crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2018

Influencer marketing, if done right, can help your startup or small business grow your audience, improve sales, and expand brand awareness through social media. Virtually anyone can be an influencer if they have the right qualities and an audience that follows them. How can influencer marketing benefit your business?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Our fall webcast series concluded on a high note with three extraordinary conversations about the origins and implications of Lean Startup. Kent, a veteran programmer, a founder of the Agile method and the creator of Extreme Programming, came armed with anecdotes and lessons from his own experience, as well as a few questions for Eric.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 21, 2018

These ramblings are about my week in London with 10 other women as part of the inaugural Startup Catalyst Female Founders London Mission where I was supported to attend by Advance Queensland. Female Founders Unite Some of us arrived the day before our official start and met up at the closest pub. different audience. Pack gloves!

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ConversionXL

JULY 19, 2018

The company wanted to optimize performances for these three separate audiences, according to Guy Yalif, CEO at Intellimize. HR GO , an HR recruitment firm, used Sentient Ascend , AI-powered conversion optimization technology, to test 1,080 designs on their site. 5 Creating engaging content for your audience.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Several conversations over the last month have turned to the topic of helping entrepreneurs. Having recently addressed founders in my chapter “Be Coachable,” allow me please in this essay to address this matter to you providers of help. As you probably know, I prefer advising founders in long, immersive engagements.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 28, 2013

And in the early days, positioning the founders as thought leaders through blogging is helpful when raising early investment and working on high-profile deals.”. Curate content from various sources. Startups should curate content that is already out there that relates to their industry,” she says. “At Choosing the right medium.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Twitter and Facebook can generate traffic, but when it comes to getting an immediate action, like a sales conversation, I’d rather hang out where business is being done, not where news articles and cat videos are consumed. We’re not shotgunning emails to the masses, and 150-300 per week is a list you can curate. Optimize and repeat.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Collectively this allows me to generate enough awareness to keep myself top of mind for my target audience. I don’t have bandwidth to engage in substantial conversations on Twitter. . (That said, I think videoconferencing will supplant more in-person meetings over time.).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. three entrepreneurs who are part of this vanguard of Latam founders. You can see a much larger list at the end. What gives?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

by Kristy Castleton, founder and MD of Rebel & Soul. By using AI to create the most effective posters for the target audience, there is a higher chance of sales conversation and business productivity is increased. This deeper insight will allow companies to conduct targeted sales marketing that increases sales conversion.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The advice, connections, and customers they seek are in all sorts of different verticals, and so it’s unlikely that you’re going to be able to build out a conference where paying hundreds of dollars and spending a day makes sense to someone if only 10% of the content and audience is relevant. Leave more time for hallway conversations.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 11, 2019

Co-founder of Little Cactus Media he’s worked across New Zealand, the USA and Canada with some of the biggest companies from Skycity to Zillow to Microsoft. Let’s dive into the key takeaways from my conversation above with Alexander. Where is your audience? What if you have a key message for your audience?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The bulk of the responses included individuals who are in the weeds doing the work—or have gotten out of the weeds through years of great results: Benji Hyam , co-founder of Grow and Convert, doesn’t just write about content marketing; he built a content marketing agency by getting his clients results. Talk about lifelong impact.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 8, 2022

And every founder who wants to develop a robust company that’ll excel in the market cannot ignore getting a premium domain name. Acquiring a premium domain name makes it easier for your target audience to remember, search for, and find your company. And that’d result in lower traffic and conversions for your company.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Geolocating is being used as tool for us as a collective to “assemble” so we can collaborate and take back control of our destiny and conversations. The art of conversation is not being lost…. Sure language has iterated, been redefined, shortened, coded… but the conversations are real and the more meaning and ideas are being exchanged.

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Brandanew

JUNE 1, 2015

And behind every real brand or a Startup is a story of its founders and team. Understand your target audience and figure out what emotions to aim for through the story. You need to know what is preferred by your audience and suited to your brand. The easiest way to bring a fresh perspective is through your own voice.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Marketing basics are needed as well so you can research our target audience and understand them to deliver content that drives email signups and crowdfunding backers. is a conversational Marketing Service that drives quality web traffic to your blog/web content by engaging with relevant people when they have relevant Tweet conversation.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 27, 2020

How do you gain the attention of your preferred audience in an era of stiff competition? What is being said right now by your customers in their conversations? 5- Personalization and deep conversations. Struggling to know what to say to your audience? 10- Genuine interaction with your audience.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 8, 2017

Just had a few conversations with startups around how early to hire for marketing. For most founders, it seems silly to hire for marketing when you don't have a product in market to sell. So now imagine developing an audience before you launch. No, you wouldn't build up much of an audience this way. The day it launches?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

He is the CEO of Rainmaker Digital, founder of Copyblogger, host of unemployable and curator of further. We always enjoy, I think, we forget there’s an audience listening even sometimes and enjoy just chatting about this online world that we’ve both been in for a long time. Brian thanks for joining me.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

However, given the overwhelming number of conversations coming in from all directions all at once, it’s often impossible to focus a lens on the ones that are most relevant for a given time, place, audience and outcome. Q: Your co-founders have been working on some technology in their spare time. That’s exactly the point.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

As Bryan stated below, there are no shortage of “How to pitch” or “How to behave” articles by VCs but really very little advice for VCs by founders. Anyone notice there's a ton of VCs giving founder advice, and almost no founder advice for VCs? Lines Not Dots Raising money from a fund is a process, most founders get that.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

In the spirit of 1M/1M, I invited the audience to connect her with dentists in the United States who may be willing to speak with her and help her understand the specifics of what she needs to put together in her offering. Dan wanted to know how to increase the conversion. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

David Arnoux is Head of Growth and co-founder of Twoodo , the ultimate online collaboration tool. . The general idea is to comment on blog posts that you know your audience likes reading. Number of visitors who signed up to our website: 72 (16 percent conversion). Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Understanding the basics.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2019

Just the immediate priorities seem to take up more than one person’s potential working hours—so it’s no surprise that when it comes to something like social media, many founders have trouble making it a priority. The consequences of failing to position a founder’s profile aren’t always obvious—and it’s usually all about missed opportunities.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 2, 2017

As the founder of a publishing company focused specifically on serving entrepreneurs, I see the same problem over and over: When a business owner decides they want to write a book (or do anything else, for that matter), their goal is to be the best. She’d written it for a small, niche audience, so she knew it wouldn’t sell very many copies.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

by Luke Heinecke, founder of Linear. A/B testing Facebook ads lets you see which set up is most cost-effective, gets more clicks and more conversions. The hope is that investing a chunk of money to split test Facebook Ads will ultimately reduce the cost per conversion and drive better overall results. Audience A + Audience B.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

increasing customer lifetime value, boosting product awareness , or improving conversion rates) and assess how each content asset contributes to the goal. Does adding social proof increase conversions? Curate the right items and allow the customer’s impulses to do the work. Retargeting is a proven way to increase conversions.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 12, 2017

Lori Kennedy, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Strategic Business Coach and Founder, THE WELLNESS BUSINESS HUB Learn more about Lori and the Wellness Business Hub here: [link]. Amanda Daley , Founder and Creator of the Upswing Mastermind for Health Coaches, To learn more about Amanda, please visit www.amandajdaley.com. Amanda Daley.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Here’s a “conversion” I’d like to get out of everyone in our space: I want you to start A/B testing, because it will make you a substantial amount of money. There are, of course, other companies which make scads of money from carefully curated email lists. Email Keeps Your Audience Warmed Up.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 12, 2017

Lori Kennedy, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Strategic Business Coach and Founder, THE WELLNESS BUSINESS HUB Learn more about Lori and the Wellness Business Hub here: [link]. Amanda Daley , Founder and Creator of the Upswing Mastermind for Health Coaches, To learn more about Amanda, please visit www.amandajdaley.com. Amanda Daley.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 12, 2017

Lori Kennedy, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Strategic Business Coach and Founder, THE WELLNESS BUSINESS HUB Learn more about Lori and the Wellness Business Hub here: [link]. Amanda Daley , Founder and Creator of the Upswing Mastermind for Health Coaches, To learn more about Amanda, please visit www.amandajdaley.com. Amanda Daley.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

Great to be with you again and great to be with your audience again. They’re pulling in the list of human curated list of successful local businesses and showing those right in the knowledge panel. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. David thanks for joining me. David thanks for joining me.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

Perhaps it's an increase in your conversion rate; Or a higher number of visitors who sign up; Or a greater number of people who share content with one another; Or a lower monthly churn rate for users of your application; Maybe it's even something as simple as getting more people into your restaurant. Are they the right audience?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He is also the Co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. He's the founder and chairman of the board of global partner marketing agency, acceleration partners. He's also the co-founder and chairman of brand cycle.

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ConversionXL

MAY 2, 2019

Two percent is the average conversion rate for ecommerce sites. While every site is different—and you’ll benefit far more by focusing on your conversion rate—that’s where most sites are today. But what if a 2% conversion rate isn’t enough to stay profitable? How do you improve conversions for past visitors?

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