The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Visualize, plan, and automate business-critical processes Try Zapier Canvas That's the entire premise of a visual workflow. Examples of visual workflows 6 tools to help you create visual workflows Automate your visual workflows with Zapier What is a visual workflow? It's not about bureaucracy; it's about clarity.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

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. The 3 main types of CRM software Boost your customer relationships with automation Customer relationship management FAQ What is a CRM?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

5 things you should automate today Start automating Google and Microsoft are the big names when it comes to unified platforms, but there's another player in the game: Zoho. Automate Zoho What is Zoho? Expense Finance An expense tool within Zoho Books to automate, streamline, and control business expenditures.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Make your Google Sheets work for you Automate Google Sheets Spreadsheet CRMs are perfect for those just starting out or small business owners looking to upgrade from that old shoebox under their desk. This allows you to automate repetitive tasks and streamline your workflows. You've got nothing to lose but inefficiency.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

That's where IT automation comes in. IT automation services take routine IT tasks and do them automatically for you. In this guide to IT automation, we'll walk you through what it is, how it works, and how you can get the most out of your IT automation software with Zapier. The result?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Your database—automated Store, edit, share, and automate data all in one tool. That means you can create automated workflows that eliminate some of the repetitive work associated with project management—like task creation. It's workflow automation software that lets you focus on what matters. New to Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

Automated provisioning fixes that. Automate your IT management workflows Learn how Ready to give your new employees a smooth, delay-free first day? Let's explore how automation can change how you onboard new hires. Let's explore how automation can change how you onboard new hires.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Try Zapier Chatbots Create free custom AI chatbots to engage customers and take action with built-in automation. Whether you're drafting blog posts from a content calendar, replying to leads with tailored emails, or summarizing customer feedback at scale, Claude becomes a hands-on collaborator inside fully automated systems.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Agentic AI systems perceive their environment by incorporating data from APIs , databases, external sensors, and user-entered prompts. Reason: The agent looks at the information in the ticket and checks the customer database to see if the trial date and payment date make sense. Step 2: Reason.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. AI automation (intelligent automation) AI automation (sometimes referred to as intelligent automation) combines automation technologies with AI to tackle tasks that require some level of intelligence.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Structured data is data that's organized and follows a specific blueprint or format, fits neatly into the rows and columns of a database, and is easy to analyze. Tough to design and maintain: Building and managing databases for structured data often requires specialized knowledge and skills. What is unstructured data?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

Spend less time on meeting prep Automate the process Fathom and Fireflies are two fan favorites at the moment. Streamline your meetings with automation Automate Fathom It's easier to navigate. Learn more about how to automate Fathom and how to automate Fireflies , or get started with any of the following templates.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Make your Google Sheets work for you Automate Google Sheets Here, I'll dive deep into Google Sheets' capabilities and limitations, exploring whether this kind of space is actually useful for your data projects or if it's a sign you might need to look beyond spreadsheets altogether.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

As a database and spreadsheet (respectively), Airtable and Google Sheets are a lot like this, but with way less vitamin C. Though both can do many similar things, Airtable is a database app and Google Sheets is a spreadsheet app. It's also completely free.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Improve your real estate business with automation Automate your CRM But with countless options on the market, how do you know which software is right for you? ​​I Integration, automation, and AI: Realtors wear a lot of hats—marketer, negotiator, therapist (seriously, have you met some buyers?).

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Turn ideas into action Automate your note-taking For years, I've relied on Notion to make sense of the avalanche of digital information I collect, like personal notes, web snippets, movie watchlists, itineraries, work reports—the list goes on. Notion, on the other hand, stores content in its proprietary database.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 23, 2025

Make your spreadsheet work for you Automate Excel And it's a shame because Excel is the perfect place for AI. Excel Copilot examples Copilot in Excel vs. Gemini in Google Sheets Add AI automation to your spreadsheets What is Microsoft Copilot in Excel? Table of contents: What is Microsoft Copilot in Excel?

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Software engineering best practices have begun to infuse data: data observability, specialization of different ETL layers, data exploration, and data security all thrived in 2021 and will continue as users stuff more data into databases and data lakehouses. Not this one; I enjoy writing too much to automate it). Or a tweet.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. Other VCs endorse Mixmax to automate repetitive processes.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media , blog posts, etc. DATABASE OF VENTURE CAPITALISTS WITH SCOUT PROGRAMS. We’ve identified a number of VCs besides us which have publicly discussed their scout programs, and in some cases publicly shared their economics. We list all of them below.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

We’re very excited for the impact they’ll have here at OpenAI,” OpenAI wrote in a brief post published to its official blog. Nguyen and Ryan Victory in a blog post. Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? The entire team has joined OpenAI to work on our core products including ChatGPT.”

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 6, 2020

These systems are based on one of the world’s most vast databases of lifetime personalized patient health records, which are released for therapeutic and research use by the Israeli government. The following three companies automate diagnostic testing, optimizing medical performance.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

“This is my third YC startup after Socialcam and Triplebyte,” he writes in the Y Combinator database entry for Yuma. Powered by GPT-3 fine-tuned on “contextual information,” including database schema, Baselit lets users perform database queries in plain English — without having to know any code.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Segment your email database and personalize messaging. Adopt marketing automation. Adding marketing automation to your digital marketing strategy will make it more efficient and effective since you’ll be able to automate your workflows and spend less time on repetitive tasks. Building trust. Shutterstock.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Online databases saved lawyers a trip to the law library. If law firms do not invest in AI, the educated client will question why they are being charged so much for tasks that should be automated. The post How AI Is Disrupting the Legal Industry appeared first on THE BLOG. Traditionally, technology has done a lot for the law.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

These will also be higher touch (personalized touch, not batch and blast) than the rest of your database. Usually small funds have fewer resources, so the more that can be automated, the better.”. Affinity) automate this. We get data from: plain text, e.g., a ‘contact us’ page on the web, or an email signature file.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Beyond the mobile app creation aspect to its business, Tapcart also helps merchants automate their marketing. The marketing campaigns can be automated, as well, which helps merchants schedule their upcoming launches and product drops ahead of time.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Forward it to a friend, share it on Twitter, and follow my personal blog for more content. After selling his last startup to Google, this founder now wants to automate mundane tasks with Relay. In the rest of this newsletter, we’re going to talk about the do-it-all startups and Sarah Guo’s new VC fund. The do-it-all’s.

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OurCrowd

MAY 11, 2020

Following working with Maccabi Healthcare Services in March, Kryon works with the Clalit health fund to automate the process of uploading coronavirus test results to its central database. Check out our blog post for more on the topic, and click here to learn more about why OurCrowd is investing in this company.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 21, 2013

Sometimes, marketing speaks directly to customers through channels like blogs, events, paid advertising and public relations. Marketing automation tools like Sailthru create dynamic segments of users on the fly to improve email response rates. Marketing teams with customer support to ensure service reinforces the company’s brand.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? These GPs believe strongly that automating data gathering, sifting through and selecting investment opportunities, managing relationships and streamlining follow-on funding and exit processes, gives them a competitive advantage over their peers. Respondents. .

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

So he used Zapier to link the two databases and automatically send updates to each team when new information became available. This automated information highway opened the channels of communication and allowed each team to better understand the other's project demands. Read more about how to automate OpenAI. The solution?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Automated software is no longer reserved for large companies with big budgets and IT departments. SMBs should use automation to replace tedious administrative tasks that monopolize employees’ time. Automation is also invaluable for enhancing spend management. Digitize back-office operations.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 6, 2024

I’ve been in organizations where we needed an automated commission tracking tool for our sales team, an onboarding portal, and a holistic company dashboard — and we needed them yesterday. A big part of the reason I started Blaze.tech is to empower non-developers to build apps and automation tools. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. I actually wrote a long blog post about this but I’m trying to get TechCrunch to publish it before putting it on my blog. Virtually every food that you can imagine is already in their database. We’ll see.

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