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Today, we're announcing two important changes to Zapier plans: we're upgrading Starter plans to Professional plans at no extra cost, and we're introducing Zapier Enterprise.

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We're making even more improvements to Zapier plans

Your workflows just got another upgrade. We're giving every Zapier account access to Interfaces & Tables: two new products that work hand-in-hand with Zaps.

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Build unstoppable workflows with Zaps, Tables, and Interfaces—and automate them for free

An open letter from the co-founder and CEO of Zapier, Wade Foster

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Putting AI and automation to work for you

Business tips

Adversity is nothing new for most business owners. But there's a difference between running a business and running a business during an economic downturn.

Run a business during economic uncertainty

How to run a business during economic uncertainty

I know firsthand that building companies is hard—really hard—and I love talking to other folks who've done it. I had a chance to speak with three other founders at Zapier's first-ever user conference, ZapConnect. Here are my main takeaways.

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Founders speak up: What I wish I knew while starting my business

Productivity tips

The future of software is apps doing more for us instead of demanding more from us. And ultimately, this shift will empower the next generation of creators. 

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Engagement isn't the future of software

The way we work has changed, and this transformation shows no signs of slowing down. Across all industries, we see people embracing new ways of working, and as the future unfolds, I believe automation will play a pivotal role in how we work. 

Automation is about to cement its place in the history of technology

I'm thrilled to share today that Makerpad, the leading content and education platform for learning to build software without code, is joining Zapier. 

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Makerpad is joining Zapier!

Remote work tips

Life is different now, particularly for working parents who were suddenly given a second full-time job when daycare and schools shut down and are still faced with uncertainty as summer comes to an end.

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How to support your employees who are working remotely with kids at home

In March, a viral leaked email from a Wall Street Journal manager instructed newly remote workers to keep managers informed if they're "taking a break, conducting an interview, in a meeting, or will otherwise be unavailable for a while.

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Why remote work shouldn't mean micromanaging—and what to do instead

Since our beginnings in October 2011, Zapier has grown from three founders cramped in a small apartment to a team of over 300 folks around the world. Along the way, we've picked up a few tricks (and things to avoid) to make building a remote team easier.

How to hire a remote team

How we work at Zapier

In a traditional office space, you're forced to work in a one-size-fits-all environment. When you work on a remote team, you have complete control over your workspace.

This is What a Remote Office Looks Like

From day one, Zapier has always been a distributed team. Even though my co-founders, Bryan and Mike, and I lived in the same city, we had different schedules and were bootstrapping Zapier on the side of our day jobs and school.

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Why Zapier has always been 100% remote

When you join a remote team or start working remotely, it's easy to think that a laptop and pair of earbuds are all the equipment you'll need to make being a remote teammate successful.

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Remote Working: 8 Items for Every Remote Worker's Wish List

The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed. - William Gibson That is the quote that opens REMOTE: Office Not Required by Basecamp co-founders, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.

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5 reasons to read REMOTE, even if you aren’t a remote team

Whenever folks transition to remote work, they often ask me about accountability.

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How to build trust on a remote team

Many companies—Zapier included—are successful as 100% remote teams. Yet it's still not a common company structure and, unfortunately, information about how to set up remote work so that you and your team can be successful is still scarce.

How to manage a remote team

How can you go about building culture when there are thousands of miles between teammates? Here are seven online team building principles that work for us at Zapier.

How to build culture in a remote team

There are two standard ways folks brainstorm in an office. One: get in front of a whiteboard and spout off ideas. Two: bounce around the office and hope something sparks your creativity.

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How to brainstorm remotely

Working remotely becomes second nature when you do it all the time. But if you need to suddenly transition to remote work, you won't necessarily have effective systems in place.

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How to transition to remote work in a hurry

Big news: Zapier now supports 2,000+ apps! We worked hard to hit this milestone early this year. Data Soap gets the nod as the 2,000th app. Zapier has come a long way since its inception in 2011.

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Zapier now has 2,000+ apps, so you can automate just about anything

While we firmly believe that day-to-day work does not need to happen in person, we do believe that some things happen easier when in person. Because of that, we get the whole team together for a company retreat twice a year.

How to Run a Company Retreat for a Remote Team

There are now 1,000 apps on Zapier. That's a long way from 2011 when PayPal was app #1 on Zapier, the first integration we ever built.

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1,000 Apps, Limitless Possibilities: Thanks for Helping Us Build the Future of Work

App tips

You're in your browser constantly. So why not make your browser as productive as possible? Google Chrome offers tens of thousands of extensions.

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12 Free Chrome Extensions for Getting Work Done

Engineering insights

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Top apps of 2016

Four years ago, my two co-founders and I launched a project propelled by a simple idea: Computers should do more work. Today, we're humbled to share that more than 1 million people agree with us.

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Zapier Passes 1 Million Users, Thanks to You!

Good customer support matters. Great customer support sets you apart. It's not a growth hack or a hush-hush marketing scheme; it's common sense. People like to be treated like people.

All Hands Support: Why Everyone–Even Executives–Should Spend Time in Customer Service

Building, managing and working in a remote team is becoming more and more common. However, best practices are still hard to come by. For the last 43 months, Zapier has grown as an entirely distributed team.

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Download The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work: A Free eBook from Zapier

Building out a blog as a marketing channel isn't easy. There are a few companies that make it work for them (such as HubSpot, Unbounce, Moz and Buffer), but most company blogs languish away. At Zapier, we are no different.

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From Erratic to Effective: The Story Behind the Zapier Blog in 2013

Over the last few months, Zapier HQ has been hard at work to get some goodies out before the end of the year.

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The Insider's Guide to the New Zapier, now with 250+ Supported Services

Customer stories

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.

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How Kissmetrics Increased Webinar Sign-Up Rates by 1,000%

With cancellation often looming in Breaking Bad's early seasons, how did its writers find a way to keep nurturing new ideas while staying true to Breaking Bad characters?

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How Breaking Bad Writers Nurtured Good Ideas and How You Can Too

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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Resume Overload? How DoSomething Screens Job Applicants and Finds the Perfect Intern in a Stack of 300 Resumes

Last week our good friend, Sacha Greif, shared the results of his DIY email referral system. The referral system netted him 4X his normal email newsletter signups when 2.3% of his list decided to refer someone else.

Grow Your Email List with an Email Referral System in 5 Minutes

Automation inspiration

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

Minimum Viable Products are all the rage these days. It's pretty common for a startup to hole up for a weekend and put together a prototype of a web or mobile application meant to be the starting point for a profitable business.

Minimal Viable Distribution

We've all heard of test driven development, behavior driven development, agile driven development, or whatever new "driven development" fad is hot. I don't hear a ton about Support Driven Development though.

Support Driven Development

2012 is the first complete year Zapier has been in business and it's been a whirlwind of a year. We thought it'd be fun to take a trip down memory lane and look at the top 12 posts on the Zapier blog from this year have been.

Best of the Zapier Blog - 2012 Edition

One of the tricky things about running an integration product is that a user's experience with our product is highly dependent on their experience with at least two other products.

How We Support Hundreds of Web Apps

Sending email is hard. Just take a look at the success of transactional email services like Mandrill, Sendgrid, and Mailgun.

Transactional Email: Not Just for Developers

Today we're excited to announce that Zapier now supports more than 100 public applications on the platform. That's making no mention of the hundreds of other apps used privately on the developer platform.

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Zapier, 100+ Connected Services, a Year in Review

99% of the time buying is the best decision for a startup. That may be a slight exaggeration, but the sentiment is true.

When You Should Build Not Buy

In the tech world we tend to get self centered. When B2B startups talk about customers, many times they mean the unfunded startup down the street. Not the business that has been running for decades and is just trying to keep up with the times.

An Inside Look at Tech Adoption in Non Tech Businesses

If you are a developer and your name isn't Patrick McKenzie, odds are marketing isn't your cup of tea.

Integrations: Simple Marketing for Developers

Building a product from scratch that will support you, a co-founder and your collective families is hard. Really hard.

Why We Sent 25,000 Messages to Users Before We Launched

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

My New Favorite Zap: Gmail to Google Calendar

Finding early customers is hard. Finding early customers with clout is even harder. Finding early customer who will pay you is hardest - especially if you're three mid-twenties tech founders from a small/midsize college town in the midwest.

The Anatomy of Sales at a Startup or How Andrew Warner Became Our First Paying Customer

After months of hard work and tons of feedback from some of the best users in the world Zapier is publically launching. Big thanks to everyone who has tried us out and given us feedback over the past nine months. You are awesome.

Zippity Zappity! Zapier Launches Publicly!

This is the single most common phrase I say to developers looking to make the switch from 9 to 5 to building their own products for profit.

You Are the Exception to the Rule

This post originally appeared on Silicon Praire News for their Founder Friday edition Few people come out of the womb, kicking and screaming, born ready to be a startup founder. Most of us take the longer more traditional route.

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Every day I get asked for feedback on a product or service. Usually these requests come in the form of poorly asked questions. Usually the person asking doesn't realize it's a poor question.

If You Want Better Feedback, Ask Better Questions

Getting early traction for your new startup can be tough. Sometimes it feels like the only way is to attract any attention is by being internet famous. But to be internet famous you have to be successful.

Finding Early Customers When You Aren't Internet Famous

The other day Yanik Silver and Noah Kagan were discussing the value of paying for things. Their conclusion: it can give you a slight advantage. "I pay for things cause I want that slight edge over others.

Why Even Bootstrapped Startups Should Pay

Bryan and I recently attended the REDI Entrepreneurial Summit in our home town of Columbia, Missouri.

4 Ways First Time Tech Founders Waste Time

If you spend any time doing SEO or PPC you're bound to have spent time in Google Analytics pouring over keyword data. However, if you're like me and mostly spend time doing product development, keyword data can be a bit foreign.

Using Keyword Data for Product Development

As a fast-growing startup with limited personnel and resources it's absolutely essential we make the best possible use of our time as possible.

The 10 Essential Web Apps that Power our Startup

Learning is a big part of entrepreneurship. At Zapier we do our best to learn lessons from the giants who have come before us. Many times entrepreneurs learn lessons the hard way. We don't want to do that.

5  Entrepreneurs Who Inspire Strategy at Zapier

Fourth in a four part series about the birth of Zapier at Startup Weekend - Columbia. This post covers the Sunday and the final demo. For more details, review Part I - The Idea, Part II - The Pitch and Part III - Saturday. Sunday. Demo Day.

Startup Weekend Part IV - Sunday: Demo Day

Third in a 4 part series about the birth of Zapier at Startup Weekend - Columbia. This post covers the bulk of the work done on Saturday. For more details, review Part I - The Idea and Part II - The Pitch.

Startup Weekend Part III - Pushing through Saturday

Second in a 4 part series about the birth of Zapier at Startup Weekend - Columbia. This post covers the pitch, building a team, and first night. Part One about the idea can be found here. Friday night is easily the most important night of Startup Weekend.

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