The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

In this guide, we'll walk you through what CRM automation is, why it's important, and how you can automate your CRM software to streamline your lead management. In this guide, we'll walk you through what CRM automation is, why it's important, and how you can automate your CRM software to streamline your lead management.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Working at Zapier means I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make software do my job for me. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. How to kickstart your AI automation strategy Automate intelligently with Zapier What is AI automation? Automation used to be the best way to do that.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 24, 2025

Here, I'll walk you through what GitHub is, how it works, and ways to start using it. How does GitHub work? That's how Git branching works—everyone can experiment freely, and then combine their best work. How does GitHub work? Before diving into how GitHub works, it's helpful to understand a few key terms.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

With Zapier's automated workflows—called Zaps—you can share important Grain meetings across channels, distill conversations into insights, and direct customer feedback into product boards. But you still need to do something with those insights. Here are a few ways to leverage your team's collective knowledge across your business.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

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. And I've been using ChatGPT to take care of other time-consuming tasks in my work.

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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. Tasks that used to take hours, like writing a sales page, can now be done in minutes. It’s like breaking out of one shell, only to find oneself in the next one, knowing there’s no going back.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Investing in a unified platform—where all your apps are connected via a shared system—can simplify data management, prevent silos, streamline communication, and reduce operating costs. Zoho is a cloud-based software suite like Microsoft Office or Google Workspace. What is Zoho used for? Is Zoho free or paid?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

Every season, I use a Google Sheet that tracks player stats, waiver wire targets, bye weeks, injury reports, and a deeply personal grudge list of everyone who's tried to hoodwink me into a lopsided trade. Your database—automated Store, edit, share, and automate data all in one tool. I take fantasy football way too seriously.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Connect your VoIP platform to your business apps automatically Learn how And with so much work being performed at home or in combination with an office, the need for clunky desk-hogging wired phones just seems impractical. Here's how it works: Choose a service and provide a credit card to either pay monthly or for the entire year.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 24, 2025

Meet your new AI teammates Try Zapier Agents Here, I'll show you the apps I built, the tools I used to build them, and how they actually work—in the hopes that you'll be inspired to build your own cool stuff. Shares the most relevant opportunities and the RAG response in Slack for me to review and send.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 18, 2025

What if, instead, these tasks happened automatically in the background? Plus, when you automate your processes, you remove the risk of human error (like forgetting to move a file to its proper location on your Google Drive). Here's how to use Zaps—Zapier's automated workflows—to streamline your document management.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Generate and share content If you're a content writer or editor, you know that creating outlines can be one of the most labor-intensive parts of the process. Automation can change that.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

In this guide, we'll look at how it works and the benefits it brings to your accounts payable workflow. Then, we'll show you how to connect your invoice tools to the rest of your systems using Zapier. How does invoice automation work? How does invoice automation work? Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

And, even better, when you pair Read AI with Zapier, you can use AI and automation together to orchestrate entire processes around task creation, meeting follow-ups, and more. Create official tasks from your action items Meetings are usually just the first step towards completing a wider work project or converting a prospect.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

using a project management tool like Podio to track tasks and projects and not pen and paper. 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.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

Sure, they use different models under the hood, but whether you're using ChatGPT , Meta AI , or Google Gemini , the experience is pretty similar. So how does this compare to ChatGPT, which has also been held up as a possible replacement for search engines? And most importantly, whether you should use Perplexity or ChatGPT.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Here, I'll unpack the RACI model and how it can streamline potentially chaotic projects—and perhaps save you from your own escape room disaster. Free RACI chart templates Benefits of a RACI chart RACI chart examples and use cases How to create a RACI matrix RACI model best practices RACI model alternatives What is the RACI model?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

With multiple models at your disposal (from the latest o3 and o4-mini models to OpenAI's flagship multimodal GPT-4.1), it can write code, solve complex problems, carry out highly creative tasks, and even provide deep research in a fraction of the time it would take a human. Read more on how to effectively add AI to your Zapier workflows.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. A2A A2A is an open agent-to-agent protocol (pioneered by Google) that enables independent AI agents to exchange messages and delegate tasks so they can collaborate seamlessly.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

And of course, they're stocked with sharing features. It can even offer summaries, share action items, and identify key decisions in real time. When's the last time you whipped out a notebook in a virtual meeting? My guess is it's been a while. Or maybe you're thinking of using them as a personal assistant.

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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. I spent a bunch of time in each of these apps, and here's how the Airtable vs. Google Sheets showdown went. It's also completely free.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Google Sheets boasts a staggering 10 million cell limit. Table of contents: Google Sheets cell limits, explained What you need to know about the 10 million cell limit What you should actually do if you need 10 million cells What if I need to reduce the number of cells in a Google spreadsheet?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

I noticed this post today from Ezra Galston titled “ Dear Brad, Fred & Mark: How The Hell Do You Do It? “how the hell do you do it? How are you everywhere at once? How do you produce so much content? How do you maintain thoughtfulness on the forefront of industries? How do you stay balanced?

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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 looked into dozens of options, read approximately a million reviews, watched demos narrated by people way too cheerful for 9 a.m., A CRM is your prized possession in real estate.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 3, 2024

Should I use AI to help with a blog? Local SEO How often have you searched stores or services near your location on Google Maps? More importantly, how often do you look beyond the first few business options at the top of the results? Including that landing page in your Google My Business profile.

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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

MARCH 17, 2021

We asked authors Cyril Bouquet, Michael Wade and Jean-Louis Barsoux how entrepreneurs can benefit from Alien Thinking: What does it mean to think like an “alien”? . But as an outsider, it must learn how to navigate a new and potentially hostile environment. It can adapt existing ideas from a different world.

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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. Table of contents: What are project management templates?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 27, 2024

Google Forms, ideal for anonymous text-based idea submission, and MURAL, a virtual whiteboard suitable for visual brainstorming, stand out as prime examples. After generating ideas, the team evaluates and shares feedback on the ideas. This process starts with selecting digital collaboration tools.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

There are always the next 20 tasks. I’m here to build long-term, stable relationships that I hope will pay off over a decade, not a week. I’m looking to turn dots into lines over time. I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

How can your brand be a source of information, education, entertainment or inspiration? How can your brand be a source of information, education, entertainment or inspiration? What problems do you solve, how do you improve your customer’s life, how do you meet your audience’s needs? Build a content website or add a blog.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

How Web3 startups should deploy their limited marketing resources Photo: Burst Almost $2 trillion of market value has disappeared from the crypto industry in 2022, taking with it much of the buzz around Web3. With the crypto winter in full swing for several months now, marketers?—?and and their budgets?—?have have felt the freeze.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

How to Leverage SEO to Drive Traffic to Your Startup’s Website In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, leveraging SEO is crucial for driving traffic to a startup’s website. Dive into the collective wisdom of these professionals to boost your startup’s online presence. Impressively, our impressions rose to 240K.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

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. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It’s time to explain the process and share examples to help more startups successfully achieve product-market fit. In other words, once you achieve product-market fit, you’ve answered the questions of who, what, and how: Who is your customer, and what is their problem? What is your solution to their problem?

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

19 Strategies for Managing Risk in a Startup In this article, we explore nineteen different strategies for managing risk in startups, shared by founders, CEOs, and other industry professionals. This allowed us to explore different verticals and find what worked best for us. Services should always be profitable. Products take time.

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