The Zapier Blog

JULY 27, 2025

Here's how AI orchestration works and how nine real-world businesses are actually putting it into practice. Contact Sales In other words, AI orchestration is the end-to-end coordination of automations, AI tools, and AI agents across your business—using logic and adaptive intelligence to decide what should happen, when, and how.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 31, 2025

And while Mailchimp pretty much targets everyone, it's best known for serving small businesses, agencies, and direct-to-consumer eCommerce brands. Grow your business with marketing automation Learn how If you fit into one of the above demographics, consider it a strong early hint as to which direction you should go in.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

(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 2) Mailchimp – Good for small and mid-sized businesses 4.4/5

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (200+ reviews) AWeber Small businesses AI-powered content creation $15/month 4.2/5 5 (30+ reviews) Sender Small businesses Generous free plan with automation Free; $10/month paid 4.4/5 5 (200+ reviews) AWeber Small businesses AI-powered content creation $15/month 4.2/5

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Two of the most popular payment processors are Stripe and PayPal —but which is better for your business? If you're torn between Stripe and PayPal for your business, disregard these factors—they're (more or less) the same on both sides. Credit cards accepted: Both Stripe and PayPal can accept all major credit cards.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (1000+ reviews) Mailchimp Small businesses needing all-in-one marketing Comprehensive marketing hub with website builder Free (paid from $13/month) 4.4/5 5 (5000+ reviews) Brevo Budget-conscious businesses Generous free plan with unlimited contacts Free plan, $9/month 4.5/5 5 (1000+ reviews) 4.4/5

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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. TikTok marketing tips to grow your business Ready to turn TikTok into a high-performing marketing channel? So let's dive in. TikTok Shop was the fastest growing online retailer last year.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Let's talk about what it really means—and why your business desperately needs it. It uses structured logic and adaptive intelligence to decide which tool should act, when, and how—so your business moves faster without giving up control. " This guide will teach you everything you need to know about AI orchestration.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. These plugins check for on-page SEO factors like meta tags, schema markup, keyword density, and readability to ensure your content is in good shape. You'll also want a plugin that helps optimize your content. Extra features.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

TL;DR) GetResponse alternatives at a glance Tool Best For Key Advantage Starting Price Rating Campaign Monitor by Marigold Professional design-focused businesses Superior deliverability, drag-and-drop email builder, and prebuilt automated journeys Free plan; pricing starts at $12 USD/month 4.6/5 Let’s go. (TL;DR) ” — JoAnn H.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack. Pro tip: Start small. But tagging contacts and segmenting them manually can be a real drain on team resources, especially as your audience grows. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 28, 2025

Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack. For example, you might orchestrate a sales workflow that uses AI to analyze your lead data against set criteria and then add leads to your CRM with the relevant tag.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Improve your real estate business with automation Automate your CRM But with countless options on the market, how do you know which software is right for you? ​​I When shopping for a CRM, you should weigh these criteria against your personal and business needs. Here are some workflows to get you started.

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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. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As the co-founder and CEO of PropFuel , Dave is a one-of-a-kind entrepreneur dedicated to creating a place for unique conversations with successful founders and business leaders. Launching a podcast will require an investment from your business. If you can answer yes to this question, then a podcast is right for your business.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

If you’re not growing your business online in the current climate, you will likely leave a lot of money on the table. To ensure your business continues to take advantage of the changing tide, here are 21 ways to help accelerate the growth of your new business in the year ahead: Become a prolific content creator. year-over-year.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Not only were they files in the cloud, but they had all sorts of attached metadata like tags, comments, and groupings that didn't come in a neatly packaged desktop file. We met back in 2005 through our respective blogs—he was writing at Businesspundit at the time. This project, however, he was a bit skeptical about.

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OurCrowd

MAY 26, 2022

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. Its small-cell cocktail dramatically speeds up muscle fiber production and increases production capacity in a laboratory setting.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The features in Flickr seeded the consumer web gene pool for the following 7 or 8 years--tagging, favoriting, commenting, permalinks direct to content, newsfeeds, social consumption of media, sharing and embedding. People will be able to find what you do, not just how you write about what you do on a blog.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 29, 2010

There’s also been some great blog chatter from Sarah Tavel ( here ) and Josh Kopelman ( here and here ) on the topic. If you get a permit to do business in the city, you should automatically get signed up to take an online marketing course and be presented accounts in all of these local plays. Community is one solution I had in mind.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. I get to do a deep dive on their business model, product roadmap and competitive positioning. My job doesn’t involve the daily grind of customer complaints, product outages, business partner / channel problems, hiring / firing, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). TRUSTe serves consumer end-users, small-to-medium sized businesses and large enterprises. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. -Real-time search engine. Competes with McAfee , Thawte.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We were only paying for Zapier in order to pull business cards into Salesforce. 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. Import of data from business cards, signature files, etc. Second, high-quality customer service.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In recent times, marketing tools are becoming increasingly popular amongst businesses and the reason is simple. It helps such businesses gain an upper hand over the competition. Therefore, if you run a business (or plan to start one), it is an excellent idea to look into effective marketing tools to boost your efforts.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

B2B email marketing is a tactic for promoting products or services to business-to-business customers. Content like promotions, discounts, and sale announcements fit in a B2C campaign but would feel strange in an email to a business. Think from a human's perspective: what kinds of business emails do you pay attention to?

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Campaign Monitor

MARCH 8, 2022

Well, newsletters keep subscribers informed about your business or product without being overly “salesy.” They give subscribers the agency to engage with your business on their terms. . The small description is important. Why it works. Moz’s Top 10 email features simple, no-frill design elements. Why it works.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Building your own site gives you full control over your business, but it requires more effort and resources to attract shoppers. It depends entirely on your business model and what management style you're comfortable with. based business address to sell—plus, you have to present your business plan for approval.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 23, 2023

Although the form saved the team a home visit, it required highly skilled engineers to spend a ton of time meticulously tagging homeowner photos and log info across at least six different Google Suite tools. Twenty-four-hour reminders are really important because people have busy lives. We would have been out of business by now.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in an established media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

My story of ceding control of the business that I had no intention of ever leaving In 2017, I sold my startup to the largest company in the college sports recruiting industry. This is my story of starting and selling my startup, and what I learned from ceding control of the business that I had no intention of ever leaving. Unsatisfied.

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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. I’ve gone on social lunches with journalists where they’ve brought a small pad of paper and pen and left it on the table. In my blog I just save that for the comments where people can say what their perspectives are. Make yourself available.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

You know, looking at retail businesses or. So you do a little bit of everything in the world of business. As long as you're not out buying small islands and overtaking countries, that's a decent amount of money for folks. It's like, okay, now I'm keeping score in the, in the business Olympics against these other folks.

frameworks

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2010

There are, however, glimmers of hope--small examples of features and efforts that paint a clearer picture of what a great product experience needs to be. 3) Remix, Comment, Blog, Tweet. Now, I’m much more likely to share something on Twitter than I am to tag it in del.icio.us. I felt like I was throwing stuff into a void.

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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. An external consultant helping the Thames Water procurement team overturned the decision to use my company and got them to select a small software company. Tags: Startup Advice.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2010

When a reader lands on my blog, they’re going to run into a lot of people. Not only is my e-mail address on my blog, but I even have a live Plugoo widget that you can type into and send me a message on AIM. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. First off, there’s me.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. I was used to being allowed to fly business class and staying at nice hotels. A small refuge from a busy day of shaking hands and demo’ing products.

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