The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

." But to my—and humanity's—intense relief, integrating AI into your business doesn't require assimilation by a terrifying cybernetic collective. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. If your competitors are automating and you're not, you're playing catch-up.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Get your leads where you need them Automate Facebook Lead Ads Here, I've rounded up standout Facebook ad examples that do just that. Away This Away ad features a Recess Therapy -style interview with a child sharing why she loves to travel, set against the backdrop of Away's new luggage collection for kids. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

That's email automation at its finest. Specifically, you need an automation game plan. In this guide to email marketing automation, we'll walk you through what it is, how it works, best practices, and how you can get the most out of it with Zapier. Table of contents What is email marketing automation?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

When you connect Grain with Zapier, you can orchestrate entire systems with AI and automation to streamline the way you hold meetings (and everything that comes after). Here are a few ways to leverage your team's collective knowledge across your business. It's workflow automation software that lets you focus on what matters.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Automation used to be the best way to do that. And while AI has since come on the scene, it hasn't replaced automation—it's made it better. Now, I delegate to AI automation. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. Table of contents: What is AI automation?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Make your Google Sheets work for you Automate Google Sheets Spreadsheet CRMs are perfect for those just starting out or small business owners looking to upgrade from that old shoebox under their desk. It includes a pre-built Customer Data sheet to store lead/customer info, an Interactions tracker, and a Dashboard with some basic reporting.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Investing in a unified platform—where all your apps are connected via a shared system—can simplify data management, prevent silos, streamline communication, and reduce operating costs. Automate Zoho What is Zoho? Survey Marketing Create and send surveys to collect and analyze feedback from contacts. What is Zoho used for?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Do more with your data. Automate your database. Learn how These database tools store data: both associated app data (e.g., inventory) and user data (e.g., They enable CRUD—the ability to create, read, update, and delete data—in vibe coding tools , according to specified rules and policies. favorited items).

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

Whereas today’s marketers need to craft and iterate on their own prompts, tomorrow’s marketers will be able to create brand-aligned assets by ingesting signals from existing, and increasingly important first-party data (e.g., The data loop also occurs in real time, allowing for real-time iteration. via Captions ).

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Unlike a multi-channel marketing setup where all the channels operate independently of one another, in cross-channel marketing, all the participating channels continuously exchange data and insights between themselves, essentially building off one another. It collects information from customers.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

But once your app is live, managing users, forms, emails, and data across platforms can cost you valuable time. And that's where automation can help. With Zapier, you can build automated workflows (we call them Zaps) that connect Softr to your other tools in minutes, safely and securely. New to Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Try Zapier Chatbots Create free custom AI chatbots to engage customers and take action with built-in automation. Get started But pair Claude with Zapier, and it becomes part of something bigger: an AI orchestration engine that connects your apps, data, and logic across your entire processes. Here are a few ways to get started.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Data gets siloed. And automation—the thing that was supposed to make life easier—starts to feel impossible to scale. You want to empower teams to automate their work but not open up a tangle of permissions and shadow IT. Zapier Enterprise Automation for every team, approved by IT. Things slow down.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Get more out of your spreadsheets with automation Automate spreadsheets Many people may be able to use these two related products interchangeably for general use, but more nuanced use cases will probably prove one to be an easy choice over the other. It's also completely free.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Your database—automated Store, edit, share, and automate data all in one tool. That means you can create automated workflows that eliminate some of the repetitive work associated with project management—like task creation. It's workflow automation software that lets you focus on what matters. New to Zapier?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

In a press release, McKinsey says it plans to use the startup’s tech and team of 70 data scientists to bolster its QuantumBlack platform, McKinsey’s data analytics-focused group, with “industry-specific” AI solutions. TechCrunch previously reported that the startup was valued at $100 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Everything is synced directly from Shopify to the app in real-time, so the merchant’s inventory, products and collections are all kept up-to-date. That’s a big differentiator from some rivals, which require duplicate sets of data and data transformation. Image Credits: Tapcart.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Try Zapier Chatbots Create free custom AI chatbots to engage customers and take action with built-in automation. Get started Gemini the chatbot can browse the web, conduct in-depth research, analyze data, connect with other Google products—you name it, it can do it. Here's how. New to Zapier? Sign up for free. Instead, use Zapier.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Engaging content Blog posts, FAQs, and detailed product or service descriptions build trust and credibility. Collect and respond to customer reviews. Heres how: Start a blog Share how-to guides, case studies, and industry insights. Repurpose content A blog post can be turned into an infographic, video, or email newsletter.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 7, 2017

I amassed quite a collection and decided that I could use my growing inventory to start a rental company. The post Turning an Addiction into a Dream Job appeared first on THE BLOG. In third grade, I saw an opportunity and grew it into my first entrepreneurial experience.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Content in all forms, be it blogs, infographics, or podcasts, is still the preferred choice of businesses to connect with their customers. Apart from customer service, chatbots are also playing a big role in marketing automation. For example, they can collect sales leads and send customized emails or messages to people.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

If your company has an index card equivalent for organizing customer data and lending support, you're in need of help desk software. 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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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Whether that's turning a bunch of data into a live website or visualizing relationships between piles of notes, they've got you covered. Turn your Notion workspace into an information hub Automate Notion Notion makes accessing its available tools and options easy with thoughtful prompts. Want to post a job listing?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

It'll support your social media strategy with content generation, sentiment analysis, and big data insights. Use automation to share, engage, and cross-post without lifting a finger Learn how I researched and tested every AI tool for social media management that I could get my hands on, and I found a lot of useful options.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

ChatGPT added plugins to the bot, which means you can also use it to fetch data, run programs, and access third-party services. Natural language is the new no-code, and with Zapier's ChatGPT plugin , you can search for data inside any of your connected apps and trigger workflows, all by chatting. Here are a couple of examples.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Try a tool like Chartbeat or Google Analytics to track your visitors and see if they’re “bouncing” (immediately leaving), what pages they’re clicking into and other data you can mine to increase performance. Then build your well-written blog posts around these terms and watch your traffic grow. Customer relationship management.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 10, 2023

We have a collection of thousands of notes researching startups. We have been researching the robotic process automation (RPA) space. One could imagine replacing the background or introduction sections in an investment memo or producing a blog post from this in about 2 minutes on a laptop. Summarization works out of the box.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

While a large part of the Trueworks platform is about supporting so-called “instant verifications,” sometimes it’s not always possible to do so, depending on the individual’s personal employment history and status, meaning that a lender has to revert to collecting paper payslips and documents.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Promote and publish your WordPress articles with automation Learn how So, if you're looking for a WordPress form plugin to quickly create contact forms, online surveys, registration forms, or applications, you've come to the right place. Here are a few ideas to get you started automating Happyforms. for the first year).

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 7, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Jon Brewton, the founder and CEO of Data² , a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) specializing in AI-powered solutions for data integration and reasoning. His leadership has positioned Data² as a trailblazer in providing secure, explainable, and trusted AI solutions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

While investment slowed in early 2022 compared to 2021, startups developing transportation and logistics technologies still collected $14 billion in Q1 alone, according to PitchBook. “The pandemic significantly accelerated on-demand delivery, the growth of the gig economy and software automation.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

There's a lot that goes into robots like these (and the ones we interact with online, like ChatGPT): automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, to name a few. Table of contents: What is intelligent automation (IA)? How to kickstart your IA strategy What is intelligent automation (IA)?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Automate your email marketing Reach your audience For a company, on the other hand, the purchasing process can be a lot like herding cats. Save time by automating Email marketing automation allows you to complete detailed tasks that would be impossibly time-consuming to do manually. out-of-the-box design.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 23, 2023

That’s why David Laderberg , the Vice President of Smart Charge America, relies on automation to scale the company. Automated quote forms keep the company ahead of the growth curve Every Smart Charge America project starts with a custom quote for each unique job. When every second counts, saving a few hours a day is a big deal.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

But when you pair Keap with Zapier, your sales team can do even better work by automating processes like collecting leads from different channels, logging meeting notes, and tracking invoices. With just a few Zaps—our word for automated workflows—you can connect Keap to the other apps you use every day.

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