crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

Don’t ignore headlines – they can be very powerful and can mean the difference between a visitor reading the rest of the content and leaving your site. Tip: If you decide to hire a freelance web site designer and/or developer, you should look for at least three people (or shops) and ask them for detailed quotes.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

TalentMoxie blends strength based career coaching, human resources, and partners with companies that want to hire talented people. This arrangement is working out very well for me as it keeps me updated on the latest in my field of expertise and I am also able to hire talent for my venture from these same courses. 14- Fiverr.

Entrepreneur 73

Entrepreneur Technical Review SEO New York City 73

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. SEM only gets at one segment of users, and for a brand new product, you presumably need some skill at marketing in general and adsense in particular to get any useful info. Just put in your credit card. Just load them all in and choose a low cost-per-click.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand.

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Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. His post is ostensibly about how often to release new work (whether youre a blog writer, movie star, software team.)

San Francisco 76

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. The rest can believe what they want. the most sensible SEM advice Ive read - discussed in the context of a real situation. So dont combine your product launch with a marketing launch. Instead, do your product launch first. Iterate as fast and for as long as you can. Dont scale.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

But the rest probably got what they were there for and your website was helping them by doing all those "jobs" as well, along with pure ecommerce. You struggle to get budget to hire Analysts or Marketers. It is quite likely that your website is delivering some value to that 98.3%, how about quantifying it?

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2006

Drop in marketing campaigns, a dynamic site, SEM, more pages, more traffic, promotions and offers and you have a very tough situation to understand. Most web analytics tools will spew out data like there is no tomorrow. You will use this multiplier in future to compare year over year trends if you want to.

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