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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. Of course, you can also build your own CRM spreadsheet from scratch in Google Sheets if you prefer.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

AI automation (sometimes referred to as intelligent automation) combines automation technologies with artificial intelligence (AI) to create systems that tackle complex work by learning, adapting, and making smart decisions. But an automation tool that can also collect new data, learn from it, and handle complex decision-making?

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

Here are the top 5 AI tools every small business should consider in 2025, along with how they can help busy professionals deal with a range of administrative tasks in areas of their companies to work smarter, not harder. Send a Slack message when a new Stripe payment comes in), and Zapiers AI will generate and optimize the automation for you.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Designed by Anthropic, Claude is a powerful chatbot that excels at summarizing text, writing code, and even creating content—everything you'd expect from an advanced AI assistant. Try Zapier Chatbots Create free custom AI chatbots to engage customers and take action with built-in automation. The best part?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

If you've heard the latest from OpenAI and ChatGPT, you'll know ChatGPT has released a new ecosystem of plugins, including the Zapier ChatGPT plugin. Explore now The Zapier ChatGPT plugin lets you connect thousands of apps (like Google Sheets, Gmail, or Slack) and automate tasks directly inside ChatGPT.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

The problem is what comes after meetings, like summarizing next steps or pulling insights from transcripts. And, even better, when you pair Read AI with Zapier, you can use AI and automation together to orchestrate entire processes around task creation, meeting follow-ups, and more. That's not really a problem. New to Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

And you want to build workflows that scale across departments without creating more work for the folks maintaining them. At its simplest, it means replacing manual tasks—like updating a CRM or routing an invoice—with automated workflows. Even simple automations might need buy-in from IT, legal, security, and department heads.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Google's Gemini era has been in full swing over the past year, integrating its Gemini family of AI models into nearly every corner of its product suite—from Google search to Google Workspace and beyond. Try Zapier Chatbots Create free custom AI chatbots to engage customers and take action with built-in automation.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

HubSpot replicated all the major functionality we were using from all the CRM/martech tools I just mentioned. For example, we’ve created workflows for automatic cleaning and standardizing of certain data fields. Email client : Superhuman , expensive but worth it. Import of data from business cards, signature files, etc.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

Starting a new job is already a nerve-racking parade of awkward handshakes, mysterious Slack channels, and wondering if it's too soon to take your first bathroom break. For instance: HR emails IT: "John Doe starts Monday. Can you get him a laptop, email, and CRM access?" Automated provisioning fixes that.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

More similar to relational database apps, Airtable approaches the spreadsheet from the perspective of a much more sophisticated database system, making it kind of a bridge between databases and spreadsheets. Airtable has a lot more features, and while it can present data in spreadsheet form, it's a much more dynamic database solution.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

With an ITSM template, you can do things like create change plans, assess risks using AI, track deployment, and view everything in the queue clearly. From the project, you can switch between priority views and quickly see the status of each request—features that make the lives of IT teams much easier. user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month*

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

It's helping millions of people write content, solve coding problems, and create games, among other ridiculous and impressive things. You'll find a bit of everything here, including ChatGPT alternatives that'll help you create content, AI chatbots that can search the web, and a few just-for-fun options. Easy access.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

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. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Trigger a follow-up email.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Intelligent automation (IA) combines robotic process automation (RPA) with artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies to create workflows that don't just function automatically, but also think, learn, and improve without human intervention. How to kickstart your IA strategy What is intelligent automation (IA)?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

In my years as a small business owner, I've experimented with several appointment scheduling apps—and I've learned what makes a tool stand out from the rest. For this article, I tested dozens of appointment schedulers to find the cream of the crop: the ones that will free up your time for more impactful business tasks.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

But our platform goes far beyond automating simple tasks— when X happens in one app, do Y in another. While automated workflows (we call them Zaps) are the perfect starting point to get more work done, they're just pieces of a much larger picture: applying automation and AI together to power full processes, not just tasks.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

For example, let's say you want to set a task's deadline to three days after a new lead comes in. You can use the date created field from your lead source, add a modifier such as +3d , and Zapier will automatically calculate that time from the date provided. Learn more about how it works.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

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. They can fill the gap by accepting data (like leads) from an app or by sending them to another app without the need for an integration.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 2, 2025

With just a few Zaps—what we call our automated workflows—you can automatically track orders in spreadsheets, create invoices, and improve customer engagement. When a new order is placed in WooCommerce, you can use automation to create a new contact or update an existing one in your email marketing platform of choice.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

When you automate your accounting workflows, you send data from one product to another, saving time and reducing the chance of error. Automation can handle many different accounting processes, from invoicing to expensing to internal communication. Accounting automation solves both of these problems. Faster month-end close.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Leap AI can then take those stills and create an avatar for you. Wait a few seconds, and you'll have four AI-generated images to choose from. You enter your prompt, and you'll be given a series of images to choose from. Imagine, as an example, you upload a few of your own personal headshots.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

You can start by automating individual tasks with simple workflows—what we call Zaps—and grow into orchestrating entire systems across apps, teams, and data. From lead follow-up to content distribution, these workflows show what's possible when everything just works—automatically. That's where Zapier comes in.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

That's why AI transcription tools like tl;dv are built to help you run the show, as it can automatically record, transcribe, and pull insights from meetings on the go. Try Zapier Chatbots Create free custom AI chatbots to engage customers and take action with built-in automation. New to Zapier? Sign up for free.

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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 16, 2025

Working in Slack means your channel topic is basically the team's bulletin board. Don't let Slack chaos rule your (work) life. Whether you're updating who's on call, sharing the latest meeting agenda, or highlighting important team documents, keeping your Slack channel topic up to date helps your team stay aligned.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

If you've ever struggled to keep webinars fun from start to finish, you'll love what Demio 's platform has to offer you. With features like real-time chat, polls, handouts, and the ability to bring attendees on stage, Demio helps you create experiences that are interactive and, thus, memorable.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

What you can do with Looping by Zapier How to get started with Looping by Zapier Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. With Looping, the same action steps run automatically for each product, all in a single Zap. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Cue the updates to your customer relationship manager (CRM), creation of follow-up tasks, and sharing insights with your team. Done manually, these tasks break your focus and slow you down. With Zapier, you can tame the chaos of workflows past and log every Dialpad call directly in a specified spreadsheet, automatically.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Enter Perplexity , the conversational AI search engine that gives you direct answers from real, reliable web sources and cites its answers—no endless link-hopping required. Or, if you're using a form to collect lead data and send it to a spreadsheet, let Perplexity enrich that data before creating a spreadsheet row.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Just like home automation and security systems have evolved to monitor everything from front doors to fire alarms, business security has also shifted to smarter, more connected solutions. That evolution has given rise to security automation, the practice of using software to automatically (and proactively) protect against security threats.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

From making bookings to managing global teams with zero meetings, creators and business owners are finding new ways to get more done using Zapier's automation orchestration platform. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

They just couldn't execute those tasks on their own. It injects your AI with a menu of apps and actions that you choose—like sending a DM in Slack or drafting an email in Outlook—then, at your command, it calls those tools for you. Or not without some seriously cumbersome technical upkeep, anyway. What is Zapier MCP?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Fathom is a powerful AI notetaker that records and transcribes your meetings automatically. No matter which meeting tool you use—like Zoom , Google Meet , or Teams —Fathom takes notes, summarizes key points, and creates action items so you can focus on the call itself. That's where automation comes in.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Our boards don't hover, our pets can't talk, and when I need to do something on the computer—like update my to-do list or change my Slack status—I have to physically touch the mouse and keyboard, sometimes several times a day. You can scan QR codes from quite far away, without needing to be right beside the tag.

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JUNE 1, 2025

With help from GrowthFusion, a Zapier Solution Partner , the company implemented a fully automated lead management system. Automating the meeting lifecycle The new system connected Calendly , Zapier Tables , and GoHighLevel CRM to create a closed-loop process from booking to follow-up. Zapier became the foundation to fix that.”

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Connect your VoIP platform to your business apps automatically Learn how And with so much work being performed at home or in combination with an office, the need for clunky desk-hogging wired phones just seems impractical. Download an app to start making calls from a desktop, laptop, and mobile phone in a matter of minutes.

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