The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Even in a world where it's hard to command attention, the email inbox is still the place we trust to keep up with what matters to us. The brands with access to it get a golden opportunity to push news, offer new products, and start conversations that aren't possible in other channels.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

While Klaviyo offers decent tools for e-commerce-specific email marketing, online reviews frequently mention struggles with deliverability and support issues. 5 (900+ reviews) SendGrid Developer-focused Industry-leading API & deliverability Free (paid from $19.5/month) Free plan; pricing starts at $12 USD/month 4.7/5

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2025

Having a small email list might feel like a hurdle, but it’s actually a huge advantage. A smaller audience lets you connect on a deeper level, personalize your messages, and build a loyal community that genuinely values what you offer. When you nurture those relationships, even a small list can lead to big growth for your side hustle.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Ready to find your perfect email marketing match? TL;DR) ConvertKit alternatives at a glance Tool Best For Key Advantage Starting Price Reviews Campaign Monitor by Marigold Professional businesses needing on-brand emails Highly customizable emails and powerful prebuilt automated journeys Free Plan; Paid from $12/month 4.7/5

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

But an automation tool that can also collect new data, learn from it, and handle complex decision-making? Working at Zapier means I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make software do my job for me. Automation used to be the best way to do that. Now, I delegate to AI automation. Table of contents: What is AI automation?

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

We’ve tested 16 leading alternatives to find solutions that might be a better fit for your specific needs. 5 (6000+ reviews) SendGrid Developers needing reliable email delivery Industry-leading deliverability with robust API Free (limited) 4.3/5 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. ” Staying the same person or relying on old tactics simply isn’t enough to sustain growth. The impact of this continuous reinvention has been profound.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

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. Choose the right TikTok account type When registering for a TikTok account, you get two options: a personal account (formerly known as a "Creator" account) and a business profile.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

As soon as you hit that purchase button, you'll receive an email confirmation. That's email automation at its finest. But then let's say you receive a welcome email which offers you tips and resources on pet care. Those are all examples of email marketing. Every industry benefits from email marketing.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Getting paid is great, but sending invoices can be painful. The best free invoicing software Wave for growing businesses PayPal for a familiar name Zoho Invoice for free invoicing with a mini-CRM Square for in-person sales Bookipi for a simple invoicing solution Paymo for time-based invoicing What makes the best free billing software?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

" This guide will teach you everything you need to know about AI orchestration. Let's talk about what it really means—and why your business desperately needs it. Table of contents: What is AI orchestration? Examples of AI orchestration 7 AI orchestration best practices Getting started with AI orchestration What is AI orchestration?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 22, 2025

Email marketers don't have to contend with constantly changing search algorithms and ranking factors—but that doesn't mean that an email sent is an email received. It's very possible that your marketing emails, and even your transactional emails, will never make it to the recipient.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Ready to discover which email marketing solution might be a better fit for your needs? GetResponse is undoubtedly a powerful email marketing platform with comprehensive features and AI capabilities. Let’s go. (TL;DR) 5 (13,000+ reviews) Constant Contact Event marketing Built-in event hosting and ticket sales $12/month 4.1/5

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

My own system was a chaotic mix of muscle memory and flagged emails. And then I tried onboarding a new teammate while on holiday; my "clear" instructions unleashed a flood of confused Slack messages. I once viewed "process documentation" as corporate torture. Table of contents: What is a visual workflow?

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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. With more than 80 apps on offer, Zoho has been likened to a Swiss army knife due to its wide range of uses. 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. I take fantasy football way too seriously. At some point, I realized I wasn't just managing a team—I was managing relationships.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Virtual phone systems, also known as VoIP (voice over internet protocol) and cloud phones, are simply better options than a landline: they're less expensive, more flexible, and work on the devices you use most—mobile phones, desktops, and laptops. Select your phone number(s). No long-term contracts.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

I tried every productivity hack in the book, but the constant switching between "client mode" and "personal brand mode" was burning me out. I tried every productivity hack in the book, but the constant switching between "client mode" and "personal brand mode" was burning me out.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

New to Zapier? Afterwards, you'll probably need to assign specific tasks to your team members or send leads a follow-up note. But don't let that content live in isolation—send it to your team, automatically. That's not really a problem. Here are a few ways to get started.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Log key takeaways, decisions, and action items in a Zapier Table—then hit the "Send email" button to share the recap with your team automatically. And I can't blame them—minutes were kept in a scattered Word Doc and could put a civics professor to sleep. What do meeting minutes include? Why use meeting minutes?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

It includes a pre-built Customer Data sheet to store lead/customer info, an Interactions tracker, and a Dashboard with some basic reporting. Create a customer relationship management database The core worksheet in your Google Sheets CRM will be the one housing your customer/lead data.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

For example, maybe you want to trigger onboarding workflows for new hires, or sync lead data across marketing and sales tools. Your team needs to move fast. You're launching campaigns, closing deals, onboarding customers—and trying to keep up with everything in between. But as your business grows, so does the complexity.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

If you work in IT operations, the work you do is basically the backbone of your company. From safeguarding data to resolving major incidents and beyond, you're in charge of keeping everything running smoothly, so the only downtime you encounter is yours—not your system's. That's where IT automation comes in. The result?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Whether you're drafting blog posts from a content calendar, replying to leads with tailored emails, or summarizing customer feedback at scale, Claude becomes a hands-on collaborator inside fully automated systems. New to Zapier? Here are a few ways to get started. It only takes a few minutes to set up. The best part?

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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. Imagine an AI email app that automatically screens your incoming emails. So let's dig in.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

Get started These Zaps help you create anything from an accounting assistant that can answer employee questions in a specific Slack channel to an analysis assistant that can analyze blog performance or KPIs. The list of things ChatGPT can do is pretty much endless at this point. Read more on how to effectively add AI to your Zapier workflows.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Website building apps are also increasingly comprehensive, including not just design tools but also support for eCommerce, lead generation, marketing, and analytics. Web design isn't what it used to be. In 2003, I spent weeks hand-coding an HTML website. With a physical copy of HTML for Dummies next to my keyboard, of course.)

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

A customer relationship management (CRM) platform for real estate is there to make your life easier, streamline client communication and lead management, and give you that edge you've been looking for. The software should also allow you to track the source of each lead, so you can focus your efforts on productive channels.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. I’m now the permanent host for TWiVC (until such time as they kick me off). Thank you to anybody who sent Jason a note on Twitter on my behalf. It was a fun show today, especially Jason’s story at the very end of the episode! Others I have not. Really!).

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

While project managers in particular may use them most, other team leads could find them useful for iterative processes within HR, financial, sales, and marketing teams. A sales team could use a project tracking template to monitor lead generation efforts. Try the template 2.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Stewart Hillhouse writes actionable growth marketing insights as senior content lead at Demand Curve. Demand Curve: Email marketing tactics that convert subscribers into customers. There are very few marketing channels as well rounded as email newsletters. He also writes at stewarthillhouse.com. More posts by this contributor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 30, 2021

often with a smaller financial cushion due to hemorrhaging cash during the pandemic, a new sense of fear that this could happen again, and many employees not wanting to return to the office or dealing with pandemic fallout themselves. Faced with this life-changing moment, Reza finally decided to focus on personal well-being.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2022

As one of the best marketing channels to connect with audiences and build your brand , email continues to serve as a valuable tool to communicate with potential customers and move them further along your conversion funnel. Adding creative videos to your emails is a great way to achieve this. Why is video email marketing so effective?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Paul Graham and the folks over at YCombinator have done much to reenergize early-stage entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of many new and innovative startups including DropBox, Posterous, Loopt, Justin.TV, Scribd and many others. They also gave us Hacker News , which for me was a welcome addition for discovering tech stories.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. But before I sent it I had made 10 private phone calls, sent emails & built support.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Versatile VC runs a no-cost community for founders in transition, “ Founders Next Move “ We have collected a wide range of resources for founders who may be considering launching a new company ; angel investing/becoming a VC ; buying a company ; joining boards ; consulting ; serving as an interim executive , or just getting a job.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 2, 2024

Starting a new business is an exhilarating journey filled with challenges and opportunities. Start a blog on your website and publish articles, guides, and case studies that address your audience’s pain points. This article is by Josh Kimmes, the CEO of Bear North Digital. Building a Strong Online Presence 1. Paid Advertising 1.

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