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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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You hire people too fast, you over build your products, you try to force market adoption and you do PR blitzes before your product is really ready for prime time. And they seem to have been going really slow in building out the team and you certainly don’t see a ton of too-early PR blitzes from them.

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Twitter Link Roundup #98 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management - [link]. My thoughts on how to “upgrade&# ones mind …Mindset Architecture – [link]. My thoughts on how to “upgrade&# ones mind …Mindset Architecture – [link]. The New Rules of Getting Press for Your Start-up - [link].

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. new features need to be rolled into PR strategies and competitor analyses. - But the problem that many inexperienced startup CEO’s make is confusing these people for the people who lead the technology team. Most often they are not.

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Public Relations Tips for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs [Webinar Recap]

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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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What the Founder of Cheek’d Can Teach You About Startup Marketing

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” The inspiration for the business came to her two years previously, when out to dinner with a colleague from the architectural company she worked for at the time. The growth of her startup is all due to her own efforts: “I wasn’t able to afford a PR firm. On the card he’d scribbled “want to have dinner?

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Twitter Link Roundup #43 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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Information Architecture: Enhancing the User Experience – [link]. Check, Please: A Typographic Checklist – [link]. 20 Amazing Book Cover Designs – [link]. 10 Amazing Umbrella Designs – [link]. 40 Examples of Nicely Illustrated Logo Designs – [link]. The Limitations of Adobe’s Content Aware Fill – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #62 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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Decision Architecture: Helping Users Make Better Decisions – [link]. Managing Graphics and Icons in your Designs – [link]. 40 Awesome Car Website Designs – [link]. Designing for Content Management Systems – [link]. Mega-Menus Gone Wrong (Usability study) – [link]. Designing for Noise – [link].