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. You might be great at networking and leading but bad at planning and managing. Are you a shaper vs. a completer-finisher? - Are you a leader vs. a manager? - Are you technically inclined? -

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2015

Trello – Some of the smartest people I know still send themselves tasks to complete via email. Surely that’s the worst way to remind yourself of a task. Until a few years ago I had tried every task management list and failed each time so I, too, resorted to email to-do’s. I use it often enough.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 17, 2010

I’ve been thinking lately about services that I think would benefit from a platform play and here are five that I think are pretty compelling: Dropbox – Everytime I do something that feels somewhat manual and archaic with a file, I keep thinking that there should be a programmable folder that automates that task.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

As an IT professional, you're tasked with safeguarding your business from any tech disasters. Fortunately with Zapier, you can build, deploy, and scale AI-powered agents that handle recurring tasks in the background automatically. Tools: Apps, functions (like web search), and data sources the agent will use to perform tasks.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

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. Plus, Brevo now includes meeting scheduling and phone features, so you can manage all your sales communication in one place.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

It means connecting AI tools—like ChatGPT , Claude , or custom models —to the apps and systems your team already uses, so they can help you automate repetitive tasks, surface better insights, and move faster. Or, let's say you're managing a content team. AI can knock out repetitive tasks in seconds.

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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. . I’ve been my own Salesforce admin for over a decade.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

At its simplest, it means replacing manual tasks—like updating a CRM or routing an invoice—with automated workflows. If your teams are spending hours each week on manual, repeatable tasks—or if processes routinely break down when handoffs happen between departments—you're probably ready.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Google Sheets is simple, quick to onboard, and comparatively limited in its use cases, making it a good choice for teams that just want basic data management. 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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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. By combining this with more optimal management and execution, you will likely find that you’re experiencing an increase in ROI. Audio file management. Improved staff accountability.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

For example, your online banking system uses it to quickly pull up your transaction history, and a customer relationship management (CRM) system can filter contacts based on specific criteria because the data is neatly organized. It's less about one being superior and more about using the appropriate tool for the task.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

They are tasked with “getting deals done&# so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc. They’re tasked with doing … marketing.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

But for Simple.Biz , who manages ad campaigns for law firms and other service-driven clients, this meant juggling outdated CRMs, disconnected data, and a serious lack of attribution visibility. Zapier lets us put a name tag on every lead. So when Zapier published a blog post about tracking , it sparked an idea, and a solution.

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StartupNation

APRIL 27, 2021

Look at products on Amazon, conduct a Google search, review websites and blogs related to the topic and see what they’re promoting and how they’re doing it. When I launched it as a general career advice blog, I didn’t gain any traction. Many business managers have budgets set and money that’s tagged for spending.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Save time by automating Email marketing automation allows you to complete detailed tasks that would be impossibly time-consuming to do manually. For example, you might set up an automation that tags email contacts with any new information you receive about them, like demographic details and job characteristics.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Build a content website or add a blog. Create and add products to a Facebook shop first, connect your Instagram Business account and start tagging! Signing up for full-service ad management services such as Mediavine, Ezoic, or Adthrive allow you to choose the types of websites and publications on which you’d like your ads to display.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. I looked at the SEO tools each website builder offers, such as the ability to adjust page titles and meta descriptions, add alt tags, and upload a site map. You can edit meta and alt tags and optimize for mobile.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Whether you're just getting started or have a thriving eCommerce business, managing orders can be a lot. Instead of copying data between apps by hand or manually providing updates to your team, you can build automated workflows to handle the repetitive tasks. How does eCommerce automation work? How does eCommerce automation work?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

Keap is passionate about keeping things personal—something every sales team wants when managing customer relationships. Built with flexibility in mind to meet any growing small business's needs, this popular CRM also allows you to grow your revenue, streamline email follow-up, and assign tasks to the right people.

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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. Twitter-like @mentions let you tag people, with Outlook automatically adding their email addresses in the To: field, which can come in handy if you're often adding coworkers to emails halfway through writing them.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 27, 2023

Natalia Brzezinska, Marketing & Outreach Manager, UK Passport Photo Obsessing Over Ranking SEO for e-commerce, despite what many marketers will tell you, being on the top page of search results isn’t the goal; it’s all about driving traffic that converts into purchases. Hamza Usmani, Head of content, SEO-Audits.io

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. So many companies suck at managing their booths. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

Note: A Looping step doesn't count toward your task usage, but each action completed after this step counts as a single task. That way, you can process large lists in manageable batches or avoid reaching your plan's task limit. A search step finds all the tasks within a specific Asana project.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

With just a few Zaps (our word for automated workflows), you can automate how knowledge flows into and out of Glean, whether that's keeping Glean up to date, automatically enriching docs and tasks with contextual info, or even creating a custom answers bot in your team communication tool. Here's how. New to Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

These Zaps automatically create items in your project management app of choice whenever a new recording or transcript is added in tl;dv. Create tasks from meeting notes Whether you spend most of your workday on sales calls or only attend a few meetings a month, at least a few of your action items probably originate from video calls.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 1, 2016

Gaurav Agarwala, an EO Kolkata member and Managing Director of Neora Hydro, Ltd. I was tasked with leading the first-time trekkers, a mighty responsibility that tested my leadership skills and awoke in me abilities I never knew I had. Gaurav Agarwala (pictured) is an EO Kolkata member and the managing director of Neora Hydro, Ltd.,

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

My first task wasn’t managing an inbox or scheduling meetings,” Connor said. “It It was managing Zaps. An onboarding project is also created that both the customer and onboarding rep have access to view integrations tasks and progress. What he did have was a willingness to learn and an eye for efficiency. “My

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Whether it’s keeping the team on target, handing off customers to other teams, or just maintaining ticket hygiene, the tasks can quickly pile up and often lead to points of friction or wasted effort. Maintain ticket hygiene Things can get disorganized fast if you're managing a high volume of support requests.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Automate your IT management workflows Learn how Dogs don't know what running clothes are, per se, but they pick up easily on patterns of behavior. Like many other AI use cases, AIOps can turn these data-driven insights into scripts, run books, and actions to take basic IT tasks off team members' plates. How does AIOps work?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

You need something to keep things straight when juggling client management, property listings, and the looming threat of being upstaged by that insufferably smug agent from the office across the street. Workflow management: Real estate involves numerous tasks and deadlines, and a CRM that can streamline your workflow is essential.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Pick a task that you think should take roughly 25 minutes to accomplish. Bigger tasks will need to be split into smaller chunks. Add automation to your Pomodoro techniques to spend less time tracking and more time focused on your tasks. Here are ways to use automated workflows for time tracking and task management.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

If the recruiting manager’s job consisted solely of reviewing your resume it would be an easy task. One of the most common tasks of “knowledge workers&# is to analyze a situation and present conclusions to others in order to make decisions on a project. You, the king of the overly long blog posts?

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