crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Empower Your Small Business: 4 keys to success, 2014 trends, content marketing – crowdspring.co/19PV71E. Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt I) | by Mike Samson - crowdspring.co/164zLP9. Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt I) | by Mike Samson - crowdspring.co/164zLP9. 19IMztu. .

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Ecommerce Trend for 2014: Buying Into the Subscription Service Model | by Matt Villano – crowdspring.co/1hVvm6v. Content Marketing Through Storytelling: Beastie Boys And Girls | crowdSPRING Blog - crowdspring.co/18RktZE. Marketing Trend for 2014: Smaller Messaging Has a Big Impact | by Marketing Profs – crowdspring.co/1aGyhcw.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 7, 2014

Small Business Marketing 2014: Smart Web Design Best Practices and Tips - crowdspring.co/1dn9KvH. Startup and Small Business Marketing 2014: Smart Web Design Best Practices and Tips - crowdspring.co/1dn9KvH. Small Business Marketing 2014: Smart Web Design Best Practices and Tips - crowdspring.co/1dn9KvH.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2014

crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1o6IY2w. Your Intuition is Wrong – A/B Testing Results that Surprised the Experts | VWO Blog – crowdspring.co/1w7uT47. 20 Scary Free Fonts for Halloween 2014 | Best Design Options – crowdspring.co/1sctybn. Helpful Tips to Improve Your Checkout Conversions | Designmodo – crowdspring.co/1sajjUZ.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II) - crowdspring.co/1atXci8. Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II) - crowdspring.co/1atXci8. Entrepreneur PSA – Advertising Businesses are Hard | Seth’s Blog - crowdspring.co/1aHHgHS. 20 Tumblr Blogs For Inspiration - crowdspring.co/1auNagO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Small Business and Startups: Give Thanks (and Coupons) | crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1gjvtHz. Small Business and Startups: Give Thanks (and Coupons) | crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1gjvtHz. Web Design Trends That Will Disappear in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1gkIWyH. Eliminate embarrassment, increase sales.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2014

3 Psychological Principles Behind Blog Images – crowdspring.co/Tj5NRx. Fresh Resources for Designers and Developers – July 2014 – crowdspring.co/1qOorQj. Fresh Resources for Designers and Developers – July 2014 – crowdspring.co/1qOorQj. 30 Free Web and Mobile Icon Sets from 2014 – crowdspring.co/UJxt3t.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

9 Fonts Brands Should Avoid in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1uDQgsH. 10 Free eBooks for web designers from 2014 | Creative Nerds – crowdspring.co/1xfSjb2. Visitor Inertia (how design impacts site visitors) – crowdspring.co/1maIlEj. 25 Free Business Card Mockups for Pitching Your Work – crowdspring.co/1slKVK2.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Inside the Mind of a Technical Founder | OpenView Blog by Larry Kim – crowdspring.co/1u7Fz1b. Activate or Die: 10+ Ways You Can Improve Your User Activation for SaaS – Part 2 | 500 Startups Blog – crowdspring.co/1rgMYgu. The Finalists Of The 2014 Innovation By Design Awards: Apps | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/Zn34Kt.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Below is an adapted excerpt from “The Little Book of Big PR: 100+ Quick Tips to Get Your Small Business Noticed” by Jennefer Witter. It was published in October 2014 and is available for purchase online and in paperback. . Turns out her company was looking for a PR company. The Little Book of Big PR Giveaway.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 16, 2014

Mobile Commerce Sales to Top $100 Billion In 2014, Forrester Estimates – crowdspring.co/1iGdIy3. How to Plan Your Content Marketing Strategy Beyond the Blog (Part 1 of 2) – crowdspring.co/1uUryGu. What’s new for designers, May 2014 | Webdesigner Depot – crowdspring.co/RHLHQY.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

The Hottest Web Design Trends of 2014: Updated | JUST™ Creative – crowdspring.co/1kl175A. The key to modern blog design: promote UX by retiring your sidebar | Webdesigner Depot – crowdspring.co/1kkXsox. Adaptive Placeholders | The Circle Blog – crowdspring.co/1nQ19aM.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

By now, some resolutions are probably already broken and everyone is back into the “ same ole’ same ole’ ” of 2014. Blog – Publish a new posting now. However, it’s time to get back to it , and the first thing you need to consider is writing a new blog post. See how easy it is to jumpstart your PR for the upcoming year?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2015

Lately, especially in 2014, startups have seen great success with turning to the masses — to individuals willing to donate small amounts of money on a massive scale. Take a look at a few of the most popular Kickstarter campaigns of 2014 and take the following lessons to heart. Small Business, and PR Daily. Pull at Heart Strings.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2014

30 Fresh new illustrator tutorials from 2014 | Creative Nerds – crowdspring.co/1ijC04O. Do’s and Don’ts of Using Light Typefaces | UX Movement – crowdspring.co/1ijB4gI. 70 Really Cool Business Card Designs for Inspiration | iBrandStudio – crowdspring.co/1ijEjEL. Amazing collection of typography designs – crowdspring.co/1ijBpA2.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2014

The growth of her startup is all due to her own efforts: “I wasn’t able to afford a PR firm. Blog and be an active contributor within the blogosphere. In addition to maintaining a regular blog, we suggest engaging with other bloggers. Make sure you’re engaging with relevant blogs though.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 22, 2013

Rejected by PR industry for being an ad guy | by Edward Boches – [link]. 3D Printing Will Explode in 2014 When Key Patents Expire | Mashable – [link]. 22 Quick Tips To Better Care for Introverts and Extroverts | The Buffer Blog – [link]. Will rapid changes in compensation force ad agencies to evolve faster?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2014

A/B Testing Results that Surprised the Experts | Visual Website Optimizer Blog – crowdspring.co/1k0Pd4L. 2014 Logo Trends – crowdspring.co/1lDrFyz. There’s too much bad data out there, even when presented by reputable sites – crowdspring.co/1pycqut. Are they serious? crowdspring.co/TRO4lE.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. We started with a general webinar about how to turn your website into a marketing machine, then we went on to SEO, then blogging, then social media. How did you address that? EM: We had waves of topics.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime. However, Fred Wilson blogs and Jackson Palmer smartly tweets that Git is already a decentralized system with GitHub built on top of it. Satya strikes again.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

To grow a business, most entrepreneurs know that they should be implementing PR strategies. For this webinar, we were joined by Jennefer Witter, CEO and founder of the Boreland Group, and author of the new book, “The Little Book of Big PR: 100+ Quick Tips to Get Your Small Business Noticed.” They mix it up with advertising.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

Graphic Designer Reimagines Every World Cup Poster From 1930–2014 – crowdspring.co/1ms7eY0. Beautiful examples of colorful business card designs – crowdspring.co/1ms6YII. 47 Strikingly Creative Examples of Business Card Designs – crowdspring.co/1ms4F8n. 30 Outstanding examples of packaging design ideas – crowdspring.co/1iDkpok.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. He is the author of The Marketing Performance Blueprint (Wiley, 2014) and The Marketing Agency Blueprint (Wiley, 2012); and the creator of the Marketing AI Conference (MAICON). And it's doing it now.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

Worldwide mobile app revenues in 2014 to 2023 (in billion U.S. Blogs/ press – to get consumers to learn about your new app, PR remains a viable source, especially when it comes to buzzy/social apps. dollars) (source: Statista ). Owners of new smartphone devices are more likely to install a number of new apps at once.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The word blog came up: I had zero idea what it meant. For most of a year, I did little with the blog. We launched LendEDU as a marketplace for student loans in November 2014. PR and Prose. Thanks to Lauren Gilmore, PR and Prose ! #9- On my way back from lunch, I spotted a colleague having a cigarette.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Though customers were going to social media and blogs for information, brands still insisted on advertising in magazines and billboards. 10- To elevate client experience Photo Credit: Tanja Lee I started my business in 2014 as an ‘average consumer'. Thanks to Aileen Day, Aileen Day Advisory ! #8-

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Nicole most recently comes to us from SmartBear Software , where she was responsible for the launch and marketing for an entire product: overseeing activities like PR, creative, content creation, and social media engagement. So we’re glad to have her (back) on board.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Chef (May 2014); Open Road Films. Begin Again (July 2014); The Weinstein Company. The Wind Rises (February 2014); Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures. Wild (December 2014); Fox Searchlight Pictures. Interstellar (November 2014); Paramount Pictures. Unbroken (December 2014); Universal Pictures. We pioneer.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

One aspect is demand-side: when the number of seed financings peaked in 2014–2015 timeframe , a new seed round stopped becoming “news,” and so it became less interesting for the press to actually report on these events. Instead, following PR 101 to get the most bang?—?and What’s going on? and hopefully media coverage?—?by

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2016

With an interest in the social media / PR space, Untitled Startup Inc. From 2010 to 2014, the company launched their service nationwide and received over $50 million in funding. When Untitled Startup Inc. started, the company had no specific product in mind. The product was a hit and it became clear that Untitled Startup Inc.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Though customers were going to social media and blogs for information, brands still insisted on advertising in magazines and billboards. 10- Made Photo Credit: Tanja Lee I started my business in 2014 as an ‘average consumer'. With each job I had, the directors of these agencies had no idea how Digital PR truly worked.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

It’s a robust online market place, with more than a million active sellers and over a billion dollars in sales in 2014. You can read more about Etsy products and policies on their very informative blog. See Also How to Do Your Own PR If You Can’t Afford to Hire an Agency. Have high-quality professional photos to post.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014. Show and talk at conferences, be on lots of blogs, use social networks and build a brand. In the new bubble PR may be your new best friend, so invest in it. If you can’t see the slide presentation above, click here.).

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Iceland scored the highest for national gender equality on the World Economic Forum’s 2014 Global Gender Gap Index. Grim recent statistics from the World Economic Forum’s 2014 Global Gender Gap Index reveal that out of 142 economies studied, not one has true gender equality.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

How to Make Content the Voice of Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing I talk about marketing strategy a lot. I know I’ve said this before and I know I’ll say it again: Waking up every morning and deciding what you are going to write on your blog does not scale.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2016

We received a certificate of excellence from Trip Advisor in 2015 and since I took over in 2014, I was able to raise our Canada Select (National accommodations rating program) score from a 4 to a 4.5,” she explains. How to Do Your Own PR If You Can’t Afford to Hire an Agency. That strategy has since proven to be very successful. “We

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2015

See also: 9 Startups That Made Life Better In 2014. Orders at RTR jumped by 120 percent from 2013 to 2014. The company’s PR rep told us that Massdrop plans to do more of these community-driven original product creations in the near future. Not bad, considering the company started taking pre-orders in August 2014.

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