crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. Leadership Rule No. Chicago-based BrightTag ranked #4!

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Building Loyalty The Lady Gaga Way: Focus On 1% Of Your Customers | Forbes – [link]. What Steve Jobs Can Teach Us About Management and Leadership – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But my favorite was when the public relations manager said, “we’re here to write press releases and answer the phone in case the press calls.” competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. It didn’t take more.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. When Selling is the Worst Way to Win Customers – [link]. Who’s Next? – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Warning Signs That Your Customer Service SUCKS - [link]. 5 Warning Signs That Your Customer Service SUCKS - [link]. 5 Warning Signs That Your Customer Service SUCKS - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

And now, once again, we turn our gaze lovingly back to our business, our customers, and our team. Focus on the customer. ” Like many internet businesses we have built the company around the assumptions of scalability, and that necessarily means finding ways to serve a large customer base with a small team. .”

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Top 5 myths about the lean startup – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Startup (and Small Business) Tips: Ask Your Customers For Feedback. Startup Tips: Ask Your Customers For Feedback. Newsweek turns to digital-only publication – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Essential Web Apps for the Lean Small Business – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Customer Experience Metrics Every Successful Company Tracks | The Buffer blog – [link]. The Ultimate Guide to Customer Acquisition | KISSmetrics Blog – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: 3 Essentials for Customer Service – [link]. Great Customer Experience Is the Root of Brands and Businesses | OMI Blog - [link].

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

In the next few posts that follow, I’ll describe how thinking of a solution to this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – that offers a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities. The meaning of alpha test , beta test, and first customer ship are pretty obvious to most engineers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 8, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! It’s not easy being lean – [link]. Custom Sticker Designs: 35 Creative Samples for Inspiration – [link]. The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the many things businesses can do well (or fail at) none is more important than customer service. Great customer service does not have to be expensive, complicated, or slow. Make yourself reachable by your customers in the ways they want to reach you. Be available. Be appropriate. Listen to them and respond in kind.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 17, 2013

Choosing how you manage your workforce is dependent on your business, your industry, and your customers but every business has to ask these questions: What kind of office do we need? Take care of your customers. Finally, please remember the customer and contemplate their needs, too. How large a space is appropriate?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How To Find Your First Customers And Grow Your Business – [link]. How To Find Your First Customers And Grow Your Business – [link]. Product design at GitHub [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Another great marketing strategy is to show a potential customer how others like them have benefitted by using your product or service. We do this in other marketing materials, why not use the back of your business card for a short testimonial from a happy customer? Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

Many NFPs operate in ways that would not be considered ‘business-like,’ AND these organizations, like their small, for-profit cousins, can benefit by leveraging the ideas and tools that we often discuss in the Lean Marketing series. But one of the tenets os lean marketing is to define short-term and intermediate goals.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

We write often about small businesses and startups and lean approaches to marketing and other business functions. If you are going the build-it-yourself approach careful use of social media tools, public relations, and other word-of-mouth tactics can help you to attract the right workers to participate.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 12, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! crowdSPRING’s latest small biz newsletter: lean marketing, social media, crowdsourcing & more – [link]. Her fascinating story is in the Other section below.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Last week I wrote about some ways that not-for-profits could leverage the concepts of lean marketing. The non-profit benefits from increased promotion to a larger audience, and the small business can benefit from positive public relations, stronger audience engagement, and marketing opportunities that they might now otherwise have.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2011

I am talking about business resolutions – specific actions and efforts you should take over the course of the next few months to strengthen your business, improve your customer’s experience, and strengthen your team in the year ahead. Ask your customers. 8. Improve your customer service. Clean up your website.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2011

I am talking about business resolutions – specific actions and efforts you should take over the course of the next few months to strengthen your business, improve your customer’s experience, and strengthen your team in the year ahead. Ask your customers. 8. Improve your customer service. Clean up your website.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2020

The US seems poised to reopen – to some degree or another – over the next few months, with some states already lifting their lockdown measures on restaurants, parks, and other public spaces. As the country reopens, there will be significant changes to how we gather and interact in public. Ask them questions. Check in with them.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Bianca Jayanty is more to us than just a “Customer Service Wonder Gal.” He is friendly, efficient, and always ready to help his team in delivering great customer service. Giuseppe Ribaudo joined us last winter as a Customer Service agent and has shone since day 1! All that and she also has a beautiful family!

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. At first glance, the diagram, which illustrates the process of getting a new product into the hands of waiting customers, appears helpful and benign.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

First and foremost, your customers must first think of your brand as a legitimate competitor in the market space, and to accomplish this a company must demonstrate its points of parity with the established competition. Brand imagery associations determine how a customer looks at brand’s palpable qualities and features.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing Tips: Public Relations & Focus – [link]. The #1 Thing That Creates Loyal Customers – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link]. Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2011

Related posts: New-to-the-world: strategic marketing for startups and small business. 10 Tips for small business: surveying your customers. Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. photo: Paul Bence.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 31, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet (with templates) – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet (with templates) – [link]. .

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Related posts: Small business and startups: engage your customers the old(spice)-fashioned way. Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Always think of your panel as theater, and keep in mind that in drama, conflict equals interest! Photo: slworking2.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 12, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Business: Pivot Point – [link]. Lean Business: Pivot Point – [link]. The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act – [link].

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Or offer some real insights into our customers? It wasn’t a lack of competence or skill in her job; it was just that as far as she was concerned, her job had no connection to the rest of marketing, our customers or our ultimate success as a company. “We Has anyone ever spoken to a customer?” An in-depth reseller survey?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 4, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 Tips for small business: surveying your customers – [link]. Lean startups: Office space for the 21st Century (what to consider when leasing office space) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Want Loyal Customers? Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. Want Loyal Customers? Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. Want Loyal Customers?

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