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. Whether you're looking for a Mailchimp alternative or are fresh into email marketing, these details will help you decide which app is right for you.

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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

JULY 17, 2025

Varied transaction types: Whichever app you choose, you'll be able to check out customers online, in person, or via manual credit card input (though both slightly upcharge for manually entered transactions). Credit cards accepted: Both Stripe and PayPal can accept all major credit cards. Learn more about how it works.

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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 25, 2025

Working at Zapier means I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make software do my job for me. Automation used to be the best way to do that. Saves employee time and energy: Automation alone is enough to turn an otherwise seven-hour manual task into a five-minute one. Here are some key reasons to implement it.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

When used effectively, your CRM becomes a central command center for tracking relationships, managing pipelines, and coordinating touchpoints across your entire customer journey. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft.

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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. Agile Best for: Innovation projects, changing requirements Agile is a collaborative, flexible project management methodology designed by a group of software practitioners in 2001.

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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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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

JULY 24, 2025

The first time I opened a GitHub link, I had no idea what I was looking at—just a bunch of files, commit messages that might as well have been written using hieroglyphs, and a lot of buttons I was too scared to click. It's built on Git, a version control system that tracks every change made to your files. How does GitHub work?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

We independently review every app we recommend in our best apps lists. You have to itemize charges, add taxes, track who paid, and chase down clients who don't pay. It's time-consuming, and it's definitely not why you got into your business in the first place. Learn more. Here's what I found.

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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. I personally love Duolingo's mascot—the giant green owl gets me every time.

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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. At the time, I was also newly pregnant and running a baby carrier brand with my co-founder. It’s about timing, readiness, and bringing the full weight of your experience to the table.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Examples of AI orchestration 7 AI orchestration best practices Getting started with AI orchestration What is AI orchestration? Unlike simple rule-based automation , AI automation manages repetitive workflows by learning patterns and optimizing processes over time. Table of contents: What is AI orchestration?

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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

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 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. Here, I've focused on the best free and premium SEO plugins for WordPress.

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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 18, 2025

Think of it as the difference between someone telling you how you'll need to take four rights, a left, go down an alley with no lights, and then turn around three times and click your heels to find their apartment versus them just sending you a dropped pin on a map. "Ensure timely follow-up." " What's timely?

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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. It acts as a central hub designed to track contacts, manage sales pipelines , automate communication, and improve customer service.

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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 25, 2025

The best LinkedIn marketing tool for AI-powered content ideation and generation Taplio If you've ever opened LinkedIn to write a post, stared at the blinking cursor for five minutes, and closed the tab—same. The best LinkedIn marketing tool for formatting LinkedIn posts AuthoredUp LinkedIn's native post editor is…fine.

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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. This allows IT teams to easily track assets (like computer equipment and software) and their relevant requests. You can keep track of all your equipment in one place and link issues to related objects. 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 Let’s go. (TL;DR)

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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

We have documents, PDF files, emails, forms, and more… all scattered across different apps. That's what document automation does: it moves information and files around for you, saving you time. 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

JULY 13, 2025

" Save time and reduce errors with accounting automation Learn how I've been there. 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.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

They're intended to deliver timely, personalized content to you, the customer, to deepen engagement and encourage repeat purchases. 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. Your own customers need it.

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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. Invoice automation software often also manages approval workflows and prepares invoices for timely payment. Discover the best invoicing software in 2025 QuickBooks Online (QBO).

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

How to know if your business is ready for enterprise process automation There's no perfect checklist, but a few signals can help you know when it's time to invest in enterprise automation. But the best enterprise automation tools, like Zapier, allow anyone at the organization to build for themselves, too.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Table of contents: Free CRM template for Google Sheets How to build a CRM in Google Sheets in 4 steps Connect Google Sheets to your other apps with Zapier Graduate to a simple CRM Free CRM template for Google Sheets To follow along with this process, I've created a free Google Sheets CRM template you can use.

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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. Accelerate onboarding?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

There's a lot of advice out there about the connection between timing and productivity: articles—including Zapier's own —suggesting "X things to do in the morning/afternoon/evening" to stay productive all day long. But timing isn't a one-size-fits-all approach. What's my chronotype?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

I'd also consider whether the box should come with a logical analysis puzzle the user needs to solve before they can open it, but that's just me trying to fix the world one steam iron at a time.) Focus on setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) business objectives.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 21, 2025

Revenue forecasting means predicting a company's future income over a set period of time using historical data, sales trends, and external factors like seasonality and economic conditions. Instead of assuming a fixed growth rate, time-series analysis takes irregularity, fluctuations, and seasonal patterns into account.

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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. You can use AI and automation to bridge that gap.

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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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