The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

AI orchestration is the connected, end-to-end application of AI tools, agents, and automations across workflows, teams, and systems. Zapier Enterprise Automation for every team, approved by IT. For example, a traditional workflow might route customer support tickets based on category tags.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Importantly, if your team is working from the same office, make sure your internet connection can accommodate the number of lines and phone usage you anticipate, as it will affect the quality of your calls. One in particular is their Voice Intelligence , which automatically transcribes your phone conversations to text in real time.

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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.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

The best Canva alternatives Adobe Express for the best Canva alternative overall Snappa for creating occasional images Pixlr for an affordable Canva alternative BeFunky for photos and collages VistaCreate for print designs Desygner for small teams Clipchamp for video editing What is Canva? It's not even the design app I use.

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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. Here's why: Zendesk for Service is better suited for customer support teams that require a user-friendly ticketing solution. Zendesk for Service and Jira Service Management are two of the most popular help desk solutions on the market.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

For example, sales and marketing teams might use Zoho CRM to organize contact info and manage relationships with current and prospective customers, whereas accounting teams may rely on Zoho Books to manage their financial operations. What is Zoho used for? What you use Zoho for depends on which apps you use.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 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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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (1000+ reviews) SendGrid Developers and technical teams Developer-first platform with reliable deliverability Free (paid from $19.5/month) “ “Not only does Campaign Monitor make sending highly-customized emails easy and fun, their support team is phenomenal.” “ Been working with Campaign Monitor for 10+ years.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

Submit an application and tell us how you’re leveraging Zapier and AI to transform the work you do for your team, customers, or industry. What’s new for 2025 Sharper categories. 2025 award categories Marketing Automator of the Year : Celebrating a growth marketer who lets AI and automation scale campaigns while they sleep.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

The best mind mapping tools Coggle for mind map beginners and occasional use MindMeister for collaborating on a mind map with a team Ayoa for a modern approach to mind mapping MindNode for Apple users Xmind for personal brainstorming QuikFlow for quickly building out organized mind maps What is mind mapping?

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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.

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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 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 7, 2025

Categorize articles into relevant groups (default categories: U.S., Compile summaries and categories into a final Google Doc report. Retrieve the title and content from each article URL. Summarize each article. world, business, arts, lifestyle, or opinion).

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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. What is unstructured data? Use unstructured data when you need to.

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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. AI orchestration Automation for every team, approved by IT Try Zapier Enterprise While AI automation helps complete individual tasks, AI orchestration manages the full workflow and links tasks into a cohesive system.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

Zapier Enterprise Automation for every team, approved by IT. The first number in the code represents the category of the status. Partner APIs are only accessible to select users or teams. You may think that's sad, but I'd argue it's simply convenient —and I owe those conveniences to the power of APIs.

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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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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. Style and tone suggestions.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

I called 1-855-DOG-VACAY and spoke with Killina Benson from their concierge team and explained my circumstances. I said, “This category is going to be huge. Like most markets online it will likely be a ‘winner take most’ category so if you’re going to go for it … you better be prepared to win.”

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

How can entrepreneurs guide teams away from dysfunctional collaboration? Spend 30-60 minutes as a team and agree on what I call an “architecture of collaboration.” Create a table with the different collaboration modalities your team uses in the left hand column—email, phone calls, IM, collaborative spaces, etc.

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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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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? Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates and other senior teams from Microsoft need to want to promote local startups. But Jeff, Bill, Steve as well as Howard Schultz, the executive team at CostCo, etc.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The organization asked our team of data scientists and engineers to build the most comprehensive med-surg catalog the healthcare industry had ever seen. Escalating heart rates, sleep deprived eyes and much anxiety later, we delivered our first category 45 days later. This challenge spelled fear and opportunity in equal parts.

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Paul G. Silva

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This article originally appeared on the PixelEdge Blog. “[The The ideas … have been very exciting to me and my team.” The team knew that they had a wealth of data that helped them make deals for their clients, and they sold this data to companies in their space. Identifies what your market needs.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

In order to be competitive, a company needs to have just about everything in place, from its product to its team to market traction, before it is ready to seek funding. 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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. We list here all the active flexible VCs we have identified, broken into these categories: Revenue-based. They share their learnings on flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog.

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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. How personal opinions immediately cloud this topic, but how many new categories are evaluated with some marginal intellectual curiosity. I’ve heard many fast and hard passes. then a passing reference to Jimmy Hoffa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We already have a senior team of venture partners who help us in origination and diligence. We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media, blog posts, etc. Our focus here is venture capital, but the private equity industry employs origination-focused team members also. We list all of them below.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 18, 2023

“Creative Spark Industries” student team from Pryor High School wins highest honor Leaders from MidAmerica Industrial Park and i2E announce a team of three Pryor High School seniors are the top winners of the inaugural high school entrepreneurship program called the MidAmerica Cup.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The team originally wanted to start scaling but realized that the basis for growth still needed to be added. A founder, Ruben Feurer, contacted me a couple of months ago: He was also about to launch a new product called Agree and, with his team, has already built a prototype. When a great team meets a lousy market, market wins.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We already have a senior team of Venture Partners who help us in origination and diligence. We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media , blog posts, etc. Our focus here is venture capital, but the private equity industry employs origination-focused team members also. We list all of them below. 500 Global.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Of the existing assets that all Web3 startups have, these three are among the most important: Core team: Your team is the most valuable asset for your marketing. On-site SEO: Everyone has a website and a blog, yet not nearly enough Web3 marketers devote mind-share into making their websites and apps search friendly.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Now approaching its 20 th year, this statewide collegiate business plan competition is unveiling a fresh look, an exciting new award category, and a streamlined competition structure. Additionally, an innovative new application software will contribute to a more streamlined experience for participating teams.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

The company, which last year was valued at $45 billion but has since had its own share of struggles, said it teamed up with Marqeta to launch a new Klarna Card in the U.S. Data collected by Andreessen Horowitz shows that public fintech companies are suffering from greater valuation declines than other technology categories.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

As we concentrate on strengthening our core products, we regretfully had to make the difficult decision to restructure our teams and part ways with some of our talented employees. PayPal and Bold Commerce have teamed up in an effort “to enable brands to go headless.” million to modernize construction payments, grow team.

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