The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Decade-ago me would have laughed if I heard myself say this, but TikTok is a solid bet for almost any marketer. TikTok has a massive hold on Gen Z market—that's a massive market you can reach. TikTok marketing tips to grow your business Ready to turn TikTok into a high-performing marketing channel?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

In this blog post, I'll walk you through exactly how to create your own chatbot using Interfaces—and offer a few ideas on specific use cases. Write your directive The most important part of your chatbot is the directive, as this will dictate the chatbot's use case.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

If you've heard the latest from OpenAI and ChatGPT, you'll know ChatGPT has released a new ecosystem of plugins, including the Zapier ChatGPT plugin. Explore now The Zapier ChatGPT plugin lets you connect thousands of apps (like Google Sheets, Gmail, or Slack) and automate tasks directly inside ChatGPT.

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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. For example: Marketing teams might use AI to speed up content production or automate AI image generation for social media posts.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 5, 2025

Sure, ChatGPT could punch up my writing and make me sound wittier than I truly am, but what was that doing for me, really? At Zapier, 89% of our team uses AI in their day-to-day work—writing code, tracking brand mentions across social platforms, analyzing customer sentiment —all in the name of working smarter.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene last year, AI writing tools have been big news. Of course, all AI writing software needs human supervision to deliver the best results. Of course, all AI writing software needs human supervision to deliver the best results. That's what us humans are for. (In Let's dig in.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

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. I'll be using ChatGPT and a few other free tools to show you how to create a social media post for Facebook. Can ChatGPT remember what you write?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Lesson 1: BC — Before ChatGPT Any form of thinking and thought process from B.C. — throw For example : If you get a quote from a vendor and you sense that he is NOT using ChatGPT (or AI) and the quote is based on a 2022 way of doing things, stop right there! And let your product be your marketing. throw it out the window.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

. “If you’re a writer as a career it’s maddening, in part because style is not the same as writing a f **g whitepaper for a business that needs to be in active voice or whatever,” author Ilana Masad said. “Style is style!” “It feels really bad,” she said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Typeface , a startup developing an AI-powered dashboard for drafting marketing copy and images, emerged from stealth this week with $65 million in venture equity backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV (Google Ventures), M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund) and Menlo Ventures. Uptake has been swift.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

There’s a lot of noise right now about how generative AIs like ChatGPT and Bard are going to revolutionize various aspects of the web, but companies targeting narrower verticals are already experiencing success. Then you load up its maw with the last 10 years of annual reports, financials, blog posts and so on to make it yours.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Table of contents Create official tasks from your action items Share meeting notes with your team Add meeting attendees and engagements to your CRM Use AI to write the right follow-up message Keep a running log of your meetings To get started with a Zap template—what we call our pre-made workflows—just click on the button.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From optimizing your sales funnel to getting a head start with sales/marketing copy, here are 9 answers to the question, “How can a startup (with limited capital and resources) utilize artificial intelligence in their business?” It can also be used to convert an outline for a blog or article into a functional draft.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

The best AI social media management software FeedHive for content recycling and conditional posting Vista Social for connecting lots of social media channels together Buffer for turning content ideas into multiple posts Audiense for intelligent social listening on Twitter Ocoya for writing captions and hashtags Predis.ai

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Content marketing is a huge lift, but repurposing your content for social media is a whole different beast. After spending years in the content marketing world, I can easily say that adapting different types of media—videos, audio, and the written word—to fit the very specific demands of social media is no walk in the park.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Increases organizational agility: AI automation helps your business keep up with zig-zagging market trends without missing a beat. Do more with ChatGPT Discover more ways to add AI to your workflows. Consider the generic welcome email, a classic of the "better than nothing" school of marketing.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

How to Leverage SEO to Drive Traffic to Your Startup’s Website In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, leveraging SEO is crucial for driving traffic to a startup’s website. Additionally, we want to avoid writing similar content to prevent page cannibalization and spam on our site.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Three years ago Zoom settled with the FTC over a claim of deceptive marketing around security claims, having been accused of overstating the strength of the encryption it offered. Now the videoconferencing platform could be headed for a similar tangle in Europe in relation to its privacy small print.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

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. And this is kind of the crux of the issue. AI design apps.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 14, 2025

Writing is about the reader - the infinitely busy reader who has a thousand things to do & three goals to accomplish by the end of the quarter. In the past, great content marketers have segmented readers into personas, written witty hooks to entice visitors to dwell. Nobody nants to read your stuff. What will attract the reader?

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 2, 2025

Until recently, turning raw web data into something useful meant hours of manual scraping or writing custom scripts just to pull the exact insights you needed. Fortunately, with tools like Browse AI , you can easily extract data from any website so that you can monitor changes (like competitor pricing or product inventory) automatically.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

I'm skeptical of most marketing claims, but nothing triggers a raised eyebrow faster than someone saying AI "will revolutionize" sales. Use AI & Zapier to write your sales emails Here's how "Our entire outbound pipeline—from list creation to first touch—is AI-powered," he says. Here's what they said.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

In the User Message field, write the prompt you'd like Claude to use for your data. Related reading: Automatically answer form responses with ChatGPT Your guide to form and survey automation Automation ideas to do more with Google Forms Then search for Anthropic (Claude) for your action app and Send Message for your action event.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts , hyper-charging productivity. Major brands are experimenting with it, using the AI to generate ad and marketing copy, for example. And OpenAI is heavily investing in it.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

With new technologies like AI revolutionizing the way we approach marketing , the landscape is becoming increasingly more complex—and it feels like it's shifting every day. To stay up to date with the latest trends, I've become something of a marketing newsletter hoarder. three is the minimum number to make a pattern).

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

From feeding the hungry to using AI to write the perfect cover letter, the innovation was beyond impressive. In the past, it took him three days to write, quality-check, and send a single newsletter to the PSFK community. A delightful trio of ChatGPT, Airtable, and Zapier—ready to streamline the process. The solution?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

If you still want to read more about how the job market is doing, I have two add-ons! Read this latest by Ron Miller, which gives us some needed hope on why the tech job market might not be as shaky as we think. Remember the public markets? As always, you can follow me on Twitter or Instagram to continue the conversation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2023

writing more broadly that “value investing in venture is like restricting your search for your lost keys under only brightly lit street lamps.” Tan added in the same thread, “Competition and high valuations exist because large possible markets represent large possible outcomes. It’s the promise of horizontal tech.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

on January 31, Sarah writes. Chatting, but with a bot : Everyone’s ChatGPTing. Dubious ChatGPT apps are flooding the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. It gives brands a way to conduct market research and collect first-party data, which is important as marketers prepare for a post-cookie world.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 22, 2023

Here’s what marketers can do instead to control their top-of-funnel. Credit: Hopin Marketers, Google just revealed substantial changes at Google I/O 2023. Historically, paid and organic traffic drive the top of the marketing funnel. The marketing qualified leads (MQLs) turn into sales opportunities that are won or lost.‍

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The same venture capital rounds that allowed companies to expand their idea of what a total addressable market could look like, are the same tranches that may have forced an overspending and overhiring spree that now requires a correction. OpenAI’s ChatGPT shows why implementation is key with generative AI. Were you laid off?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Success breeds IPO : Shared vehicle company Lime reported its first profitable year, with Rebecca writing that “Lime has figured out how to make shared micromobility a sustainable business.” Manish writes that this investment marks the largest check Amazon’s Smbhav Venture Fund has written thus far.

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