The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

A customer relationship management tool (or CRM) is a critical hub for sales and marketing teams—but it's not just a place to store contact details. It's happening on your website, in your inbox, through social media, at events, or across dozens of other tools your team relies on every day.

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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 Let’s dive in. (TL;DR)

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

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. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

As a content marketer who's dabbled in building my own tools, I've learned to pick my battles carefully. Firebase is best for vibe coders building flexible, real-time apps who want to work within Google's ecosystem. Do more with your data. Automate your database. inventory) and user data (e.g., favorited items).

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

While Klaviyo offers decent tools for e-commerce-specific email marketing, online reviews frequently mention struggles with deliverability and support issues. Let’s dive into the best Brevo alternatives on the market today. (TL;DR) 5 (200+ reviews) AWeber Small businesses AI-powered content creation $15/month 4.2/5

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Ready to find your perfect email marketing match? 5 (1000+ reviews) Mailchimp Small businesses wanting all-in-one marketing Comprehensive marketing tools beyond email Free Plan; Paid from $13/month 4.4/5 5 (700+ reviews) AWeber Solopreneurs and bloggers AI-powered content creation tools $15/month 4.2/5

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

This ongoing need to reinvent is particularly impactful because the market is constantly changing, and frankly, the “bar is being raised.” 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. Then, everything changed.

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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

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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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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. Tracking: Project tracking enables ongoing oversight so you can measure progress against your plans, monitor team or individual performance, and identify bottlenecks before they derail your timelines.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Zendesk for Service and Jira Service Management are two of the most popular help desk solutions on the market. I tested both apps to see how their features compare and what teams they're best for. Here's why: Zendesk for Service is better suited for customer support teams that require a user-friendly ticketing solution.

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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. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

It offers business and productivity tools that run the gamut from sales and marketing to finance and legal to IT and analytics. Zoho apps: An overview I had a chance to chat with the Zoho team, and they told me the company funnels 50-60% of its revenue into research and development. What is Zoho used for? Is Zoho free or paid?

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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) Mailchimp All-in-one marketing Comprehensive marketing stack with strong AI features Free (paid from $13/month) 4.4/5 Let’s go. (TL;DR) 5 100+ reviews) What’s “wrong” with GetResponse? (TL;DR)

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

At some point, I realized I wasn't just managing a team—I was managing relationships. Boost your team's productivity Automate your CRM Turns out, a CRM (customer relationship management) app is like my fantasy setup, but for people with actual responsibilities. What does a CRM system do? Why is a CRM system important?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Until I can clone my brain and upload it to a computer (or to an agent ), I still need to attend meetings to move the needle forward on big projects. Fortunately, AI transcription tools like Read AI can help. Read AI operates in the background of your calls, using AI to generate meeting summaries, transcripts, and action items.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

I've been covering AI developments for almost a decade now, and the idea of AI tools that can be trusted to operate independently has always been exciting—and just out of reach. Agentic AI is the latest attempt to create a framework for what these tools would look like and how they could safely operate.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Your team needs to move fast. The stakes are highest for enterprise teams: you need to move quickly but not at the expense of security. You want to empower teams to automate their work but not open up a tangle of permissions and shadow IT. Zapier Enterprise Automation for every team, approved by IT. Things slow down.

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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). Sign up for free.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

With Zapier's ChatGPT integration , you automate everything from intelligent sales outreach, content marketing generation, or even image creation. Read more on how to effectively add AI to your Zapier workflows. Try Zapier Chatbots Create free custom AI chatbots to engage customers and take action with built-in automation.

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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

JUNE 4, 2025

Meet your new AI teammates Try Zapier Agents Device staging tools like Windows Autopilot and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit push the right software and settings onto devices without you having to baseline the OS or manually click "next" a thousand times. Automated provisioning fixes that.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

AI and machine learning also get on well with structured data. Because it's so organized, AI can handle massive volumes of it quickly, which helps spot patterns that might otherwise be missed. And it's all thanks to its incredible insights into human behavior. Some data is structured, neatly categorized, and easily processed.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

You need something to keep things straight when juggling client management, property listings, and the looming threat of being upstaged by that insufferably smug agent from the office across the street. and gathered insights from real estate professionals who actually use these things every day to find the ultimate CRM for real estate agents.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

If you're one of those people packing all those tasks and teams into a single, unified, potentially 4WD structure, these downloadable templates should help you set a workflow foundation and refine your project management skills. A sales team could use a project tracking template to monitor lead generation efforts.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

But supporting 1,500 real estate agents across 20 offices in Oregon and Southwest Washington requires more than just market know-how, it demands operational precision. It's enabled us to scale smarter and stay focused on supporting our agents. To fix that, David created a self-serve signature generator powered by Zapier.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. We already have a senior team of Venture Partners who help us in origination and diligence.

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 7, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Jon Brewton, the founder and CEO of Data² , a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) specializing in AI-powered solutions for data integration and reasoning. His leadership has positioned Data² as a trailblazer in providing secure, explainable, and trusted AI solutions.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

Over the past year, generative AI’s capacity for content creation has drawn most of the noisiest headlines: how AI models can instantaneously create Pixar-like shorts starring your pet chihuahua, or drum up the Drake-Kendrick Lamar diss track you never knew you wanted. Concurrently, the way companies view marketing is changing.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

SqUID is the only fully-automated warehouse robot technology that transforms existing facilities into autonomous warehouses of the future without any need to construct dedicated new buildings. The strong management team has deep experience in cutting-edge military tactical robots and automated ground and aerial vehicles. Learn More.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

The hype around ChatGPT , OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, hasn’t reached a peak yet. That’s the vibe one gets from Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 batch, which features no fewer than four startups that claim to be building a “ChatGPT for X.”

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Whether you're on the "assisting" or "being assisted" end of customer service, you know how painful a three-and-a-half-hour live chat about a software glitch that takes an entire SWAT team of reps to figure out can be. Zendesk for Service and Zoho Desk are two of the most popular customer service platforms on the market.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 8, 2025

Rebrandly helps users create branded short links that build trust and boost engagement, an essential capability for high-volume marketing teams. That all changed with the introduction of an AI-powered Zapier Chatbot, which reduced overall ticket volume by 50%. " The result?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

We needed a way to move faster,” John explains, “and to let non-technical teams build without always needing dev.” Zapier now powers automated reports, streamlined workflows, and AI-driven systems that help Drive Social Media deliver value across departments. "Our CEO talked through a new sales pitch idea with AI.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

You can even build out systems of Zaps that connect all of your work tools. Whether you're just getting started or ready to orchestrate full systems across apps, data and teams, here are five workflows that will transform your work. For example, you could send an email to your team whenever a lead comes in. Learn more.

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