The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Category Description CRM Sales Manage your sales process and client communications, including leads, contacts, accounts, and deals. Bigin Sales A simplified CRM for small businesses, covering basic CRM functionalities, like task automation and email notifications.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Ready to discover which email marketing solution might be a better fit for your needs? GetResponse is undoubtedly a powerful email marketing platform with comprehensive features and AI capabilities. Let’s go. (TL;DR) 5 (13,000+ reviews) Constant Contact Event marketing Built-in event hosting and ticket sales $12/month 4.1/5

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

But if you're looking for the kind of deep, channel-specific customer support analytics Zendesk excels at (like comparing CSAT for chat vs. email), you'll find Jira's built-in tools less intuitive. They get the job done for managing an IT service desk.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

What’s new for 2025 Sharper categories. We'll spotlight the winners during our annual virtual event, ZapConnect, on September 25—and feature them across social media, email newsletters, video content, and more. Zapier's CEO, Wade Foster, and a panel of Zapier experts will review every entry and select one winner per category.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 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

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." For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. One minute. " follow-ups.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

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. AI-assisted enterprise automation Spend any time online and you might think AI is just about generating awkward headshots or robotic blog intros.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 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

JULY 10, 2025

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. Marketing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An all-in-one marketing suite, including email automation, social posting, ad campaigns, and more. Wix is best for small businesses.

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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. How is unstructured data used?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Pre-pandemic, people were, on average, spending 85 percent or more of their time in collaborative activities—time spent on the phone, in meetings, on email and utilizing instant messaging. Ask yourself how long you can comfortably go before checking text or email. Email begets email! .

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 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. Privacy and IP controls.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

Just drop a quick update in a Zapier Interfaces form, and the system takes it from there: it figures out who needs to know what (using your project charter), drafts a perfectly on-brand email, pings you in Slack for approval, and sends it off via Gmail. All your updates get logged in a Zapier Table for easy tracking. Try the template 3.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If your customers engage with email (who doesn’t?!), include email marketing. While there are hundreds of marketing channels, they each fall into seven broad categories: Your website and blog : Make the most of your website and blog by sharing educational, helpful, and/or entertaining content with your audience.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

With that background, here are 30 tips to help you make the most of Gust: Subscribe to the Gust Blog , and go back and read the past posts. Simply enter their name and email, write a good cover letter, and click the share button. Any legitimate investor who finds you through Gust will also contact you through Gust!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? He’s been steadily emailing me for the past 18 months with ideas for local entrepreneurs I “have to meet&# and has been egging me on to spend more time in Seattle. It’s important.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

. “One night in a Toronto bar, Amos and I had our ‘eureka’ moment to connect seemingly disparate data sets to predict consumer behavior,” King told TechCrunch in an email interview. to start Black Swan. .” That’s perhaps why King is careful to note Black Swan doesn’t replace human judgement.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Building tools for unions is certainly not a category or product that most VCs want to exist, let alone see grow. Lot of people I’ve known for many years certainly aren’t returning emails the way they used to. But building new tech to try to address major problems in a large category (Labor) requires $.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Via email, eTip said: “With eTip, guests of hotels, cruise lines, casinos, and resorts can now tip staff by simply scanning or tapping a QR code, allowing hospitality and service employees to receive digital tips in real time.” X1 released X1+, which it described as a “premium smart credit card” focused on travel. More on this here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media, blog posts, etc. If your responsibility is just forwarding emails and making an occasional intro, it’s less common to get a retainer. Joel Palathinkal , CEO of Sutton Capital , observes that scouts usually fall into one of three categories:

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Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2020

Together, they develop strategies and make presentations around the world with the intention of finding high-quality ventures that participate in the different categories of the award. There are currently no changes to the CEMEX-TEC Award and it is continuing as planned (at the posting of this blog).

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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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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

Ripple products are currently available in over 20,000 retail stores across the US, where the company has captured ultra-high value customers and driven category expansion of plant-based milk products. Simply click on the icon, insert a friend’s email, and send. Spread the word about OurCrowd’s investment opportunities. Introductions.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media , blog posts, etc. If your responsibility is just hitting “Forward” on emails you get and making an occasional intro, it’s less common to get a retainer. Dr. Joel Palathinkal , CEO of Sutton Capital , observes that scouts usually fall into one of three categories: .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I’ve taken to saying, “Email is our personal to-do list that anybody adds to – whether they know us or not.” about their marathon 4-hour sessions to get to zero inbox or somebody else claiming email bankruptcy ( definition if you don’t know it already ). I have taken to limiting my outbound email.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

The World Economic Forum says SqUID’s technological power and its ability to climb and work within existing infrastructures puts it in a unique category of its own: an “Autonomous Climbing Robot.” Dubbed RevengeRAT, Microsoft says it has been used to target aerospace and travel sectors with spear-phishing emails.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

One thing that stood out to me was the value packed into the welcome email. Most digital marketing newsletters send a welcome email with a GIF and maybe a meme, so this was unexpected. For example, in edition #45, Amanda talks about how she used email cleaning to improve open rates from about 25% to 45%.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

Hear from: Claire Tomkins , PhD, founder and CEO of Future Family, startup veteran who was formerly an Investment Bank advisor and director of Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room accelerator, who will speak on the category potential and her startup’s disruptive solution. Angeline N. health care system more than $100B a year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few.

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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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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

While email services haven't changed a lot over the past two decades, email apps keep getting better. Once niche (and expensive) features, like scheduling an email to send later or having a message reappear in your inbox in a few days, are now almost standard. Here's what I was looking for: The full email experience.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

billion it said in a blog post that TechCrunch viewed before publication. Webflow’s product fits into a category of companies arguing that building software for the Internet should get easier over time, not harder. The new funding values Webflow at more than $2.1

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StartupNation

MAY 19, 2021

Are you carving out a new category? I recommend weekly nurturing in the form of emails, short-form videos or even blog posts. If you are building up a new audience from scratch, it’s important that your ads drive them to your website where you can capture their email address. How are you serving them?

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