The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Sell more and keep your customers happy Automate your eCommerce You need to make sure the processor you choose can integrate with your selling platform, that it supports the transaction types you use, and that it has the features you need. Here's what you need to know to decide between using Stripe vs. PayPal for your sales needs.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Boost your team's productivity Automate your CRM The best pipeline management software helps sales teams by keeping prospects engaged and the data you have about them organized. 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.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

ChatGPT for Business AI Content & Customer Service Best For: Automating customer support, content creation, and internal workflows OpenAIs ChatGPT has evolved into a robust business solution in 2025, offering a range of capabilities through a single platform. Now, with natural language input, you can describe a workflow (e.g.,

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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. When used effectively, your CRM becomes a central command center for tracking relationships, managing pipelines, and coordinating touchpoints across your entire customer journey.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Automation used to be the best way to do that. 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?

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StartupNation

JULY 24, 2025

Hence, they tend to ignore or disengage with marketing messages that aren’t relevant to their journey. Artificial Intelligence in 5 Steps: Concepts that Apply across Use Cases 2. In this time when audiences are growing increasingly savvy about spotting automated language, a human tone sets your brand apart.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

As a content marketer who's dabbled in building my own tools, I've learned to pick my battles carefully. While LLMs can provide me with code for just about any situation, using established tools can save me from a lot of headaches later on. Automate your database. Do more with your data. inventory) and user data (e.g.,

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

In both cases, I dreamed of a happy medium. It divides projects into time-bound phases called sprints and values individual team members—not the tools or processes they use. If you've ever used Trello , you've used a Kanban board for project management.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

With Interfaces, teams can build interactive client portals, internal request hubs, and employee-facing dashboards, complete with automation and custom logic. Here’s how five companies, from HR teams to marketing and ops, use Zapier Interfaces to modernize processes, scale smarter, and get measurable results.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Decade-ago me would have laughed if I heard myself say this, but TikTok is a solid bet for almost any marketer. Case in point: as a business owner, I grew my new TikTok account to over 1,200 followers and 150K views in a matter of months. TikTok has a massive hold on Gen Z market—that's a massive market you can reach.

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StartupNation

JUNE 11, 2025

Spreading your income across multiple sources not only cushions you against market fluctuations but also opens up exciting new avenues for yourself and your team. Today, we’ll explore actionable strategies you can use to build multiple income streams and build a more resilient, profitable 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. Make your own custom AI chatbot Try Zapier Interfaces I've spent countless hours using both apps in my personal and professional life.

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StartupNation

JUNE 11, 2025

Spreading your income across multiple sources not only cushions you against market fluctuations but also opens up exciting new avenues for yourself and your team. Today, we’ll explore actionable strategies you can use to build multiple income streams and build a more resilient, profitable business.

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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. What is Zoho used for? Automate Zoho What is Zoho? What is Zoho used for? What you use Zoho for depends on which apps you use.

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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. It's not even the design app I use. I have no time or patience for design apps that are awful to use.

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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. So, let's talk about what a CRM is, why you need one , and what you get out of using it. Table of contents: What is a CRM?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

One of the first plugins I heard about when I started using WordPress was Yoast SEO. Since then, I've learned the value of SEO, and I've used both Yoast SEO or Rank Math on my WordPress sites. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Ease of use.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

Every year, Zapier users automate billions of tasks, including more than 250 million AI tasks. Submit an application and tell us how you’re leveraging Zapier and AI to transform the work you do for your team, customers, or industry. We've refined the lineup to highlight pros lighting the way with automation + AI.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

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. 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.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

And automation—the thing that was supposed to make life easier—starts to feel impossible to scale. You want to empower teams to automate their work but not open up a tangle of permissions and shadow IT. Zapier Enterprise Automation for every team, approved by IT. Table of contents: What is enterprise automation?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Use automation to support brainstorming, delegation, and communication Learn how I do most of my mind mapping digitally—and even when I don't, I often recreate a paper mind map online so that I can have it safely stored and easily searched. While it can be done as a group, it's often a solo practice.

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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. I've been using both apps side-by-side for a few months now, so let's look at what sets the two tools apart. A lot of AI chatbots all feel the same.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier We really could have used RACI. The RACI model—which stands for responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed—would have gotten us the Instagram-worthy escape time we'd hoped for. Who gives the final nod for the marketing strategy?

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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

JULY 10, 2025

And while they're necessary for crisis management, communication plans have plenty of other uses beyond ensuring your consumer doesn't give themselves third-degree burns. This document can look different depending on what it's used for. A marketing communication plan plays a different role.

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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 23, 2025

But ChatGPT works even better (and helps you carry out tasks at scale) when you pair it with automation. With Zapier's ChatGPT integration , you automate everything from intelligent sales outreach, content marketing generation, or even image creation. Which model should you use with our ChatGPT integration?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 21, 2025

Zapier Enterprise Automation for every team, approved by IT. So let's take a look at how revenue forecasting works, why it matters, and the software you can use to help you get your business's version of a shiny new console. Automate your forecasting with Zapier What is revenue forecasting? Not so simple.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Meet your new AI teammates Try Zapier Agents Things get complicated because, as with all potential marketing terms, there's a rush to call everything agentic AI—whether it really clears the bar for autonomous action or not. It was a massive advancement in technology and had some uses, but it was pretty constrained in what it could do.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

14 free project plan templates Who uses the project plan template? How to create a project plan in 7 steps Automate your project plan What is a project plan? By using one, you're basically copying off the smart kid in class—you'll hit all the marks without having to think too hard. What is a project plan template?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. Get started AI buzzwords are everywhere, but knowing what they actually mean can help you use AI better. For a simple example, the idea is that your AI assistant agent would be able to book flights using a travel comparison website's AI agent.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Here, I'll walk you through key differences and use cases and share some examples so you can understand how to use both to power your business. How is structured data used? ​​Structured data is particularly handy when you need clear, quantitative insights. What is unstructured data?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Get more out of your spreadsheets with automation Automate spreadsheets Many people may be able to use these two related products interchangeably for general use, but more nuanced use cases will probably prove one to be an easy choice over the other. It's also completely free.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

Free project management planning templates Free budgeting and financial templates Free sales and marketing templates Tips for using project management templates Benefits of using a project management template Automating your project management templates What are project management templates? Try the template 3.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

Contributed by Chris Kirksey, an EO member in Austin who is the founder and CEO of Direction , an SEO software and services company that helps entrepreneurs set their online strategy in the right direction to accelerate sales, grow the business, and dominate your market. In ClickUp , we use deadlines and priority flags.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

The ability to create custom AI-powered chatbots using Zapier Interfaces. In this blog post, I'll walk you through exactly how to create your own chatbot using Interfaces—and offer a few ideas on specific use cases. If you're using the free version of Interfaces, you'll be limited to GPT-3.5.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Meanwhile, once there are enough infrastructure and consumer companies to serve, software businesses pop up, in this case to serve DAOs. The result of all a supremely rational artificial cerebrum: type in a few key sentences into a GPT-3 powered app, click a button, and a blog post pops out. Or a personalized email to a sales prospect.

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