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The Zapier guide to line items

What exactly is a line item? If you’ve ever received a receipt for a purchase, or filled out an invoice, you’ve already seen them: A line that includes each product’s name, price, or quantity, repeated for every product.

Business owners need to avoid these 4 accounting mistakes

Keeping your bookkeeping pristine will help you make informed financial decisions—and maybe more importantly, it'll help you avoid possible mishaps that can hurt your business's financial health.

How legal teams and law firms can be more efficient with automation

If you're ready to start automating your processes, you can use Zapier instead of asking developers to start writing code or buying expensive software. 

Millennials: Here's how to sound less out of touch at work

Millennials, you're real adults now. Your friends are getting divorced and having kids, and I hate to break it to you, but you're not using the right emoji at work.

The 5 best time blocking apps in 2021

Time blocking is a simple productivity method: Instead of completing your tasks whenever you find time to work on them, you schedule time on your calendar in advance to focus on specific tasks.

How to build a revenue growth plan that works

A revenue growth plan is an intentionally designed roadmap to increasing revenue. If done well, it's a blueprint to follow, including strategic and tactical elements that can accelerate your company's growth.

Sales enablement: How to create content to support your sales team

In the B2B industry, content is the mainstay of marketing and sales. But the standard idea of nurturing leads through top-, middle-, and bottom-of-funnel (TOFU, MOFU, and BOFU) content isn't always possible when it comes to sales. 

How to stay connected with your remote coworkers, asynchronously

If you're feeling adrift from the people you work with, the answer isn't more Zoom calls, thankfully. It's a little something called asynchronous bonding—which sounds like a chemistry, but is really having moments of connection on your own time.

How to stop Chrome from hijacking your media keys

You open a video link while listening to music. You reflexively hit the play/pause key on your keyboard to pause the music. The video pauses; the music keeps playing. Here's how to fix that. 

How to DIY your business videos

Are you not making video to promote your business because you're afraid if you try something new it won't be perfect? I get it. You want to make it good enough to represent your brand well. And I want that for you too. That's what this guide is for. 

Why I don't work first thing on Mondays

Reader, let me tell you a secret: I spend the first two hours of my Monday workday not working. Let me explain how this happened. 

How to avoid common mistakes when starting your own business

I knew there were a lot of possible pitfalls to being a contractor even before I walked off the last job where I wasn't my own boss. I knew it because I'd seen it with my own eyes.

How handwritten notes can help your business grow

How we use Zapier to generate automated reports to improve team buy-in

I have a business background, and my head operates in a certain way. Numbers just seem to make a lot of sense. Design, on the other hand, not so much.

How exit interviews can turn churned accounts into advocates

Here's how we get real, quality feedback, including who to ask for feedback and the questions to ask them.

Why parental leave should be customized 

I was 12 weeks pregnant and working at your proverbial fast-paced startup. It was small, and I was the only woman there. There was no HR rep or employee handbook or anything that detailed the parental leave policy.

How to use Google Alerts for SEO

One free tool that I think a lot of people take for granted—but that has helped me immensely with my SEO strategy—is Google Alerts.