crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. If you need help, you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 67,000 designers and writers for your custom web design. Make your site easily accessible.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

That I’ve had a few “exits” and instead of hunkering down and writing code for 6 months I opted to talk to a few of my buddies at the yacht club and purchase a primed and growing social network for somewhere in the mid-seven figures. Customers were bailing on the service because of the frequent downtime.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2013

Otherwise, you’re just wasting time and ticking people off (which, for brands, means potentially losing customers). To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. The rest is just digital noise.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

SMS may never really be that effective as a pure lead generation tool, like email or direct mail, but it is a very effective and convenient delivery mechanism for customers and prospects seeking specific actions and information. Related Posts: Are Small Private Social Networks the Next Layer? 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

To help website owners take full advantage of the most important online marketing opportunities, here are 3 things small businesses can do to attract and engage new customers. Tips, articles, videos and experts interviews provide customers with the information they need to buy and refer to others. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 23, 2012

If a company has no clear evidence of customer demand and the founders own 30%, 40%, 50% apiece, and they want to offer their first employees half a percent, thats ludicrous, because they dont have anything yet of any great value. social media. social networks. social networking. POPULAR TAGS. advertising.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

I'm sensitive to the combative tone some have tried to take the conversation, which isn't an accurate reflection of what I said. startupcto I'm sensitive to the combative tone some have tried to take the conversation, which isn't an accurate reflection of what I said. startupcto

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2012

I have a pretty rough idea of what an upcoming week is going to entail, but I leave room to stumble on an emerging idea, change in some social network or the occasional rant as I consume content. I started this blog in 2003 using an oddly named software called pMachine. Blogging platform. I’m on my 5th theme currently.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Posted by: Doug Dosberg | September 10, 2007 9:04 AM should also take a look at kevin merritts post about saying no to some requests from large and attractive customers early on: [link] Posted by: mathew johnson | September 10, 2007 9:14 AM Matt: Interesting article but overall I disagree with such a narrow interpretation of bootstrapping.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. They seem so reachable.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Chapter 3: Brand Identity Research: Customers, Competition, and Your Brand. A brand is the sum total of the experience your customers and customer prospects have with your company or organization. Your company’s brand is a promise you make to customers and prospects about your products, your services, and your company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2019

John Jantsch: I actually started my blog in 2003 if we can reminisce, and I was actually using a software, I don’t think it’s around anymore, it was called Publishing Machine. I think one of the mistakes some people make some times, excuse me, is that when they hear people say you can’t sell on social media.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

It has a simple sign-up process, gives one-stop access to all major credit cards, and lets you accept direct payments from other PayPal accounts, which can be very helpful, depending on your customers. Once you have customers, youll need to support them, and $20 a year isnt a lot to pay for solid tools. social media. developers.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 5, 2010

and can be easily and extensively customized from within the Wordpress admin. It comes with 17 stylesheet options and takes advantage of the new custom post types found in Wordpress 3.0. Posted by: chris | October 10, 2010 2:49 PM Maybe its better to get a custom theme for your business. » Read more details. »

Small Business 56

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 5, 2010

and can be easily and extensively customized from within the Wordpress admin. It comes with 17 stylesheet options and takes advantage of the new custom post types found in Wordpress 3.0. Posted by: chris | October 10, 2010 2:49 PM Maybe its better to get a custom theme for your business. » Read more details. »

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

What happens when evolving customer preferences for certain technologies make lead capture forms obsolete? Then came the second wave with Skype (2003), Blackberry Messenger (2005), and Google’s first incarnation of its messaging app, Google Talk (2005). billion MAUs for the top four social networks. Image Source.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Seth makes extensive use of social networking tools, and web videos to maximize the impact of his training. Prior to starting his own firm in 2003, Seth worked at Biggs & Co., An accounting firm based in Santa Monica, CA, specializing in bankruptcy, from 2001 to 2003. Nerd Enterprises, Inc. CPA’s.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). Startups in the city of SF are not exactly a new phenomena… a bunch of startups have been founded/built in SF in the last five years or so.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Make sure you think through how you will administer the system, handle customer queries, examine user accounts, run reports on user numbers and website traffic, etc. My experience says that if the development team relies on mockups and documents created by customers then the team and the project are in a real trouble.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2014

How’s that for some nostalgia) In 2003 I started blogging here and that’s driven a great deal of my growth for over a decade. “At Social Media Examiner our approach to content has not fundamentally changed in the last five years with two exceptions. However, the first major change is the use of images.

Marketing 50

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. GLIIF’s initial offering includes a brand-able and blend-able custom encrypted image at a low cost of entry, pre re-direction marketing services and full analytics. Social Media Lists. Social Media.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G, 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. Asocs – Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms™. processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. Many of the biggest customers wanted to be able to physically walk through our data center – how could I give up something so strategic? I was dead set against it. Especially to a company that sells books! Think about it.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Mobile analytics – measuring the impact of mobile and increasing customer engagement (Check out G-Stat). This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. Craze Productions.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Secondly, ease of use and quality interface design go hand in hand to attract new customers and users. Building for geeks makes for great customer immersion if youre building something like (the wonderfully useful) GitHub, but that same process doesnt work so hot if youre building a site for middle-aged moms." Its very disheartening.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network. Doctors are in high demand, not just by their patients, but by startups looking to create social networks, marketplaces, and portals around their expertise. See those things around your legs, cloud customer? November 29, 2012. Source AP via Twitter ]. -

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