crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

By now many of you know the Harlem Shake but what you may not appreciate is the broader trend behind the video and it has mirrored my general views on how TV will work in the future. Global audiences of prosumer video producers will create content that is viewed by global audiences in numbers far in excess of traditional TV.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 3, 2013

Thumb – A mobile social network that helps people get instant opinions. Dropcam – A high-definition Wi-Fi video camera with remote viewing and two-way sound. Fundraise – Social fundraising. The post 100 AngelList Startups To Watch In 2013: How Many Are New To You? Category-Busting Startups.

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Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

After you claim your identity with placeholder domain names, accounts in social networks, and common blogging platforms, your next challenge is to create enough positive content as a “Google wall” to keep negative info out of the top Google search results. Other user-created content sites.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2012

You spent a lot of time and perhaps even a lot of money creating compelling videos and distributing them across the web. Yet the big question remains, are people watching your videos and more importantly for your business, are those video viewers becoming customers of your products or services? Why is this a big deal?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more!

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2016

Mobile, video, blogs, advertising, search engine optimization, email, social media – the list of options for marketing your business is almost endless. Email and social media are the two marketing channels that have consistently proven to be the most cost effective and offer the highest ROI. But what really works?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

CEO Paul Bojarski (pictured above, at center) offered more insight into Sceenic, and shared a 30-second video to explain more about his London-based company. First, frustration that video viewing on OTT, IPTV, TV and even VR were lean back alone experiences and not together with your friends who are separated by distance. Two things.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals. One of the company’s smartest moves was introducing “Netflix Original” movies and TV shows, first launching House of Cards in 2013 to much success. Thanks to Will Yang, Instrumentl ! #4- 4- Netflix. Photo Credit: Jen Wan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 7, 2014

It’s no secret that social networking sites such as Pinterest, Slideshare and Tumblr are exploding in popularity, and it’s due to the public demand for images. Even YouTube came into its own as a full-fledged social networking clip site in 2013. Not anymore.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Over Thanksgiving weekend in 2013, right after launching his email list experiment, he built Product Hunt’s first website mockup with his team. Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The creator economy has changed the way we, as a society, experience social networks. Based in Jerusalem, Lightricks was established back in 2013 by five Ph.D. Their flagship app is, without a doubt, Facetune, which has been a smash hit with content creators and social media users ever since it was released.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2013

by Phillip Alexander, author of “ Home and Small Business Guide to Protecting Your Computer Network, Electronic Assets, and Privacy “ Now that is 2013, here are some New Year’s resolutions to consider, with a data security angle. Know what social networking sites they’re on, and who their on-line ‘friends’ are.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Like it or not, we’re in the last few months of 2013. The microblogging site Tumblr, which began to gain traction in late 2012 and early 2013, is now the “favorite social networking service of Americans under 25,” according to TechCrunch. That’s so last year.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on December 7, 2013. Cotter bucks the flavor-of-the-day entrepreneurial stereotype: the college dropout popularized by both our own Michael Dell and recently Mark Zuckerberg and the great movie The Social Network. This wasn’t his first rodeo, as we say in Texas.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Thursday, Microsoft’s Skype launched Skype In The Workspace , a service that combines elements of Quora and social networking to create an online space where entrepreneurs can seek knowledge from one another. As with any social network, the problem is one of scale. The post Microsoft’s “Skype In The Workspace.”

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Global revenue from mobile advertising increased by 92 percent from 2012 to 2013, growing from $10.1 MassMedia has also successfully utilized advertisements targeting mobile users of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. billion to $19.3 The optimization of a brand’s website is also vital to the success of any campaign.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Part of my job as a digital and social media strategist is following expert predictions, in order to better help my clients at Firebrand Group innovate. The end of 2013 saw even more lists of predictions than I’ve ever seen previously – some of which were silly or just plain obvious. Vine and Instagram video will take over the world.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 30, 2013

MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute recently released a report on 2013 Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends for North America. Not surprisingly, all content marketing tactics are being used more frequently, including research reports, videos, and mobile content.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Interbrand, a corporate identity and brand consulting company, just released its 2013 Best Global Brands report. The 2013 report has many such insights. Here are four important lessons entrepreneurs and small businesses can learn from the world’s best brands in 2013: 1. Apple has unseated Coca-Cola as the top global brand.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Among the other top social networks, YouTube was the channel checked the most by teenagers. Due to this growing demographic on YouTube, dozens of tween YouTube stars have risen to fame with thousands and sometimes millions of subscribers and views on their video content.

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Up and Running

MARCH 18, 2013

Entrepreneur Zack Price is guest blogging his experience on the 2013 StartupBus as it makes its way from Chicago to SXSW in Austin. If you want to learn more about NextChaptr watch some of the videos below. . Just watch the video below. Now here in 2013 I run this digital publishing company out of 1871 in Chicago.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Integrate Pinterest With Your Other Social Media Channels. Pinterest arrived to the social network party after other popular networks like Facebook and Twitter. Because of this, many brands have established followings on one or both of these networks and a need was created to raise awareness for their Pinterest channel.

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Life Beyond Code

DECEMBER 28, 2012

2013 is days away. You can watch a short video on this topic here. Never confuse entertainment for education or engagement: Most of your activities in the social networks you belong to will fall under entertainment unless you think through your interactions well before hand. Happy New Year.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

As announced in Brazilian press in October of 2013, a new version of a law in Brazil just took effect, mandating that smartphones give visibility to Brazilian-made apps , by either pre-loading phones with these homegrown apps or providing a dedicated marketplace on smartphones to display them. Eduardo Henrique is the head of U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 3, 2014

The program piggybacks a bit on the Influencer program launched in 2013 that features long form content from folks like Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Maria Shriver and Mark Cuban. Now members have the ability to follow other members that are not in their network and build their own group of followers. Web Marketing LinkedIn'

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more!

Social Media 108

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

If you are using social media marketing as a channel to grow your business, awesome! You might be posting a video here or there to YouTube or some photos to Instagram. Engagement is defined differently across the various social networks but in general it’s the total number of interactions with your posts. Engagement.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 2, 2015

Research conducted by Ogilvy & Mather shows that changes to Facebook’s algorithm have reduced the average exposure of unpaid posts from 12% in October of 2013 to around 6% in February 2015. Host FB-based videos on your own site. Facebook now allows you to embed videos from Facebook on your own site.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

Some e-commerce websites might decide against offering social login if their target audience is aged 55 or older – these users are much less likely to have social accounts. The same goes for businesses operating primarily in countries where social networks are blocked, such as China or Cuba.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

According to Nielsen, YouTube reaches more US adults ages 18-34 than any cable network as of mid-2013. As of March 2013, one billion, (B!), One more thing to ponder… One hundred hours of video is uploaded into YouTube every single minute, as of May 2013. It is a social network (like Facebook).

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. Sunday, January 27th, 2013. Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2014

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Forget influencers on social networks.

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more!

Social Media 105

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

The 2013 Super Bowl commercials commanded an average of 3.5 The article also goes on to state that, online video review site EXPO found that customer reviews are 12 times more trusted than descriptions that come from manufacturers. Add Video For Even More Credibility. Their test page provided a video testimonial.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2013

According to online professional social network LinkedIn , that word is the No. 1 most overused buzzword in its members’ profiles for 2013 across the world. Support your description of career achievements with photos, videos and presentations on your profile that demonstrate your best work.”

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. Kik Interactive, Inc (@Kik) September 16, 2013.

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