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Notebooks and spreadsheets have their uses, but managing relationships shouldn't be one of them. That's where customer relationship management (CRM) software comes in.

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The best free CRM software in 2025

App comparisons

Pipedrive and Trello both let you use a Kanban-style board to move things through a pipeline. And, honestly, that's kind of where their (meaningful) similarities end. 

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Pipedrive vs. Trello: Which should you use? [2025]

A book, an app, the next billion-dollar idea: everything starts from a note. Notion and OneNote are both top-notch note-taking apps, but each has its own way of handling your notes. 

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Notion vs. OneNote: Which note-taking app should you use? [2025]

Here I'll compare Pipedrive and HubSpot to help you understand their feature sets—and which will fit your organization like a glove. 

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Pipedrive vs. HubSpot: Which CRM is right for you? [2025]

Marketing tips

Here's how to create social media posts using free AI tools like ChatGPT, Neural Love, and Canva.

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How to create a social media post with AI for free

You've already found clients, put in the hours, and completed the work. Now it's time to get paid. Invoicing should be the easiest part of your process, but creating and sending an invoice can be a time suck—and one you're not getting paid for.

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The best invoicing software in 2025

App tips

Meeting transcription software is almost a non-negotiable these days, and Otter is a leader in the space

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What is Otter.ai?: Transcribe meetings and take voice notes with Otter

I've spent time in all sorts of CRMs, but for this article, I went back into Zoho and Pipedrive to help you figure out which one will fit your business best. Here's what I found.

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Pipedrive vs. Zoho: Which CRM is best? [2025]

Meetings are the lifeblood of most organizations. And video conferencing software makes it easier than ever for people to meet, communicate, and collaborate with their prospects, customers, and teams.

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Zoom vs. GoTo Meeting: Which should you use? [2025]

Here, we'll look at two of the apps I've tried and see how they stack up: Evernote vs. Keep. I picked up both apps again—I used Evernote for two years and Google Keep on and off for a couple of months in the past—and took them out for a spin.

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Evernote vs. Google Keep: Which note-taking app should you use? [2025]

There's still no replacing the human project manager, but AI project management apps can help things move more smoothly, so more time can be spent working on the projects instead of managing them.

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The best AI project management tools in 2025

In the era of information overload, capturing what you need and keeping it organized is tricky—but there lots of note-taking apps offering to help. Here, we'll take a look at Evernote and Notion. 

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Notion vs. Evernote: Which app should you use? [2025]

I spent a month testing all the best presentation software, focusing on the ones that use AI in a way that will help you get the presentation you want faster. Based on all my testing, these are the best AI presentation apps.

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The 7 best AI presentation makers in 2025

Here's everything you need to know about the structure of an effective AI art prompt. Plus, some AI art prompt examples to help get you started. 

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How to write AI art prompts

If you're brand-new to survey-building, you might not know where to start. So we tested a lot of online survey tools and narrowed it down to the top nine.

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The 9 best survey apps in 2025

While we're still figuring out how to plug AI into our workflows, it's clear that AI tools are changing the game.

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The best AI productivity tools in 2025

Remember when you had to know how to code in order to build an app? We've moved on from that world: no-code tools are here to stay, and they're powerful enough to let you build almost anything you can think of without ever typing function().

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The 8 best no-code app builders in 2025

Proton Mail is the underdog with better privacy and more security features, facing a 1.5-billion-user-strong Gmail with a better user experience and more integrations.

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Proton Mail vs. Gmail: Which is right for you?

It probably won't come down to storage space when deciding between these two apps.

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Dropbox vs. OneDrive: Which should you use?

These are the best tools to create, edit, and enhance videos with AI.

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The 9 best AI video generators

I spent two weeks researching and testing the best AI email assistants, and I've put together a shortlist of interesting options for you to try out—along with apps you should keep an eye on. 

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The 7 best AI email assistants

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The best AI chatbots

Form and survey apps help you get the right information from the right people, whether you want to solicit feedback, learn about your customers, or gather data.

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The 12 best free survey tools and form builders

We spent several weeks testing accounting software for freelancers—apps that will gather all your financial information in one place, keep track of all your transactions, and run reports on your weekly work time. 

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The 8 best self-employed accounting software tools

I researched and tested all the best AI notes apps that shortcut the process of creating, formatting, and searching notes in a way that feels like an extension of your brain—not a replacement.

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The best AI notes apps

Find an AI scheduler to do the heavy lifting for you.

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The 8 best AI scheduling assistants

Gemini for Google Workspace brings AI features into this productivity suite, with integrated tools and sidebars for easy access wherever you are.

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What is Gemini for Workspace? 

Jasper AI and Copy.ai are two popular AI productivity tools—but they serve different purposes. Here's how they compare. 

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Jasper vs. Copy.ai: Which is best?

In this guide, you'll understand what Claude is and what it's best for. On top of that, I'll give you a step-by-step tutorial on how to get a Claude API key, call the API, and get the responses where you want them.

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Claude API: How to get a key and use the API

This complete guide explores all the features of the OpenAI API, from text generation to content moderation. There's also a step-by-step guide on how to use the OpenAI API and start integrating it into your apps. 

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How to create an OpenAI API key and use the OpenAI API

I wrote this Gemini API guide to help you understand what Gemini can do and how to set up the API calls to start talking to it.

Google Gemini API: How to create a key and use the Gemini API

Between your personal laptop, your work computer, your phone, and any other device you might use, keeping your files in order can be a doozy.

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Dropbox vs. Google Drive: Which is right for you?

Whether you're looking for a Mailchimp alternative or are fresh into email marketing, these details will help you decide which app is right for you.

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Brevo vs. Mailchimp: Which is best?

If you've used automatic smart bidding in Google Ads and Meta ads, congratulations: you're already using AI in advertising. But there's much more to explore here, so let's get right to it.

AI in advertising: Examples, tools, and what to expect next

Accounting has a reputation for being a tedious and confusing part of running a business. But times have changed, and the days of managing finances with paper ledgers and clunky spreadsheets are all but gone.

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The best accounting software for small business

I considered and tested dozens of Notion alternatives for all skill levels (and all levels of ambition), and these are your best options.

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The 8 best Notion alternatives

AI agents are designed to think and act independently. The only thing you have to provide is a goal—be that researching competitors or buying a pizza.

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What are AI agents? A comprehensive guide

I spent time testing every resume creator I could get my hands on, and these are my picks for the five best. 

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The 5 best AI resume builders

I spent a few weeks testing all the AI voice generator tools I could get my hands on, and based on my experiences with them, these are the six best.

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The 6 best AI voice generators

To save you time, we tested more than 30 online form builders to pinpoint those important differences and help you choose the right one. Here are the eight best.

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The 12 best online form builder apps

We put dozens of Salesforce alternatives through the wringer and came up with the 11 best CRM apps on the market.

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The best CRM software to manage your leads and customers

Offering an experience powered by the GPT and DALL-E models, courtesy of the close relationship with OpenAI, you'll see new magic buttons and AI chat boxes spread out in the Microsoft apps you use every day.

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What is Microsoft Copilot? (And how to access it)

I spent time doing in-depth research and testing on all the AI meeting assistants available, and based on my experiences, these are the best.

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The 9 best AI meeting assistants

I researched and tested every AI tool for social media management that I could get my hands on, and these are the eight best.

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The 12 best AI tools for social media management

Even if your business is just starting out, customer relationship management (CRM) software should be the hub of your company's interactions with all of your current and future customers.

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The 11 best CRMs for small business

Whether you need to manage customer data, organize inventory information, or keep track of your business contacts, there's likely an app for that. Or 30. The only problem is, no app is a perfect match to the way you work.

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The 8 best database-powered app builders

We tested Chatfuel vs. Manychat to help you decide which makes the most sense for your business. Here's what we found.

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Manychat vs. Chatfuel: Which chatbot builder should you use?

I dove into both apps, testing all the available features and tinkering them, and based on those experiences, here's my comparison of Airtable vs. Smartsheet.

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Smartsheet vs. Airtable: Which should you use?

I've been keeping an eye on AI app builders for the past year, and now we've reached the point where there's a good collection of apps to get started with. So here are the best AI app builders available.

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The 7 best AI app builders

Here are the six best online credit card processing apps. Learn about each app about how credit card payment processors work.

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The 6 best online payment processing services

The inbox is still the most personal place to meet a lead or customer, and Mailchimp and SendGrid are both great platforms to get the job done. 

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SendGrid vs. Mailchimp: Which email marketing tool is best?

I love to dive into new apps, so I had to find a way to get myself in—and I did. Originally teased at the Google I/O 2023 and codenamed Project Tailwind, here's what NotebookLM is looking like today.

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Interact with your documents using Google's AI-powered NotebookLM

With the right drip email software—which might just be part of your current email marketing app—you can create brilliantly timed and fully personalized emails.

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The best email drip campaign software

You can tell Alexa to turn on your lights or ask Siri to look up what year Die Hard was released (1988), but what else can you do with your voice and a little technology? With dictation software, you can compose memos, emails, speeches, and other writing.

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The best dictation software

I've outlined the kinds of app builders you'll find online, their strengths, their weaknesses, and what level of knowledge you need to use their every feature. Let's dive in.

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How to choose an app builder

We tested dozens of internal tool builders to find the ones that will help your business move forward, faster. These are the best internal app builders.

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The 9 best internal tool builders in 2025

Dive into the most recent batch of Google Docs features, and get a feel for how they can improve your workflows.

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13 Google Docs features to improve your workflows

Learn more about Seamless.AI and how it can transform your prospecting research.

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Balance sales outreach and research with Seamless.AI

Hugging Face is more than an emoji: it's an open source data science and machine learning platform. It acts as a hub for AI experts and enthusiasts—like a GitHub for this field.

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What is Hugging Face?

Discover how Personal AI can help you train your own AI language model to organize, share your work, and communicate effectively with others.

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Train your own AI language model with Personal AI

When analytics aren't enough, using session replay and heatmap software will let you see where your audience is struggling—and where you're doing everything right.

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The best heatmap software and session replay tools

Learn about while True: learn(), a cartoony puzzle game that'll give you a big-picture idea of what machine learning is all about.

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while True: learn(): Understand machine learning by playing a game

Business tips

When you get really clear on what you're about to do and you share it with other people via project initiation documentation, the likelihood that your project will get blocked later on is much lower. 

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Project initiation 101: 5 steps for launching a new project

When I read that I could build apps without writing a single line of code, I thought this meant creating simple apps without a lot of depth.

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How to build your own app—no coding skills required

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What is Linux?

If you're a visual thinker, a designer tackling wicked problems, or you're just looking for a more visual approach to work, Mural will be a welcome addition to your problem-solver toolkit.

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