crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

7 Crucial Lessons from an Embarrassing Customer Service Trainwreck | Help Scout - [link]. Seth’s Blog: The cycle of customers who care - [link]. The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital | Enterprise Irregulars - [link]. Seth’s Blog: The cycle of customers who care - [link].

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Human Resources Play Video Shark Tanks Barbara Corcoran on Bootstrapping a Growing a Business (Video). Marketing Sales & Marketing Home Marketing Basics Sales Online Marketing Finding Customers Social Media Branding Social Media Does Your Companys Social Personality Need a Makeover? Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2016

With a plan in place for your opening day, you’ll be able to ensure that you get plenty of customers in the door and generate enough media buzz to keep bringing in business long after. Tom Smith of Insights From Analytics recommends doing PR outreach to local media and sharing your story. Don’t forget paid advertising.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

Creating Customers for Life: 50 Resources on Loyalty, Churn, and Customer Retention | Help Scout – crowdspring.co/1lD094d. Helpful insight for bootstrapping entrepreneurs … how we built besnappy for 317000 – crowdspring.co/1o7tpX4. 15 Free Bootstrap Admin Themes – crowdspring.co/1jB1FYK.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

A description of the problem you’re solving for your customers, and your solution to the problem, which is usually your product or service. Also, make a bullet list of the marketing activities that will drive customers to your door. Also, make a bullet list of the marketing activities that will drive customers to your door.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2017

Websites would rather deal with more face-to-face problems such as SEO, sales, advertising—all channels that could be directly monitored for returns. A channel that didn’t point to specific returns didn’t garner enough priority to warrant paid customers. Gaglers chat hoped to fix something that the market didn’t believe to be broken.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2012

On any given day I could be acting as bookkeeper, HR person, PR agent, or people manager. In our second year of operation we had a retail storefront where we serviced computers for residential customers. “Bootstrapping” and organic growth are our methods of operation.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

If you decided to start a digital marketing agency, you might figure out from the start, where you draw the line at customers. Do you want to tie your name to an oil industry, or offer a service that you may not be brilliant at, but that will attract a lot of customers? How will your customers get there? Who will you serve?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

9 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Their Customers – crowdspring.co/1loBthB. 9 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Their Customers – crowdspring.co/1loBthB. 15 Best Bootstrap Design Tools – crowdspring.co/1ncKgIa. The above ad for Aflac is arguably, one of the most interesting ad placements ever.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I want to know how many customers exist out there who would be likely buyers of the O-Port products, at what price-point, and what does that add up to? David should use his credibility in capacity planning and convince a dozen customers to pay him consulting fees to solve their capacity planning problems. 30 million market?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I want to know how many customers exist out there who would be likely buyers of the O-Port products, at what price-point, and what does that add up to? David should use his credibility in capacity planning and convince a dozen customers to pay him consulting fees to solve their capacity planning problems. 30 million market?

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Reporters aren’t here to advertise for you. Although bootstrapping your startup is difficult, that in and of itself is not unique. Editor’s note: You can find more resources around PR, content marketing, and customer acquisition for seed-stage startups in the Marketing & Growth section of our platform.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. Jason: So how many of those 20,000 people are paying customers? Edwin: Okay, I have different types of customers.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

RSVP: [link] Tuesday, February 2nd 9AM Crowdsourcery Potions 101: Why Some Marketing Potions Fail and Others Thrive, Hosted By JWT Some have predicted that crowdsourcing is the future of the marketing, advertising and industrial design industry. Usually these discussions focus on Marketing, PR, Customer Service or an Agency.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I’m also going to walk you through developing your marketing plan because I see too many people, they focus on their logo, they focus on their location, they focus on their invitation to their grand opening event and if their life depended on it could not tell you who their niche target customer is. What do I mean by that?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

5 Ways to Create an Engaging Customer Experience – crowdspring.co/W6LVm2. 40 Extensions And Plugins For Extending Bootstrap – crowdspring.co/1w2XjfG. Small Business Tips: 5 Great Online Tools (That I’ve never mentioned before) – crowdspring.co/1q6KH6T.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

“Real Time” in Display Advertising Doesn’t Really Mean Real Time - crowdspring.co/1hyAnvG. Peet’s Coffee & Tea Inks Profit-Sharing Deal with Razorfish | Advertising Age – crowdspring.co/1hmm2C4. Showcase of Useful Bootstrap Tools For Web Developers - crowdspring.co/1kY1Qey. 1lNUUDJ - crowdspring.co/1lNUWLN.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A couple of factors influenced our decision: We wanted to stay bootstrapped. Many SaaS applications charge customers based on the number of seats, which isn’t that much for a landing page tool (often just a single user). We stay in touch with current and potential customers and answer their questions.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

21 Reasons To Bootstrap Your Startup | ZoomShift – crowdspring.co/M5SXUd. How To Turn Your Online Visitors Into Customers Without Them Even Knowing – crowdspring.co/1fLcnYW. A special report from The Economist on Tech Startups. Here’s the full PDF – crowdspring.co/1cNY3hP.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

Competitive Differentiation that Matters – [link] 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. Repeat after me: business is always about the customer – [link]. Repeat after me: business is always about the customer – [link]. 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. Name dropping!

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We are committed to delivering affordable and convenient bookings to our customers anywhere in Nigeria. Ori had been working in advertising for 7 years but had been waiting to find the right start-up opportunity. While we were working on the logo it dawned on us that PR was actually uPRoar’s middle name. No one else.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Custom parts can also sometimes lead you down a rabbit-hole of building your own equipment to build those custom parts (and yes, I’ve had multiple companies that have had to do this!). Do you continue to rely on online marketing or do you also need to look at broadcast/television advertising (whole other ball of wax!),

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Don’t Accidentally Bootstrap Yourself to Death | saastr – [link]. Funding startups that rely on advertising (by @bijan) – [link]. Facebook Could Now Advertise To Children, Thanks To Updated Federal Privacy Rules – [link]. Five Linking Myths That Need To Go Away In 2013 – [link]. – [link].

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A couple of factors influenced our decision: We wanted to stay bootstrapped. Many SaaS applications charge customers based on the number of seats, which isn’t that much for a landing page tool (often just a single user). We stay in touch with current and potential customers and answer their questions.

Differentiation 48

Differentiation Non-Compete Audio Algorithm 48

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

This applies to bootstrapped companies. I’ve seen first-hand how funded competition can crush a bootstrapping company. Your funded competitor hires a PR firm and appears in Inc. Niches are easier to penetrate, cheaper to advertise to, have less competition, higher profit margins, and word of mouth is a vibrant force.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 7, 2010

Over 100 Strategies for Providing Outstanding Customer Service – [link]. The Web Entrepreneur’s Customer Service Toolbox: 100 Hacks and Resources – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: iTeleport – [link]. 3 Keys To Increasing Customer Loyalty With Social Media – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 7, 2010

Over 100 Strategies for Providing Outstanding Customer Service – [link]. The Web Entrepreneur’s Customer Service Toolbox: 100 Hacks and Resources – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: iTeleport – [link]. 3 Keys To Increasing Customer Loyalty With Social Media – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Optimizing your Customer Acquisition Funnel – [link]. Optimizing your Customer Acquisition Funnel – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud: Github – [link]. Stupid vs Smart: Diesel Typography Advertisements – [link]. 46 Amazing Examples of Public Awareness Advertising – [link].

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. Do not rely on SEO to market your product It sounds contradictory, but its true.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Update: Part 2: Finding Your Co-Founders CrunchBase Information Seth Sternberg meebo Information provided by CrunchBase Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Goodbye, MacBook Pro. Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 16, 2015

Excellent Examples of Sign Up Forms That Impress Your Customers Right From The Start | InstantShift crowdspring.co/1AsJxr4. 11 Bootstrap UI Editors For Developers crowdspring.co/1Dkibmy. – Crazyleaf Design Blog crowdspring.co/1xUxlOP. 7 Of The Best Error Messages On The Internet | Co.Design | business + design crowdspring.co/1Bx5x1S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

120+ Creative Advertisements - [link]. 35+ Creative advertising For Creative Peoples - [link]. Bootstrapping Your Startup or Small Business - [link]. Why you should challenge your customers’ assumptions – [link]. Why you should challenge your customers’ assumptions – [link].

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2015

How to Keep Your Customers Coming Back for More crowdspring.co/1RKaIV1. 7 Best Alternatives to Bootstrap crowdspring.co/1Lc9obb. Tips for Launching Minimum Viable Products Inside Big Companies crowdspring.co/1Le1IGF. Good, Good, Good Advice for Recording Interview Guests and Co-Hosts crowdspring.co/1GeVq9l. crowdspring.co/1VB44AO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Small Business and Startups: When a Customer Deserves to Be Fired | @crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1VilkfO. How Bootstrapping Became a Lost Art and Venture Capital Became an Addiction – Capterra Blog crowdspring.co/1fwqKUb. Surprising Reasons to Be Happy When Your Employees Fail crowdspring.co/1JaJO38.

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