StartupNation

JUNE 11, 2025

Spreading your income across multiple sources not only cushions you against market fluctuations but also opens up exciting new avenues for yourself and your team. So, a software company with only one version of their product might consider creating a “lite” and “elite” version.

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StartupNation

JUNE 11, 2025

Spreading your income across multiple sources not only cushions you against market fluctuations but also opens up exciting new avenues for yourself and your team. So, a software company with only one version of their product might consider creating a “lite” and “elite” version.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Free invoicing software makes the billing process a whole lot easier. Streamline your invoicing workflows with automation Learn how And with so many great free invoicing tools out there, you can streamline the process without any upfront investment. As I tested, I considered: Value of the free plan.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Is Zoho free or paid? Zoho is a cloud-based software suite like Microsoft Office or Google Workspace. It offers business and productivity tools that run the gamut from sales and marketing to finance and legal to IT and analytics. Is Zoho free or paid? Table of contents : What is Zoho? What is Zoho used for?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

My own system was a chaotic mix of muscle memory and flagged emails. Software development: Agile boards Agile boards are designed to visualize the beautiful chaos of building software. It helps you chart out the various stages, decision points, and marketing channels you'll be using.

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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

JUNE 30, 2025

But once your app is live, managing users, forms, emails, and data across platforms can cost you valuable time. Want Zaps that connect your data, send emails for you, and handle your busywork automatically? It's workflow automation software that lets you focus on what matters. And that's where automation can help.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

The 3 main types of CRM software Boost your customer relationships with automation Customer relationship management FAQ What is a CRM? This gives every team—Sales, Marketing, Support, the people who decide what goes in the vending machine—a shared 360-degree customer view. Table of contents: What is a CRM? What does a CRM system do?

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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. Zendesk for Service and Jira Service Management are two of the most popular help desk solutions on the market. But which one should you go with? user/month* Premium: $57.50/user/month*

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Invoices come in from all over: think your email, cloud folders, and payment processors. Popular accounts payable automation software How to integrate invoice automation with your business systems Supercharge your invoice automation with AI What is invoice automation? Learn more. Skip ahead What is invoice automation?

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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. Probably a shipping update, too. Learn more.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

you're managing a handful of vendors, the next, your finance team is playing Whac-A-Mole with overdue notices, drowning in an inbox full of emails with the subject line "bumping this." That's why I set out to find the absolute best accounts payable software. There's no one single best AP automation software.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

It's workflow automation software that lets you focus on what matters. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. However you communicate with your team members, be that via Slack or email, you can use Zapier to send them those notes right after a meeting ends. Here are a few ways to get started.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Try Zapier Chatbots Create free custom AI chatbots to engage customers and take action with built-in automation. It's workflow automation software that lets you focus on what matters. Sign up for free. Of course, the most obvious place Google deploys AI is its chatbot (formerly called Bard). Here's how. New to Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

In this guide to IT automation, we'll walk you through what it is, how it works, and how you can get the most out of your IT automation software with Zapier. IT automation is the use of software, predefined instructions, and workflows to tackle routine IT tasks that would otherwise require manual intervention.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

A marketing communication plan plays a different role. It's designed to outline responsibilities and initiatives within the grand scope of the marketing strategy to keep teams aligned and informed. Marketing communication plan Make a copy This communication plan outlines your marketing initiatives for each audience.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

When there are robots writing novels and cars that drive themselves into ditches, it shouldn't take five humans and three email chains to get someone access to Google Drive. Automate your IT management workflows Learn how Ready to give your new employees a smooth, delay-free first day? Automated provisioning fixes that.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Meet your new AI teammates Try Zapier Agents Things get complicated because, as with all potential marketing terms, there's a rush to call everything agentic AI—whether it really clears the bar for autonomous action or not. Imagine an AI email app that automatically screens your incoming emails.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 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. Try Interfaces free Spam protection. for the first year).

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier In the business world, this same kind of boundary-slipping shows up as scope creep—when a project quietly expands beyond the original plan, often without additional resources, timelines, or support. " We've all been there.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier Even if the most meticulously laid plans are at the mercy of a capricious host with a skinny microphone, starting with a project plan template lays a foundation of order and direction in a world where the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Common examples are the neat fields in email headers (sender, recipient, subject), standard file properties (like creation date or author), or specific data tags set up to organize content. If structured data is the sender, recipient, or subject line of an email, unstructured data is the content, attachments, or images that might be included.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Improve your real estate business with automation Automate your CRM But with countless options on the market, how do you know which software is right for you? ​​I Here's everything you need to know about the best real estate CRMs on the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. After leaving Juno, he founded his own software company, Fog Creek Software. Defensibility in Software.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He stood up, grabbed the mic and gave a heartfelt overview of his experiences in experimenting with new technologies to build relationships with his audience, get feedback on his product quality and to market his music all the way to the top of iTunes. In his early career he realized the importance of email lists.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 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. Privacy and IP controls. Extra features.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

It's also completely free. At 1,000 records across any number of bases, Airtable's free version isn't even in the same groove as Google Sheets in terms of free data allowance. Free Google accounts come with 15 GB, with Google Workspace accounts getting 2 TB of data storage at the Business Standard attachments.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

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. I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). MBA fine, but not required.

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StartupNation

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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StartupNation

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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StartupNation

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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Users were outraged. “The Internet is free, you can’t make money off it! Then came blogs.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 9, 2025

Connect your project management software to your other apps Make your job easier That's what project management templates are to project managers: replicable systems of organization that keep everything efficiently structured. Table of contents: What are project management templates? Try the template 3.

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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. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Cloud computing allows entrepreneurs to outsource the risks associated with data security, along with the responsibility of backing up files, updating software and maintaining costly on-site hardware. Cloud computing typically costs far less than maintaining equipment and software, and programs can be up and running quickly.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 15 Best Strategies for Developing New Business in a Crowded Market In the quest to uncover effective strategies for developing new businesses in a crowded market, we turned to fifteen Founders and CEOs for their tried-and-true tactics. Some years ago, a crowded market was encountered for a client who was a fitness wholesaler.

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