crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 25, 2010

Resistance Isn’t Futile: Don’t Assimilate Your Customers – [link]. Has Your Startup Given Performance-Based Warrants? Dealing With Customer Resistance To Change (useful for startups and small business) – [link]. 5 Step Small Business PR Plan for Today – [link]. – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

While traditional methods (PR, advertising, events, seminars) and online methods (SEO, SEM, social, referral marketing) are well understood by most companies there are many methods that are less well publicized. So What is This Underbelly of Which You Speak? It’s just like my book example. Where does it get even grayer?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

For those moments when you have smaller tasks that don’t warrant a new hire but that you just can’t add to your already full plate, Simon Slade of Affilorama.com suggests microcontracting. If you buy bagels for the office, is there a different bagel shop that will give your business a loyal customer or bulk discount?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They usually ask for warrants (basically like a stock option) in exchange for taking a deferred fee. Like anything in life, if you want a fair deal on the deferred fee and warrant percentage you need to talk to a few lawyers to make it competitive. I worked with Sam Angus at Fenwick & West. Good people and evil people.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The New New New Rules of Marketing and PR This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. My good friend David Meerman Scott stopped by the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast recently to talk about the release of the 3rd Edition of his mega best selling book The New Rules of Marketing and PR. Related Posts: Has Social Media Changed Customer Service?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I do not endorse raising $5 million for a business that doesn’t yet warrant it. It is true that you should mostly concern yourself with your customers, building a great product and providing excellent service. mostly importantly they can gain a customer advantage through all of the above. They get the PR bump.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Equity payments are structured as common stock or as warrants, which give Arizona Bay the right to purchase equity in a clients company at an agreed-upon price at some point in the future. Get and keep customers with affordable online marketing tools.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

There are many articles by many experts ( myself included ) extolling the virtues of listening to customers. In fact, there are so many of these propaganda pieces that this question might naturally cross your mind: if listening to customers is so great, why do we need so much propaganda? We did not take this step lightly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2012

Everyone, from PR firms to individuals with a product to sell, pitches bloggers these days. Getting coverage or exposure for your business by way of a number of highly read blogs should be a foundational element of your PR approach.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2017

A channel that didn’t point to specific returns didn’t garner enough priority to warrant paid customers. I thought it best to pivot the product in a direction that provided more tangible returns for customers. As a support channel, businesses could ensure that customer inquiries and grievances were addressed in real time.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The iterable.spliterator() method is critical when it comes to stream performance, but writing a custom Spliterator from scratch is a non-trivial task. They have a bit of a PR problem. API-level changes are warranted as well. In the end, stream traversal may delegate to iterator().forEachRemaining(.). forEachRemaining(.).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2019

That’s especially true for SaaS companies and others who maintain long customer relationships and obsess over churn. Eventually, you’ll make a mistake, but you don’t need to lose a customer over it. Even if you face a legal dispute—or are trying to keep a customer complaint from reaching that threshold—apologies can help.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2015

Opinions and conversations can be encouraged on-line in social media to engage fans and customers. Successful or interesting sticker campaigns can generate excellent PR. Just make sure the sticker fits the customer’s personal needs and preferences, not just your own marketing/branding needs. And, much more….

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We did find some specific industry verticals where the model works (some high schools, some boxing and mixed martial arts events, some exclusive conferences), but not enough to warrant a large market and an independent company. Too much PR, too early. Not close enough to the customer. Post-Mortem Title : Leaving IonLab.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

If you want to serve enterprise customers,NET is one of the best ways to do that and do it well. The tools which you find restrictive I consider a huge timesaver (which paying customers tend to appreciate)… they allow me to rapidly prototype and get solutions to customers. lorf: NET supports JAVA.

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