The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

I've grouped them into categories to make things easier to scan, but keep in mind: the best ads don't always fit neatly into a box. Zapier This Zapier ad promotes a free online quiz targeting tech leads and decision-makers to understand their AI readiness. No vague promises—only a specific benefit for the user.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Let’s dive into the best Brevo alternatives on the market today! (TL;DR) 5 (1000+ reviews) Mailchimp All-in-one marketing for SMBs Comprehensive marketing suite with AI tools Free (paid from $13/month) 4.4/5 5 (200+ reviews) AWeber Small businesses seeking simplicity AI-powered content creation $15/month 4.2/5

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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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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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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. While it's nice to have these organizational options, it all feels a bit clunky to me in practice—in the age of AI, there are better ways to do this using dynamic tags and advanced segmentation.

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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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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Automation used to be the best way to do that. And while AI has since come on the scene, it hasn't replaced automation—it's made it better. Now, I delegate to AI automation. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. Table of contents: What is AI automation?

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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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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Supabase vs. Firebase at a glance Here's how Supabase and Firebase stack up at a glance: Supabase is best for vibe coders who prefer working with structured data and are already using modern development tools like Replit , Vercel , or Bolt —especially those comfortable with spreadsheet-like data organization.

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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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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

At first glance, Jasper and ChatGPT seem similar—they're both generative AI tools that can create content in a split second. But there's a big difference here: ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that's flexible enough to handle just about any task you throw at it, while Jasper is a specialized AI marketing tool.

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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 10, 2025

Do more with TikTok's Lead Generation Automate lead tracking Whether you're a B2B marketer or content creator ready to turn TikTok into a revenue machine, you need to understand how to get the most out of your TikTok marketing strategy. For example, as I'm writing this, #squidgame is the most popular TikTok hashtag.)

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

It also increasingly involves using AI as a tool to handle mental effort and labor, dramatically reducing the time it takes to get things done. Instead of relying solely on one’s own capabilities, learning to delegate effectively using frameworks like the 5 W’s, whether to a person or to AI, has become crucial.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

If you're throwing together a quick social media graphic, making a poster for an upcoming event, or even creating a presentation, Canva is one of the best design tools you can use—but it isn't the only one. That's personal preference, of course, but I feel it puts me in a good position to talk about the best apps like Canva.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

" This guide will teach you everything you need to know about AI orchestration. ." " This guide will teach you everything you need to know about AI orchestration. Table of contents: What is AI orchestration? How AI orchestration works AI orchestration vs. related concepts What are the benefits of AI orchestration?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 24, 2025

Meet your new AI teammates Try Zapier Agents Here, I'll show you the apps I built, the tools I used to build them, and how they actually work—in the hopes that you'll be inspired to build your own cool stuff. topics that include content marketing, AI, entrepreneurship). I built this with Cursor.

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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. There are plenty of lists of the best WordPress SEO plugins, so what makes this one different?

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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. Zendesk for Service and Jira Service Management are two of the most popular help desk solutions on the market. Keep reading for my breakdown of Zendesk vs. Jira. user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month* user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month*

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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 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. But getting reliable, up-to-date, useful information is tricky.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

That's when I started experimenting with LinkedIn marketing tools to find a sustainable rhythm that actually works for lead generation and business growth. 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."

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

To be totally honest, it's possible I missed one because there are so many , but here's a rundown of Zoho's current offerings, as of this writing. Webinar Marketing Powerful webinar software for hosting interactive, large-scale conferences, with tools for analytics and lead generation. What is Zoho One?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Over the past several years of updating this list, I've tested close to 50 different mind map tools, many multiple times as they've been updated and added new features—AI included. Pen and paper set a very high bar to clear, but these are the six best mind mapping apps that manage to clear it.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 18, 2025

Saves time and reduces manual work Instead of spending hours on administrative work like renaming files, uploading them to the right folder, or generating contracts from scratch, automation handles those tasks for you. Increases speed and scalability When documents are automatically generated, stored, and shared, workflows move faster.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

That's why I set out to find the absolute best accounts payable software. 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. There's no one single best AP automation software.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

A lot of AI chatbots all feel the same. Sure, they use different models under the hood, but whether you're using ChatGPT , Meta AI , or Google Gemini , the experience is pretty similar. Prompt goes in, generated AI response comes out—which is why Perplexity AI is so interesting.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Designed by Anthropic, Claude is a powerful chatbot that excels at summarizing text, writing code, and even creating content—everything you'd expect from an advanced AI assistant. Try Zapier Chatbots Create free custom AI chatbots to engage customers and take action with built-in automation. The best part?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

With multiple models at your disposal (from the latest o3 and o4-mini models to OpenAI's flagship multimodal GPT-4.1), it can write code, solve complex problems, carry out highly creative tasks, and even provide deep research in a fraction of the time it would take a human. Read more on how to effectively add AI to your Zapier workflows.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Communication plan templates How to write a communication plan Communication plan essentials What is a communication plan? Whether you're drafting a press release, writing a briefing doc, refining a pitch, checking for brand risk, or just cleaning up grammar, these bots help you move quickly and confidently.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

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

JULY 11, 2025

I've been writing about AI since before most people knew what it stood for, and still, barely a week goes by where I don't have to look up some new term or technical topic. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers.

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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

JUNE 11, 2025

Keeping track of all the new AI models getting released at the moment is practically a full-time job. I would know: I've been writing about them for the past few years, and it feels like every time I publish an article, another new model drops. OpenAI is one of the most important AI companies. Fastest and cheapest GPT-4.1

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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. One area where AI has been working its magic for years is in AI grammar checkers. I use some of these apps daily as a prompt to make my writing more concise and, hopefully, more enjoyable.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

I order groceries, get food delivered, map out how long the drive is to Barnes & Noble, and check the weather to confirm that staying inside is the best course of action—all from my cozy corner of the couch. Write a request: Use GET (retrieve), POST (add), PUT (update), or DELETE methods. at the time I'm writing this).

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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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