crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

More founders reject VC money | Crain’s New York Business – [link]. 5 Things Founders Shouldn’t Skimp On – [link]. 5 tips for startup founders from startup founders | Gigaom – [link]. Founders: It’s ok to take time off | StartupCFO : Mark MacLeod – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

You’re undoubtedly familiar with paid acquisition, as it’s the digital equivalent of traditional advertising. For instance, you can advertise on specific subreddits, which are sometimes incredibly cohesive tribes: If you can make the math work on paid advertising, it’s in infinitely scalable channel.

Channel 118

Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Trends , an award-winning online publication.

Marketing 54

Marketing Social Media Software Review Small Business 54

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! All rights reserved.

Web 47

Web Software Review Cofounder Small Business 47

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. All rights reserved.

Small Business 41

Small Business Social Media Engineer Matching 41

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

As part of the Lightspeed Venture Partner Summer Fellowship program, I ask guest speakers to come in each week and talk to the Fellows about key topics related to building a successful startup. You can also try to build an initial following by leveraging public relations (PR).

Customer 100

Customer Entrepreneur PR Belgium 100

Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

When the Pets.com puppet wasn’t making appearances in the company’s own commercials, it was doing interviews on television programs such as Nightline , Good Morning America and Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. When Ford’s public relations manager, C. He even fired the company’s long-time advertising agency.

Sales 126

Sales IPO Texas Advertising 126

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! He is also the founder of Junta42 , the Content Marketing Institute , SocialTract and a few others in the works.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Cofounder Social Media 53

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Chris’s blog, [chrisbrogan.com] , is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150. All rights reserved.

Small Business 39

Small Business Marketing Cofounder Social Media 39

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 30, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! I had a great conversation recently with Derek Sivers , founder of CDBaby and author of Anything You Want.

Small Business 60

Small Business Marketing Social Media Programming 60

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Read each of the five posts that follow and click our entry form link to match the guest star with their post.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2017

Thanks to Ken Schaefer, Schaefer Advertising ! #2 I am a Financial Educator & Coach and the founder of Youth Smart Financial Education Services. Armed with only a vague notion that I might be good at counseling and listening, I entered this rigorous program. Advertising & Public Relations. #16

Harvest 48

Harvest Entrepreneur Venture Capital Advertising 48

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 1, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Anything You Want is another The Domino Project publication and a fitting one I think. All rights reserved.

Small Business 57

Small Business RSS Marketing Social Media 57

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Read each of the five posts that follow and click our entry form link to match the guest star with their post.

Small Business 52

Small Business Marketing North America Social Media 52

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Do you send out automated follow-ups that beg to be ignored? All rights reserved.

Small Business 63

Small Business Marketing Portland Social Media 63

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! One of my favorite case studies in the book involves a tool I use everyday – Dropbox. All rights reserved.

Lean 54

Lean Small Business RSS Marketing 54

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Regular content creation is the basis for any successful inbound marketing program. All rights reserved.

Social Media 51

Social Media Cofounder Small Business Engineer 51

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! His latest book is The Plan-As-You-Go-Business-Plan. All rights reserved.

Marketing 41

Marketing Matching Social Media Cofounder 41

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! All rights reserved.

Web 52

Web Small Business Social Media Matching 52

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 20, 2016

There’s absolutely no question that advertisers have been using beautiful people to sell their products for decades. In fact, the Halo Effect goes both ways – you could be limiting your testing program by ruling out variations that aren’t ‘beautiful enough.’ It still holds pretty true today. That’s not true. Be Similar. Image Source.

Revenue 48

Revenue Social Media Retention Metrics 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! He is currently a founding partner at Ninety Five 5 (Less Nonsense – More Sales). All rights reserved.

Small Business 44

Small Business Social Media Matching RSS 44

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Brian Clark Brian Clark is founder of Copyblogger and CEO of Copyblogger Media. All rights reserved.

Social Media 41

Social Media Social Network Small Business Matching 41

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! If you meet somebody over cocktails, send them an e-mail the next morning. All rights reserved.

Social Media 40

Social Media Programming Small Business RSS 40

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) The Customer Development process says preserve your cash by not hiring anyone in sales and marketing until the founders turn hypotheses into facts and you have found product/market fit.

Lean 260

Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS 260

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin. We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Marketing is at its peak.

Silicon Valley 269

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 269

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! He is also the founder of Junta42 , the Content Marketing Institute , SocialTract and a few others in the works.

Social Media 41

Social Media Small Business Matching RSS 41

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

10 Lessons I’ve Learned During My First Three Months As a Founder (by Len Kendall) | Technori - [link]. Programming Your Culture | TechCrunch - [link]. Facebook Could Now Advertise To Children, Thanks To Updated Federal Privacy Rules – [link]. Facebook Preps to Bring Video Ads to News Feed | Advertising Age - [link].

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Deliver your recipe using the autoresponder function of your email marketing program. All rights reserved.

Social Media 42

Social Media Email Small Business Programming 42

www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

ADVERTISEMENT. ); ); ); Home » emedia and Technology. Zite Expands Its Publisher Program. PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. Advertising/Sales. Advertising Systems. Advertising and Public Relations. Booth-related Services. 2008 FOLIO Award Winners.

Social Media 40

Social Media Rhode Island Media South Dakota 40

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

13 Things Startup Founders Aren’t Thankful For – crowdspring.co/1B6KrdY. How to Enhance Your Loyalty Programs Using Social Media | Social Media Examiner – crowdspring.co/1CVvzRF. When You Give Your Team a Goal, Make It a Range – crowdspring.co/1yINX9Z. 7 Simple Ways to Appreciate your Team (and Boost Performance) – crowdspring.co/1veUNVr.

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Good points about need for startup founders to have friends, not just mentors – [link]. Is Three Founders One Too Many? Advertising is Dying. Phenomenal essay on how computer programming education needs to change for it to be more effective – [link]. – [link]. Long Live Design – [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Public relations. What does a robust experimentation program contain? Why do so many experimentation programs end in disappointing failure? Oh, oh, oh, and our long-term favorite: Does online advertising on TikTok, Snap, and Hulu actually drive phone sales in AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile stores in the real world?

Analytics 101

Analytics Programming Global Campaign 101

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Come back to ducttapemarketing.com/blog starting on Monday and each day the week to find the new content.)

Small Business 68

Small Business Software Review Social Media RSS 68

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Speaking of tattoos – Interview with @micah , CEO & co-founder of Graphic.ly – [link]. What does advertising do? - [link]. Retro inspiration: Vintage Advertisement Of Modern Technology – [link]. Guide to Web Design Degree Schools and University Programs – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Therefore, marketing and public relations are often tackled piecemeal by whomever has time. Treat these 10 tips as an appetizer for all there is to know about public relations for startups. Public Relations. Founder and President Gilt Groupe. Programming and Web Development Lists. Print Story.

PR 103

PR Startup Social Media Technical Review 103

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 10, 2012

Entrepreneurs With ‘Founder’s Disease’ Will Make Any Investor Run Away – [link]. 41 Female Founders Every Entrepreneur Should Know – [link]. Good interview with Troy Henikoffabout Excelerate’s summer program – [link]. Programming fonts: proportional vs monospaced – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94