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.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

AI is bringing efficiency to small businesses as never seen before. Five top AI tools are presented that have directly increased the productivity of staffs and departments of small businesses. As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly evolves, its no longer just enterprise-level companies reaping the benefits.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Here's a quick overview, but keep reading for a deep dive into my experience with the apps and who they're best for. Plus, Brevo now includes meeting scheduling and phone features, so you can manage all your sales communication in one place.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

But producing content, handling the posting schedule, and finding what your audience wants to read can be hard—even with a standard social media management app. But AI is changing the game. Here are the eight best AI apps for managing your social media. But you're here, so you're looking for something more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

I've grouped them into categories to make things easier to scan, but keep in mind: the best ads don't always fit neatly into a box. Zapier This Zapier ad promotes a free online quiz targeting tech leads and decision-makers to understand their AI readiness. No vague promises—only a specific benefit for the user.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Automation triggers specific actions based on events (say, if a server goes offline) or on a set schedule (like running performance monitoring every Friday). Below are some best practices (with practical tips) to help you get the most out of your IT automation efforts. Define your automation goals Start with the "why."

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

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. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

We independently review every app we recommend in our best apps lists. 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. 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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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

Over the past year, generative AI’s capacity for content creation has drawn most of the noisiest headlines: how AI models can instantaneously create Pixar-like shorts starring your pet chihuahua, or drum up the Drake-Kendrick Lamar diss track you never knew you wanted. Concurrently, the way companies view marketing is changing.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack. Payment scheduling.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Bookings Sales An online scheduler app to create calendars for client appointments, with sync features for other calendars like Google and Microsoft Outlook. Social Marketing Manage all social media activities in one place, including scheduling, monitoring, and analyzing the performance of posts.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

That means automation tools need to meet enterprise-grade security standards and offer transparency into how AI is being used. Here are a few of the most common approaches to enterprise automation (each of which might use a mix of BPA, RPA, integrations, rule-based automation, and AI). Access and permissions.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

Do more with OpenAI Discover more ways to add AI to your workflows. Tip: When you're setting up your actions , you can include specific values (instead of having the AI guess) to increase the likelihood of success. If you're nervous about having AI send a finished email for you—don't worry.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

No two service-based businesses are alike, which means it can be hard to find an appointment scheduling app that works for you. Maybe you're a salon that lets clients book services with individual providers, or perhaps your consulting agency needs a simple online appointment scheduling tool to organize discovery calls.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

The idea is to unify everything from sifting through customer feedback with AI (pulling from places like Zendesk or Gong), to building out your roadmaps, managing sprints, and connecting all this to your strategic goals and even your enterprise stack like Jira or Snowflake.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Let AI write your business emails Learn how Emails can be an incredibly effective communication tool—if you know how to craft attention-grabbing ones. In a short-attention-span world, it's best to get right to the point immediately and do your explaining later. But that doesn't mean you should abandon emails altogether.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Once niche (and expensive) features, like scheduling an email to send later or having a message reappear in your inbox in a few days, are now almost standard. 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.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Its home screen better guides you through the interface, through pre-written starter notes and an AI-powered universal search, where you can ask any query or search how to execute a particular workflow. You can create forms, charts, timelines, calendar schedules, Gantt charts, and anything else you can think of.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

But it's hard to land on the best idea out of the dozens flying around inside your head. 4 workflows to better market your brand on social media Read now If you're stuck in this cycle, you can use AI to break it and get things moving forward. To get the most useful answers, you need to give it as much context as possible.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It showcases the professional’s business, including collecting online reviews, scheduling bookings and accepting payments. Meanwhile, the AI generates additional content, including local listings and automating social media content. The interface creates a custom website with search-engine optimization that can go live the same day.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Build your own AI chatbot with no-code Here's how Personal AI is building an answer to these questions. It lets you train your own artificial intelligence (AI) model, so you can organize and share your work and life in a more in-depth way. I've been training my own personal AI model over the past few weeks.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

an OurCrowd subsidiary offering AI solutions for business, made headlines in the Wall Street Journal , CNBC , Arabian Business , Wired , The National , Fintech.TV , Jerusalem Post and around the world. Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2022 highlight four OurCrowd startups. Startup of the Week NetOp keeps enterprise networks running.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Or you can scroll to the end for a quick summary of which email marketing service will be best for you. Moving across to Mailchimp, you get a choice of email builders: New (beta)—use AI-assisted tools to optimize content and help boost engagement. Classic —create a design using the classic interface, templates, and styles.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It then uses AI to update the projections dynamically saving us significant manual work. I didn’t invent this, I learned about it from other blogs but it is widely used within the loan industry. Healthy businesses won’t need to ask for a complex payment schedule because they have enough cash to feel comfortable. Character? —?This

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2024

For instance, if blogging has been a fertile ground for leads and brand awareness, then it’s time to amplify your efforts. Revigorate your keyword research and publishing schedule. We hired quickly, filling gaps with the best possible candidate. It’s about taking what’s already successful and pushing it to new heights.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 13, 2021

In this blog post, I’ll share what we learned setting up our remote-first startup. It has a proprietary AI baked-in that can do crazy magic things like this , this , or that. We found that the tricks we learned and that are listed in this blog post are applicable in both of these contexts. Why should you trust the way we did it?

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Sutton Place Strategies helps private equity funds identify the best-positioned intermediaries (investment banks) for their sector.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. I use Calendly for scheduling; another option is X.ai, a virtual assistant which can coordinate your fundraising and other meetings. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

However, all of the current talk about machine learning and AI tools running on top of these databases is absolutely nonsensical, unless there is keen focus and incentives on getting the underlying data right. With this report we hope to promote best practice amongst both VC firms and LPs. Respondents. .

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

With tools like Tables , Interfaces , Chatbots , and AI-powered agents , it's easy to build workflows that not only run smoothly but evolve with your business. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Trying to schedule events in Discord without a calendar feels a lot like playing Minecraft without a map or coordinates. Use Discord's Scheduled Events feature 🎮 Best for simpler events and Discord-native scheduling Discord's built-in Scheduled Events feature is like placing a signpost in the middle of your Minecraft village.

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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. Another AI by Zapier step formats the summaries for Slack using Markdown. Learn more. What is Looping by Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

But in a busy channel, it's easy to forget to update it—leaving outdated info like last quarter's strategy or last week's on-call schedule front and center. Add an AI step with ChatGPT or AI by Zapier to automatically draft unique copy for you. Don't let Slack chaos rule your (work) life. Start here.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

With Copilot, our AI-powered Zap builder, you don't have to whip up a new workflow from scratch. Even if you assign a team member to update contacts in Copper, is that really the best use of their time? Or, if someone schedules a meeting through Calendly , a Zap can create or update their Copper record immediately.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Fathom is a powerful AI notetaker that records and transcribes your meetings automatically. Plus, each transcription takes about 30 seconds flat to produce, which is pretty speedy (even for AI). Plus, each transcription takes about 30 seconds flat to produce, which is pretty speedy (even for AI).

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

I use Calendly to share my schedule with prospective clients—and sometimes my clients send me their links, too. Your availability schedule. You set your default schedule on the Availability page of your account. Calendly requires at least one schedule to be defined, but you can create as many as you want (e.g.,

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