The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

If your company has an index card equivalent for organizing customer data and lending support, you're in need of help desk software. Source: Atlassian If your company also uses Jira Software, you can check any recent releases there to help diagnose the problem. But which one should you go with? And it doesn't end there.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

I've been updating this list for a few years now. Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. The most recent update was in June 2025. Recurring billing.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

At its simplest, it means replacing manual tasks—like updating a CRM or routing an invoice—with automated workflows. Maybe marketing has a few automation rules set up inside Salesforce , and IT has built some scripts, but there's no standard, secure way to scale automation across the company.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

As you type, Wix distills your answers into a site profile, including essential details like your business's category, location, and goals. It can write blog posts, send email campaigns, generate social media posts, and optimize Google Ads campaigns—you just need to review and approve the content before it takes action.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 11, 2025

Every other term on this list falls under the umbrella of AI, so it's a pretty fuzzy category to define. AI companies release new models all the time, consistently improving on previous models. AI companies often have multiple model families. For example, within a matter of years, we saw GPT-3, GPT-3.5, GPT-4, GPT-4.5,

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Whether it's the names of individuals, categories of products, or song titles, as long as the information is organized within a framework, it's structured data. Descriptive text: Think names (of people, products, companies), categories, or titles of works. Use unstructured data when you need to.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. My firm was an early investor in Overture (then called GoTo.com) who created this category.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Privacy and IP controls.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

Project management template example To illustrate, here's an example of a project management template in action: A marketing executive for a software company uses a project plan template to start every new campaign proposal. All your updates get logged in a Zapier Table for easy tracking. Try the template 3.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. Gust takes advantage of the cloud, and you should, too.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

What is Product-Market Fit The product-market fit describes the stage of a startup company where they have successfully identified a target customer and serve them with the right product. There are examples of companies that were sold without achieving a product-market fit, usually because they went viral. No market = no need!

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

We gathered 30 invaluable strategies from SEO Analysts, Founders, and other experts, ranging from optimizing content with targeted keywords to crafting blog posts that answer key questions. The advantage of Web Stories is that you can condense existing blog content or other content for easy sharing on various social media platforms.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

4:00 – From project to company. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. The main evolution is that now we work with companies as well, not just investors. When you look at the video game space, how does a company like Zynga. 00:45 – Where did the idea come from? 11:30 – Their first customers.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

He's helped scale companies like The Hustle and Gumroad, and now he has over 170,000 Twitter followers and tens of thousands of subscribers to his newsletter, which provides tactical growth advice for entrepreneurs and startups. You can expect copywriting lessons, swipe files, and notifications about popular blog posts each week.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

I've spent a lot of time reading and developing style guides, and this article will tell you everything you need to know about building a content style guide, from what it is, to whether your company truly needs it, to how to put one together. Not every company needs a style guide, but I'd argue that most benefit immensely from it.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. The most recent update was in April 2023.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. Tech stack.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 29, 2020

By: Kathie Priebe and Cristina Almeida, Managing Directors of Golden Seeds Reposted with permission from Golden Seeds blog. Editor’s note: This is an update to the original blog post, “How did she do it? KP and CA: Tell us about the origins of your company. KP and CA: What’s coming up next for your company?

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clint Korver, Partner at Ulu Ventures , remarked: “I’d compare this technology transformation as akin to what happened in public company investing. Keeping their records updated with the VC industry’s major data-trackers helps firms to market themselves to LPs. How do VCs originate investments? How do VCs originate investments?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. Tech stack.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

As the corporate IT environment grows increasingly complex, with remote working continuing apace and hybrid becoming the new normal, while cloud services exponentially expand, companies are losing visibility into cybersecurity threats. BAS is easier than manual penetration testing and is continuously updated.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

See this blog post for a full discussion.). The sort of fact-checking and editorial judgment exercised by traditional publishers cannot conceivably be applied to a “publication” with 100 million “authors” adding and updating UGC to the tune of billions of page views per day.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

So $25 billion publicly traded company. So I would say DNA-wise, The Hustle is kind of a unique company. Sam's a pretty unique dude that brought into your company. So, Sam is a kind of what I would think of as a kind of type A personality, just like he's out there, he's hustling [inaudible 00:07:47] the name of the company.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Categories.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Many people start companies arse backwards. This is one of the biggest source of future problems for the company. Our lives are intertwined.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Those in the latter category tend to become disruptors, known in today’s vernacular as inventors, influencers or entrepreneurs. What they need is a dose of self-discipline to balance company growth and fluctuating income. The post 3 Quotes to Remember When Launching a Venture Gets Tough appeared first on THE BLOG.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Quick blog here to update you on some pretty important movements in the market. Today, in a nasty day for stocks generally, shares of software and cloud companies took a pounding. That’s a very bad day for a huge, critical category of publicly traded wealth.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Company plans start at $35/month for three users.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2021

Contributed by Cass Polzin, co-founder of Zealous Advertising and content writer at Missinglettr, has been blogging for nearly a decade, turning her hobby into a career. Whether it be on your blog or in social media posts, consider using royalty-free images from sites like Unsplash or Pexels. Utilize Royalty-free Images When Possible.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

tinyEmail launched a few years ago and is mainly known for its free Shopify app; Klaviyo was launched in 2012 and is now a publicly-traded company worth billions of dollars. For example, a clothing company could promote flannel to customers in Vancouver and swimsuits to customers in Florida—all within the same email. The only drawback?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

AI writing generators once seemed like they were going to be the next big enterprise app category, but in reality, text generation is now more of a feature than a standalone business. Instead, there are thousands of apps that can generate anything from a text message to an email to a blog post to a white paper.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Far-fetched?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Skip ahead Using AI in automated workflows Automatically enrich inbound leads Research key accounts at scale Generate blog outlines Monitor trends in real time Optimize your content research To get started with a Zap template—what we call our pre-made workflows—just click on the button next to the name of a Zap you'd like to try.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Unless explicitly stated, we spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. And now, on to the apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2014

Update : Bothsides TV is now available on iTunes , Soundcloud , Stitcher , or any RSS podcast player you use, and don’t forget to subscribe on YouTube. Joe has worked on and and pioneered in online video for many years so if you have an interest in that category you’ll love the full interview we did.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

And most companies don’t do enough between board meetings. For the record, this is not a secret, coded messages to companies for which I am on the board! I found that too often it was an update meeting for investors rather than a meeting for my company to get value. But that isn’t what this post is about.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2021

Then, the card company tacks on fees to the merchant. They contact the merchant and change the shipping address to their own, or contact the shipping company and ask to reroute the delivery. Online orders fall into the Card Not Present (CNP) categories. and more articles from the EO blog. . Fighting e-commerce fraud.

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