Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

It is perhaps the best new product of the past 5 years in terms of improving my professional life. Clamping down on app ecosystems. Case in point, “ Why Your Uber Driver Hates Uber ” is a blog post dressed up as journalism. They need somebody who can get their own cars, fit the best possible GPS, and start driving.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

On August 23rd, 2013 I had an email intro from my good friend and trusted source Jeff Berman who only sends me stuff when it is somebody he respects (ie a strong filter vs. those who send casual intros). But I’m guessing the narrative is similar elsewhere. He hit me from two very trusted sources. The Walt Disney Corporation.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. Some bloggers become so successful that they turn blogging into a full-time business. million per year from their blogs. What is a blog?

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. Some bloggers become so successful that they turn blogging into a full-time business. million per year from their blogs. What is a blog?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

We independently review every app we recommend in our best apps lists. This year, to help you avoid analysis paralysis, I researched more than 50 free invoicing apps and spent several days testing the top contenders. There's no one perfect solution when it comes to the best free invoicing tools. Learn more.

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Blogging can be a profitable side business. You can monetize your blog through affiliate marketing, sponsored posts, display ads, and selling digital and physical products. Some bloggers become so successful that they turn blogging into a full-time business. million per year from their blogs. What is a blog?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

As soon as you hit that purchase button, you'll receive an email confirmation. That's email automation at its finest. But then let's say you receive a welcome email which offers you tips and resources on pet care. Those are all examples of email marketing. Every industry benefits from email marketing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 27, 2022

Dan and his team shared their expertise on how scheduling software can improve productivity—and which ones are best. . From our experience, a good scheduling app is a boon for any business that needs to conduct multiple meetings a week. It has a slight learning curve that allows almost everyone to take advantage of the app easily. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Most of us spend 28% of our workdays checking email. On average, people need around 23 minutes to get back on track after checking email. All-in-all, email takes up 1,048 hours every year, or 52% of your time at work. Even as you invest more and more time managing emails, your to-do list keeps getting longer, not shorter.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 6, 2024

Anyone – yes, even you – can build a web app, saving you both time and money. Well, allow me to say with the same confidence: Anyone can build an app. A big part of the reason I started Blaze.tech is to empower non-developers to build apps and automation tools. Anyone can build an internal tool. It’s tedious and error-prone.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are the top blog posts EO published on Inc.com in 2023: 1. How to Master the Art of Difficult Conversations in Your Business Shawn Johal (EO Montreal), a leadership speaker, best-selling author, and founder of business growth practice Elevation Leaders , shared how he handles challenging conversations in his company.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. You can alert the appropriate person within your organization so they can take action, whether it's sending an email, making a phone call, or following up in another way.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2025

Automation of Repetitive Tasks AI agents can handle mundane tasks such as email responses, appointment scheduling, and inventory management. Marketing & Social Media Management AI agents can automate marketing tasks such as content creation, social media posting, and email marketing campaigns. Tools like Jasper AI and Copy.ai

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

It means connecting AI tools—like ChatGPT , Claude , or custom models —to the apps and systems your team already uses, so they can help you automate repetitive tasks, surface better insights, and move faster. And the best part is that you don't need a PhD in machine learning to integrate AI into your business. Learn more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

I tell people that they need to blog about their industry to drive customers and not blog to their egos to drive their peer group to their blogs. This is precisely why the best online marketers I’ve ever met will never tell you their secrets and what is performing well for them. Success begets success.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

From CRMs to helpdesks, project management platforms, and beyond, it's down to IT to manage those apps, assign seats, and monitor their infrastructure. But when those apps don't work well together or connect through an integration, IT teams end up with fragmented systems and siloed apps.

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JULY 10, 2025

Instead of creating a social media strategy that drives users off the app and onto your website (which most platforms penalize brands for), TikTok lets brands upload their product catalog and tag products in their posts. Your stream appears in the Live tab of the mobile app—and in some cases, the For You page. Free video editors.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

While email services haven't changed a lot over the past two decades, email apps keep getting better. 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.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Even in a world where it's hard to command attention, the email inbox is still the place we trust to keep up with what matters to us. And with search engine algorithms and social media platforms constantly in flux, having a rich email list that you own and control is more important than ever.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Disillusioned employees have alienated good customers, incompetent managers have killed productivity, and the best talent has left for the competition. TINYPulse , a cloud-based service that sends out weekly survey emails, captures anonymous feedback from employees and offers tools to help management visualize and analyze the data.

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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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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. Zoho has approximately one zillion apps that cover you across your organization, and here, I'll walk you through everything on offer.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2016

USA, on a Wednesday, travel to London that afternoon and finalize a sale through an email on the flight. While I’ll continue to do business via email, I’m embracing the unique opportunities that have come from mobile applications (apps). I’ve been able to attend a morning conference in Washington, D.C.,

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JUNE 2, 2025

And while you might feel very attached to the email account you opened when you were a pre-teen— dragonmaster93[at]gmail.com does have a nice ring to it—it's time to swap that out for one that ends with your business domain name. But here's the thing: most custom domain hosting platforms have outdated email interfaces and features.

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JUNE 23, 2025

Model Best for Inputs Outputs Context window Pricing GPT-4o Multimodal tasks (text, images, audio) Text, Audio, Images Text, Audio 128,000 tokens $10/M tokens for text; $80/M tokens for audio per output tokens GPT-4.1 M tokens for text; $20/M tokens for audio o4-mini Affordable reasoning and logic Text, Images Text 200,000 tokens $4.40/M

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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. There have been major upgrades to both apps since I first started using them, so I dug into each one again to see how their features stack up.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

I use some of these apps daily as a prompt to make my writing more concise and, hopefully, more enjoyable. I considered dozens of apps and did in-depth testing on the top contenders to narrow it down to these six apps. 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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2023

Here’s an easy way to think about it: Every time you or someone in your company performs a standard action online — browsing a website, receiving an email, using an app, or Googling something — you use up data and energy. Email is a significant cause of stress, loss of workplace productivity, and data energy usage. Reconsider.

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MAY 21, 2025

ChatGPT for Business AI Content & Customer Service Best For: Automating customer support, content creation, and internal workflows OpenAIs ChatGPT has evolved into a robust business solution in 2025, offering a range of capabilities through a single platform. Now, with natural language input, you can describe a workflow (e.g.,

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Learn how These database tools store data: both associated app data (e.g., Firebase is best for vibe coders building flexible, real-time apps who want to work within Google's ecosystem. Do more with your data. Automate your database. inventory) and user data (e.g., favorited items).

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

Too often, brands focus on just showcasing products or services, but the best way to attract your target market is to focus on the benefits your product or service brings. Build a content website or add a blog. Build your email list. Using apps like Vyper.ai I use a plugin called Grow , which does all that for you.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

I considered and researched dozens of apps and did in-depth testing on the top 20 contenders to narrow it down to these eight form plugins for WordPress. 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.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Hate every journaling app? Journaling apps can help you figure this out and help you establish a daily writing routine. Journaling apps can help you figure this out and help you establish a daily writing routine. Click on any app to learn more about why I chose it, or keep reading for more context on journal apps.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

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. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. The best part? Try Zapier MCP!

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JULY 8, 2025

Zoom has cemented its status as the default video conferencing app, no matter if you're working remotely full time or just hop on an occasional video call. Zapier is a no-code automation tool that lets you connect your apps into automated workflows, so that every person and every business can move forward at growth speed.

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