion chronotype Dolphin chronotype Bear chronotype Wolf chronotype Where to take a chronotype quiz How each chronotype should schedule their work What is a chronotype?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Automation triggers specific actions based on events (say, if a server goes offline) or on a set schedule (like running performance monitoring every Friday). Below are some best practices (with practical tips) to help you get the most out of your IT automation efforts. Define your automation goals Start with the "why."

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Last weekend, I spent 60 seconds watching an AI tool create a website for me. While pre-designed templates have long existed as a way to make the web design process less painful, the real paradigm shifts have come from recent advances in AI. Wix is best for small businesses. Squarespace is best for brands and solopreneurs.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Use Zapier's AI orchestration platform to help you stay on top of industry news, curate content for your audience, or just keep up with what matters most to you. Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Here's everything you need to know about the best real estate CRMs on the market. It should allow you to create custom pipelines, set reminders, and schedule appointments. Integration, automation, and AI: Realtors wear a lot of hats—marketer, negotiator, therapist (seriously, have you met some buyers?).

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

The idea is to unify everything from sifting through customer feedback with AI (pulling from places like Zendesk or Gong), to building out your roadmaps, managing sprints, and connecting all this to your strategic goals and even your enterprise stack like Jira or Snowflake.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Its home screen better guides you through the interface, through pre-written starter notes and an AI-powered universal search, where you can ask any query or search how to execute a particular workflow. You can create forms, charts, timelines, calendar schedules, Gantt charts, and anything else you can think of.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 3, 2024

Should I use AI to help with a blog? These are the questions on your mind when thinking about the best way to approach an inbound marketing plan— so let’s address them! Check out these 25 best explainer video examples. Blogging Even today, a blog can represent a dramatic increase in lead generation.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

And marketing teams can benefit from a project management document template to organize campaign planning, content scheduling, and performance tracking. Project management stakeholder communications template This template hands all that busywork to an AI Agent so you can move faster and focus on the human side of project management.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

But it's hard to land on the best idea out of the dozens flying around inside your head. 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. To get the most useful answers, you need to give it as much context as possible.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Helping people find their dream home is what Premiere Property Group (PPG) does best. Managing marketing requests and AI-generated listings PPG’s marketing team was spending too much time manually processing agent requests, verifying addresses, gathering assets, launching tasks, and often repeating the same steps for every listing.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

an OurCrowd subsidiary offering AI solutions for business, made headlines in the Wall Street Journal , CNBC , Arabian Business , Wired , The National , Fintech.TV , Jerusalem Post and around the world. Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2022 highlight four OurCrowd startups. Startup of the Week NetOp keeps enterprise networks running.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2024

For instance, if blogging has been a fertile ground for leads and brand awareness, then it’s time to amplify your efforts. Revigorate your keyword research and publishing schedule. We hired quickly, filling gaps with the best possible candidate. It’s about taking what’s already successful and pushing it to new heights.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Sutton Place Strategies helps private equity funds identify the best-positioned intermediaries (investment banks) for their sector.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. I use Calendly for scheduling; another option is X.ai, a virtual assistant which can coordinate your fundraising and other meetings. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 14, 2021

OurCrowd’s vision of developing a next-generation AI-driven capability, to advance its mission of providing broad access to the global VC investment market via a high-value fintech platform is compelling,” Hasan told Khaleej Times , one of many outlets to report on his appointment. Top Tech News. TytoCare adds $50 million.

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