crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Advertising On Facebook For Likes Is A Waste Of Money - crowdspring.co/1fYVhou. NCHjAW. | MODE Blog - crowdspring.co/Nv3KYE. Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over | Re/code - crowdspring.co/Nv1PDw. Most active venture capital investors of 2013 in the US by stage – pic.twitter.com/cfCFXWmpbH. 1gis0H1.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 16, 2014

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Natalie MacNeil , founder of She Takes On The World , a graduate of my Blog Mastermind and Membership Site Mastermind programs. She’s won an Emmy award, and today is in charge of a half a million dollar a year blogging business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2013

It compares a 2013 smart phone (an iPhone) to what you had to carry just 10 years earlier (in 2003) to have some of the same tools (camera, video, music, etc.). Small Business and Startups: Give Thanks (and Coupons) | crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1gjvtHz. Free Fonts Best of 2013 | Graphic Design Junction – crowdspring.co/1gkGcRS.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

Don’t Hire the Perfect Candidate | Lance Haun-Harvard Business Review – [link]. What Company Culture IS and IS NOT | Rand’s Blog – [link]. The 6 Marketing Metrics Your CEO Actually Cares About [Cheat Sheet] | Hubspot Blog - [link]. 8 Major Mistakes Entrepreneurs Will Make In 2013 | Forbes – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

MIT Technology Review – [link]. Increase Your Team’s Curiosity | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Can you Crowdsource Your Employee Reviews? Nextiva Blog by Barry Moltz – [link]. Advertising’s Kodak moment – [link]. 2013 Search Engine Ranking Factors | Moz – [link].

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JANUARY 25, 2013

The Work/Home Möbius Strip | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. SMB Marketing in 2013: 68% of small businesses to increase marketing budget | MarketingSherpa Blog – [link]. The Work/Home Möbius Strip | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. What Startups Can Learn From Netflix | KISSmetrics Blog – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2013

Martin – Harvard Business Review – [link]. Good reminder from Fred Wilson that your instincts should sometimes guide you when due diligence does not – [link]. Which are some of the funniest, most clever advertisements? Martin – Harvard Business Review – [link]. Quora – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

4 Steps to Starting a Web Business Without Knowing Coding | The Next Web – crowdspring.co/1ep8F6R. Amazon is surprisingly quiet/inactive when it comes to acquisitions | Re/code – crowdspring.co/1dhwOrm. 4 Steps to Starting a Web Business Without Knowing Coding – crowdspring.co/1ep8F6R. – crowdspring.co/1fkwYB1.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. As we’ve ramped up direct sales over the last few years our need to have relationships with the major media & advertising companies has become critical. Defections of large swaths of talented employees due to low morale. Mentorship. As You Start to Mature.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

2013 Super Bowl Marketing and Small Business: More in Common Than You Think! Want To Successfully Recruit For Your Startup In 2013? Why Innovators Love Constraints | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Avoiding Undue Diligence: My Strange Approach To Angel Investing – [link]. That’s an understatement.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Great Customer Experience Is the Root of Brands and Businesses | OMI Blog - [link]. The Law on Fonts and Typefaces: Frequently Asked Questions | crowdSPRING Blog - [link]. 6 Ways You Can Improve Churn Rate and Increase Revenue | KISSmetrics blog - [link]. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

Why You Should Be Crowdsourcing in 2013 | by Marc Levesque – [link]. Why You Should Be Crowdsourcing in 2013 | by Marc Levesque – [link]. Why Successful Companies Stop Growing | Ron Ashkenas – Harvard Business – Review [link]. Why You Should Be Crowdsourcing in 2013 | by Marc Levesque – [link].

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APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Four Ways to Market Like a Startup | Brian Gregg and Vivian Weng-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Seven Rules for Managing Creative People | Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic-Harvard Business Review – [link].

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

VentureFizz: Comprehensive newsletter with funding announcements, best local blog posts, and other local tech happenings. Topics have included “Leveraging Pinterest”, “Mobile Commerce”, and “Facebook Advertising”. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. See his innovation economy blog and follow him on Twitter.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Best Small Business Blogs – [link]. After reviewing 300 startup applications, this is what I learned – [link]. Facebook’s share of digital advertising growing fast, thanks to mobile | GigaOM – [link]. 26 Creative and Unique Advertising examples for your inspiration – [link]. Spam is a virus.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Five Linking Myths That Need To Go Away In 2013 – [link]. Five Linking Myths That Need To Go Away In 2013 – [link]. 8 Major Tech Predictions for 2013 | Business Insider – [link]. Funding startups that rely on advertising (by @bijan) – [link]. Will 2013 Be Harder For Startups Than 2012? (by

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2013

– Conversion Tips and Examples | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. How To Rewire Your Brain for Positivity and Happiness | The Buffer blog – [link]. Don’t Spend More Money Than You’re Bringing In | Sprouter Blog – [link]. – Conversion Tips and Examples | KISSmetrics Blog – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Vision | Jordan Cooper’s Blog – [link]. Bonnstetter | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Nine Ways Successful People Defeat Stress | Heidi Grant Halvorson -Harvard Business Review – [link].

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Why Good-Better-Best Prices Are So Effective | Rafi Mohammed-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? Inside Google’s Culture of Success and Employee Happiness | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. How should one go about pricing their software product? LinkedIn – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 12, 2013

Bonnstetter-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Bonnstetter-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Bill Gates says you should read these 5 books in 2013 | GeekWire – [link]. 11 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started My First Blog | QuickSprout – [link]. Lean Business: Pivot Point – [link].

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

January 14th, 2013. Advertisement. Designers who practiced table-based layout may remember how headaches up front lead to more flexible code later. Similarly, blogs tend to put their latest posts first, but a groundbreaking post from last month might still receive more attention than a minor post today. Advertising.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Small Business and Startup Tips: Hire and be Human | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Signup and Trial Process Benchmark Report: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly | Totango Blog – [link]. Signup and Trial Process Benchmark Report: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly | Totango Blog – [link]. Can enterprise SaaS products be viral?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. The secrets of body language: why you should never cross your arms again | The Buffer Blog – [link]. Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. Great data – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Entrepreneur PSA – Advertising Businesses are Hard | Seth’s Blog - crowdspring.co/1aHHgHS. 1ioAoDm. . 1aBcbJi.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Website/Blogging. About VC Cafe. Seed Startups.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 31, 2013

Inside the Inventive and Entrepreneurial Mind of Elon Musk | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. Four Lean Advertising Campaigns That Went Viral | Harvard Business Review – [link]. 13 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials to Learn in 2013 – [link]. How to Nail the Opening of Your Blog Post | Copyblogger – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2013

The science of colors in marketing | The Buffer Blog – [link]. Well written Google Glass review from Engadget – [link]. The science of colors in marketing | The Buffer Blog – [link]. People who make lots of money from click based advertising are trying to play down the value of clicks – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2012

How to Build Trust in a Virtual Workplace | Harvard Business Review – [link]. 1 Enemy of Creativity: Fear of Failure | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Seth’s Blog: Cycle worse, cycle better – [link]. The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship | Harvard Business Review – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

You Can’t Be a Wimp—Make the Tough Calls | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/H4gLnT. 140 Quirky and Serious Free Fonts of 2013 | 1stwebdesigner - crowdspring.co/1gqp3Ey. 10 Brand New and Free Tools for Designers | Vandelay Design Blog - crowdspring.co/GZCqP8. 25 Mindblowing Typography Illustrations - crowdspring.co/19h9SbI.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The 13 Biggest Failures from Famous Entrepreneurs and What They’ve Learned from them | The Buffer Blog – [link]. The 13 Biggest Failures from Famous Entrepreneurs and What They’ve Learned from them | The Buffer Blog – [link]. Report: Advertisers Could Waste $9.5 Billion On Bot Traffic In 2013 – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2014

Even The Onion has joined the game by launching a parody site – Clickhole – that on the one hand, pokes fun at click-bait, but ultimately, runs monetizes through advertising, just like every other click-bait site. Entrepreneurs Need a Better Way to Cash Out | Kanyi Maqubela – Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/SKltNW.

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JULY 12, 2013

How and Why to Be a Leader (Not a Wannabe) | Harvard Business Review – [link]. “Less than half of US display ad impressions delivered between May 2012 and February 2013 were in-view” – [link]. Global mobile advertising growing nicely, but North American market share is declining – [link].

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MARCH 8, 2013

Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 5 Customer Experience Metrics Every Successful Company Tracks | The Buffer blog – [link]. The Ultimate Guide to Customer Acquisition | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad | crowdSPRING Blog – [link].

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Mean – Small Business and Responsibility | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Why Being First to Market Isn’t Always Best | SCORE Small Business Success Blog – [link]. How should one go about pricing their software product? Misfit Entrepreneurs | Dan Pallotta-Harvard Business Review – [link].

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

in 2013 to 1.43 Although this gap is decreasing due to the rise of mobile website optimization , conversion rates for these websites are still poor when compared to their desktop counterparts. These users may be visiting to check inventory, look at reviews, read blog articles, or even compare pricing. This is because 26.1%

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

SEO, email marketing, Facebook advertising). As InVision App’s marketing manager Sophia Eng explains: “It is rare for a large company at a late stage or an enterprise software company to be doing growth marketing with all of the channels at top peak performance. Channel-level expertise: An understanding of how the channels work (e.g.,

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Though the waterfall model is specifically to software development, it’s core principles resonate beyond software and into startups across the board. Extra Lucrative Conversion Advice. Website Analysis.

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