crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Chicago-based BrightTag ranked #4! Email Design Best Practices For Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Top 6 Crowdsourcing Websites | ichitect – [link]. Ranking the Top 10 Cloud Startups – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

More data showing reduced efficacy of email marketing campaigns – [link]. A quarter of all Chicago-area mortgages underwater – [link]. Not Quite, but Here’s a Few Gems – [link]. Are You Up For a Second Job? The Rise of Moonlighting and ‘Moonpreneurs’ – [link]. Google acquires Zagat – [link].

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Hearpreneur

JULY 2, 2016

This year alone we have had six fortune 500 companies ask us to provide them with proposals who then decided to go with a less expensive option only to come back a few months later asking us to save their campaigns. For my entire life, my immigrant father has worked his butt off as a general contractor in the Chicago area.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Kevin Willer Shares His Experience Building Google’s Culture In Chicago – [link]. Five campaigns changing the game of mobile advertising – [link]. Advice to advisers: Stop being so nice – [link]. Building Startups Is Like Baking A Cake In 3 Minutes – [link]. What Good Does Design Do For Business? – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2014

It took me a second to grasp what was happening, but I quickly realized that he was not crazy and not trying to cool himself off from the heat of a Chicago August. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!). Photo: Marie Jades. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition.

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Viral Marketing Social Media Public Relations 83

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I’m not against MBA’s (I have one myself from University of Chicago and my lovely wife was graduated from Wharton – she loves to remind me that they usually score higher in the rankings than we do). Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

The sooner you understand that the sooner you can plan your campaign. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. Create a sustained campaign. All sales campaigns are processes that occur over time. How to Work with PR Firms.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

Certain Chicago post offices were staying open until midnight for the taxtime procrastinators. On the way north from the Chicago suburbs to Wisconsin, I thought it would be a great idea to have my own PR firm. Thanks to Alex Vale, Fundstack ! #8- 8- My name and what I did then. Photo Credit: Kate Mura. I just love the word.

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Naming Cofounder Wisconsin Entrepreneur 110

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 8, 2015

How to Make a Dent in “The Women Problem” in Chicago – buff.ly/1FKFUQy. Brilliant Video Marketing Campaigns You’ll Actually Enjoy Watching crowdspring.co/1HRwXF7. Why a Billion Dollar Startup Just Sold for $15 Million (and What Founders Can Learn From It) buff.ly/1GMqXJO. 1PYFIjm.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2019

When a United Airlines passenger was “dragged” off a flight , CEO Oscar Munoz initially issued a PR-driven, tick-the-checkbox apology: As public resentment grew, Munoz followed up with another, more candid mea culpa: 6. A batch of dodgy Tylenol pills, suspected of being laced with cyanide, killed seven people in Chicago in 1982.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

FindIt and the appetite for risk among Chicago investors (or lack thereof) | PandoDaily – [link]. Did Google just kill PR agencies? Google Did Not Just Kill PR Agencies – [link]. 7 Surprising Crowdsource Campaigns – [link]. Don’t Blame the Tool. ZDNet – [link]. You Can Crowdsource That?”

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Why Chicago needs to stop playing by Silicon Valley’s rules | by Adrian Holovaty – crowdspring.co/1f87594. 12 inspiring marketing campaigns from Google | Econsultancy – crowdspring.co/1fn1hcw. What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now? – crowdspring.co/1f7WXgp.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

How to Hire in Chicago – [link]. Entrepreneurs Unpluggd: Puts the Emphasis on Chicago Entrepreneurs’ Stories – [link]. Guerrilla to Genius: 300+ Creative Advertising Campaigns – [link]. How Chicago’s clout culture stifles innovation – [link]. How to Turn Disaster Into Gold – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2013

Chicago startups connecting with big local companies, entrepreneurs and corporations | by Wailin Wong – [link]. Seven inspiring examples of charity / non-profit marketing campaigns | Econsultancy – [link]. An Initial Sales Rep Comp Plan to Lower Your Stress Level, Increase Cash, and Make Everyone Money – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Maggie Kravchuk , Rubenstein, PR. Maggie Kravchuk has had work experience on social media brand management and now works for Rubenstein PR. We often pull monthly or post-campaign stats from Sprout Social to make custom graphs and charts. Ken Herron is the CMO of Unified Inbox , and voted #2 CMO on Twitter. Tool 12: ShareTally.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 10, 2015

A genius marketing campaign and a public service effort that is attention grabbing (not to mention, “awwww” inducing). From Chicago’s 1871: Howard Tullman’s heavily caffeinated life crowdspring.co/1EAvVe5. Skin cancer is a scourge. Put the two together and what do you get? Enough with adorable dogs?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 27, 2015

From Chicago’s 1871: Howard Tullman’s heavily caffeinated life crowdspring.co/1EAvSyW. A Campaign to Put a Woman on the Twenty-Dollar Bill – The New Yorker crowdspring.co/1KyhIEB. How To Connect Social Media Metrics to In-Store Foot Traffic crowdspring.co/1FalO0D. 1Fj95cC What is EMV? crowdspring.co/1EbVL5s.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Don’t forget NASA, National Research/Technology Laboratories, Boeing, US Defense dept, many of the top technology Universities like MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, etc, etc, fall in same usage categories. We have enough problems without opening the door for YASPFC (Yet Another Software Patent FUD Campaign).

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