Elena Alston

Elena Alston is a content specialist at Zapier based in London. She's a big advocate of automation and loves making it more accessible to people via storytelling.

Elena Alston

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Automation inspiration

5 ways to automate your marketing and sales ops processes

Use automation to turn your sales and marketing departments into a unified machine that scores leads, moves deals to closed-won, and drives more revenue.

By Elena Alston

6 min read

Zapier feature guides

Zapier Canvas: Visualize, plan, and automate business-critical processes

Zapier Canvas is a free AI-powered diagramming tool that helps you visualize, plan, and automate business-critical processes.

By Elena Alston

5 min read

Automation inspiration

Your guide to NetSuite automation

To ensure your data flows seamlessly between all systems, connect NetSuite to your other business-critical apps with Zapier's automated workflows.

By Elena Alston

5 min read

Zapier tutorials

How to automatically generate email summaries with Zapier and ChatGPT

Automatically get concise email summaries in Slack for each email you receive or in a daily digest. Streamline email management when you combine AI with Zapier.

By Elena Alston

7 min read


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