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How a Content Company Uses Zapier to Learn From Their Email Marketing Data
Data is worthless without analysis. You can collect all the numbers you want; but if you don’t unpack the "how" and "why" behind those facts, you’re left with a list of info that might as well be random.
By Carlin Sack
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8 min read
How Coffee Subscription Company MistoBox Uses Zapier to Manage their Customer Lifecycle
Caffeine is the world's most popular drug, and coffee is the world's most popular caffeine-delivery system. Just the scent of a rich, chocolatey cup can electrify your body. But not all coffee is created equal.
By Joe Stych
9 min read
How Software Integrations Unlocked Voter Data and Helped Break a 50-Year Campaign Record
It's May 6, 2014. Election day is six months away, and the Ohio House Republican Organizational Committee is betting on 25-year-old Vasyl Rabosyuk. No, he's not an up-and-coming political powerhouse, or a can't-lose campaign manager.
By Danny Schreiber
10 min read
Zapier Gift Guide 2015: Cool Products Made, Created and Sold by Zapier Customers
A fancy koozie for your next barbecue. An innovative phone camera lens for your weekend adventures. Manly smelling soap for a fresher start to your day. Comfortable high heels for a pain-free night out. Green smoothie recipes for a healthy snack anytime.
By Wade Foster
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Build a Prototype Without Code: Rely on Apps, Integrations and APIs
Creating something new takes time. A lot of time. The idea might come in a flash, but turning it into a product with customers and revenue takes far, far longer. Unless you have the right process in place.
By Matthew Guay
How Soylent Uses Zapier to Automatically Transcribe Phone Calls and Build a Database of Legal Advice
Bread, meat, fruit, veggies, dairy. Those are the essential building blocks of a nutritious diet, the ones mom taught you about when you were five. We've been working with the same formula since the dawn of time, and it hasn't failed us yet. Food is food.
How One Startup Uses Social Media to Qualify Leads and Double Sales’ Output
An increase in leads doesn’t necessarily mean a rise in sales is imminent. Instead, it could mean more time wasted is on the way for your sales team.
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How the Seahawks Management Team Listens to the World’s Loudest Fans
Seattle Seahawks fans are the loudest in the world. Really, they are. A packed CenturyLink Field of over 68,000 fans on December 2 set a Guinness World Record for crowd noise, clocking in at 137.6 decibels. That’s equivalent to a jet engine on takeoff.
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How a Los Angeles Startup Built and Scaled a Santa Video Chat App in Three Months
What started with a boy’s curiosity this fall has become an app sensation this winter. Hello Santa, an app that offers live video calls with Santa Claus, has given thousands of kids around the world a chance to chat with Jolly Old Saint Nick.
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How a Top 5 Startup Accelerator Uses Asana to Review 1,000+ Applicants
The all-powerful spreadsheet sometimes meets its match. It can be a boon for most business processes, but when it’s not a good fit, it’s terrifyingly evident.
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How a Hot eCommerce Startup Scaled Customer Service on Their Way to 1 Million Products Sold
A little more than a year ago, Gaston Frydlewski and Mariquel Waingarten captured the hearts of thousands on Kickstarter with their pitch for Hickies, an elastic lacing system that turns sneakers into slip-ons.
How a Startup that Sells to Salespeople Gets Their Customers
"Startups love to optimize their UI/UX but not their sales funnel." That’s the start of one of Elastic CEO Steli Efti’s "7 Deadly Sales Sins Committed By Startups". The sin: "No Process in Place.
How Kissmetrics Increased Webinar Sign-Up Rates by 1,000%
Running a webinar can be a bit of a mystery to a newbie. With the hefty responsibility of creating the content, many first-timers often overlook two important steps: getting people to sign up and show up for the webinar.
Avoid "Getting Slizzerd": How to Empower Everyone to Tweet Without Accidental Tweets
We all feel like "getting slizzard" every once in a while, right? Well, maybe not. But in 2011, Red Cross promoted the pastime from its corporate Twitter account, which at the time had 270,000 followers.
How to Automate a Web Consulting Project from Start to Finish
Every so often we stumble across someone who has created a proverbial Rube Goldberg machine with a set of Zaps that automates a tremendous amount of work.
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Resume Overload? How DoSomething Screens Job Applicants and Finds the Perfect Intern in a Stack of 300 Resumes
For all the noise about there being a talent problem, good companies still get a ton of applicants for job openings. In fact, Dwolla founder and CEO, Ben Milne, tweeted that in the last week they got 300+ applicants for a position at Dwolla.
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