crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

Your small business may have a terrific product or service. But that still may not be enough to keep your business alive. In fact, 50% of small businesses fold by their fifth year. But you don’t have to leave the success or failure of your business to chance. Leads are vital to any business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Joe Pulizzi: And it’s wonder, you know, looking at it from the small business side for just a moment. Where he can now go into what might be a lower margin business because he started in such a high margin business. I’ll give you a small and a big example. They wanted to do a show daily.

Cost 37

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

However, some individuals or small businesses have found success through affiliations with major retailers. The danger with this type of marketing is the penchant for users to become annoyed due to the “creepy” nature of ads following them around. More Stories in Apps & Software. Business & Marketing. Print Story.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. company has to be more than small and newly founded to be astartup. To be a startup, a company hasto be a product business, not a service business.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

But they might want to read a customer story on how you helped a small business succeed. People trust user reviews because they have experienced the product or service. The majority of these interactions are self-guided from sources including social media, syndicated content, and industry-specific resources.

B2B 129

B2B Email Sales Acquisition 129

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

There are a lot of sites that just list and / or review apps. My app was recently added to Cloudli.st (14 visits converts at 7%) without my doing and it was reviewed on Appvita (41 visits converts at 4.88%). Around 250 podcast subscribers in iTunes and 11 5 star reviews. App listing sites.

Social Media 59

Social Media Viral Startup Audio 59

mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. In the life cycle of an entrepreneur, shutting the doors on a business isn’t necessarily a gloomy situation. Small business. Print Story.

LLC 68

LLC Technical Review Social Media Startup 68

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

With more than 40 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific news site reporting breaking web news, providing analysis of trends, reviewing new Web sites and services, and offering social media resources and guides. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

Equity 74

Equity Engineer Technical Review Social Media 74

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

There are a lot of sites that just list and / or review apps. My app was recently added to Cloudli.st (14 visits converts at 7%) without my doing and it was reviewed on Appvita (41 visits converts at 4.88%). Around 250 podcast subscribers in iTunes and 11 5 star reviews. App listing sites.

Social Media 27

Social Media Viral Startup Audio 27

mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

We know from reviewing our client base that one set of social login providers that works for one site doesn’t necessarily work for another. Business & Marketing. By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C. Small Business. Global Syndication Partners. Today in Mobile. smartphone.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Social Media Social Network RSS 78

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Small, initial efforts are ok. The unique thing about these efforts is not only that they will be for YouTube primarily (though you can syndicate them all over the place), the differentiator will be that you'll create them with your specific YouTube audience in mind. But not every business will be a large business.

Analytics 149

Analytics Marketing Audience Channel 149

mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

It also means that developers that choose to create HTML5 web apps for the desktop — like for the Google Chrome Web Store — can often use the same code when crafting an app for the iPad or for other tablets. Using and testing such a jumble of inter dependant code / css/ hardware / browser is death by 1000 cuts.

Developer 93

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Most of the scripts that run the spreadsheets are “public,” meaning you can access them from the Tools + Script Gallery menu (this also means they were reviewed and approved by Google Spreadsheets team). More Stories in Apps & Software. Business & Marketing. Small Business. Global Syndication Partners.

Social Media 108

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For example, a lot of press releases and pitches that I receive around key holidays try to make the enclosed news sound more relevant due to the upcoming holiday. Look for people writing about hiring, about real estate about small business in general. Small Business. Global Syndication Partners. pop culture.

PR 103

PR Startup Social Media Technical Review 103

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Another way is get behind the power blogs such as mashable, techcrunch and get them to write a review or do an interview for your solution. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.

Pakistan 94

Pakistan Social Media Startup Stealth 94

mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

I’ve reviewed hundreds of startup pitches and I can tell you that everyone makes the same types of errors. Ignoring Your Faults You might have all sorts of shortcomings — it’s your first startup, you’re inexperienced, ignorant about how “sales&# works, you have buggy software, etc. It’s OK.

Programming 86

Programming Startup Technical Review Software Review 86

mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

More Stories in Apps & Software. Get people who know about IP address, HTML and its impact on ranking, QR codes, NFC and other 21st Century marketing tools. Business & Marketing. By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C. MIT Technology Review. Small Business.

Algorithm 93

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

For most businesses, that means making a choice of creating an optimized mobile commerce website or a native mobile application. Choosing Between Mobile and Native Apps One of the resounding themes for mobile software developers in 2011 is the debate between building a native app or building a mobile web app.

Mobile 90

Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90

Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

Ads appear very naturally, in almost a ‘native’ setting that blends in with editorial, on top publisher sites such as The Weather Channel, NBC, Business Insider, AOL, CBS Interactive, and Yahoo! Taboola has a phenomenal reach of over 750M unique monthly users and makes over 300B content recommendations per month.

Advertising 100

Advertising Distribution Marketing New York City 100

Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2022

After my career as a financial analyst, I decided to pursue a career assisting consumers and small businesses with various financial needs. While working in a big world-known company, our early process around translation management in software localization consisted of Google Sheets usage. 28- To deliver authentic reviews.

Technical Review 141

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review Jordan 141

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. The process is called mass syndication, or a party round. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217