crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! – [link].

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

The motto of Microaid is the proverb of teaching a person to fish so that they can feed themselves for a lifetime. They note that capital is a scarce resource for these entrepreneurs, but market knowledge, production skills and a business plan can be accessible to everyone. Is the market competitive? Make a business plan.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. Their exclusivity also feeds our desire to be “in the know.”. For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. Scarcity and reactance theory.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2022

Using Personalization Data To Reshape Your Customer Experience written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Brennan Dunn. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Brennan Dunn. Weekly, in-depth email marketing advice for creators — Createandsell.co.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

If you have a reading list that is as long as mine, Goodreads is a lifesaver as it allows you to unload your brain and toss the Post-it notes reminding you to buy this or that book. Marketing tools. Be aware: lists are public by default and people will be notified when you add them to a list, unless you make it private!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Read the previous Ardent post for context.) (Read the previous Ardent post for context.) Lessons to Learn By the time I joined Ardent I thought I was an experienced marketer, but I’ll never forget my first real lesson in what it meant to understand customers and product/market fit.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 26, 2022

For ecommerce business owners and marketers, jumping on this bandwagon is different to jumping on Facebook and Instagram. Parent company ByteDance sees the path to purchase as an infinite loop: People discover, consider, and buy products, then post about their purchases and spread awareness. content receivers).

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Different market opportunities present radically different startup risks and costs. The time to product and scale of investment is radically different than other startup markets.&# Verticals Are Different I began to realize that entrepreneurs (and their professors) act like every vertical market and industry has the same set of rules.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Some are focused on using content marketing strategies to build their brand and reach. Even more have tried and never got past a dozen posts. My somewhat up-to-date VC People Feedly collection has 139 feeds in it. The post Why I Don’t Have To Follow VC Blogs Anymore appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So really it is not just the English-speaking, but since you're talking about addressable market, I had a thought about it. And really the addressable market is not just the people, English-speaking, connected to internet, but rather I would say whoever is willing to spend half an hour reading an article about the coronavirus.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 2, 2016

The most expensive branding and marketing campaigns in the world. So how are the branding and marketing efforts of the candidates stacking up to date? Verdict: Clinton, mostly by default. Still, it’s ubiquitous in the branding and marketing efforts. Where do all those dollars go? Round One: Logo Design. The upside?

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 7, 2017

To give you a sense of the depth and breadth of ideas I’ll cover today, here are the sections in this post: + The Promise of Marketing Utopia. + The Broken Promise of Marketing Utopia, Implications. + The Broken Promise of Marketing Utopia: Examples. + Win Big: Stop Posting Content for Organic Reach On Social Channels. +

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 15, 2013

How to Get Higher Rankings for Your WordPress Site written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Every site owner and blogger wants their content to rank highly in the search engines for key terms. If You Liked This Post. : Social Media Web Marketing WordPress SEO Plugin'

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

This post is part of my ongoing series Twitter 101 for all those that still “don’t get” Twitter. In an earlier post I spoke about the asymmetric nature of Twitter vs. Facebook. The default setting and behavior on Facebook has been “private” and therefore you need permission to follow my status updates.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Of course that assumes that are consistently feeding your blog high quality, keyword rich, educational content. Today I want to focus on the most important SEO factors for bloggers and talk a little about how you can do a few things to modify your blog’s default settings and get even more optimization.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The subject of measuring market size comes up every few weeks in my interactions with startup founders, and one point I always raise is the difference between a top-down and bottom-up approach. In that case, bottom-up is a better choice.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Posted on January 31, 2013. Don’t skip this post because you’re not a Rails developer. This has been covered in more detail by security researchers, in posts such as here and here. Kalzumeus Software.

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www.smashingmagazine.com

MAY 5, 2011

Copying Billing and Shipping Address Information with jQuery Copy Form Input Data to Another Input Field with jQuery Don’t Check the Newsletter Option by Default. Reply 15 0 Andy May 5th, 2011 7:00 am Fantastic post on some really great techniques! Keeps these types of informative posts coming. Chances are, it will work.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Especially in marketing and communications classes, there was the line between persuasion and propaganda. They basically skewed the number of positive or negative items on random users’ news feeds and then analyzed these people’s future postings. What is “Skinner Box Marketing”? The result?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

20 Free and Low Cost Tools for Everyday Productivity written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Below are the twenty tools I rely on most for productivity in communications, marketing and collaboration. Feedly – This is my RSS Reader of choice. There you have it.

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Up and Running

MARCH 30, 2011

Tweet If you are using Facebook personally or are still one of those rare people who aren’t part of what compares in size as being the 3 rd largest country in the world, you might want to consider “playing” with some fun techniques here to market your business. Click here to get started. It only takes a couple of minutes.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, startups need more than just a good product; they need out-of-the-box marketing strategies. But how can artificial intelligence reshape how startups market themselves, especially tools like ChatGPT? How can ChatGPT transform your startup’s marketing strategy?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 13, 2014

One Simple Way to Generate More Traffic for Every Blog Post written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing So you write that killer blog post, hit publish and go about promoting it in social media and email. It had a good run, so now on to the next one right?

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Posted on May 31, 2012. in marketing. That’s a specific example, in generalities you’ll get: exclusive looks at software/marketing topics which for whatever reason aren’t right for this blog. Greatest Hits.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Posted on August 13, 2012. If you like what you see, I encourage you to sign up for the RSS feed. View all posts by Patrick → ← Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune. Excellent post. Greatest Hits.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

When the sales and marketing teams are looking at the same metrics and trying to hit the same North Star, lots of other pieces of ABM [account based marketing] fall into place.” – Samantha Mayer , Sales Manager, SMB and Pardot Growth Marketing. Instead, your north star metric should be a variable that feeds into revenue.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. But given the heavy competition in the hosted invoicing software market and the level of effort of the task, it was continually placed on the back burner. Check out my book Like this post? Agile Development, meet Agile Business. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. Do not rely on SEO to market your product It sounds contradictory, but its true.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 30, 2015

16 Step Checklist for the Perfect Blog Post written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Use this sixteen-point checklist as a guide to help establish a pre-publish blog post/page routine so you can hit publish with incredible confidence.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Similarly, in marketing research, there are certain limitations inherent to closed-ended questions. It’s not just in survey design and market research that you can use the power of open-ended questions for greater insight. Figure out who the customer is, feeding into accurate customer personas. You can : Uncover UX issues.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 11, 2011

There are many a Google Plus social network tutorial out there and this post is not intended to be one of them. These are the circles you use to control access to the posts you write. Except for the default circles like “Acquaintances” – I just renamed those so they don’t automatically sort to the top).

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 11, 2011

There are many a Google Plus social network tutorial out there and this post is not intended to be one of them. These are the circles you use to control access to the posts you write. Except for the default circles like “Acquaintances” – I just renamed those so they don’t automatically sort to the top).

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 17, 2010

Last week, my colleague George Bilbrey posted about how (turns out – shocking!) Gist matches social graph data and third-party content like feeds and blogs into something that’s a hybrid of plugin and stand-alone web application. Investment in the Email Ecosystem. email still isn’t dead yet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Many of you who read my podcast launch post requested full transcripts as well. I saw something online and then sort of a few people in my Twitter feed started tweeting about it a lot in sort of middle to late January. Someone should post that to Help With COVID. You can find my conversation with Sam in that format below.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

way of identify actionable insights is on display in pretty much every single blog post I write. One of my earliest blog posts extolled the glorious virtues of segmentation: Excellent Analytics Tip#2: Segment Absolutely Everything. Many tools include some default segments you can apply to any report you are looking at.

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Market researcher Gartner estimates about half of all apps in the Apple store are free, compared with nearly three-quarters in Google Play. BlackBerry Faces Test In Its Largest Asian Market. BlackBerry Faces Test In Its Largest Asian Market. » More.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I was reflecting on that recently and thought it was incredible that in all my years of writing this blog I have never written a blog post, not one single one (!!), Disclosure:] I am the co-Founder of Market Motive Inc and the Analytics Evangelist for Google. None of these tools vendors have any relationship with Market Motive either.

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