crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 31, 2011

One of the least expensive and most effective ways that small businesses can grow is through the strategic application of public relations. You should determine exactly what it is you are trying to accomplish through public relations efforts and then measure your progress towards that goal. 2,500 Twitter followers?

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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! What Steve Jobs Can Teach Us About Management and Leadership – [link]. 10 Myths about Startups – [link]. Is working in a startup as great as it sounds?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

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MARCH 22, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link]. Innocent Drinks: Don’t be Afraid to Start Small | Startup War Story – [link]. Kin – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

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MAY 3, 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]. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media - [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

We’ve preached and practiced the lean approach to business and, while I still strongly believe in it, I have come to the conclusion that we haven’t done a good job connecting with and engaging our customers. Related posts: New Years Resolutions For Small Businesses and Startups.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing 101: Setting Goals – [link]. Traveling lean: tips for small businesses and entrepreneurs – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 97

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Getting Your Startup Started With Payments – [link]. Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition – [link]. The Problem with Collecting Logos at Startups – [link]. That was my idea – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

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. Lets see why.

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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. Want to get a job at a startup? Show them WHY.

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MARCH 30, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

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.” If these sound like reasonable answers to you, and you are in a startup/small company, update your resume. What I was actually hearing was a failure of management.

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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].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

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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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Social Media Small Business Design Media 97

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]. Tips for small business (and startups): Negotiating With the New Recruit – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

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! Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand – [link]. – [link]. Work and rest in a startup – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 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: 5 DIY Things To Do For Your Brand! How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – [link]. crowdSPRING Blog – [link].

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MARCH 8, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 5 Startup Costs You Might Not Have Thought About – [link]. People First – [link].

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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! The Billion-Dollar Startup Club: Then and Now – [link]. It’s not easy being lean – [link]. The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

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]. Stop looking for cofounders and help them find you instead | The Startup Toolkit Blog - [link].

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MARCH 10, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Good post about the pitfalls of code refactoring for startups – [link]. Good post about the pitfalls of code refactoring for startups – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

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]. List of hosting choices by yc startups – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. Why Humility is Essential for Every New Startup Hire – [link]. Quora – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 107

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 17, 2013

The answers to these questions will be unique for each business and the potential permutations are far from finite, but answer these you must whether you are a micro-sized company, a stay at home entrepreneur, an established service provider, or a rapidly expanding startup expecting to grow from 2 to 200 in the next 6 months. What are you?

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 Legal Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Small Business or Startup And How To Avoid Them – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Related posts: Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition. Hey if your pet can have one, why not your biz card?

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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! Lean Marketing: Don’t Believe Your Own Press Releases – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Product design at GitHub [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2011

Related posts: Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups. Five Tips For Startups And Small Businesses To Improve Their Customer Service. Photo: gwaar.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2013

As managers of small businesses or founders of startups, we tend to get so busy, so wrapped up in the task of the moment that we leave little time to contemplate our actions and reflect on our decisions. Related posts: 10 New Years Resolutions For Small Businesses and Startups. Small Businesses and Startups: Worst.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Perhaps you haven’t tried email marketing, social media, public relations, special events, or other marketing methods and some or all of these may prove effective if you try. Related posts: Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Perhaps you haven’t tried email marketing, social media, public relations, special events, or other marketing methods and some or all of these may prove effective if you try. Related posts: Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Thirty years later we now realize that its one the causes of early startup failure. This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. It has become an integral part of startup culture. None of mine did.)

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. 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.

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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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