The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

The intelligently arranged call inbox shows categories across the top for missed calls, voicemails, recordings, and other types of calls, making it easy to see what may be on your plate. Do things like creating tickets in your support system or activities in your CRM whenever there are new calls in Dialpad—all automatically.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (1000+ reviews) HubSpot CRM-focused marketing All-in-one marketing, sales, and service platform Free (paid from $15/month) 4.4/5 With its powerful CRM integration and AI enhancements, it offers a comprehensive approach to customer relationship management. 5 100+ reviews) What’s “wrong” with GetResponse?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Unlike Jira's templates that explain exactly what the automation or trigger will do, Zendesk just hands you a bunch of dropdown options in each category that you have to sort through to MacGyver your own automation. Is Zendesk a CRM or SaaS? Zendesk for Service is a SaaS product that provides customer support tools.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

The best free invoicing software Wave for growing businesses PayPal for a familiar name Zoho Invoice for free invoicing with a mini-CRM Square for in-person sales Bookipi for a simple invoicing solution Paymo for time-based invoicing What makes the best free billing software? Here's what I found.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

At its simplest, it means replacing manual tasks—like updating a CRM or routing an invoice—with automated workflows. Instead of dividing enterprise automation into those categories, I'll stick to a people-first framing here—because automation is only valuable if it actually helps teams work better.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. 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 8, 2025

Whether it's the names of individuals, categories of products, or song titles, as long as the information is organized within a framework, it's structured data. Descriptive text: Think names (of people, products, companies), categories, or titles of works. AI and machine learning also get on well with structured data.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

The first number in the code represents the category of the status. This comes in handy when businesses need to share information across apps—like connecting your CRM with your email. Status codes With every request you make, you'll receive a status code. If the code starts with a 2, your request was successfully processed.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Every other term on this list falls under the umbrella of AI, so it's a pretty fuzzy category to define. For example, it allows you to query your CRM database without leaving Claude. By using a single protocol, developers can avoid having to build custom integrations for each app.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. Do these folks want to be the 100th investor chasing SaaS or do they want to define/invent new categories where they can be the thought leaders? That is, if you are someone who wishes to earn a minimum viable living being creative, what is the likelihood you’ll be able to do so?

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

We gathered 30 invaluable strategies from SEO Analysts, Founders, and other experts, ranging from optimizing content with targeted keywords to crafting blog posts that answer key questions. The advantage of Web Stories is that you can condense existing blog content or other content for easy sharing on various social media platforms.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our proprietary data science tool cumulatively looks at 100+ factors within 6 macroscopic categories: Team, Financial Performance, Customer and PR traction, Industry and Competition, Product and Brand value, Valuation, and Exit probability, to quantify an investment “Merit Score”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Among the positions it’s hiring for are Principle Product Designer and CRM Specialist. From Manish Singh: Samsung has launched two credit cards in India , entering a crowded category that sees more than 50 companies fiercely compete for consumers’ attention in the world’s second largest internet market. The company is hybrid.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in a major media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. The mailings are just roundups of recent blog posts, so don’t require extra work. Linkedin.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in an established media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. The mailings are just roundups of recent blog posts, so don’t require extra work.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. SEO features: Quite a few!

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

For example, a bot that automatically categorizes users in a CRM based on how they subscribed to a newsletter is a form of RPA. to add suggestions to a company's CRM, informing future newsletter content. IA might involve using subscriber interaction data (clicks, bounce rate, etc.)

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. As an added bonus, SimplyBook.me

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Zoho has a pretty massive suite of over 55 cloud-based tools that span categories like sales, marketing, HR, finance, security, project management, and more (I'm getting dizzy). Zendesk, on the other hand, offers two tools: Zendesk for Service (for customer service) and Zendesk for Sales (its CRM).

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

If you're setting up a Zap to receive app directory updates, you'll get to select the category of app you're interested in learning about—for example, communication, CRM, or human resources. Finally, add as many action steps as you want to your Zap. Setting up Manager action steps?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Klaviyo tinyEmail eCommerce ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Klaviyo is better for most eCommerce shops; its automation, personalization, and AI features make it a more versatile platform; its integrated CRM is a bonus. You can use prebuilt segments to separate users into categories like Dormant Subscribers , Engaged Subscribers , or New Subscribers from Shopify.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Skip ahead Using AI in automated workflows Automatically enrich inbound leads Research key accounts at scale Generate blog outlines Monitor trends in real time Optimize your content research To get started with a Zap template—what we call our pre-made workflows—just click on the button next to the name of a Zap you'd like to try.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 15, 2025

That way, it's easy to filter and sort views by whatever category makes sense to you. Or perhaps you use a spreadsheet as your CRM , and it would be helpful to send automatic welcome emails to new leads whenever they're added to your database. But what if you want more control over which emails are sent to Sheets?

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

3/ The Price Of Incumbency – It seems like at the end of every year I’ve been an investor, various blog posts will prognosticate on whether the following year will truly be the year when incumbents start getting nervous and spend their cash reserves and high-priced stock on a big splashy acquisition.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 25, 2016

Business owners typically fall under one of those categories, if not all. It doesn’t matter whether you use a CRM or have key metrics that you look at on a weekly basis – your goal should be to make it easy for you to audit the work of your employees. The post Systematize For Expansion appeared first on THE BLOG.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Boost your team's productivity Automate your CRM Now your contacts live all over the place, and it can be a chore to manage. That's when I turned to a personal CRM. What is a personal CRM? The best CRMs will also sync with email, so you can see a history of conversations—that way, anyone can jump in at any time.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

“Our vision for a product success platform is to connect the core parts of the development cycle — such as comms, feedback and planning — into one platform,” the company wrote in a blog post announcing the launch of the platform today. The approach seems to be working. They produced version 1 of the product in May 2020.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

You can then use this information to create Custom Audiences that include all your website visitors or generate smaller groups targeting people who have visited a specific product page or product category. For example, you might target customers who have looked at your shoe category with ads of different types of shoes.

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