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

JULY 1, 2025

You can manage all the conversations directly within Brevo to handle any questions easily and quickly, and built-in chatbot and automation features can reduce your customer service load. Since it has unlimited contacts, you'll never hit a wall, and you can even set up a sales pipeline to keep track of deals you're negotiating.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (13,000+ reviews) Constant Contact Event marketing Built-in event management & ticketing $12/month 4.1/5 For agencies, Campaign Monitor offers a range of features to simplify client management, including client dashboards, multi-account access, and custom user roles. Free plan; pricing starts at $12 USD/month 4.7/5

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

per screened transaction, Stripe users can also enroll in Radar, its fraud management service. If you're only making a handful of sales per month and you aren't selling big-ticket items, the fee difference for Stripe vs. PayPal will be manageably small. For an extra $0.05 But that doesn't mean they're totally equal.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Essential elements of AI integration include data pipelines to move and transform data between systems, APIs and MCP servers to link AI services, and mechanisms to chain models together into larger workflows. "), and manually shuttling information between them is inefficient. And anyone can set it up using a tool like Zapier.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Most of us are visual creatures, and good workflow management is built on clarity. Standardize processes: This is the core of business process management (BPM). Project management: Kanban boards Kanban boards are a fantastic visual workflow option for general project management.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

At some point, I realized I wasn't just managing a team—I was managing relationships. Boost your team's productivity Automate your CRM Turns out, a CRM (customer relationship management) app is like my fantasy setup, but for people with actual responsibilities. Table of contents: What is a CRM?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Here's an example of an outreach campaign I built to connect and follow up with content managers at SaaS companies: You can kickstart your workflows with pre-made templates, but they're pretty basic. But if you're looking to treat your network less like a contact list and more like a pipeline, it's incredibly useful.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 16, 2025

But by connecting Grok to Zapier, you can automate this research the moment a lead enters your pipeline. With these Zaps, you can trigger Grok to generate a detailed outline from information (like blog titles or keywords) stored in Airtable or another project management tool. That's useful in itself.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

As more teams adopt automation, IT will play a more central role in vetting tools, managing access, and building (secure) self-serve automation. AI-assisted enterprise automation Spend any time online and you might think AI is just about generating awkward headshots or robotic blog intros. But allow me to bring a few receipts.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 18, 2025

Here's how to use Zaps—Zapier's automated workflows—to streamline your document management. With document automation, you use workflows and processes to create and/or manage electronic documents without human intervention. Manually managing documents is inefficient, error-prone, and difficult to scale. New to Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Since SureForms is brand new, some "standard" features, such as save and resume, PDF generator, and payments, are still in the pipeline. Here, I've focused on the best premium form plugins for WordPress.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

You need something to keep things straight when juggling client management, property listings, and the looming threat of being upstaged by that insufferably smug agent from the office across the street. Workflow management: Real estate involves numerous tasks and deadlines, and a CRM that can streamline your workflow is essential.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Google Sheets is simple, quick to onboard, and comparatively limited in its use cases, making it a good choice for teams that just want basic data management. While it can function in similar ways to a spreadsheet, in that it can manage various cells of data, that's just one element of what it's for.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

Suddenly, the pipeline of customers that were expected to close was becoming smaller and smaller. Manage your own expectations. Manage your own expectations, and then manage the expectations of those around you. Manage your stress level. Perhaps most important, is to manage the stress in yourself.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

Ensuring that every single hiring manager is aligned with your vision—and that they also understand the “why”—will vastly improve your company’s rate of success. But data shows that companies with an “always be recruiting” strategy are seldom caught without a great candidate pipeline when a vacancy arises.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. These kinds of connections seldom emerge from middle management who view the immediate threats more than the long-run benefits. are not likely to spearhead this movement. It’s important.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It not only creates a talent pipeline but also facilitates valuable connections between students and established companies within the Park. The MidAmerica Cup draws inspiration from the Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup, Oklahoma’s only statewide collegiate business plan competition managed by i2E for the last 20 years.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Today we are launching the new i2E blog, Stories of Oklahoma Innovation. Each week, we will publish a blog taken from our actual experience working with Oklahoma’s entrepreneurs to build new, innovative technology companies. . Expect a real-world view. . i2E venture advisors go into the community with their sleeves rolled up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

During the onset of the pandemic, Aboyeji, via his blog post , said Future Africa Fund was looking to raise institutional investment. While there has been no public announcement yet on its launch, Njoku says the syndicate soft-launched with 20 investors in January, and deals are waiting to be completed in the pipeline.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

I thought that reading TechCrunch and analyzing other VC deals I saw in the news would help me land multiple responses and speak the language of those who managed to score million-dollar deals for their startups. These ancillary businesses can help fund your core business until you manage to plan how to launch fully or source further funding.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Startup culture is informal, which is why some workers end up with job titles like “customer delight manager” or “product whisperer.” Our industry is still beholden to a rigid 10-year fund cycle pioneered in the 1970s,” wrote partner Roelof Botha in a blog post. Detailed, five-quarter view. Sales team health.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds. 2) Market .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

It isn’t often though that you need to completely redesign a legacy app component or set up a new pipeline on the fly because your product is experiencing an unexpected surge in popularity. That’s why we immediately started pitching Wilco to every engineer and engineering manager we could talk to.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Dataloop raises $16M for AI data management platform. Dataloop’s customizable SaaS platform for AI data annotation and data management weaves together human and machine intelligence to accelerate vision AI. The post Newsletter: Protecting our food and water appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Webinar Oct. Top Tech News.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The competition adds to MidAmerica’s education and workforce strategy to create a homegrown talent pipeline and foster connections between local students and the 80 established employers located within the Park,” MidAmerica’s Director of Workforce Development Scott Fry said.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 13, 2021

Sfara’s technology provides the most accurate, cost-effective crash detection, accident management, event-driven safety response, and fleet-driver risk management. Auransa is an AI-driven biotech company with a pipeline of novel compounds for various diseases. Learn More. Implementation Specialist for Sight Diagnostics (London).

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 28, 2023

Berlin-based Lano enables over 2,000 companies like these to effortlessly manage their hiring, payroll and payments operations — with a product-first approach. They were joined by OurCrowd’s own Ilana Odess, Partner and Managing Director, IR. CEO Zvi Schreiber and his team were in New York to ring the opening bell.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Digital health pioneer DayTwo has created technology that helps those afflicted with type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases manage their day-to-day lives, reducing health risks and cutting costs for insurers. The post Newsletter: Lunar land rush begins appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Sign NDA to Learn More.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

It’s a win-win,” Carol Atkinson, managing partner for integration at Momentum Metropolitan, one of South Africa’s largest insurance companies, tells Linda Gradstein in the Times of Israel. The company designs its own drones and the software used to control them and is one of the first with a drone in the FAA approval pipeline.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Israeli startup Flytrex is one of the first companies with a drone in the FAA approval pipeline and the first focused in the US suburbs. Flytrex’s deeply experienced management team is led by CEO Yariv Bash, Co-founder and CEO of SpaceIL, which raised $100M for Beresheet, the first private interplanetary spacecraft, which reached the moon.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 3, 2021

The company has fast-growing revenues and a strong pipeline of top-tier clients. See some opportunities below: Enterprise Project Manager for Bizzabo (USA). The post Newsletter: NASA helps farmers + Quantum takes off appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Learn More. Backing Israel’s $375M bet on quantum.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The company already has millions of users via 50+ customers worldwide, including Generali (Italy), Sompo (Japan), Momentum (South Africa), Cigna (US), HDFC ERGO (Germany), Clalit (Israel), plus a robust pipeline. Across each of our customer bases, IT teams are looking for an alternative to Microsoft for managing and securing infrastructure.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 24, 2022

The company is also working with Ness Technology and other integrators, and building a promising pipeline that includes companies in the MedTech and FinTech sectors. Indra to adopt IntellAct’s airport management platform. The post Newsletter: Schrödinger’s Unicorns + Startups solving airline jet lag appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 16, 2022

A new tool from our portfolio company Xage Security is designed to defend energy pipelines, water supplies and similar critical infrastructure against MFA attacks, TechCrunch reports. The post Newsletter: Game-changing tech for lab-grown food + Investing in the Metaverse appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 13, 2022

Our cybersecurity vanguard Xage Security raised $30M for its mission to protect water supplies, power grids and pipelines, TechCrunch reports. Senior Fullstack Engineer at Dataloop (Tel Aviv) Senior Software Engineer – Front End at Orbital Insight (Palo Alto) Project Manager at Shield (London). Register Now.

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