Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Obviously I’m a proponent of still working closely with your investors to make sure that they feel bought into your decisions which will matter a lot if you ever need their support in the future. And here’s an important point that I think modern entrepreneurs often forget: Investors are “co-owners” of your business.

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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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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

From qualifying leads to supporting online customer service, there are several ways to effectively utilize chatbots for your small business. Most of what’s out there today is no better than the old automated call center tools — and we all know how frustrating those can be. Respond with new blogs. What happened next?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

But ChatGPT works even better (and helps you carry out tasks at scale) when you pair it with automation. With Zapier's ChatGPT integration , you automate everything from intelligent sales outreach, content marketing generation, or even image creation. Check out OpenAI's pricing structure and other supported GPT-4 models.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2023

Statistics from 2022 tell us that only 2% of customers convert after the first point of contact, but about 80% of sales leads convert by the 12th follow-up. However, most salespeople give up after one attempt to contact the potential customer. No automation sequence set up after someone subscribes to a newsletter.

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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 9, 2025

Invoice automation helps simplify that process by capturing and processing invoices automatically. With your invoice automation system in place, you can eliminate repetitive work while also improving the timeliness and accuracy of your records. Skip ahead What is invoice automation? How does invoice automation work?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. At Zapier, 89% of our team uses AI in their day-to-day work—writing code, tracking brand mentions across social platforms, analyzing customer sentiment —all in the name of working smarter. " So I put it to the test.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

I used to work at a children's shoe store, and we kept all our customer information on index cards (.yeah). So when a customer came into the store asking about their previous shoe size, naturally, we had lost their information and couldn't help them. But which one should you go with? user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month*

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

In 2025, AI has become a game-changer for small businesses looking to streamline operations, boost productivity, improve customer experiences, and gain a competitive edge. Whether you’re a solo entrepreneur or managing a growing team, integrating AI tools can significantly reduce manual workloads and unlock new growth opportunities.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Boost your team's productivity Automate your CRM The best pipeline management software helps sales teams by keeping prospects engaged and the data you have about them organized. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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StartupNation

JUNE 11, 2025

Spreading your income across multiple sources not only cushions you against market fluctuations but also opens up exciting new avenues for yourself and your team. Simply look at the products you’re already selling and think about ways you can cater to different types of customers.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Your team needs to move fast. You're launching campaigns, closing deals, onboarding customers—and trying to keep up with everything in between. And automation—the thing that was supposed to make life easier—starts to feel impossible to scale. Zapier Enterprise Automation for every team, approved by IT.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Brooke is founder and president of Cathedral Capital , which provides strategic financial advice to drive profit by creating customized teams of financial professionals to analyze data trends and guide entrepreneurs through their numbers so they can predictably scale and grow their businesses. and more articles from the EO blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Make your own custom AI chatbot Try Zapier Interfaces I've spent countless hours using both apps in my personal and professional life. Jasper is built for marketing teams and is better for creating marketing content. For example, I used Jasper to help me scale content production for my previously niche website.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

A customer relationship management tool (or CRM) is a critical hub for sales and marketing teams—but it's not just a place to store contact details. When used effectively, your CRM becomes a central command center for tracking relationships, managing pipelines, and coordinating touchpoints across your entire customer journey.

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StartupNation

JUNE 11, 2025

Spreading your income across multiple sources not only cushions you against market fluctuations but also opens up exciting new avenues for yourself and your team. Simply look at the products you’re already selling and think about ways you can cater to different types of customers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

The first ChatGPT-inflected startup that caught our eye was Yuma , whose customer demographic is primarily — but not exclusively — Shopify merchants. “ But they all have one thing in common: they all hate customer support. ” Yumi, it should be pointed out, has competition in spades.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

An automated status updater for Slack isn’t the only thing Mozilla acquired this week. ” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source project.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 2, 2025

But here's the thing: most custom domain hosting platforms have outdated email interfaces and features. Instead, you can connect your custom domain to Gmail. What is a custom domain email? A custom domain email shows potential clients you're serious about and invested in your business.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

With an intuitive drag-and-drop editor, Softr makes it easy for non-technical folks to whip up custom-made business tools, like customer portals and internal databases. And that's where automation can help. It's workflow automation software that lets you focus on what matters. New to Zapier? The result?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

One of the biggest ways modern business owners are streamlining business operations is by utilizing automated software solutions to take care of essential tasks quickly and accurately. Here are three software automation techniques that can have a big impact on how you do business. #1 1 E-commerce & inventory management automation.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Use automation to support brainstorming, delegation, and communication Learn how I do most of my mind mapping digitally—and even when I don't, I often recreate a paper mind map online so that I can have it safely stored and easily searched. (It's While it can be done as a group, it's often a solo practice.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

5 things you should automate today Start automating Google and Microsoft are the big names when it comes to unified platforms, but there's another player in the game: Zoho. Automate Zoho What is Zoho? Table of contents : What is Zoho? What is Zoho used for? Is Zoho free or paid? Zoho apps: An overview What is Zoho One?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Let Zaps handle data processing, content generation, and smarter customer interactions. Zendesk Zendesk just leveled up your customer support game. With the new Find Tickets action and New Suspended Ticket trigger, you can monitor flagged tickets, take action fasterr, and keep customers happy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Proving that there’s an appetite for bots, Salesforce today announced that it will acquire Troops.ai, a bot-based service that integrates with Slack to make it easier for sales teams to retrieve and update data across Salesforce’s various systems. “When we started Troops, we wanted to reimagine how work gets done.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 1, 2016

Praveen Varshney, a long-time EO Vancouver member and investor in Lyft, Guiides.com, ShareShed and other sharing-economy companies, is capitalizing on this new movement while helping the environment through supporting a culture of access over ownership. The post Benefits of a Shared-Economy Business Model appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 14, 2016

A company using technology to run their business may not have a CIO, but each member of the team should think like one. Here are five business values where custom software can improve results. Delivery Value : For many companies, the finish line is delivering a product or service to a customer.

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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. It's workflow automation software that lets you focus on what matters. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Not surprisingly, a survey done by Statista found that content marketing was believed to be the most effective digital marketing technique according to marketers — followed by marketing automation, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI). Today, inbound marketing is inescapable for any startup that wants to be successful online.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 7, 2017

While I’ve always loved supporting fellow entrepreneurs by sharing experiences, it’s interesting how this evolved to be the focus of Entreholic. In just one month, we got over US$10,000 worth of digital marketing, graphics, content and sales support for less than US$800. How did that become your focus? It wasn’t my initial plan.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Your database—automated Store, edit, share, and automate data all in one tool. Try Zapier Tables Podio has a lot of great features, from custom project structures to collaboration tools for working with others, that elevate it from the lowly notebook. It's workflow automation software that lets you focus on what matters.

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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. Marketing tools that help automate processes such as customer follow-ups, up-sells, and down-sells can lead to a boost in the lifetime value of your customers.

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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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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Lead with support. Over-investing in customer support can help a new tech company build loyalty and advocacy quickly. It can also help large, established software companies significantly expand their marketplace by building a loyal customer base. But SMBs represent an incredible market opportunity.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

There's a better way to tame your inbox Automate your inbox Things are particularly good if you use macOS. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Support for most popular email services. Here's what I was looking for: The full email experience.

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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. With it, you can pull the power of Gemini into the rest of your tech stack so that it becomes a hands-on collaborator across teams, processes, and automated workflows. Here's how. New to Zapier?

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