crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

If you’re not ready to pull the trigger and hire a business coach today, we’ve got you covered. We’ve curated a list of 7 exceptional small business coaches sharing some of their best advice. Brad Sugars is one of the top names in business coaching today. Image courtesy of Local Small Business Coach.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Brand NEW edition of Empower Your Small Business, crowdSPRING’s small business newsletter – crowdspring.co/1gnb0N1. 1eklyfu.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Guerilla Innovation Chapter Nine. You have to amp those ideas before you start marketing and selling. One of the things you have to accept as a reality, if you are an idea man or idea woman, is that ideas, almost always, need to be refined, improved, amped up, packaged, marketed, and, gulp, sold.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JULY 31, 2012

Guerilla Innovation Chapter Eight. In my last post I introduced you to the concept of “Scaffolding” For those who are starting here, it’s essentially a thinking tool to take your mind to a new place — and aid in the objective of coming up with an innovative idea for your small business.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Guerilla Innovation. In the previous post/chapter of Guerilla Innovation we talked about “amping ideas.” Idea amping is a way of life for an entrepreneur — and especially so for a small business one. A lot of feedback from customers that might be included. Chapter 10. They’re good tools.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

They offered employees referral bonuses, posted on job boards and committed themselves to so-called "guerilla recruiting." 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 4, 2014

Just a small business with great tasting bagels in a good location. I popped in one day about 9:00 am for a raisin bagel with cream cheese and was a bit startled to find myself the only customer in the store. I used to frequent a bagel shop on the south side of Chicago. It wasn’t a chain.

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Small Business Force

AUGUST 31, 2011

I've heard so many entrepreneurs lament about the fact that their market has multiple competitors. It means there's actually a market for the product or service you're selling and an opportunity to find a niche for success. By their very presence, they give credibility to the market. But that doesn't mean you can't win.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JULY 19, 2012

Guerilla Innovation Chapter Three. Small Biz Creative Problem Solving. Small business innovation is simply this: one problem after another. And that means everything, first in market positioning, a clear point of difference, and if you’re not too early, customers with cash in hand, waiting for you.

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Small Business Force

AUGUST 31, 2011

I've heard so many entrepreneurs lament about the fact that their market has multiple competitors. It means there's actually a market for the product or service you're selling and an opportunity to find a niche for success. By their very presence, they give credibility to the market. But that doesn't mean you can't win.

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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. The best strategy will vary by industry, but it might be wise to incorporate paid advertising in addition to organic or guerilla marketing.

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The entrepreneurial army has to behave like guerilla fighters, picking and choosing what battles to fight. That is, what customers it has the best chance of winning. And when a battle is planned, they need to perform extraordinary data gathering about the target customer. A guerilla fighter, can't have too many resources.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JULY 14, 2012

The insight that seemed to dawn on several of us at the same time is that there really isn’t a great innovation book geared for small business. ” The audience was nearly all small business people. It’s ironic really because small business is a huge source, maybe even the primary source, of innovation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 12, 2016

But regardless of whether or not you’re trying to catch ’em all, Pokémon Go should be spurring some major conversations in offices across the country, particularly in terms of marketing. Nintendo’s market value surging by $7.5 That’s some cheap marketing. Ok, so what exactly IS Pokémon GO? billion big.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

On the one hand, a travel business can be fairly inexpensive to start, and you can often get away with limited staff and little upfront cost. That being said, success is largely dependent on finding the right niche in a fiercely competitive market. The Different Types of Business Plans. International Travel Agency Business Plan.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2014

I love writing, I enjoy making jewelry and I love the challenge involved in marketing products. My full-time job involves writing for Bplans , my evening meditation includes making jewelry and in whatever spare time I have after that, I enjoy keeping up with the latest digital marketing trends. Teach the business of the hobby.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2016

As Gary Vaynerchuk pointed out last year : The single most important strategy in content marketing today is video. Whether it’s video on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat or Youtube, the content you need to be thinking about creating and marketing on social for your business is video. What could be better than that? Live video.

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Small Business Force

JULY 9, 2011

Many entrepreneurs are most defensive about the fact that their company is small, or worse, intimidated by the fact that their competitors are large. And by applying these same principals, the small business can succeed, time and again in competitive encounters! The only losers were the customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Other tactics leverage partnerships with other businesses to create mutual value and introduce our respective communities to one another’s services or product offering.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

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