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. Let’s dive into the best Brevo alternatives on the market today. (TL;DR) 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 9, 2025

As anyone who's ever seen a cartoon plumber knows, the best pipeline management tool is a monkey wrench. But if you want to know the best sales pipeline management tool, unfortunately, you should probably read the next several thousand words of in-depth software analysis. All backed by the power of automation.

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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

JUNE 12, 2025

As a content marketer who's dabbled in building my own tools, I've learned to pick my battles carefully. But which platform should you use for your vibe coding projects? Firebase is best for vibe coders building flexible, real-time apps who want to work within Google's ecosystem. favorited items).

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

This ongoing need to reinvent is particularly impactful because the market is constantly changing, and frankly, the “bar is being raised.” For instance, moving away from feeling like one has to be the “hero” who fixes everything towards leveraging systems and others.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Decade-ago me would have laughed if I heard myself say this, but TikTok is a solid bet for almost any marketer. TikTok has a massive hold on Gen Z market—that's a massive market you can reach. TikTok marketing tips to grow your business Ready to turn TikTok into a high-performing marketing channel?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Getting paid is great, but sending invoices can be painful. You have to itemize charges, add taxes, track who paid, and chase down clients who don't pay. How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 22, 2025

Email marketers don't have to contend with constantly changing search algorithms and ranking factors—but that doesn't mean that an email sent is an email received. It's very possible that your marketing emails, and even your transactional emails, will never make it to the recipient.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

My own system was a chaotic mix of muscle memory and flagged emails. We're talking diagrams, symbols, and lines that show the steps, the sequence they happen in, who's responsible, and any critical decision points. It helps you chart out the various stages, decision points, and marketing channels you'll be using.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Ready to discover which email marketing solution might be a better fit for your needs? 5 (1000+ reviews) Mailchimp All-in-one marketing Comprehensive marketing stack with strong AI features Free (paid from $13/month) 4.4/5 Let’s go. (TL;DR) 5 100+ reviews) What’s “wrong” with GetResponse? (TL;DR)

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

Every season, I use a Google Sheet that tracks player stats, waiver wire targets, bye weeks, injury reports, and a deeply personal grudge list of everyone who's tried to hoodwink me into a lopsided trade. To stay ahead of competitors who would absolutely love to steal your customers, your company needs to be completely customer-centric.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

But which one should you go with? Zendesk for Service and Jira Service Management are two of the most popular help desk solutions on the market. Both Zendesk and Jira also allow you to customize the flow of conversation your bot should lead customers through, determining what questions it should ask and what data to collect.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Afterwards, you'll probably need to assign specific tasks to your team members or send leads a follow-up note. But don't let that content live in isolation—send it to your team, automatically. A casual Slack ping or email recap a day later is usually enough to keep things moving. Did you know?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

you're managing a handful of vendors, the next, your finance team is playing Whac-A-Mole with overdue notices, drowning in an inbox full of emails with the subject line "bumping this." For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. One minute.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

In this guide, I'll break down what enterprise automation really means, the challenges that make it harder than it should be, and how large organizations are using it to work faster with control and confidence. For example, maybe you want to trigger onboarding workflows for new hires, or sync lead data across marketing and sales tools.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

This step helps you understand what the automated process should look like—and whether your current workflows are even worth replicating. Who has access? Automation should be a living system, not a set-and-forget-it project. An example might include automatically sending team notifications whenever an incident is reported.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Meet your new AI teammates Try Zapier Agents Things get complicated because, as with all potential marketing terms, there's a rush to call everything agentic AI—whether it really clears the bar for autonomous action or not. Imagine an AI email app that automatically screens your incoming emails.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

With Zapier's ChatGPT integration , you automate everything from intelligent sales outreach, content marketing generation, or even image creation. Table of contents Which model should you use with our ChatGPT integration? Which model should you use with our ChatGPT integration?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

" away from Showcase Showdown glory, I drafted a meticulous battle plan for how I would crush all the people who think a toaster oven costs the same as a Camry. 14 free project plan templates Who uses the project plan template? Who crafts a project plan? Convinced I was just a hop, skip, and a "Come on down!"

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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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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 and gathered insights from real estate professionals who actually use these things every day to find the ultimate CRM for real estate agents.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Thank you to anybody who sent Jason a note on Twitter on my behalf. The episode isn’t yet live but it should be in the morning (probably when you’re reading this) – you can find it here. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. This is the market that Wonga serves and they are killing it!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). But many people naturally revert back to the question if they should just show ads. was the “static&# web.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

You should read it. Your goal should be to turn your VCs into extended members of your team to get real value from them. In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Email updates frequently.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. Some bloggers become so successful that they turn blogging into a full-time business. million per year from their blogs. What is a blog?

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. Some bloggers become so successful that they turn blogging into a full-time business. million per year from their blogs. What is a blog?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

If you're one of those people packing all those tasks and teams into a single, unified, potentially 4WD structure, these downloadable templates should help you set a workflow foundation and refine your project management skills. Table of contents: What are project management templates? Try the template 3.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. Some bloggers become so successful that they turn blogging into a full-time business. million per year from their blogs. What is a blog?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I’ve taken to saying, “Email is our personal to-do list that anybody adds to – whether they know us or not.” about their marathon 4-hour sessions to get to zero inbox or somebody else claiming email bankruptcy ( definition if you don’t know it already ). I have taken to limiting my outbound email.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

Even when I’m not the one being sued I find myself being dragged into deposition after deposition and my blog (along with all my emails) are being served as evidence. The vendor who previously serviced those accounts sued them. Lawsuits are becoming so prevalent these days. Lawsuits are on the rise.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Stewart Hillhouse writes actionable growth marketing insights as senior content lead at Demand Curve. By night, he interviews marketers and creatives on his podcast, Top Of Mind. Before getting into marketing, Stewart was a semi-professional lumberjack. There are very few marketing channels as well rounded as email newsletters.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Your customer acquisition strategy is the link between your marketing and customer relationship management. Once you’ve defined your target market segments , you understand their needs and desires. Would you like to expand into a new market? Target a new market segment? If your customers engage with email (who doesn’t?!),

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