The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

But now the gate is wide open: vibe coding tools, as coined by Andrej Karpathy , are here to make you forget the code even exists. Meet your new AI teammates Try Zapier Agents So, which ones are worth your time, money, and vibes? No-code was the first opening of that group to mere mortals like us. Minimal programming skills required.

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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. Facebook ad examples: Educational Education ads aim to teach the viewer something—whether it's how a product works, why a tool matters, or what action to take next.

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Let’s dive into the best Brevo alternatives on the market today! (TL;DR) 5 (1000+ reviews) Mailchimp All-in-one marketing for SMBs Comprehensive marketing suite with AI tools Free (paid from $13/month) 4.4/5 5 (13,000+ reviews) Constant Contact Event marketing and social integration Built-in event management tools $12/month 4.1/5

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 21, 2025

Bring the magic of automation to your users Expand your product's reach, deliver better user experiences, and accelerate growth with our suite of partner tools. High-quality documentation is a cornerstone of successful API development, giving value to both providers and users as they look to cut costs and build their own tools.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 27, 2025

One is the wide-eyed optimist who wants to try every tool and click every AI button. But it's also introducing new challenges: messy rollouts, tool overload, unclear guidelines, and real questions about what work even is now. The best AI adoption stories don't start with "We wanted to use AI."

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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

JULY 27, 2025

Become an AI orchestration expert Get the complete guide Across industries, teams are layering AI tools and automations together to create smarter, faster, and more dynamic systems than anything a single tool could do on its own. It gets your tools to communicate, share context, and act toward a shared outcome.

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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. Mailchimp and Brevo take notably different approaches here.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Automation used to be the best way to do that. But an automation tool that can also collect new data, learn from it, and handle complex decision-making? People don't follow structured algorithms to the T quite like automated tools, and AI can analyze huge amounts of data to inform decisions.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Frameworks give teams set guidelines, processes, and best practices for finishing projects on time and under (or at least within) budget. Structure: Putting a framework into practice means structuring it around standardized tools and templates. Those are the ones I'll cover here. It even comes with its own manifesto.)

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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. It's happening on your website, in your inbox, through social media, at events, or across dozens of other tools your team relies on every day.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

As a content marketer who's dabbled in building my own tools, I've learned to pick my battles carefully. While LLMs can provide me with code for just about any situation, using established tools can save me from a lot of headaches later on. Learn how These database tools store data: both associated app data (e.g.,

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StartupNation

JULY 22, 2025

It also increasingly involves using AI as a tool to handle mental effort and labor, dramatically reducing the time it takes to get things done. At the core of everything we do is one mission: helping people define their value and communicate it with impact, to meet their desired goals. The CEO called me right away. Armed with a Ph.D.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

At first glance, Jasper and ChatGPT seem similar—they're both generative AI tools that can create content in a split second. But there's a big difference here: ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that's flexible enough to handle just about any task you throw at it, while Jasper is a specialized AI marketing tool.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 17, 2025

Examples of AI orchestration 7 AI orchestration best practices Getting started with AI orchestration What is AI orchestration? AI orchestration is the connected, end-to-end application of AI tools, agents, and automations across workflows, teams, and systems. Zapier Enterprise Automation for every team, approved by IT.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 2, 2025

Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) is a business-grade version of Gmail and other Google tools and services. Option 1: Use Gmail with your custom domain through Google Workspace Pros: You can access Google Drive, Calendar, Meet, Docs, Sheets, and more, which is perfect for solo founders or growing teams.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

In this guide, I'll walk you through what I've learned—from what visual maps actually are, to practical examples you can steal, to the tools that help you create and automate them without it feeling like a chore. It's a communication nightmare that leads to inconsistent outcomes and endless meetings to "realign."

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

As someone who has spent many hours exploring various VoIP systems, I can attest that these are complex tools with a lot of capabilities, and it can take years of hands-on experience to truly understand their nuances. Plug-and-play hardware, intuitive software portals, and helpful onboarding are all big pluses.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

You can use Zapier's pre-built simple CRM template or sales CRM template to optimize your sales process with an elegant and personalized CRM tool that fits your business needs. A CRM is a customer relationship management tool that helps businesses organize, track, and nurture their interactions with leads, customers, and other contacts.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

It offers business and productivity tools that run the gamut from sales and marketing to finance and legal to IT and analytics. Zoho CRM Each app in Zoho's suite is priced separately, but you can get many of its apps in pre-packaged and discounted bundles that include tools relevant to a specific role or department.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Other weeks, my LinkedIn marketing efforts get pushed to the back burner while I scramble to meet project deadlines. That's when I started experimenting with LinkedIn marketing tools to find a sustainable rhythm that actually works for lead generation and business growth. month (billed annually); Business plan from $12.36/profile/month

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 24, 2025

If you'd asked me a year ago whether I could turn my barely-there coding knowledge into fully functional apps, internal tools, and custom widgets without hiring a developer, I would've smiled politely and quietly choked on my LaCroix. But since early 2025, I've been vibe coding my way to actual tools.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

I often used the minutes from SGA meetings to help me write my article, but I quickly realized that's about all they were being used for—SGA members never read them and usually forgot what they'd discussed in their meetings the next day. Table of contents: 8 meeting minutes templates and examples What are meeting minutes?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Over the past several years of updating this list, I've tested close to 50 different mind map tools, many multiple times as they've been updated and added new features—AI included. Pen and paper set a very high bar to clear, but these are the six best mind mapping apps that manage to clear it. It offers an unlimited canvas.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 18, 2025

What to look for in a document automation tool Document workflow automation ideas What is document automation? Zapier connects with thousands of apps , so you can customize your workflows to include all of your business-critical tools. Integration with your existing tools. Skip ahead What is document automation?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

Meet your new AI teammates Try Zapier Agents Instead of just being another chatbot, Perplexity is billed as an alternative to traditional search engines. I've been using both apps side-by-side for a few months now, so let's look at what sets the two tools apart.

data analysis

The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Free RACI chart templates Benefits of a RACI chart RACI chart examples and use cases How to create a RACI matrix RACI model best practices RACI model alternatives What is the RACI model? RACI is a management tool that helps distribute tasks and assign responsibilities in a clear and transparent way. Make it clear and understandable.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Suddenly, every process has a hundred steps, five tools, and a dozen people involved. It's about helping entire teams move faster, make better decisions, and stay aligned across tools and departments. For example, maybe you want to trigger onboarding workflows for new hires, or sync lead data across marketing and sales tools.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier Add that to the "pudding will get hot when heated" warning and the trademark "shower cap fits only one head" disclaimer, and you've got yourself an era in which communication plans are not only a helpful organizational tool but a very necessary one.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

You can do this by exporting a CSV file from your old tool and then using File > Import in Google Sheets to import it. And as your needs grow, you can always link your data to more powerful CRM tools. When a new row is added to your Customer Data sheet, create a corresponding task in your project management tool to follow up.

data validation

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Whether you're drafting blog posts from a content calendar, replying to leads with tailored emails, or summarizing customer feedback at scale, Claude becomes a hands-on collaborator inside fully automated systems. For example, let's say you store specific keywords for an article-to-be in a tool like Google Sheets or Airtable.

media

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

I've been covering AI developments for almost a decade now, and the idea of AI tools that can be trusted to operate independently has always been exciting—and just out of reach. Agentic AI is the latest attempt to create a framework for what these tools would look like and how they could safely operate. So let's dig in.

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The Zapier Blog

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 Generate and share content As a writing tool, ChatGPT is a pretty decent time-saver when it comes to generating first drafts.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 23, 2025

For years, I've relied on Fireflies as my AI meeting assistant during client calls. Spend less time on meeting prep Automate the process But as much as I appreciate what Fireflies gets right, a few of its quirks finally nudged me to explore other options. features to enhance your meeting notes Limitations of Granola.ai

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

When's the last time you whipped out a notebook in a virtual meeting? Spend less time on meeting prep Automate the process Fathom and Fireflies are two fan favorites at the moment. Spend less time on meeting prep Automate the process Fathom and Fireflies are two fan favorites at the moment.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

The project plan isn't just a roadmap for how to proceed; it's also a vital tool for managing risk, ensuring clarity and transparency, and serving as a communication medium between all stakeholders. You can customize it however you want and connect it to 8,000+ tools across your tech stack. Learn more about how it works.

strategy

The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

The AI terms you should actually know I've done my best to make these descriptions as easy to understand as possible without getting too into the weeds. You could tell an agentic AI system to "secure me the best flight" or "debug this codebase," and it could do it with minimal further human prompting.

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