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Twitter Link Roundup #141 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Lean Marketing Tips: Public Relations & Focus – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Public Relations & Focus – [link]. Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 – [link]. Plus, there’s that trick of freezing time (watch the video) that definitely could come in handy. – [link].

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

Both Sides of the Table

I also really Brooke Hammerling from Brew PR who gave tips on how to effectively manage public relations – and she should know having been Larry Ellison’s personal publicist and representing people like Zynga when they were a tiny company. But there was one that stood out above the rest as the one that “brought the house down.”

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Twitter Link Roundup #199 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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Fewer US startups now than in 1999. Can Angela and Tim Create Apple 3.0 — Or Not? LinkedIn - crowdspring.co/H47RXx. How Old is Too Old to Start a Great Company? - crowdspring.co/19iFfTj. But there’s a good reason for that, right? - crowdspring.co/GOeb67. After Twitter and Square, What is Jack Dorsey’s Next Move? crowdspring.co/19IC5KK.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. My favorite line about using blogging for PR I heard from Brian Solis who said, “PR doesn’t stand for press release, it stands for public relations.&# When you think about your blog, think about which members of the public you most need relations with.

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Twitter Link Roundup #144 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The video above shows Billie Holiday (one of my favorite singers) singing “Strange Fruit”, a song that Time manazine named, in 1999, the “song of the century” The song is a protest against racism. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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2011 May be the Year of the IPO for Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. If you have been giving stock options, employees will want you to be a public company, to exercise their rights to buy the stock and sell it at a profit. The market is moving back up, but slowly. Do you need this for your image?

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line. To me that sounded too much like a law firm, and I was opening a beauty and fashion public relations agency. I was trying to think of a name for my public relations and social media management agency that was memorable and catchy.

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