The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. 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 11, 2025

Scoping should define what work needs to be done, who's going to do it, how long it'll take, and how much it'll cost. Collaboration: This defines not only how your team meets and communicates, but also how they document processes and decisions to keep stakeholders in the loop and transfer knowledge between team members.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

TL;DR) ActiveCampaign alternatives at a glance Tool Best For Key Advantage Starting Price Rating Campaign Monitor by Marigold User-friendly email marketing with visual impact Intuitive drag-and-drop editor with superior design capabilities, transactional emails free plan; pricing starts at $12 USD/month 4.7/5 Let’s dive in. (TL;DR)

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

Discover how individuals from law, journalism, tech, and more have leveraged their unique experiences to forge new, thriving careers. Discover how individuals from law, journalism, tech, and more have leveraged their unique experiences to forge new, thriving careers.

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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. Still, for all that, Canva isn't the only design app.

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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. How is a visual workflow different from a normal workflow? How is a visual workflow different from a normal workflow? My own system was a chaotic mix of muscle memory and flagged emails.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

You can use Zapier's pre-built simple CRM template or sales CRM template to optimize your sales process with an elegant and personalized CRM tool that fits your business needs. A CRM is a customer relationship management tool that helps businesses organize, track, and nurture their interactions with leads, customers, and other contacts.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

No, this apparatus isn't gone yet, but it will likely join the fax, floppy disk, and Rolodex in the business graveyard within the next decade. Virtual phones allow you to be untethered and free to make and take business calls from wherever you are as long as you have an internet connection. Select your phone number(s).

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

TL;DR) GetResponse alternatives at a glance Tool Best For Key Advantage Starting Price Rating Campaign Monitor by Marigold Professional design-focused businesses Superior deliverability, drag-and-drop email builder, and prebuilt automated journeys Free plan; pricing starts at $12 USD/month 4.6/5 Looking for a GetResposnse alternative?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

It's time-consuming, and it's definitely not why you got into your business in the first place. Streamline your invoicing workflows with automation Learn how And with so many great free invoicing tools out there, you can streamline the process without any upfront investment. Learn more. Here's what I found.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

I used to work at a children's shoe store, and we kept all our customer information on index cards (.yeah). If your company has an index card equivalent for organizing customer data and lending support, you're in need of help desk software. But which one should you go with? Keep reading for my breakdown of Zendesk vs. Jira.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

It offers business and productivity tools that run the gamut from sales and marketing to finance and legal to IT and analytics. But even on its paid plans, Zoho is an affordable alternative among its competitors, making it a great option for small and medium-sized businesses. Automate Zoho What is Zoho? What is Zoho used for?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

" Save time and reduce errors with accounting automation Learn how I've been there. ." " Save time and reduce errors with accounting automation Learn how I've been there. 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

JULY 10, 2025

" away from Showcase Showdown glory, I drafted a meticulous battle plan for how I would crush all the people who think a toaster oven costs the same as a Camry. In this post, I'll show you how the right project plan template can bring that same level of preparedness to your professional projects. Wait, wrong show.)

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2021

As entrepreneurs transition and adjust to changes the pandemic caused in their companies, how can they build—or rebuild—not only a business but also a team of like-minded individuals with a common purpose or goal? For the first time in human history, we are experiencing how energy moves through populations at large.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted? Reader beware.). Open Government.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2020

Remember when owning a small business was risky but rewarding? In the midst of a global pandemic, being responsible for your own business—as well as the livelihoods of your employees—very likely seems overwhelming if not completely debilitating. How long can you support your team? Stressful but satisfying? And then COVID-19 hit.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

“Staple green cards to the diplomas of foreign students who graduate from any U.S. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 12, 2020

From donating reusable diapers to manufacturing parts for PPE, businesses are showing us it’s all about taking care of each other. With the pandemic creating uncertainty for organizations and individuals around the globe, entrepreneurs continue to harness their influence and skills to aid those most in need.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 29, 2018

Design Matters with Debbie Millman. Ask any brand expert and successful entrepreneur and they’ll tell you: Design impacts organizations at every level, not just their web site and business cards. ” Plus, today’s tech landscape makes digital marketing basics required learning. No problem. Marketing Over Coffee.

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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. They have taken the time to do this so that you can understand exactly how they think about things, and why. Given this imbalance, the fact is that most VCs are reactive rather than proactive.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It provides the framework to grow your business by helping you to gain new customers while you retain the ones you have. You know where they are and how to access them, whether online or offline. Once you’ve implemented the basics to identify and attract new customers, you need to continue growing. Target a new market segment?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2016

In this special feature, the co-founders of SPARK Schools discuss the state of education in their home country, the far-reaching value of their hybrid learning model and how, through entrepreneurship, they’re changing lives, one student at a time. Why do you think that is, and how are you hoping to reverse that trend?

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 15 Best Strategies for Developing New Business in a Crowded Market In the quest to uncover effective strategies for developing new businesses in a crowded market, we turned to fifteen Founders and CEOs for their tried-and-true tactics. Then, build a simple landing page showcasing these renderings and the product’s benefits.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 22, 2016

In this special feature, the co-founders of SPARK Schools discuss the state of education in their home country, the far-reaching value of their hybrid learning model and how, through entrepreneurship, they’re changing lives, one student at a time. Why do you think that is, and how are you hoping to reverse that trend?

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 18, 2024

Bridge2 is an 8-week pre-accelerator program designed to nurture tech-enabled startups across Oklahoma, providing them with the resources, mentorship, and exposure to prepare their companies for Oklahoma-based accelerator programs and to pursue funding from private and public investment sources. The other side of it is experiential.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 31, 2021

Startup of the Week: Jasper credit cards for reliable people. Startup of the Week Jasper: Credit cards for reliable people Jasper is an Israeli startup operating in the US that targets the growing, affluent and underrecognized sector of consumers who cannot get a credit card from traditional lenders. Classiq raises $10.5M

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OurCrowd

JUNE 24, 2022

Series B led by OurCrowd Rewire acquires prepaid card provider Imagen Introductions More than 3,600 high-tech jobs. Series B led by OurCrowd Rewire acquires prepaid card provider Imagen Introductions More than 3,600 high-tech jobs. for AI-powered coding tech BioLumic wraps $13.5M for AI-powered coding tech BioLumic wraps $13.5M

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OurCrowd

MAY 6, 2022

Startup of the Week: Genopore: Disease detection through proteomics. Proteins provide more information than genes because they are impacted by both genetics and environmental factors. Genopore, an Israeli seed-stage, pre-revenue startup, is developing technology to take proteomics to a new level. Learn More. BetterSeeds for better foods.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 13, 2020

In his book The Innovation Stack , he recounts how he and his cofounder, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, approached the problem of credit cards with a new perspective. Let’s begin with an obvious question: How does a glassblower become the founder of a major payments company? What is an Innovation Stack? What is it?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2022

alone, with corporate cards making up 4%, or $1 trillion, of that total. We’re already seeing aggressive lending biting many of the credit card and BNPL providers.” We’ve built an API ecosystem that goes beyond card interfaces to include expense management, controls, accounting integration and more,” he said. “So

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

Second Measure analyzes billions of credit card transactions to answer real-time questions on consumer behavior. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 36:30 – Why is credit card data so messy? 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 36:30 – Why is credit card data so messy? Transcript.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 18, 2022

The concept of generating buzz to get consumers, marketers, and media to start discussing your offers is what spreads brand awareness for your new business. The concept of generating buzz to get consumers, marketers, and media to start discussing your offers is what spreads brand awareness for your new business. Let’s get started.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Jasper: Credit cards for fresh college graduates. Startup of the Week: NanoLock – Securing homes vs hackers. From Startup Nation to VacciNation. Peleton of home cooking’ turns up the heat by $30M. Webinar: The Next Big Thing in AI: Spatial Computing. Arizona Coyotes ex-CEO joins ADvantage Sports Tech Fund.

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