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.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

It also lets you customize a live chat window that you can embed on your website. 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.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 27, 2025

Smith.ai’s high-touch, high-volume model meant they needed scalable, responsive systems to support both agent coaching and customer experience. If it passes, a Code by Zapier step runs a custom JavaScript snippet to analyze the call transcription for total silence. A red or yellow rating triggers an instant response.

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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. We’ve tested 16 alternatives that might be a better fit due to their superior deliverability, responsive customer service, and more intuitive interfaces.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

According to online reviews, many users struggle with ConvertKit’s learning curve and limited customization. We tested 16 alternatives that offer better customization, more powerful automation, and clearer analytics. Ready to find your perfect email marketing match? Let’s dive in. (TL;DR)

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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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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (2000+ reviews) Klaviyo Ecommerce brands focused on customer retention Deep ecommerce integrations and predictive analytics Free (paid from $45/month) 4.6/5 24/5 Global Support : Global support via multiple channels via multiple channels (email support on all tiers, phone support on premium) What else can you do with Campaign Monitor?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

It's like if someone had gotten my parents to coordinate graduation dinner plans instead of making me relay messages between them like some kind of emotional support carrier pigeon. Think of a customer service chatbot, an autonomous drone, or a virtual assistant like Siri or Alexa.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

All saved posts end up in Collabwriting's Inbox, which you can organize further using themed boards and tags like "AI positioning" or "Thought leadership." month (billed annually); Business plan from $12.36/profile/month month (billed annually); Business plan from $12.36/profile/month

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

After analyzing hundreds of online user reviews and testing various alternatives, we’ve found platforms that offer better deliverability, more intuitive automation, and stronger customer support. “ “Not only does Campaign Monitor make sending highly-customized emails easy and fun, their support team is phenomenal.”

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 18, 2025

Zapier connects with thousands of apps , so you can customize your workflows to include all of your business-critical tools. Automated workflows can help make sure documents are always stored in the correct folder, named according to a consistent convention, and tagged or shared with the right people. Templates and dynamic content.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

You're launching campaigns, closing deals, onboarding customers—and trying to keep up with everything in between. A sales team might live in HubSpot, while customer success runs in Zendesk. A new customer deal, for example, might require handoffs between Sales, Legal, Finance, and Customer Success. Things slow down.

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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. It should allow you to create custom pipelines, set reminders, and schedule appointments.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

In Airtable, users can store virtually any kind of data in each record, relate data across tables, customize displays, and automate data management, among other options. 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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Assistly “Multi-channel customer support and management service&# – this is another industry I love and I specifically love the team at Assistly. They have done 3 startups in the customer support space and one that wasn’t. It sucked.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Ask your customer why you lost. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. We had made the decision that we would no longer be supporting IE v 5.5 (we we would support 6.0

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Ask your customer why you lost. It’s one of my favorite blog posts. I had planned to blog about it at the time but I waited 2 days and the whole world blogged about it so I didn’t pile on. We had made the decision that we would no longer be supporting IE v 5.5 (we we would support 6.0

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

We gathered 30 invaluable strategies from SEO Analysts, Founders, and other experts, ranging from optimizing content with targeted keywords to crafting blog posts that answer key questions. The advantage of Web Stories is that you can condense existing blog content or other content for easy sharing on various social media platforms.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 8, 2022

The exclusive partnership paves the way for Rewire’s further expansion in Europe on its way to creating a holistic package that includes everything a migrant needs.The deal gives Rewire access to Lebara’s UK and EU customer base and the opportunity to fast-track its growth in the UK and push further into the EU. Sign NDA and Learn More.

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OurCrowd

MAY 26, 2022

Millions of applications are driven by software tools that understand and improve customers’ digital experience, but capturing the relevant data isn’t easy. The company’s machine-learning platform understands how consumers see webpages and improves its automatic-tagging abilities over time while automatically adapting to website changes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

It’s an impressive price tag for a job role that would’ve blown minds just one year ago. Just as a Sherpa uses experience to guide climbers through treacherous terrain, AI can harness vast data to provide a customized path to knowledge. And if you feel like supporting me extra, subscribe to my personal (and free!)

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

Now, it’s everywhere—making their cost of acquiring a customer essentially zero. I just had just written about Foursquare on my blog, so I was actually invited to his biz dev meeting, too. I’m certainly more supportive of it now. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. That’s an unfair advantage.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

Now, it’s everywhere—making their cost of acquiring a customer essentially zero. I just had just written about Foursquare on my blog, so I was actually invited to his biz dev meeting, too. I’m certainly more supportive of it now. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. That’s an unfair advantage. Maybe… maybe not.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Second, high-quality customer service. We’ve been impressed by the alacrity, communication skills, and high level of competence of the customer success team, who have to support a lot of custom functionality we’ve built. Salesforce : 19,700+ people with 30+ custom fields. Third, a modern backend.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Support for most popular email services. I was looking for apps that supported major services, like Gmail and Outlook, as well as the IMAP and POP3 protocols, so you could use most other options. Which is better?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the best tools you can use to achieve productive marketing, how to apply them and how much they cost. Marketing tools that help automate processes such as customer follow-ups, up-sells, and down-sells can lead to a boost in the lifetime value of your customers. Customer analysis.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 23, 2023

Automated quote forms keep the company ahead of the growth curve Every Smart Charge America project starts with a custom quote for each unique job. Traditionally, charger installation companies receive a customer request, schedule a home visit, and manually calculate a project quote. But that was just the first step.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 21, 2013

One degree removed, sales and customer support teams ply the voice of the customer to influence product and eng. Marketing relies on engineering to provide analysis for marketing spend efficiency, customer segmentation and user engagement. Product and engineering teams are inseparable and at the core of most startups.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

Instead of worrying about payroll, cash flow, or fundraising, I just had to focus on building a great product and growing its customer base. I’d have all the support I needed to scale Zcruit quickly. was set to receive an infusion of resources. As long as I didn’t screw things up, it felt like nothing could go wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. Use the fact that you were on an anointed list to build credibility when you eventually approach journalists (and VC’s, customers, employees). In my blog I just save that for the comments where people can say what their perspectives are.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. Since it’s already written (and since I promised not to republish on my blog other than a summary) if you’re interested please have a read over there. Summary notes and then I’ll extend: Should you blog? What should you blog about?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it as a way to learn, improve and increase my win rates. For simplicity, let’s call this person inside your new potential customer, “the enemy.&#. They may solicit the support of people more senior in the buying organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2010

Furthermore, when Twitter publishers make money from their work in supporting the Twitter platform this is good news for all involved. Let’s face it, if people want to blog as a career they have to be able to make money. They’re masters at the games of pricing, segmenting offerings and marketing to customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 1, 2009

If you’ve read my blog for a while you’ll know that I’m a fan of starting businesses in a non-traditional way. Have you worked in marketing / customer acquisition before? - Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Startup Advice. I recommend that you start a company by yourself and own 100% of it. Take your inventory.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). You need to know how “tag along&# rights could potentially screw you. Lawyers are your support staff not your brain. the link is here.

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