The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

My own system was a chaotic mix of muscle memory and flagged emails. A proper onboarding map orchestrates all the moving parts beyond just a simple welcome email. I once viewed "process documentation" as corporate torture. Back in the office, a whiteboard, marker, and a dose of humility led to my first crude visual workflow.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

Instead of treating each interaction like an isolated incident, you can pick up on recurring patterns in customer behavior, preferences, and needs, allowing you to personalize interactions beyond just using their first name in an email. What are the benefits of using a CRM? Let's go through the most significant advantages you can expect.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

You can also build custom lists of LinkedIn prospects—like leads, collaborators, or potential clients—and track how often you're engaging with them so you can stay intentional with your outreach efforts. It automates the entire outreach workflow, complete with personalized messages. month (billed annually); Business plan from $12.36/profile/month

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 22, 2025

Email marketers don't have to contend with constantly changing search algorithms and ranking factors—but that doesn't mean that an email sent is an email received. It's very possible that your marketing emails, and even your transactional emails, will never make it to the recipient.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 28, 2025

Sales productivity refers to the volume of activity your reps are doing—for example, calls made, emails sent, and demos booked. Cold email software. Cold outreach is still one of the most direct ways to start a conversation with prospects, but it works only if it feels personal. Generative AI tools.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Marketing might use automation to route inbound leads or personalize campaign outreach. AI-assisted enterprise automation Spend any time online and you might think AI is just about generating awkward headshots or robotic blog intros. Finance might build automations for recurring approvals or monthly reporting.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Imagine an AI email app that automatically screens your incoming emails. Is that an agentic AI system, an AI email agent, or just a fancy set of filters? There could well be an AI agent using a large language model (LLM) to determine where to sort your email, or it could just be some Gmail filters.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

On the other hand, public relations communication plans can be used internally and can also be shared with relevant third parties for outreach and marketing purposes. For example, you might include an initiative that triggers an automatic email when a donor registers or makes a contribution—something that reflects their impact on the cause.

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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. But with the ChatGPT integration, you can take that a step further by incorporating the creation of blog outlines, emails, and articles into your automated workflows.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Your CRM should seamlessly integrate with the tools you already use, such as your email, calendar, social media, and direct MLS/IDX feeds for up-to-date listing data. Real estate automation can save you significant time by handling routine tasks like follow-up emails and appointment scheduling.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Well, aside from it showing discipline and intelligence – we always get flooded with emails when we recruit and when you have to manage volume you need to go for obvious filters. I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. Please do not email either me or Michael directly.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

However, note this has to be highly targeted or you’re just creating irrelevant emails for the investor to delete. We have very high conversion on outreach emails using this data.”. The final stage is to distribute the post via paid Linkedin ads targeting only the relevant VCs/PEs and share the article/messaging via email.”.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

Which, as it turns out is a highly underrated thing (more on that in another blog post). I’ll save the story of me and Brian for a different blog post, but suffice it to say, HubSpot ended up doing pretty well. But, I have a different set of “inputs” (like late night emails). Or in simpler terms -- money. You’re right.

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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. You can start by creating one or two pieces of high-quality, useful content on your site and doing outreach to earn backlinks.

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Source Link

JULY 30, 2021

Helpful marketing management tools such as MailChimp for email and Hootsuite to schedule social media posts can automate the process. Sparkyard in Fort Worth, Texas shares exciting events, resources, recent blog posts and their podcasts in their monthly newsletter. Pro tip: A/B test titles and recycle content.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Marcin Jezierski , PR Advisor, QuantUp Brainstorm Blog Content Ideas One way that we use AI in our business is to brainstorm ideas for blog topics. It can also be used to convert an outline for a blog or article into a functional draft.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. Investorintelligence.io, Relatus , and Wealthblock provide a broader combination of data about and outreach into potential investors. Foundersuite * and Fundboard focus on helping companies raise from funds.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 16, 2018

Create a landing page to build your email list Why exactly do you need an email list? To collect those emails, you need to have a basic landing page with all the information about your project and what you offer. Once people fill in the form, they will appear in your email list, and you can directly contact them.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Lead generation, consulting on the phone, following up with emails within the same day—all of it matters. Try using automation as much as possible to streamline your customer-acquisition process and constantly use articles to speak to your ideal customers via a blog.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the best tools you can use to achieve productive marketing, how to apply them and how much they cost. An overwhelming number of marketing tools and email programs exist on the Internet today. Email notifications. Social media outreach. The top marketing tools. Break time.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

Platforms like Jasper or Copy.ai , for example, can scale up social media posts and sales emails in seconds, while products like HeyGen and Synthesia help marketing teams create, as well as edit, studio-quality videos in a matter of minutes (e.g., How can a blog post’s headline be adjusted to optimize search? via Captions ).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

With Regie, Sridhar says he and Millen aimed to create a way for companies to communicate with their customers via channels like email, social media, text, podcasts, online advertising and more. “The way content is getting generated has fundamentally changed,” Sridhar told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

I'd been working in email marketing for quite a while before I took on my first B2B campaign. Of course, I knew that B2B campaigns needed to be handled differently than my usual consumer outreach, and I thought I'd made the necessary tweaks. Cycle length Buying something on your own doesn't take very long.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

From writing your resume for you to automating networking emails, there are tons of ways AI can help streamline your job search. That's why most cold outreach is, well, crap. One approach is to use the GPT for Sheets add-on to generate personalized outreach messages en masse within Google Sheets.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 20, 2021

In content marketing, you can generally have a one-page site to which you pour traffic from other sources or sell directly on YouTube, Medium, Substack, Instagram, via email newsletters, etc. In SEO, guest posting and outreach are an intermediate stage. Below is an example of the editorial policy I created for the Sitechecker blog.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Esusu advises candidates to “outreach with intent…It always grabs the attention of the recruiter when you reach out directly and have clearly researched the company and the role.” Read more on the company’s blog post here. These people fundamentally believe that doing good and doing well are by no means mutually exclusive.”

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” You want to know what it is for each and every outreach campaign. The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. Conversion Rate” is a misleading term.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 18, 2020

While business may be slow, client outreach must never slow. We asked two entrepreneurs to share how they’ve changed their client outreach recently. . With a customer relationship management (CRM) system in place, outreach could begin promptly. We nurture our relationship with clients through calls, SMS and email journeys.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 5, 2024

Which tools are indispensable for your remote outreach team? and more articles from the EO blog. The post 4 Insights On Using Videos To Elevate Remote Employee Onboarding first appeared on The EO Blog. The post 4 Insights On Using Videos To Elevate Remote Employee Onboarding first appeared on The EO Blog.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

While SEM and PPC are both important in the digital space, you should also tailor your outreach to focus on Paid Social and CRM as well. CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management and mainly deals with emails and direct mail marketing.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Writing authentic sales emails is tough, even for the sharpest salespeople. I fed ChatGPT a whole load of different prompts to see if it could craft some decent sales emails for me. I fed ChatGPT a whole load of different prompts to see if it could craft some decent sales emails for me.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2020

So whether it's podcasts, webcasts, speaking, or blog posts, (and more) they need in order to connect to any part of the market, they are supported. “So They're focused on providing content, providing value, and then asking for an email address or payment to actually drive their business forward.". Small Business Advice on Networking.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

We can accurately identify the leads, qualify them, and send them outreach at the right time. We can accurately identify the products our customers are using so we're sending emails to the right people. HubSpot] workflows are the biggest piece to our lead management processes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Our Twitter handle has become our identity, on par with an email address. Because we include links in our Tweets, Twitter has become one of the most powerful sources on the Internet for driving traffic to websites, blogs and news sites. And from this simple accident came the most powerful driver on Twitter.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 2, 2025

Without both, it's difficult to run effective outreach. But to get the most out of Clay, you need to connect it to the rest of your tech stack—email platforms, CRMs, forms, and ad managers—to share data and communicate with prospects. That's too basic to qualify a lead or tailor your outreach. People switch jobs.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Instead of manually adding customer support outreach from multiple sources, you can use automation to send it to the right place instantly. With Zapier, you can connect your team chat app or email to ChatBot and receive real-time alerts whenever a new message is received. This causes a bad customer experience and leads to lost sales.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 2, 2025

Add customers to a mailing list Email outreach can increase the likelihood of repeat customers, so automatically integrating your eCommerce platform with your email marketing tool is a no-brainer. Want to send customers a thank-you email or add them to an onboarding series? These workflows will help.

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