crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Chicago Sun Times writes about crowdSPING’s 2010 Chicago Innovation Award – [link]. Understanding Customer Experience – [link]. 10 Must Follow Tips for Effective Writing – [link]. The Mad Men Guide to Changing the World with Words – [link]. Is Apple About To Cut Out the Carriers?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

50 Inspirational Gravity Defying Advertisements – [link]. Beautiful Book Cover Designs for 2010 – [link]. 4 Reasons PR Agencies Are Failing in Social Media – [link]. Good post about what makes someone creative (and it’s not tools…) – [link]. Italian Web Designs Made to Inspire – [link].

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2014

In 2010 Lori launched Cheek’d.com , an online dating site that combines “old-school calling cards with the power of the internet.” The growth of her startup is all due to her own efforts: “I wasn’t able to afford a PR firm. For savvy startup marketing, look no further than Lori Cheek.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

50 Beautiful Print Advertisements for Inspiration – [link]. 2010 edition)&# – [link]. Inspiration: 50+ Vector-Based Book Covers – [link]. Logo Design: Flowers, Plants and Trees – [link]. Advanced Wordpress Comment Styles and Tricks – [link]. 50 New High Quality Icon Sets – [link]. “Who are we?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

50 Beautiful Print Advertisements for Inspiration – [link]. 2010 edition)&# – [link]. Inspiration: 50+ Vector-Based Book Covers – [link]. Logo Design: Flowers, Plants and Trees – [link]. Advanced Wordpress Comment Styles and Tricks – [link]. 50 New High Quality Icon Sets – [link]. “Who are we?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Advertising doesn’t sell stuff – [link]. 50 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2010 – [link]. Top 50 Web Development, Design and Application Icon Sets from 2010 – [link]. Top 50 Web Development, Design and Application Icon Sets from 2010 – [link]. Social business in 2011 – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2011

25 Fresh, funny and creative print advertisements – [link]. 25 Fresh, funny and creative print advertisements – [link]. The 2010 Darwin Awards – [link]. Inspired By The Start Fund, New World Ventures Offers Chicago Excelerate Startups $50K – [link]. Do ad agencies struggle with social? – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

Startup Advertising Spend Calculator – [link]. The Top 20 VC Power Bloggers Of 2010 – [link]. Advertising people continue to exodus, joining the likes of Google and Apple – [link]. Skype Founder, Niklas Zennström – words for young entrepreneurs – [link]. of all Statistics are Made Up - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The History of Coca-Cola Print Advertising – [link]. Advertising: Clever Automobile Ads – [link]. 40+ Most Impressive Print Media Advertisements – [link]. The History of Coca-Cola Print Advertising – [link]. Modern Element Trends In Magazine-Styled Webdesign Of 2010 – [link].

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.” But there were others, too: In 2010, Okta had only ten customers on board. Premium-brand market leaders [.] Image source ). recession in 2009.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." January 6, 2010 12:49 AM Anonymoussaid. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2011

Top Startup Trends of 2010 – [link]. Keeping Score: Exit Activity for Venture Backed Companies in 2010 - [link]. Top 15 New Social Media Apps of 2010 – [link]. The Top 50 Best Photoshop Tutorials from 2010 – [link]. The Best PSDFAN Tutorials of 2010 – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners.

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Up and Running

JUNE 27, 2018

Take, for instance, a 2010 marketing snafu by Gap. So if you want to reach out to cold customers, you may want to invest in optimizing your web presence so people can find you in Google search results, or even through billboards, or print advertising. Think of social media like any other paid advertising tool.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2010

75 Essential Small Business Resources From 2010 – [link]. Ten small business tax planning tips for 2010! 10 random online resources for Entrepreneurs (2010 version) – [link]. Flyover Geeks: 2010′s Top 30 in Chicago tech – [link]. 10 Social Media 2010 Highlights (Data Included) – [link].

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Trust SEO - Part 7 Seo Bank Automation By Peter Drew 17/10/2010 6:39 pm Hi Steve, We have a very high success rate of great user experiences with the software, even though its such a complex piece of kit. You just need to find the right one for you. A small percentage of people experienced those issues you have pointed out.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 25, 2010

8AM Regulatory Scrutiny of Social Media: The Impact on PR Communicators in 2010 and Beyond. Join our panel of experts in media law, health care communications and digital/social media as we explore what this heightened government scrutiny may mean for PR practitioners, marketers and media strategists. Tuesday, January 26th.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Trada Blog: Paid Search Marketing, Online Advertising and Small Biz Trada's blog for small businesses making paid search, online advertising and social media easier to understand. In our world, the size (and growth rate) of the market on both sides (advertisers and optimizers) is in the end the competitive advantage.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Page360 awesome post W3 Consulting Note: you can have multiple domain names: one for conventional (and one for emotional) branding purposes, several for SEO/SEM purposes, and several for Web analytics (where are my *offline* advertising dollars breeding positive ROI?). Also, to address the issue of "OMG! My company name is forever!

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2011

DSPs And The Future Of Advertising – [link]. World Cup Football Designs (1930 – 2010) – Balls – [link]. Interesting (probably smart) that major publishers are creating own ad networks – [link]. Is Social Business Innovation? – [link]. Are Agencies Doomed? 30 Super Innovative Print Ad Campaigns – [link].

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

For example, it still heavily relies on print advertising (bridal magazines) and brides were limited to only shopping in brick and mortar stores to find their wedding attire. I would love logging in to Second Life to sell marketing and advertising to businesses trying to make it in a virtual setting. Image Credit: Brittany Haas.

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Brandanew

JUNE 6, 2015

Of course Google makes 98% of its revenues through advertisements. It began in 2010 largely when a flurry of Bloggers decided to launch themselves on the World Wide Web. Distributors including big PR firms have also been penalized and are forced to do something about controlling spam. No, really! Not thinking organic.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Some think that hiring a PR agency, starting the buzz and getting coverage in hot blogs or on the cover of magazines at launch are objectives. The PR agency helps the company understand and influence key bloggers, social networks, industry analysts, luminaries, and references. Freemium models have their own scorekeeping.)

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

RSVP: [link] Tuesday, February 2nd 9AM Crowdsourcery Potions 101: Why Some Marketing Potions Fail and Others Thrive, Hosted By JWT Some have predicted that crowdsourcing is the future of the marketing, advertising and industrial design industry. Usually these discussions focus on Marketing, PR, Customer Service or an Agency.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The effort has paid off as in December 2010, The Creative Penn was voted as one of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers and is also in the Top 5 writers’ blogs in Australia. The blog has enabled me to start a speaking career, both locally and internationally, and in October 2010, I led a writer’s retreat in Bali.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Marketing starts to build a sales demo, writes sales materials (presentations, data sheets), and hires a PR agency. The PR agency polishes the positioning and starts contacting the long lead-time press while Marketing starts the branding activities. Marketing is at its peak.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Yes, you have good working knowledge of accounting, an idea of how to bring in sales leads, run a marketing and PR campaign, recruit people and build a great company culture, but that won’t help you build a product that customers want. I quickly realised what I was getting into and what my shortcomings were. About & Staff. Privacy Policy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Billboards and outdoor advertising have been around for almost 150 years now and in many ways are precursors to, and cousins of, today’s online campaigns, both paid and viral. In 1925 roadside advertisements started appearing along highways across America and by the mid-50s they could be found in virtually all of the 48 states.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 3, 2015

I have spent the past year or so working on the latest advertising offering from Foursquare called Pinpoint. Shortly after, I joined in April 2010 as the first full time BD hire. I next became the first person on the sales team, jumping ship from a very PR/spotlight heavy BD team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. But beyond the obvious, its also important to know where customers go to get answers to pressing questions.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

The Message Sitting around a conference room table brainstorming messages that might resonate with customers, or worse having a PR agency doing that for you, is a firing offense in a small company. Design your graphics, pre-show promotion, literature and show directory advertising around your focused message and theme.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Every piece of advertising or design has a root in cultural symbolism, otherwise, nobody would understand what it’s trying to say. Advertising is an obvious example of this. For example you might remember advertising from your childhood in England. I may also have tried to generate more PR around my launch.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

By June 2010, Americans were sending 173.2 Can you use internet advertising? Clearly the company is helped by the fact that it is making "cool" products with lots of PR-appeal and word-of-mouth potential (and its huge budgets for TV ads doesn't hurt either). In June 2005, Americans sent 7.2 Billion text messages. Direct mail?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

Advertising. crowdSPRING is curious to see what kind of advertising creativity we have in the community, so we are launching this project to see what you all can do. Let the seduction begin… ” About Me Award #3 was given to ArtiniBar , who has been working on the site since September, 2010. ” YOUR CHALLENGE?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

As this study reports, 26% of apps downloaded in 2010 were used only once. PR and advertising are obvious ways to build awareness but awareness creation works best when it is a natural consequence of app usage work?ow, But the problems don’t end with getting an app downloaded. Sustainable marketing strategies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

in 2010 we hosted “ Third Coast: How to Be a Startup Outside of Silicon Valley &# ([link] and had a great audience of entrepreneurs from around the world to discuss the topic. Within three years, the traditional agency model (advertising, marketing, pr, etc.) Why Can’t Startups and Advertisers Play Nice?

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