The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

You can alert the appropriate person within your organization so they can take action, whether it's sending an email, making a phone call, or following up in another way. Automation keeps everyone in the loop by routing leads, tagging ownership, and tracking progress across stages. What are the benefits of CRM automation?

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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. Klaviyo is undoubtedly a powerful email marketing platform, especially for ecommerce businesses. Free plan; pricing starts at $12 USD/month 4.7/5

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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 27, 2025

For Smith.ai, every call summary email includes a customer satisfaction survey powered by Customer Thermometer. Here’s how the Zap works: A Webhooks by Zapier trigger catches incoming feedback tagged red or yellow from Customer Thermometer. A red or yellow rating triggers an instant response.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

(TL;DR) ActiveCampaign alternatives at a glance Tool Best For Key Advantage Starting Price Rating Campaign Monitor by Marigold User-friendly email marketing with visual impact Intuitive drag-and-drop editor with superior design capabilities, transactional emails free plan; pricing starts at $12 USD/month 4.7/5

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

per transaction, meaning the percentage rate is a tad higher, but the tag-on rate is nearly half of PayPal's. Stripe and PayPal both offer fraud protection and customer support via phone, live chat, or email. Some Stripe users report very lengthy wait times or say they could really only get a hold of agents through email.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Instead of creating a social media strategy that drives users off the app and onto your website (which most platforms penalize brands for), TikTok lets brands upload their product catalog and tag products in their posts. Creators can upload their own videos, tag your products, and earn commission when they make a TikTok sale.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

For example, instead of an AI chatbot that just answers customer questions, an orchestrated AI system could use a chatbot to pass complex queries to a specialized problem-solving AI, which might then trigger an automated workflow to resolve the customer's issue, update their account, and send them a follow-up email, all on its own.

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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." You can also add notes to LinkedIn profiles and perform bulk actions like tagging or unfollowing to keep your lead data organized.

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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 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

JULY 18, 2025

We have documents, PDF files, emails, forms, and more… all scattered across different apps. For instance, you might want to automatically send an email or chat message every time you create a new client contract. In a perfect world, we'd have our documents all neatly organized in a centralized location.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

AI-assisted enterprise automation Spend any time online and you might think AI is just about generating awkward headshots or robotic blog intros. It can rewrite messy input into clean CRM records, convert call transcripts into follow-up emails , or translate requests from multiple languages—all without human intervention.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Common examples are the neat fields in email headers (sender, recipient, subject), standard file properties (like creation date or author), or specific data tags set up to organize content. Metadata: Metadata is essentially data about data, and it's usually very structured. How is unstructured data used?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

And there is relationship between debating and blogging. I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. The most important experience I have in blogging is the debate it encourages. So it goes with blogging. So it goes on my blog. Let me explain. Friends and random people alike.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Your CRM should seamlessly integrate with the tools you already use, such as your email, calendar, social media, and direct MLS/IDX feeds for up-to-date listing data. Real estate automation can save you significant time by handling routine tasks like follow-up emails and appointment scheduling.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I had written a blog post on exactly this – how to not suck at group presentations – and what he said reminded me a lot of this post. In his early career he realized the importance of email lists. His email list became his power. He would occasionally give away free music in exchange for email addresses.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

I haven’t written a blog post in a week. But what has really killed me is email. I live in email hell. And for the last few evenings I decided to get through email rather than blog. I’m always so completely behind on email. I have a love / hate relationship with email.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. The idea is that in a world in which companies need to deal with customer support requests from Twitter, Facebook, email, phone, IM, etc. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. In business you spend your life in email. Enter Xobni. It sucked.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Well, aside from it showing discipline and intelligence – we always get flooded with emails when we recruit and when you have to manage volume you need to go for obvious filters. I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. Please do not email either me or Michael directly.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

For example, if you've got one table with defined contacts and another table with workflows that incorporate those contacts, whenever you update a record within the contacts table with a new email address, it will automatically update the workflow table to reflect that.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

We love using labels, tags and colors—the more organization and filtering, the better. When customers purchase a subscription on our website, their information automatically transfers to Hubspot, which sends them an email series. and more articles from the EO blog. Accompany each subtask with relevant details and deadlines.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

However, note this has to be highly targeted or you’re just creating irrelevant emails for the investor to delete. We have very high conversion on outreach emails using this data.”. The final stage is to distribute the post via paid Linkedin ads targeting only the relevant VCs/PEs and share the article/messaging via email.”.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Build a content website or add a blog. Build your email list. By building an email list of targeted and interested prospects, you have a direct line to their inbox to announce new content, promote new product lines, encourage feedback and boost engagement across all of your other online channels. Run giveaways or contests.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

I CERTAINLY opened myself up to attack by writing my original blog post about job hoppers with some incendiary language and tone. But the comments on my own blog were so much more balanced with people taking both sides of the debate. For anyone who attacked me on my blog but used their actual names I left their comments.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. The emails we all get on the AngelList get say something like, “New gaming platform invested in by Dave McClure, Chris Yeh and Jeff Clavier. Go get your anchors.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

It’s why I believe PalmPilot missed the important shifts to email that RIM (Blackberry) saw. Some readers of this blog also pointed out that “pivoting&# can be disruptive on the employees of an organization. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. So tenacity and resiliency alone are not enough.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. Example of publishers include: moviefone, Fandango, Jingle, SayNow, and voice blogs. Total raised: $19mm.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

If your first resort when you have trouble raising money is to complain about New York on a tech blog, you’re really doing yourself a disservice in the relationship building area. On top of that, tech blogs like TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOM, and Venturebeat all cover NYC tech startups. How about doing what Gilt Groupe did?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2015

From birthdays to work anniversaries, introductions to new co-workers and birth announcements, there isn’t a day that goes by without a fun email highlighting a special occasion around the office. Let us know in the Comments section below; or tag us on Facebook or Twitter. Check out pictures from our contest by clicking here !

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you keep all your relationships in one place, then you’ll need to use tags or another identifier to isolate the folks that really matter to you. Marketing/social media : Hootsuite (social media management), Mailchimp (email list and audience management), and Google Suite. . Email client : Superhuman , expensive but worth it.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

I'd been working in email marketing for quite a while before I took on my first B2B campaign. What I didn't realize is that minor tweaks to generalized email marketing tactics aren't enough to create a successful B2B campaign. Cycle length Buying something on your own doesn't take very long.

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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. An overwhelming number of marketing tools and email programs exist on the Internet today. Optimizely has some free features, however most of them are not and come with a sizable price tag.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

While email services haven't changed a lot over the past two decades, email apps keep getting better. Once niche (and expensive) features, like scheduling an email to send later or having a message reappear in your inbox in a few days, are now almost standard. Here's what I was looking for: The full email experience.

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