The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Automation used to be the best way to do that. And while AI has since come on the scene, it hasn't replaced automation—it's made it better. Now, I delegate to AI automation. Try Zapier's AI features Discover how AI gives you automation superpowers. Table of contents: What is AI automation?

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Most of what’s out there today is no better than the old automated call center tools — and we all know how frustrating those can be. Buy technology that, through automated chat and conversational experiences, can take work off your plate and create better experiences overall. Respond with new blogs. Josh Zywien, CMO, Paradox.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Contact the experts at Digital Resource! Here are some of the best practices to implement : Send emails as a human, not a company. Adopt marketing automation. With marketing automation, you can: Organize your lists. Marketing experts predict that both digital and content marketing will become more critical than ever.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

With multiple models at your disposal (from the latest o3 and o4-mini models to OpenAI's flagship multimodal GPT-4.1), it can write code, solve complex problems, carry out highly creative tasks, and even provide deep research in a fraction of the time it would take a human. You can use AI and automation to bridge that gap.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Not surprisingly, a survey done by Statista found that content marketing was believed to be the most effective digital marketing technique according to marketers — followed by marketing automation, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI). Let’s say you have a nutrition startup and want to write a blog post about vegan protein powders. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 30, 2017

This greater investment in human capital is happening in a variety of ways. For example, human resource and management can also leverage technology to provide workers with greater digital automation on the job. The post Top Leadership Trends—and Why They Matter appeared first on THE BLOG.

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American Entrepreneurship

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. Its a low-cost way to scale content output and improve service responsiveness.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Getting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software may be the perfect solution. Many back office functions are automated, and it considerably improves the efficiency of business. The post Four Useful Tips When Selecting an ERP Vendor appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 3, 2024

A human is still currently needed for content quality control (e.g., approving the likeness of a human figure, verifying that an image is on brand). Building Marketing Agents The next stage after equipping the marketer with copilot tools is automating the marketer’s work by using marketing agents. via Captions ).

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

And automation—the thing that was supposed to make life easier—starts to feel impossible to scale. You want to empower teams to automate their work but not open up a tangle of permissions and shadow IT. Zapier Enterprise Automation for every team, approved by IT. Table of contents: What is enterprise automation?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the best tools you can use to achieve productive marketing, how to apply them and how much they cost. Marketing tools that help automate processes such as customer follow-ups, up-sells, and down-sells can lead to a boost in the lifetime value of your customers. Improved staff accountability.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

And it's all thanks to its incredible insights into human behavior. Robotic: Capturing the nuances of human language, images, or other complex information isn't its strong suit. The chaotic variety allows for capturing the complexity and subtleties of human language, emotions, behaviors—you name it.

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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. Automated provisioning fixes that. Automate your IT management workflows Learn how Ready to give your new employees a smooth, delay-free first day?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 14, 2016

We have wonderful tools like marketing automation to help us reach our target audience through engaging content. However, a tool is just a tool—and technology alone will never replace the human mind. Step 1: Identify a lead who would have reason and resources to buy. Thankfully, the batch and blast email days are long behind us.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Per the Mi blog: CyberDog is Xiaomi’s first foray into quadruped robotics for the open source community and developers worldwide. Bear Flag gets a lot of resources from an agricultural giant like John Deere and Deere gets to step another foot into the world of cutting-edge tech with an autonomous tractor startup.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

You can deliver support through a platform that helps SMB customers drive sales, reach out to their customers and deliver products and services on an automated basis. Just make sure you back up automated support with traditional human customer support resources too.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Automate your email marketing Reach your audience For a company, on the other hand, the purchasing process can be a lot like herding cats. B2B emails tend to perform better when they focus on providing information and resources. Place your email's value-add (the resource, tool, or offer it contains) at the front of the line.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Content in all forms, be it blogs, infographics, or podcasts, is still the preferred choice of businesses to connect with their customers. Apart from customer service, chatbots are also playing a big role in marketing automation. Now, all they need to do is sound a bit more human. Marketing Automation. Email Marketing.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Grow your business with marketing automation Learn how But for this article, I'll focus on creating a content style guide: the editorial guidelines for tone, structure, voice, and values. You can't justify dedicating resources to building a style guide if you're barely creating any content. Things will change.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 12, 2021

When you’re just starting out, you may not have a full-fledged human resources team. Then build your well-written blog posts around these terms and watch your traffic grow. Verizon Small Business Digital Ready: A free resource for learning basic business skills, the latest digital technology and more.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Generative AI refers to new and original content in various forms such as such as images, text and multimedia that is autonomously created without direct human involvement. They now routinely engage for service via their smart phones or computers without human contact. What is Generative AI?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

The more TikToks I watch of robots that look and sound a little too human, the more amazed—and slightly terrified—I am. There's a lot that goes into robots like these (and the ones we interact with online, like ChatGPT): automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, to name a few. That's a lot of power.

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OurCrowd

JULY 19, 2021

In addition we have more people to feed with the same land and water resources. Innovation is improving the safety and availability of the world’s most precious resource, water. There is a strong need to automate and improve the major part of the supply chain that starts at production and ends at the last mile of micro fulfillment.”.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 3, 2024

Are there campaigns or platforms that are draining resources without delivering proportional returns? Could those resources be better spent maximizing the areas that have higher returns? Cutting these loose frees up resources that can be reallocated to strategies with a proven track record.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. As history often reminds us , due diligence matters from a human perspective — and vetting a founder beyond their ability to attract talent can save firms from headaches or legal woes. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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Campaign Monitor

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Or, you might use the newsletter content to tease a blog post outlining your company values. Reviews power the world, and being a trusted resource for partners means sharing the wealth. With discount emails, you can set up drip campaigns and automated triggers in your CRM to fire off templated emails with discount codes. .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For me, it’s about simplifying complex tasks, streamlining processes, and ensuring the best use of resources: 1. With the right tools, you can automate routine tasks, giving your team more time to focus on what they do best. It’s in these subtle shifts that businesses can create a human connection. Their feedback is gold.

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OurCrowd

MAY 7, 2021

Launchpad has built an automated manufacturing process that learns and gets smarter over time,” says Gross, whose Idealab incubator has produced more than 150 successful startups. This breakthrough allows automation to be deployed at a more nimble scale, and will completely disrupt high-speed time-to-market manufacturing forever.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

Focus on the meeting, not the scheduling Automate your booking The best booking apps offer the perfect mix of flexibility and ease of use. How we evaluate and test apps All of 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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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

We recruit and hire using LinkedIn or other resources, replacing job fairs, campus events and paper resumes. We will replace or support human decision-making with automated algorithms. We move boarding passes, coupons and more off paper and into the digital world. Many of us now never physically touch our music.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

Versatile VC runs a no-cost community for founders in transition, “ Founders Next Move “ We have collected a wide range of resources for founders who may be considering launching a new company ; angel investing/becoming a VC ; buying a company ; joining boards ; consulting ; serving as an interim executive , or just getting a job.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Add the power of ChatGPT to your workflows Automate ChatGPT But first, I have to apologize for the crimes against consistent naming conventions, capitalization, and hyphenation we're all going to have to endure. Best OpenAI model for human-like responses GPT-4.5 Hang in there. OpenAI is one of the most important AI companies.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Pretty weird hobby for a 15 year old kid but I had used it at my mom’s office and, sick of doing repetitive drudge work, had taught myself to program WP macros in order to automate mundane tasks for her. DC: I’m going to keep this brief, but if you want to the long version of it, I recommend reading our blog about it.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Keep your customer support systems healthy Streamline support To save your organization resources (and your customers a headache), you need an intuitive customer service software that streamlines ticket management and—to put it bluntly—makes your agents not hate their jobs. Nobody has time for that.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

How we evaluate and test apps All of 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. Ease of use: Easy-to-use drag-and-drop editor.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 15, 2022

The post [JumpCloud in GlobeNewswire] JumpCloud and BambooHR Partner to Accelerate, Automate, and Secure Employee Onboarding and Offboarding appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. LOUISVILLE, Colo. Read more here.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Using Zapier to automate your work can feel like you've already hit the efficiency jackpot. Over the years, I've tested and written about cool and useful things you can accomplish with our automated workflows called Zaps. Along the way, I've picked up a few tricks that have expanded what I automate.

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