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SignRequest, an easy digital signature tool, lets you upload, sign, send, or prepare your document for signature in just a few easy steps. Learn how to automatically upload files to Dropbox whenever your documents are signed in SignRequest.  

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Easily store your signed documents with SignRequest

Send leads from Outgrow content to the right place with automation.

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Easily track leads from content with Outgrow

Employee recognition is a powerful way to increase employee engagement, enrich company culture, and create more visibility around teamwork and individual wins.

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Easily reward employees for projects with Bonusly 

Google Forms is a popular app in general, and a popular app on Zapier. It's a straightforward form that you can customize in a lot of different ways.

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Ask Zapier: Can I automate a Google Forms survey response?

You can use Trello to organize just about everything, but it doesn't offer any out-of-the-box tools for tracking your time. That doesn't mean you can't use Trello for time tracking, though.

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How to Use Trello for Time Tracking

At Zapier we practice support driven development which is the long way of saying that everyone does support.

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How to Use Google Calendar and Twilio to Setup a Support Shift Rotation

Quotient, an online quoting system, helps you communicate with your leads and win more business by letting you create professional-looking quotes. You can break down your services by fee, add optional extras, recommend products, and revise prices.

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Easily create projects from accepted Quotient quotes

Get the workflows that make your customers feel valued and keep them coming back for more. 

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Improve customer retention with these automation ideas

forms.app is an online form builder that lets you build forms, quizzes, and surveys from templates or from scratch, all while keeping the customer experience in mind. 

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Easily address your customer feedback with forms.app

Have you ever wanted to re-share an Instagram post directly on Twitter?   Unfortunately, you run into a big problem: Facebook, which owns Instagram, doesn't make it easy to share content to other social networks. This automated solution can help.

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Crosspost your Instagram posts to other social networks

Whether your email newsletter subscribers are already customers or they have the potential to be, you'll probably want an easy way to get your ads in front of them—without having to manually transfer customer data between your apps.

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Easily match new leads with the right Google ads 

For as long as I can remember setting up meetings and sending meeting invites has been a royal pain in the keister.

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My New Favorite Zap: Gmail to Google Calendar

Calendly is an excellent hub for scheduling meetings professionally, letting clients and invitees view your availability, and book a time on your calendar that works for everyone. 

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Easily add Calendly contacts to your CRM

Want to find out every time your website is linked to on Reddit? It turns out Reddit offers an RSS feed for just that. Here's how to find that feed and how to use it to add notifications for Reddit mentions to Slack or almost any other app.

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Find Out When Your Website is Linked to on Reddit

Create or update contacts in Textline from form submissions with automation. 

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Easily create contacts in Textline from form submissions

The copy and paste keyboard shortcuts were probably one of the first "tricks" you learned to do on a computer. The novelty doesn't last long.

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Stop copying and pasting with automation

Recruiting is a fast-paced business. Getting a candidate through the pipeline as quickly as possible means a better candidate experience. And, the faster you act, the less likely you are to lose a good candidate to a competing offer.

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Focus on your job candidates with these tips from a Zapier recruiter

Reddit bills itself as the "front page of the internet" and they're not wrong. There's a community—or subreddit—for just about anything you can imagine. If you're wondering how to keep up with Reddit, Zapier can help.

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3 ways to keep up with Reddit with automation

Get the most out of your ad spend by connecting Instagram Lead Ads to the rest of your sales pipeline.

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5 ways to automate Instagram Lead Ads

Your customers come from different places, so it's helpful to create avenues of communication between the top of your customer funnel and your marketing platform. Here's how.

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3 ways to automate Iterable

Tasks can come from everywhere, and it's easy to end up feeling like everything is top priority. Here's how to automate your to-do list to streamline your workflows.

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Get it done: 6 ways to automate to do list apps

Hotjar can provide you with a ton of user data, but it can be a lot to manage. Pair Hotjar with Zapier to automatically sort that data as you see fit.

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7 ways to automate Hotjar

Have something outside the ordinary you want to do with your apps? Use a webhook to automate almost anything.

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7 ways to use webhooks to automate anything

Freshservice helps IT pros solve issues quickly. With automation, you can create workflows that help you get even more from your ITSM.

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3 ways to automate Freshservice

Typical productivity advice can be frustrating if you're neurodivergent. Automation can be a useful accommodation tool for designing systems that work the way you do.

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Neurodivergent? Why you should learn how to automate.

Here are the most popular ways to automate Dovetail with Zapier—from inputting customer feedback across survey tools to connecting Dovetail to your most-used databases and project management apps. 

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4 ways to automate Dovetail

You can scale your business-critical workflows without growing your team. Here's how.

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Boost company-wide efficiency with automation

Learn how to fill the gaps in your tech stack and ensure your apps have the right information at the right time.

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How to fill your tech stack gaps with automation 

Long downtimes and service outages can erode customer confidence fast. Use these workflows to start resolving incidents faster.

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3 ways to automate PagerDuty

By adding automation to your tech stack, you can easily connect your most-used apps to your team's product management tool.

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4 ways to automate your product management workflows

Build cross-platform business process automation with these tools and steps.

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How to create efficient distributed teams with Zapier

Learn how to design and build Zaps for teams and clients.

How to get the most out of Zapier workflows for your team

Here are some of our favorite productivity Zaps so you can feel like a boss—even if you're still a rookie.

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What I wish I'd automated earlier in my career

Every growing business needs a steady flow of new customers.

Doing more with less: Grow your business with personalized automations

Adding automation to your business-critical Xero workflows can help reduce the human errors that can come from manually moving important financial information from one app to another.

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5 ways to automate Xero

Learn how to use automation to support your IT team and help them manage downtime and outages.

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5 ways to automate server monitoring

Ways you can use Zapier automation to improve your work and productivity.

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