The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Case in point: as a business owner, I grew my new TikTok account to over 1,200 followers and 150K views in a matter of months. Instead of heading to Google, lots of people start their searches on TikTok. TikTok marketing tips to grow your business Ready to turn TikTok into a high-performing marketing channel?

media 100

media creativity strategy B2B marketing 100

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

If you're throwing together a quick social media graphic, making a poster for an upcoming event, or even creating a presentation, Canva is one of the best design tools you can use—but it isn't the only one. That's personal preference, of course, but I feel it puts me in a good position to talk about the best apps like Canva.

media 59

media mix-use creativity collaboration 59

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. It offers business and productivity tools that run the gamut from sales and marketing to finance and legal to IT and analytics. What is Zoho used for?

collaboration 52

collaboration financing finance enablement 52

The Zapier Blog

JULY 4, 2025

We independently review every app we recommend in our best apps lists. One of the first plugins I heard about when I started using WordPress was Yoast SEO. 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. Learn more.

frameworks 66

frameworks enablement consulting SaaS 66

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

I tried every productivity hack in the book, but the constant switching between "client mode" and "personal brand mode" was burning me out. That's when I started experimenting with LinkedIn marketing tools to find a sustainable rhythm that actually works for lead generation and business growth.

strategy 52

strategy networking media SaaS 52

The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

That's why I set out to find the absolute best accounts payable software. 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. There's no one single best AP automation software. One minute.

financing 91

financing finance mix-use collaboration 91

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. I'll also give you a step-by-step guide to turning a blank canvas into a bustling hub of customer interactions.

data validation 98

data validation creativity technology 98

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

5 things you should automate today Start automating To figure out when you should be working on each thing you want to accomplish, you need to identify your chronotype. Once you understand your chronotype—and start using that understanding to schedule your daily tasks—your productivity will get the boost it needs.

creativity 98

creativity energy frameworks culture 98

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? In it she observes that only 3% of the comments on this blog are from women. Please watch this.

entrepreneurs 341

entrepreneurs entrepreneurship VC pitching 341

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. Many of my best friends have MBAs.

VC 337

VC peer-to-peer advice consulting 337

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I’ve always believed it’s been one of the most important attributes of business success yet something very few business leaders talk about. The one that works best for me is visualization coupled with self talk. Almost all business success relies on creativity. Just 12 bullet points & you’re done.

creativity 356

creativity frameworks media innovation 356

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 16, 2020

Even during the best of times, it requires long hours, endless devotion, and a willingness to take big risks and make gut-wrenching decisions. The amount of difficult tasks and important communication threads business owners must juggle every day has grown by an unimaginable magnitude. Action-oriented. Collaborative.

leadership 264

leadership collaboration incumbents entrepreneurship 264

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. So he decided to start his company in Canada.

education 282

education creativity innovation entrepreneurs 282

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

” The local kennels were full as many people had pre-booked for vacations. She started watching dogs in her spare time through DogVacay and was able make ends meet during a tough period. Without DogVacay my Thanksgiving would have been ruined. That’s a fact. And I’m not an investor. I just had to tell this story.

collaboration 344

collaboration VC accelerator consulting 344

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

After leaving my first job at age 20, I attempted to start two small businesses, but both failed miserably before even getting off the ground because of the high costs of importing goods to Jamaica. I started an e-commerce boutique, Accessories & Essentials — Jamaica’s first full-service online boutique.

entrepreneurship 245

entrepreneurship financing finance education 245

StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. Startup costs are low and the nature of the business is flexible. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. million per year from their blogs. What is a blog? Source: Mantran.

media 98

media strategy education collaboration 98

StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. Startup costs are low and the nature of the business is flexible. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. million per year from their blogs. What is a blog? Source: Mantran.

media 98

media strategy education collaboration 98

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product.

entrepreneurs 374

entrepreneurs incubation board VC 374

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He started selling the mixtapes out of his trunk and even gave away some of his music. On why you should be an entrepreneur, “A lot of people do what they have to do. You want to get yourself to a position where you can do what you want to do&# (Chamillionaire). He was riveting. He received that only round of applause of the evening.

entrepreneurs 356

entrepreneurs media VC creativity 356

Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 27, 2024

This process starts with selecting digital collaboration tools. That study echoes anecdotes by leaders such as Sallie Krawcheck, CEO of Ellevest, who claimed remote work made her employees more productive but less innovative, and Sam Altman, two-time CEO of Open AI, who said that remote work undermined creativity for startups.

innovation 210

innovation creativity collaboration consulting 210

StartupNation

JANUARY 7, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. Startup costs are low and the nature of the business is flexible. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. million per year from their blogs. What is a blog? Source: Mantran.

media 89

media strategy education collaboration 89

Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I keep a Post-It on my wall with a quote from a professor at my alma mater, Harvard Business School: “Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. That start-up idea that you’re sure nobody has ever thought of? In such a crowded field, why should anyone do business with you over someone else offering similar services?

peer-to-peer 130

peer-to-peer makerspace entrepreneurship entrepreneurs 130

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this?

networking 318

networking mix-use innovation development 318

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2018

Alice Mann’s latest book, Future First: How Successful Leaders Turn Innovation Challenges into New Value Frontiers is an important read for any business leader or entrepreneur who wishes to embrace global challenges as innovation opportunities. Why did you write this book? And we only lost power for two weeks.

opportunity 130

opportunity energy consulting innovation 130

StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

If you’re not growing your business online in the current climate, you will likely leave a lot of money on the table. To ensure your business continues to take advantage of the changing tide, here are 21 ways to help accelerate the growth of your new business in the year ahead: Become a prolific content creator. year-over-year.

peer-to-peer 145

peer-to-peer creativity mix-use collaboration 145

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize.

peer-to-peer 379

peer-to-peer mix-use consulting advice 379

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts.

incumbents 376

incumbents disruption frameworks innovation 376

Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And, I think but can’t prove, both were business failures. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. Subscribe by email. Invested Interests. Who Makes the Money on an Inevitable Shoe Dropping?

startup 180

startup pitching disruption mix-use 180

Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Michèle Hecken : I had sold my business and was writing a book, which made me curious about public speaking. Contributed to EO by Marina Byezhanova , an active member-leader within EO and a member of EO Canada Bridge chapter. She is the co-founder of Brand of a Leader , the personal branding agency for entrepreneurs.

peer-to-peer 176

peer-to-peer leadership entrepreneurs communities 176

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 26, 2024

At EO’s 2024 Global Leadership Conference (GLC) in Singapore, guest speaker Mo Gawdat , former Chief Business Officer of Google X and current Chief AI Officer of Flight Story, addressed these questions in his presentation, “Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, and Business.” AI is Inevitable AI is not a question of if, but when. “AI

media 158

media leadership innovation collaboration 158

Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

No matter what you may have heard or read in the blogosphere, there is simply no platform in the world where you can post a profile and expect money to start flowing. With that background, here are 30 tips to help you make the most of Gust: Subscribe to the Gust Blog , and go back and read the past posts.

VC 159

VC angel investing pitching entrepreneurs 159

Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

I’ve read hundreds of books over my entrepreneurial career, a large number of them biographies and autobiographies on famous entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, Ray Croc, Howard Schultz and many others. Reading all these books had a powerful cumulative effect that helped reprogram me into an unreasonable thinker. ” . “I

economic growth 130

economic growth consulting sustainability education 130

Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2018

A version of this article first appeared on Feliks’ Medium blog. . I learned the hard way that starting a company and managing one require a different set of skills. The Integrator tends to work on building the organization and maintaining business harmony. When is the best time to hire a COO? Why hire a COO?

board 130

board creativity networking founder 130

Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 29, 2015

As part of our firm’s rebranding strategy for McKenzie Pitch Partners, which was anchored by the publication of founder Hamish McKenzie’s new book, we held an innovative event in New York City that showcased Hamish’s philosophy in action. Honing their strategies and stories with Hamish, both got their best pitches together.

pitching 100

pitching collaboration consulting hospitality 100

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 17, 2019

A version of this article originally appeared on Violet’s LinkedIn blog. These are women who have fought against all odds, made a mark in the business world and crafted their own brands of leadership. These are women who have fought against all odds, made a mark in the business world and crafted their own brands of leadership.

entrepreneurs 100

entrepreneurs culture advice sustainability 100

Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2016

“Starting a SPARK” Sometimes all it takes is a little spark to start a revolution. You both hail from a business background, not an educational one. What ignited the idea to start an independent school system? Historically, South Africa ranks among the worst-performing education systems in the world.

entrepreneurship 130

entrepreneurship education peer-to-peer culture 130

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

“Personal Branding” The term is fingernails on a chalkboard-level cringe for many of the best founders—mostly because it feels most of the people who spend time building their personal brand don’t actually have much there there behind it. At best it’s boasting and at worst, it’s blowing smoke. That’s just not how it works.

founder 259

founder pitching VC creativity 259