The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

When used effectively, your CRM becomes a central command center for tracking relationships, managing pipelines, and coordinating touchpoints across your entire customer journey. A lot of times, the "other system" is used for lead capture, like a form on a website.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 27, 2025

Their team of receptionists and AI agents serves businesses like law firms and home service providers by answering questions, booking appointments, and qualifying leads, all in real time. Proactive triage with real-time customer feedback Client feedback is gold, but only if you can act on it fast.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 24, 2025

The first time I opened a GitHub link, I had no idea what I was looking at—just a bunch of files, commit messages that might as well have been written using hieroglyphs, and a lot of buttons I was too scared to click. It's built on Git, a version control system that tracks every change made to your files.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Reporting Gaps: Analytics and reporting lack depth and real-time insights, making it harder to track campaign performance compared to competitors. Prebuilt Automated Journeys : Leverage prebuilt journeys (welcome series, abandoned cart, anniversaries, and events) to save time, boost engagement, and drive conversions.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Inconsistent Customer Support – Limited support options with slow response times when technical issues arise. Prebuilt Automated Journeys : Leverage prebuilt journeys (welcome series, abandoned cart, anniversaries, and events) to save time, boost engagement, and drive conversions.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Prebuilt Automated Journeys : Leverage prebuilt journeys (welcome series, abandoned cart, anniversaries, and events) to save time, boost engagement, and drive conversions. These tools, along with performance tracking and the ability to manage all clients from a single interface, help agencies optimize their workflow and campaign performance.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Do more with TikTok's Lead Generation Automate lead tracking Whether you're a B2B marketer or content creator ready to turn TikTok into a revenue machine, you need to understand how to get the most out of your TikTok marketing strategy. I personally love Duolingo's mascot—the giant green owl gets me every time.

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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. On the backend, though, PayPal has implemented AI features like Agent Toolkit, which allows devs to automate behind-the-scenes commerce operations like subscriptions, refunds, shipment tracking, and payment flows.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Unlike simple rule-based automation , AI automation manages repetitive workflows by learning patterns and optimizing processes over time. Within AI orchestration, AI management often includes: Real-time monitoring tracks performance, data flow, and workflow status to identify issues proactively.

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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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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." Shield shows your top-performing posts in one dashboard, making it easy to spot patterns in what's working—whether it's the hook, post format, or timing.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (12K+ reviews) Sendy Self-hosted solution One-time payment with Amazon SES integration $69 (lifetime) 4.4/5 Prebuilt Automated Journeys : Leverage prebuilt journeys (welcome series, abandoned cart, anniversaries, and events) to save time, boost engagement, and drive conversions.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

They're intended to deliver timely, personalized content to you, the customer, to deepen engagement and encourage repeat purchases. Track performance and iterate Every automated email is a chance to learn about your audience. Pro tip: Use A/B testing to experiment with subject lines, CTA language, or send times.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 18, 2025

That's what document automation does: it moves information and files around for you, saving you time. For example, you might want to automatically create a new document (such as a Google Doc) with pre-filled information every time a client fills out a form. That way, your team can spend more time on higher-impact work.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

How to know if your business is ready for enterprise process automation There's no perfect checklist, but a few signals can help you know when it's time to invest in enterprise automation. AI-assisted enterprise automation Spend any time online and you might think AI is just about generating awkward headshots or robotic blog intros.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

" It's a played-out expression, but it underlines a significant truth of our time—data, like oil, is fueling growth and innovation. 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.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

The software should also allow you to track the source of each lead, so you can focus your efforts on productive channels. Real estate automation can save you significant time by handling routine tasks like follow-up emails and appointment scheduling.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

I spent a bunch of time in each of these apps, and here's how the Airtable vs. Google Sheets showdown went. Google Sheets basically translated the time-tested spreadsheet format popularized by Microsoft Excel into a web app. Airtable makes it easy to adapt its product to just about any use case through its new app templates.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

It’s often a combination of luck, relationships & timing. But every time I do recruiting I get so many applicants that don’t come close to the spec that I feel I have to put up at least some filters to avoid people unlikely to be hired from putting in too much work. Often these jobs aren’t even publicized.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

They put students on “tracks&# where the better performing students end up getting the better teachers and more resources so the young students who don’t score well out of the gate get left behind. school system, Michelle Rhee who was profiled in Time Magazine. Those were different times and it was a different city.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I relive the moment so many times over in my mind wondering if I could have done this differently or if I shouldn’t have said or done this or that. I don’t want to lose next time. Good news always comes quickly, bad news takes time to simmer. By the time I got through to the guys on Tuesday we had lost.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I relive the moment so many times over in my mind wondering if I could have done this differently or if I shouldn’t have said or done this or that. I don’t want to lose next time. Good news always comes quickly, bad news takes time to simmer. By the time I got through to the guys on Tuesday we had lost.

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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. So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc. Then came blogs. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I track specifically the communities for emerging managers at Emerging VC and private equity investors: Accelerators, Platforms, Communities, and Incubators. Micah Mador, Partnerships Manager, Bolster , said in a presentation at the VC Platform Summit , “ Investors get hit up ALL THE TIME and everyone wants ‘access to their portfolio’.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. For instance, tracking ‘months-of-runway’ combined with the month-over-month change to that metric allows us to rapidly identify companies that may be distressed. For example, I suggest it doesn’t make a lot of sense to hire a full-time team member who’s an SEO consultant.

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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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OurCrowd

APRIL 8, 2022

Ukraine: Innovation for troubled times. Lebara deal fast-tracks Rewire’s European growth. Consumer interest in buying sustainable, lab-grown meat and seafood is growing, but the price tag can be a deal-breaker. The post Newsletter: Alternative energy storage + Ukraine crisis and innovation appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. For instance, tracking ‘months-of-runway’ combined with the month-over-month change to that metric allows us to rapidly identify companies that may be distressed. For example, I suggest it doesn’t make a lot of sense to hire a full-time team member who’s an SEO consultant.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 24, 2022

Software product development needs considerable time and resources for testing, which requires complex workflows built and maintained by expensive DevOps engineers. You don’t have to be an engineer to use its proprietary drag-and-drop interface which can slash the time to release software by over 50% and significantly cut costs.

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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. ElliQ proactively engages its users, helping to contact loved ones and keeping track of their well being. Many features attracted us to ElliQ.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

One of the most difficult things to do as a first time entrepreneur is to get to know the investors you might be working with if you accept money. This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices.

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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. We also wanted tight integration with our email client (Superhuman (best) or Gmail , including pixel tracking of when emails were opened. RRM=Draft a response for me.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In recent times, marketing tools are becoming increasingly popular amongst businesses and the reason is simple. 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. per month or a one-time payment of $39.50. So, don’t stop reading.

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Feedough

JANUARY 3, 2021

The same year saw the development of HTTP cookie that helped the advertiser and publisher track user behaviour. The late 2000s and early 2010s saw the launch of YouTube, Smartphones, iPad, Instagram, Snapchat, Internet of Things, and Real-Time Bidding that later changed the advertising scenario to: Bidding In-app and mobile Microtargeting.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

For this list, I dug deep through the pool of email clients for macOS, spent time testing each contender, and landed on these five apps as the best email clients for Mac. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Apple Mail is quick to set up.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

What this means in practice: since email marketing campaigns last the length of the customer journey, expect your marketing cycles for B2B companies to take a lot more time. Save time by automating Email marketing automation allows you to complete detailed tasks that would be impossibly time-consuming to do manually.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. That said, I think videoconferencing will supplant more in-person meetings over time.). Tech stack.

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