The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

We independently review every app we recommend in our best apps lists. Getting paid is great, but sending invoices can be painful. 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. Learn more. Here's what I found.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 22, 2025

Email marketers don't have to contend with constantly changing search algorithms and ranking factors—but that doesn't mean that an email sent is an email received. It's very possible that your marketing emails, and even your transactional emails, will never make it to the recipient.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Ready to discover which email marketing solution might be a better fit for your needs? 5 (1000+ reviews) HubSpot CRM-focused marketing All-in-one marketing, sales, and service platform Free (paid from $15/month) 4.4/5 GetResponse is undoubtedly a powerful email marketing platform with comprehensive features and AI capabilities.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Bigin Sales A simplified CRM for small businesses, covering basic CRM functionalities, like task automation and email notifications. Marketing Automation Marketing A platform to manage marketing activities across multiple channels like websites, social media, and email marketing campaigns.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Invoices come in from all over: think your email, cloud folders, and payment processors. When a vendor sends an invoice—whether as a PDF attachment, an email, or through a supplier portal—the automation detects it and imports it into your system. Discover the best invoicing software in 2025 QuickBooks Online (QBO).

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

you're managing a handful of vendors, the next, your finance team is playing Whac-A-Mole with overdue notices, drowning in an inbox full of emails with the subject line "bumping this." That's why I set out to find the absolute best accounts payable software. There's no one single best AP automation software.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Wix is best for small businesses. With Wix's robust all-in-one marketing suite, you can create websites (with the help of AI), organize leads, send emails, run ad campaigns, and manage social media. Squarespace is best for brands and solopreneurs. But this is changing.

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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. 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.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. I’ve also experimented with using services which are marketplaces between LPs and GPs: CEPRES , DiligenceVault , FundVeil , Harvest Exchange , and Palico. These same tools are used by companies raising capital.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. I’ve also experimented with using services which are marketplaces between LPs and GPs: CEPRES , DiligenceVault , FundVeil , Harvest Exchange , and Palico. These same tools are used by companies raising capital.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

OncoHost , an OurCrowd portfolio company that has developed a blood test to predict how well cancer patients will react to treatment, will collaborate with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to set up eight clinical trial sites in Britain. The OncoHost study “may help doctors to choose the best treatment for each patient,” he says.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I am not the best person to do all the jobs necessary to run a business. There is not enough time in the day, and I am not the best person to do every job. Business is not just about transactions; it’s about people. This not only helps us improve our services but also fosters a sense of community around our brand. .”

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Second, high-quality customer service. Marketing/social media : Hootsuite (social media management), Mailchimp (email list and audience management), and Google Suite. . Email client : Superhuman , expensive but worth it. Email deliverability monitoring : URIPorts , where we send our DMARC reports. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Deel also says employee referrals are the best way a candidate can catch their attention. Consumers buying Samsung’s products and services through either of the cards will get 10% cash back “round the year,” the company executives said at an event in New Delhi. Read more on the company’s blog post here. Masterworks .

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The bad news is that the tools for doing mobile conversion measurement are immature at best. The best place to focus your efforts to improve conversion are within the product itself. Video: Learn more about Sailthru.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

If you get a moment, as a favor to John for having produced such wonderful notes I’d be grateful if you would check out his most excellent startup blog The X Factor. I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. So, they built an auction system, a self-service platform, and an ad-server from scratch.

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Campaign Monitor

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

How to level up your email design Tips from Marigold Art Directors – Noelle Grimes & Meghan Sokolnicki If there’s one topic that unites all of our customers, it’s the desire to learn more about email design. From selecting a layout to choosing an image, read their tips for designing an engaging and responsive email.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Mention email marketing, and no doubt Mailchimp springs to mind. Since its debut in 2001, it's remained a household name in the email marketing arena. It's a relatively new email marketing service provider (launched in 2019) built for creators, by creators. Here's my verdict.

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StartupNation

JUNE 2, 2021

As an entrepreneur, you likely rely on email every day. You send transactional messages and make sure your customers have everything they need to navigate your products or services successfully. But beyond that, are you using email marketing , like a startup newsletter, to grow your business?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

See below: On Thursday evening, all Twitter employees received an email stating that they would be informed of their employment status at 9 a.m. Each email was to be sent with the subject line “Your Role at Twitter.” The email was impersonally signed: “Twitter.”. PDT on Friday.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

If you're looking for a David-and-Goliath story in the world of email marketing, tinyEmail-and-Klaviyo might be as close as you'll get. While both are eCommerce-focused email marketing apps that integrate tightly with Shopify , that's where the similarities end. Although—spoiler alert—Goliath might win this round.)

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

When you automate your accounting workflows, you send data from one product to another, saving time and reducing the chance of error. Accounting automation uses software to handle routine, time-consuming financial tasks—things like tracking expenses, generating invoices, categorizing transactions, and reconciling accounts.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” Using a combination of market data, math, and financial analysis, Professor Damodaran concluded that his best estimate of the value of Uber is $5.9

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Derek Sivers

JUNE 28, 2014

Or they emailed and got a surprisingly helpful personal reply, instead of an impersonal scripted FAQ response. That despite all efforts put into features, pricing, design, partnerships, and more, clients would choose one company over another mainly because they liked their customer service. And that was it. Who could have guessed?

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