The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Benefits of AI automation Key components and technologies that AI automation uses How to implement AI automation AI automation use cases Examples of AI automation processes What's the difference between AI automation and RPA? Table of contents: What is AI automation? A dream come true.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

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. 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

JUNE 11, 2025

Better reporting, smarter optimization, and a lot less guesswork. Building the connection: automating conversion tracking with Zapier Right from the start, Antonio turned to Zapier’s LinkedIn Conversions integration to automate the process. The result? Because Ashby already used Zapier and HubSpot , it was an easy decision. “It

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

for the first month) Unlimited emails, non-human click filter, time zone sending, countdown timers Regular senders Premier Starts at $159 USD/month Unlimited automated emails, engagement segments, send time optimization, email section locking, advanced link tracking Large businesses What else can you do with Campaign Monitor?

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (5000+ reviews) ActiveCampaign Businesses focused on sales automation Deep CRM integration and sales workflows $15/month 4.5/5 5 (400+ reviews) HubSpot Businesses needing integrated CRM Extensive marketing, sales, and customer service tools Free Plan; Paid from $15/month 4.4/5

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (1000+ reviews) Constant Contact Event-focused organizations Built-in event management and ticket sales $12/month 4.1/5 5 (400+ reviews) MailerLite Creators selling digital products Built-in digital product sales with no transaction fees Free (paid from $10/month) 4.6/5 delivery rate with AI-powered content creation $15/month 4.2/5

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Contact Sales With proper AI orchestration, these previously isolated AI tools and workflows communicate with each other, share data, and work together toward common goals. Beyond simply connecting AI tools, you can also orchestrate workflows that wouldn't traditionally include AI by adding it to existing processes.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

If you're on a paid plan, you can manually choose which model ChatGPT runs on or let ChatGPT automatically pick one, optimizing for quality and speed. Apps You can start generating content by choosing from over 100 apps (essentially templates) that run the marketing gamut, from email campaigns to product descriptions to blog articles.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

I once viewed "process documentation" as corporate torture. Visualize, plan, and automate business-critical processes Try Zapier Canvas That's the entire premise of a visual workflow. A visual workflow is a graphical representation of a process. 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. It acts as a central hub designed to track contacts, manage sales pipelines , automate communication, and improve customer service.

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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. Category Description CRM Sales Manage your sales process and client communications, including leads, contacts, accounts, and deals. Automate Zoho What is Zoho? What is Zoho used for?

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (13,000+ reviews) Constant Contact Event marketing Built-in event hosting and ticket sales $12/month 4.1/5 5 (1000+ reviews) HubSpot CRM-focused marketing All-in-one marketing, sales, and service platform Free (paid from $15/month) 4.4/5 5 (30+ reviews) Flodesk Design-focused creators Unlimited subscribers Free plan; $38/month 4.3/5

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Needless to say, little Suzie didn't get a new pair of shoes in her Easter basket, and we lost a sale. But it certainly isn't built for it, and it's lacking many ITSM-specific features (like the deeply integrated and AI-enhanced asset tracking and change management processes) that make Jira a better fit for IT teams.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Creators can upload their own videos, tag your products, and earn commission when they make a TikTok sale. AI can speed up every part of the process. For example, you can automatically create video scripts from blog posts with ChatGPT. That means you don't have to pay upfront for a sponsored post.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. A small startup still managing a few dozen invoices manually, for example, needs different features and scalability than a rapidly growing enterprise processing hundreds (or thousands) of invoices across multiple departments.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

And when manual processes bog you down, it's even harder for you to focus on high-impact work. Most organizations use a patchwork of tools to manage processes. IT automation (or even IT process automation) solves for this by creating workflows that move information between these systems automatically.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Change management communication plan Make a copy If your company goes through grand-scale change such as mergers, rebranding, restructuring, or process optimization , a change management plan is crucial for ensuring your team is informed, engaged, and supportive of the changes.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Agentic AI systems have the capacity to take on major tasks, like supply chain management, business process optimization, application development, and project management. Agentic AI systems tackle problems in a four-step process : Step 1: Perceive. Step 3: Act.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

While pre-designed templates have long existed as a way to make the web design process less painful, the real paradigm shifts have come from recent advances in AI. With attractive designs and AI tools that speed up the website creation process, Squarespace makes it easy to quickly create a professional web presence.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

It doesn't just notify sales when a lead comes in; it qualifies that lead, enriches the data, routes it to the right rep, and personalizes the next steps. Compute Compute is the total processing power used to train or run AI models (it's measured in FLOPS or GPU hours). It adapts as work unfolds, scaling impact across teams.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

nano Speed and price optimization Text, Images Text 1,047,576 tokens $0.10 / $1.40 For example, a dedicated reasoning model will perform better on multi-step tasks like code generation, while a smaller cost-optimized model will offer better value for basic text generation. Great general purpose starting point GPT-4.1 M tokens GPT-4.1

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Some data is structured, neatly categorized, and easily processed. Retail and eCommerce operations might use AI with their structured CRM and sales data for advanced predictive modeling of customer buying habits, to optimize supply chains with better demand forecasting, and to personalize the customer experience.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Additionally, AI can offer insights into customer behavior, predict sales trends, and even recommend the next best action for agents. Agents frequently report positive experiences with helpful account managers and a streamlined onboarding process. CINC's strengths lie in its many features. Try one of the pre-made workflows below.

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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. A few of the most impactful benefits I’ve realized are: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I’ve talked in the past about how I manage my own creative process. The number of times I’ve had people come to me and say they want to blog more. Without dedicating time to Planning you will never optimally turn your ideas into reality. I’ve written about these sales mavericks before.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 5, 2022

Yes, it is a great time to reevaluate your project management initiatives, customer retention strategy, and HR processes. Constantly A/B test your marketing and sales tactics. If you want to maximize your overall profits and grow your business, optimize your entire sales funnel and marketing strategy through regular A/B testing.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Based on our website traffic at Teknicks, we’ve seen increased interest in startup educational information on franchising, app creation, blogging, SEO, Google analytics, website creation and other web-based inquiries related to starting a business online. This follows a three-step process: Identify your business objectives, Create goals and.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2018

Joel Gandara is an EO member in South Florida and CEO of Morro Capital who is now focusing on a new venture, Freedom Experts, which helps fellow entrepreneurs optimize and automate business processes to reclaim the time and freedom entrepreneurship offers. Read more on raising entrepreneurial kids from the Octane blog.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From optimizing your sales funnel to getting a head start with sales/marketing copy, here are 9 answers to the question, “How can a startup (with limited capital and resources) utilize artificial intelligence in their business?”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 22, 2023

Addressable, awareness, and acquisition are run by marketing or sales, and activation and revenue are owned by product. Once acquired (gone to your website or app), they continuously go through a loop of activating/failing to activate, giving you money/not giving you money, and then going through the process again and again (retention).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Soon after, I landed a sales job that had me fielding 150 calls a day. With my years of experience in sales, partnership management and marketing, and Marina’s decade’s worth of recruitment knowledge, we decided to start our own recruitment firm. We only engage companies whose values are focused on optimizing internal culture.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

This blog post will provide an overview of the different available options and give you a step-by-step guide to setting up a true virtual office to hold meetings in the metaverse. However, even though they are optimized for office work and are integrated with existing workflows, these are mostly paid services. .

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Using this strategy, we generated over $50,000 in pre-order sales before even creating the physical product, proving its viability in the market. The primary focus was optimizing their websites for local search, managing their online reviews, and creating geo-targeted content. This approach transformed my business.

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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. This is a great example of why data businesses have substantial moats.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

On-site SEO: Everyone has a website and a blog, yet not nearly enough Web3 marketers devote mind-share into making their websites and apps search friendly. To ensure the compounding effect of any marketing campaign, optimize your website for proper indexing and user-friendliness. And remember?—?Google

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The only thing that matters is getting to product-market fit Credits: Read on Since 2021, I have made it my goal to guide startups to a product market fit in a structured process. It’s time to explain the process and share examples to help more startups successfully achieve product-market fit. How many people experience the problem?

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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. 2) Market . 4) Originate investments.

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