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“AI Agents for Small Business: The Ultimate Guide to Automation and Growth”

American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2025

Jasper AI AI-powered content generation for blogs, social media, and ads. HubSpot Sales Hub AI AI-powered CRM with lead scoring and sales automation. Notion AI AI-powered note-taking and content generation. Copy.ai Helps create marketing copy, emails, and product descriptions.

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AI integration: How to bring AI into your workflows

The Zapier Blog

JULY 3, 2025

With AI integrated into your editorial workflow, you can automatically generate SEO briefs, draft outlines, or repurpose blog posts into LinkedIn updates—all using structured prompts and a few clicks inside the apps your team already uses, like Google Docs or Notion. The key is using the right tools to bring it all together.

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5 ways to automate Read AI with Zapier

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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The Only Thing Which Has Failed About The ‘Creator Economy’ Thus Far Is Venture Capital’s Attempts to Get Their Piece. Why There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a Creator.

Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. Prediction for Next Wave of Startups: More advanced approached to customer CRM/lifecycle management + better content windowing/price segmentation to help you segment and serve 100 Rabid Fans + 1000 True Fans + 10000 Casual Fans + 100000 One Offs. A singer who wants to sing.

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Enterprise automation: What it is and how to get started

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. AI-assisted enterprise automation Spend any time online and you might think AI is just about generating awkward headshots or robotic blog intros. But allow me to bring a few receipts.

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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Haystack VC runs almost entirely on Notion. Another VC said, “I’m a heavy user of Streak , which is a CRM that lives in your Gmail and allows you to create contact pipelines, snooze / track e-mails, save snippets, etc. 5) Manage relationships (CRM). I use Contacts+ to import business cards and sync other data sets with my CRM.

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Intelligent automation: What it is and how to apply it

The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Lean on AI tools like ChatGPT and Notion AI to brainstorm innovative ideas, and even integrate your AI tools into your existing workflows with the help of Zapier's AI integrations. For example, a bot that automatically categorizes users in a CRM based on how they subscribed to a newsletter is a form of RPA.

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6 ways to automate Perplexity

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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5 ways to automate Botsonic with Zapier

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

Meet your new AI teammates Try Zapier Agents If your lead stays in Botsonic, your team might be stuck copying data into your customer relationship manager (CRM), pasting emails into Slack, or manually tracking conversions. If you only get a few leads per week, you might get away with manual transfers into your CRM.

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7 Claude MCP servers you can set up right now

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

They make it possible to direct the AI to take actions—like adding new records to a database or CRM—without leaving the chat. Here's how I used it to get updated data about the HubSpot CRM deals I have in progress, without having to log in to my HubSpot account dashboard. So much less context-switching.

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Ramon's 2020 Holiday Party: Small Business Advice from Industry Experts

Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2020

So whether it's podcasts, webcasts, speaking, or blog posts, (and more) they need in order to connect to any part of the market, they are supported. “So So Steve went setting out for a social-focused CRM that would monitor individual leads and what they were doing. Don't settle for this notion of, "Oh, they're too hard to get ahold of."

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This reality might not sit well with those that embrace the idyllic notion of the “family doctor,” but just remember that same idyllic doctor used to do house calls. In the second part of that same journey, I stumbled upon what I believe to be a large and investible trend — and that is the key subject of this blog post.

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You.com takes aim at Google and Microsoft with multimodal chat search

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

So say you ask a question such as ‘Which company has the most CRM market share,’ you will get the answer ‘Salesforce,’ and if you follow up with ‘What is Saleforce’s stock price?’, That’s a notion that the search market has caught up with, but Socher sees room for a fresh approach, one that the incumbents can’t offer.

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What is a personal CRM—and should you use one?

The Zapier Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

Boost your team's productivity Automate your CRM Now your contacts live all over the place, and it can be a chore to manage. That's when I turned to a personal CRM. What is a personal CRM? The best CRMs will also sync with email, so you can see a history of conversations—that way, anyone can jump in at any time.

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6 ways to automate Fathom with Zapier

The Zapier Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Easily send notifications, generate action items, update your CRM, and more—all without relying on manual work. These Zaps instantly create detailed records or rows in Notion, Google Sheets, and Airtable whenever a Fathom recording is detected. New to Zapier? It's workflow automation software that lets you focus on what matters.

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Startup Catalyst Brief

“AI Agents for Small Business: The Ultimate Guide to Automation and Growth”

AI integration: How to bring AI into your workflows

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5 ways to automate Read AI with Zapier

The Only Thing Which Has Failed About The ‘Creator Economy’ Thus Far Is Venture Capital’s Attempts to Get Their Piece. Why There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a Creator.

Enterprise automation: What it is and how to get started

Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

Intelligent automation: What it is and how to apply it

6 ways to automate Perplexity

5 ways to automate Botsonic with Zapier

7 Claude MCP servers you can set up right now

Ramon's 2020 Holiday Party: Small Business Advice from Industry Experts

“Customer First” Healthcare

You.com takes aim at Google and Microsoft with multimodal chat search

What is a personal CRM—and should you use one?

6 ways to automate Fathom with Zapier

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