crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Enhance your small business marketing with social listening. Gain actionable insights, tips, and best practices to grow your brand and customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2023

I will paraphrase her key points here, and integrate my own experience as well: Make time to listen and hear what people know. Obviously you won’t hear much if you are not listening, or only thinking about your next response. Active listening is a communication skill that requires practice and intention.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Social Media Listening, as the name says, is a technique through which you can listen (analyse) the social media platforms to gauze what people are talking about your brand, your products and most importantly, your competitors. This is a quintessential role of Social Media Listening. 1: Care for your customers genuinely.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2018

by Cash Nickerson, author of “ The Samurai Listener “ In any martial arts practice, failing to listen or be receptive means you’ll get hit – and possibly hurt. Having the capacity to effectively perceive another’s meaning and intention is often referred to as active listening. They often nod and smile.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2019

Here are 5 top podcasts every startup business owner needs to listen to. The show, hosted by Alex Blumberg and Lisa Chow host the show and in the show’s first season, listeners follow the birth and journey of Gimlet Media. Don’t have time to listen to an hour-long podcast? The podcast airs new episodes every week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Listen and adapt your style to theirs. Practice active listening and respond with a simple affirmation, step-by-step instructions or an anecdotal story, depending on the style and experience of the team member. You rarely learn anything by talking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2023

Improvement efforts would include listening more to people, thinking about details, and learning to say no. To be a better Arbitrator, you need to be more assertive, more open, share your feelings, and work on developing your listening skills. Perfectionist.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2018

They listen. Great leaders listen. One of the most observable traits of a great leader is that they listen more than they talk. And they don’t just listen; they listen well. But today’s most successful leaders listen in ways you’d never expect. Level 1: Faux Listening. Level 2: Focused Listening.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Listen to customer feedback and tune your vision. Build trusted relationships and listen to advisors. Even Steve Jobs, who relished his visionary thinking, later learned to listen to his advisors and his Board, after loosing his leadership role in the early days of Apple. This is where a balanced thinking focus is critical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Entrepreneurs that are not listening, not engaging, and not changing are destined to be left behind even in the best of times. If you as an entrepreneur are not “listening” to your online reviews, and not moving quickly to make changes, you are losing ground. They don’t realize that business as usual is gone forever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2020

Improvement efforts would include listening more to people, thinking about details, and learning to say no. To be a better Arbitrator, you need to be more assertive, more open, share your feelings, and work on developing your listening skills. Perfectionist.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 5, 2019

The post Fifteen Podcasts You Must Listen to in 2019 appeared first on ReadWrite. In the olden days, you’d turn the dial, try to avoid the whistles and pops, then land on a station that plays Hotel California every half an hour.

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David Cohen

MARCH 17, 2021

I really encourage you to get to know her by listening in to hear more about where Techstars is headed in the future. If you know and love Techstars , this one is a must listen, a passing of the torch from the first generation of Techstars leadership to the next. .

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

DECEMBER 31, 2013

We also … Read the rest of this entry » The post Reflections On 2013, What Walter Discovered About Starting A Business After Listening To Podcast Interviews, And Our Plans For 2014 appeared first on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com. We review how these events changed us and changed the direction we took during the year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2012

When you are not presenting to investors or your team, try to spend more time listening than talking. Communication doesn’t happen unless both parties practice the art of effective listening. Listen as though the other person is about to reveal a great secret or the winning lottery number and you will hear it only once.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 11, 2022

The post Monday Motivation: STOP NEGATIVE SELF THINKING – Listen To This Everyday appeared first on Hearpreneur. It always you versus you, keep pushing. Do what you can, where you are with what you have. To what extent can you conduct your life consciously?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2016

I also recognize the need for active listening. It’s a sad spiral, since the longer you talk to someone without stopping to listen, the less both of you really hear, meaning they don’t learn anything and you weren’t listening, so you have to spend even more time talking to get the message across.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Know how to listen. True listening means listening with open ears, open eyes and an open heart. You’ll always gain more from listening than from speaking. Leaders need to expect these reactions and develop a plan based on empathy in order to deal with it. Know what empathy is.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

After listening to this audiobook, you will be able to examine your own life, adopt some of these proven habits, and achieve the results you want. Listen to this audiobook if you would like to get the inside scoop of successfully starting a business. Written By: Eric Barker, Narrated By: Roger Wayne. Principles: Life and Work.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2024

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2014

They have enough confidence in their ability to deliver that they dont worry about someone stealing the idea to get there first, and they dont forget to listen carefully to critical feedback. Savvy entrepreneurs start testing their ideas on potential customers even before the concept is fully cooked.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Item 5 is “Listen Too.” I don’t go so far as to “think out loud” like some people I work with, but I regularly find myself talking too much and have to consciously ratchet it back to listen. The next time you ask a question, empty your mind after the question and listen to the answer. But listen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

It’s important to listen respectfully to coworkers’ questions and opinions since they’re all a part of the team. Of course, even the best question is moot if you don’t listen to the answer. When job descriptions are clear and people are encouraged to act in good-faith, it’s easier to see who made the mistakes and who’s to blame.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2017

Some say listening is a lost art, especially when it comes to selling. Whether you sell timeshares or not, taking the same principles, we need to stop talking and start listening. Ineffective listening is the norm. Salespeople in other industries are no better at listening, and as a result not much better at closing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2010

When you are not presenting to investors or your team, try to spend more time listening than talking. Communication doesn’t happen unless both parties practice the art of effective listening. Listen as though the other person is about to reveal a great secret or the winning lottery number and you will hear it only once.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Treat these people as VIPs, and listen to what they have to say. Labels: listening to customers 2comments: Simon Yip said.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Mastering The Art Of Listening written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Oscar Trimboli In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Oscar Trimboli. Key Takeaway: Despite leaders spending 83% of their day listening, only 2% have been trained in effective listening skills.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 21, 2019

Every speech you do – is a listen. They’re actually a “listen”. Hopefully, they are picking up what I’m putting down, turning these keynotes from a talk to a listen. The post It’s Not a Speech, It’s a Listen appeared first on Mike Michalowicz. John has been my speaking coach for eight years. Mind blown.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2023

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off inspired to become great.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

I had every reason to listen to the naysayers. But I didn’t listen, and I didn’t fail. I listened. I listened to those who had been there and done that. I never paid my dues at a corporate job. I didn’t register for a single business class in college. I had nothing to go on but a gut feeling that I was wired to do this.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2021

This motivational video is to help CEOs, entrepreneurs and business owners start the week off on the right foot. Here are some takeaways from the video: Be limitless to the core of every decision you make. There's always another opportunity to explore life. Embrace challenges. In the most trying times, remember you are not alone.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The key to networking is not in the talking, it is in the listening and asking questions. The more you ask questions about them, and simply listen, the more they will automatically like you. You learn from listening, not talking. The people who listen and ask questions actually control the conversation.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 30, 2014

Regardless if you are a luxury provider or the cost competitor, don’t listen to people who will never buy from you. Don’t listen to the non-consumers. Conversely, listen to and educate your brand consumers. Branding Customer Service Entrepreneurship Productivity brand listen non-consumer' I am a non-consumer.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ability to Listen. Accordingly, they’re willing to listen to just about anyone, on any topic. They listen to their employees actively, better understanding their perspectives and giving their ideas a chance. They listen to customers, allowing them to present a better solution to them when selling. Adaptability.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 16, 2013

If only you would have listened to yourself. Then flip the coin, and listen to your gut. Entrepreneur Strategies Mindset guidance gut check help listen to gut quarter' The Old Quarter Trick. How many times have you looked back at decisions and wish that you had simply trusted your gut? Then take out a quarter.

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YFS Magazine

MARCH 9, 2019

Go listen! Here's a look at sixteen business, inspirational, and leadership audiobooks we can't wait to download. Okay, enough from us.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 8, 2013

Here is the best way to incorporate the react less, listen more philosophy into your management style: Know your emotions. Listen More. The good news is that when you stop immediately reacting to everything, you will end up listening more. Let the little things slide and only address those things that really matter.

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