The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

To that end, online whiteboards are a key tool when you need fast, easy, visual collaboration regardless of what city, country, or continent your colleagues are in. I've been working remotely for my entire tech writing career—well over a decade now—so I have a lot of experience testing apps and actually using online collaborative tools.

collaboration 98

collaboration board coworking creativity 98

American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

Creator Ventures, founded in 2022 by cousins Sasha Kaletsky and Caspar Lee , is uniquely positioned to invest in the next wave of AI-enabled consumer applications, marketplaces, creative tools, and SaaS platforms reshaping the digital landscape. Were here to fund those breakthroughs.

ventures 81

ventures startup SaaS venture capital 81

StartupNation

JUNE 6, 2025

At this point, I’d like to draw your attention to the words of Stanislav Khilobochenko, VP of Customer Services at MacKeeper , who highlights the importance of customer segmentation by technographics (tech tools and devices). For instance, the loudest ones might tell you: “ You shouldn’t play with that AI ball — it’s dangerous!

leadership 95

leadership networking entrepreneurship accelerator 95

Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2023

If you’ve made it this far into 2023 without hearing about ChatGPT or the artificial intelligence (AI) technology powering the tool, here’s your notice: it’s time to pay attention. For years, we’ve heard about the promise of AI—some of which, frankly, felt like baseless hype. I try to steer clear of hyperbole.

disruption 199

disruption construction culture education 199

StartupNation

JUNE 6, 2025

At this point, I’d like to draw your attention to the words of Stanislav Khilobochenko, VP of Customer Services at MacKeeper , who highlights the importance of customer segmentation by technographics (tech tools and devices). For instance, the loudest ones might tell you: “ You shouldn’t play with that AI ball — it’s dangerous!

leadership 86

leadership networking entrepreneurship accelerator 86

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 26, 2024

They invest in tools and strategies to outsmart businesses and fraud prevention experts, necessitating a new approach to security. This involves enhancing digital literacy for the older generation and fostering a healthy skepticism and due diligence among younger employees, particularly in online financial transactions.

consulting 152

consulting strategy education collaboration 152

The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

As a kid, I was deeply traumatized by the Borg in Star Trek: Next Generation —so it's safe to say that I had some baggage to work through when I first started hearing the term "AI integration." With Zapier, AI integration is about making your workflows work better. Table of contents: What is AI integration?

support 52

support coworking opportunity creativity 52

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

I'll admit: When I first started using AI at work, I was just going through the motions. Then my editor said something that flipped my approach to using AI: "The goal isn't to just use AI—it's to use AI to speed things up or make things better." " So I put it to the test. The difference?

strategy 76

strategy support consulting creativity 76

Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

We eventually launched the product, which didn't generate enough revenue to support us- so we shut down the business after all my credit cards maxed out. This business would generate revenue ASAP to avoid depending on investors and rounds of funding. That summer in Dreamit was the most important class I've ever had in my life.

startup 334

startup accelerator pitching venture capital 334

The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Over the past several years of updating this list, I've tested close to 50 different mind map tools, many multiple times as they've been updated and added new features—AI included. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. It offers an unlimited canvas.

collaboration 105

collaboration support education creativity 105

StartupNation

MAY 23, 2025

Event planning Dropshipping Handmade crafts selling Pet sitting Social media management Repair service Blogging/vlogging Alternatively, consider more revolutionary business ideas like AI automation consulting or podcast-editing services. In fact, AI boosts ROI by $3.7 In 2024, it generated $6.7 for every dollar spent.

media 78

media B2B marketing mentorship collaboration 78

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Making sure that your internal and external systems are constantly secure (and every team has access to the tools they need to get their jobs done) can't be easy. Most organizations use a patchwork of tools to manage processes. Select the right automation tools or frameworks Now it's time to choose your toolkit.

support 105

support frameworks health strategy 105

Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 25, 2024

Whether it’s a slide deck builder, a video editor, or a photo enhancer, today’s work tools were conceived decades ago — and it shows! Generative AI offers founders an opportunity to completely reinvent workflows — and will spawn a new cohort of companies that are not just AI-augmented, but fully AI-native.

mix-use 130

mix-use enablement creativity media 130

The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

If you use an AI transcription tool like Grain , you know it can transcribe, summarize, and pull insights from recordings automatically in the background of every meeting. Create detailed meeting summaries with AI Give Grain a little extra boost by connecting it to other powerful AI tools.

collaboration 71

collaboration board support strategy 71

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Facebook ad examples: Educational Education ads aim to teach the viewer something—whether it's how a product works, why a tool matters, or what action to take next. Zapier This Zapier ad promotes a free online quiz targeting tech leads and decision-makers to understand their AI readiness.

culture 98

culture pitching media education 98

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. Read more on how to effectively add AI to your Zapier workflows. Try Zapier Chatbots Create free custom AI chatbots to engage customers and take action with built-in automation.

mix-use 81

mix-use support creativity 81

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

At first glance, Jasper and ChatGPT seem similar—they're both generative AI tools that can create content in a split second. But there's a big difference here: ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that's flexible enough to handle just about any task you throw at it, while Jasper is a specialized AI marketing tool.

data analysis 59

data analysis support creativity collaboration 59

The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

A customer relationship management tool (or CRM) is a critical hub for sales and marketing teams—but it's not just a place to store contact details. It's happening on your website, in your inbox, through social media, at events, or across dozens of other tools your team relies on every day.

mix-use 105

mix-use data analysis opportunity support 105

American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

AI is bringing efficiency to small businesses as never seen before. Five top AI tools are presented that have directly increased the productivity of staffs and departments of small businesses. As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly evolves, its no longer just enterprise-level companies reaping the benefits.

media 52

media entrepreneurship support sustainability 52

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

If you're throwing together a quick social media graphic, making a poster for an upcoming event, or even creating a presentation, Canva is one of the best design tools you can use—but it isn't the only one. Canva is a powerful template-based design tool. There are plenty of great Canva alternatives.

media 59

media mix-use creativity collaboration 59

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

And while AI has since come on the scene, it hasn't replaced automation—it's made it better. Now, I delegate to AI automation. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. Table of contents: What is AI automation? Automation used to be the best way to do that.

mix-use 52

mix-use creativity construction technology 52

Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

Over the past year, generative AI’s capacity for content creation has drawn most of the noisiest headlines: how AI models can instantaneously create Pixar-like shorts starring your pet chihuahua, or drum up the Drake-Kendrick Lamar diss track you never knew you wanted. Concurrently, the way companies view marketing is changing.

creativity 121

creativity data analysis incumbents media 121

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

But now the gate is wide open: vibe coding tools, as coined by Andrej Karpathy , are here to make you forget the code even exists. Meet your new AI teammates Try Zapier Agents So, which ones are worth your time, money, and vibes? Before this category came into shape, we had a loosely formed category named AI app builders.

development 52

development technology frameworks support 52

Red Rocket

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for decades. But, what has recently caught storm is the use of generative AI in the creation of many marketing creatives. Industry Research There was a very good industry research study completed in March 2023 by Botco.ai , a generative AI cloud chat communications company.

peer-to-peer 115

peer-to-peer creativity media technology 115

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

I've been covering AI developments for almost a decade now, and the idea of AI tools that can be trusted to operate independently has always been exciting—and just out of reach. Agentic AI is the latest attempt to create a framework for what these tools would look like and how they could safely operate.

collaboration 72

collaboration frameworks development energy 72

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

As anyone who's ever seen a cartoon plumber knows, the best pipeline management tool is a monkey wrench. But if you want to know the best sales pipeline management tool, unfortunately, you should probably read the next several thousand words of in-depth software analysis.

construction 52

construction board support enablement 52

Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

To help accomplish that, you probably use a suite of productivity tools—and those well-optimized tools allow you to check off a few administrative items on that never-ending to-do list. AI tools make it easier than ever to leverage an executive assistant to help extract ideas and formulate content. One word: Expenses.

transportation 203

transportation media investing investment 203

The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

The best WordPress SEO plugins Yoast SEO for content analysis and guidance Rank Math for a free plan and affordable scalability Squirrly SEO for AI-powered suggestions SmartCrawl for balancing features with simplicity The SEO Framework for speed and automation Slim SEO for beginners What makes the best WordPress SEO plugin?

frameworks 66

frameworks enablement consulting SaaS 66

Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 25, 2023

As this chatbot continues to make waves across the digital world, becoming a hot topic of conversation both in boardrooms and in coffee shops across the globe, many entrepreneurs are seeing this impressive AI tool as the perfect solution to their content creation bottlenecks.

leadership 193

leadership entrepreneurs advice collaboration 193

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

With all the hype around AI, it'd be easy to forget that AI tools have existed for a while now. One area where AI has been working its magic for years is in AI grammar checkers. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Extra features.

creativity 98

creativity mix-use support advice 98

Dream It

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A few months ago, we did a blog post on how to get a CISO to buy your product. AI and SecOps offer significant value that will allow analysts and SOCs alike to identify threats faster and streamline workflows. CISOs don’t underestimate the value these next-generation security solutions will add to their organizations.

disruption 195

disruption SaaS frameworks pitching 195

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

From re-engaging lost subscribers to automatically sending your audience drip campaigns, here's exactly how you can leverage the best email marketing automation tools and scale your email marketing campaigns. Pro tip: Use Zapier Canvas —a free AI-powered diagramming tool—to map out processes and workflows from scratch.

strategy 98

strategy opportunity sustainability education 98

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Then, we'll show you how to connect your invoice tools to the rest of your systems using Zapier. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Learn more. Skip ahead What is invoice automation? How does invoice automation work?

financing 79

financing finance technology health 79

The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

But the process of finding the right images to accompany your blog articles or social media posts can be time-consuming, frustrating, and even expensive. Fortunately, Zapier users can now take advantage of the powerful image generation capabilities of OpenAI's DALL-E to simplify this process. I called mine "Blog Images."

development 76

development media innovation 76

StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Not surprisingly, a survey done by Statista found that content marketing was believed to be the most effective digital marketing technique according to marketers — followed by marketing automation, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI). How to boost marketing efficiency with AI. Faster content creation.

media 119

media strategy entrepreneurs support 119

TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Generative AI is hot among venture capital firms now , with $4.5 Narrato , a AI content creation and collaboration platform, announced today it has joined the ranks of other generative AI startups with VC funding. The Narrato team decided to embed generative AI into different stages of the content process.

collaboration 96

collaboration SaaS media venture capital 96

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On the one-year anniversary of Copy.ai ’s launch on Twitter , the company, a GPT-3 AI-powered platform that generates copywriting tools for business customers, secured another round of funding. already has over 300,000 marketers using its tools, like eBay, Nestlé and Ogilvy. This follows a $2.9

venture capital 94

venture capital media enablement creativity 94