crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How To Choose A Co-Founder – [link]. Paths to $5M for a startup founder – [link]. Raising funding as a first-time founder – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 50 (mostly) free social media tools for brands – [link]. 5 Key Talents of Successful Startup Founders – [link]. Agile is a Sham- [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! But once in a while, SNL can still knock it out of the park, as they did with their recent funny look at the complaints from the media about the iPhone 5. Show them WHY.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Google App Engine is ready for primetime says Reddit/Hipmunk co-founder – [link]. Brands Will Become Media: Here’s How | Logic+Emotion - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lesser Known Traits of Successful Founders – [link]. Everything I Learned About Social Media I Learned In Kindergarten – [link]. Guess What?

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Ross Hill I met while doing my first startup (above) at the MODM event (Melbourne Online Digital Media – run by Cameron Reilly ). A tiny cohort of startup founders who shared ideas on tech before it was trendy. Ross helped me understand social media, blogging, and the emerging business models the internet was facilitating.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship , small business , leadership, social media , marketing, and more! Speaking of tattoos – Interview with @micah , CEO & co-founder of Graphic.ly – [link]. There, I Said It: Screw Viral Videos – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Don’t let your passion convince you that word-of-mouth and viral marketing will suffice against well-funded competitors and ever more demanding customers. Set specific targets on the sales channels and marketing initiatives you need, including the use of social media, brand building, franchising, trade shows, affiliates, and distributors.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Clicks and conversions are typical KPIs for paid media. I spend time on social media sites, like Instagram. Not adjusting your paid media strategy. Cognism previously operated a leads-based paid media model. Alternatively, founder of contentlift.io Obsessing over going viral. Don’t “create” them.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. It also has a considerable online presence on key social media platforms. The company’s founders struggled to meet with demand and order fulfillment suffered. million sunglasses units.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Four uncomfortable seconds later, a smile breaks across the founder's face. We're putting a 'Retweet' button inside the product to encourage viral growth.". Frightening honesty.

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Brandanew

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A social media strategist is a job title of current times. With the proliferation of social channels, we are hooked onto deriving value out of social for our businesses. Even five years ago many small companies were iffy about hiring someone purely for social media. Social Proof And Experimentation.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2015

by Kim Staflund, founder and publisher of Polished Publishing Group and author of “ Successful Selling Tips for Introverted Authors “ What an amazing world we live in nowadays. Blogging and social media marketing combined is word-of-mouth advertising on steroids—which is great news for introverts. Get Social.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

The other day I wrote a post about the lack of Enterprise Software disruption coming out of NYC —and a lot of people responded that I wasn’t citing Buddy Media. Our current focus is on creating sticky, super viral applications that help users get more out of Facebook and other social media.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2016

by Russell Cowdrey is the CEO and co-founder of Plum. Whether you are conscious of it or not, these behaviors tell social media algorithms that this is the content you really want to see. As such, leading platforms continue to promote the most viral content dictated by your digital social circle.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2019

by Josh Fechter , co-founder and CEO of Squibler. Technology can make communication and socializing way easier without letting things run amok. For instance, chat rooms, social media, and similar platforms are already tailor-made to foster freeform discussion and self-expression, so they’re natural choices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Many founders find that building the web site forced them to commit on the product design, set final pricing, define ordering and delivery procedures, and actually schedule and staff the marketing events that they had in mind. Viral marketing needs a website. But word-of-mouth and viral marketing doesn’t work without a web site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Viral marketing” and “word-of-mouth” are tools of disciples in business today. By default, the Founder is the chief disciple who displays the qualities to build the required social contracts. Build a connection to your product, and leverage the momentum into more social contracts and bigger congregations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2023

Exciting new technologies these days range from the niche social media software platforms I see almost every month, to new transportation models, like consumer space travel and driverless autos. These founders all seem to be pushing their technology, rather than highlighting their solution to a painful need.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Viral marketing” and “word-of-mouth” are tools of disciples in business today. By default, the Founder is the chief disciple who displays the qualities to build the required social contracts. Build a connection to your product, and leverage the momentum into more social contracts and bigger congregations.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. It also has a considerable online presence on key social media platforms. The company’s founders struggled to meet with demand and order fulfillment suffered. million sunglasses units.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Startup Feedback Panelist Tony has participated on many panels where he can provide real-time feedback to startup founders. Evolving Role of Social Networks for Startups In this talk, Tony traces the evolution of how startups have leveraged social networks and social media as part of their solutions over the past ten years.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Users quickly took to Twitter and other social networks and roundly criticized the ad. For more social media marketing don’ts, check out the biggest social media fails from 2018. Making your site social allows your users to easily share your content, products, and promote your brand.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Part of the discussion around this is the talk about the founder who only got $83M (as compared to $3xxM for the other founders) who bailed out early and choose to go back to school. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

Users quickly took to Twitter and other social networks and roundly criticized the ad. For more social media marketing don’ts, check out Mashable’s 11 Biggest Social Media Disasters of 2012. However, be aware that any slips in customer service or problems with products can also go viral.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category. Startup founders typically invest some real dollars into their new startup as well as months or years of their time with no salary. Deep-dive meeting. Although the term may sound negative, it’s actually a very positive sign.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

According to Glossier co-founder Emily Weiss , “one of the things that we really rely on is our customers as co-creators and sort of co-conspirators of our company.” You can use your social media presence to put a call out for comments. Build your social media presence to support your product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In this age of instant communication through the Internet and social media, people remember personal images more than a product or service name. You must use self-promotion early and often through viral videos, blogging, and industry leadership, to establish credibility with your customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

Staples has developed a reputation in the marketing industry for being a creator of viral content. Michael Margolis is the CEO and founder of Storied. Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand founded in 2005. Biggest takeaway: Today everybody has a megaphone. Click here to listen to the episode.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The founders wanted to remind people that there’s more to the holiday season than commercialization and buying gifts. The original two founders were soon joined by Cisco, Mashable, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Sony, Aldo, Groupon, UNICEF, Google, Skype, Microsoft and Unilever, which became additional founding members.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2022

Engineering creativity, like innovate low-cost solutions, needs to be combined with marketing creativity, like viral social media campaigns, to build a sustainable competitive advantage today. Thus I always recommend that two heads are better than one, meaning seek a co-founder who supplements your natural skills and tendencies.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Social Media. Social Media. Sites Jobs Events Social Good Summit Media Summit Career Expos. Or maybe the co-founders have a poisonous relationship that will hinder the companys growth. Check out the tips below from founders, CEOs and investors alike. Follow @mashable. see more > Search.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Several followers offered me a job and introductions to other founders. We seeded the community largely with relationships formed through my writing, inviting several dozen well-respected startup founders, investors, and product people to participate. Entrepreneur Insider Social Media Analysis and Opinion'

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Andrew Macarthy wrote about social media use during the Mahabis launch. Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software. The SaaS test balloons helped gauge the potential traction on social media and other channels. We wrote recently about using social media for market research.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Not only is this resource-heavy, but you also risk missing the nuances of social media platforms. Viral marketing is hard to replicate. Most industry influencers don’t care if you share their content on social media or link to them in your blog post (unless you’re a well-known brand). Lisa Cron [via WRVO ].

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