crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Good overview of lean software development – [link]. – [link]. Thinking about getting an MBA?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

Empower Your Small Business: trust & loyalty, marketing insight, lean business – [link]. Internet Ad Revenues Again Hit Record-Breaking Double-Digit Annual Growth, Reaching Nearly $37 Billion – [link]. Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business | Smashing UX Design – [link]. By 2017 – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. Balloon-powered internet from Google. Related posts: Twitter Link Roundup #181 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More. Forget the coasts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. 15 Best Creative Logo Designs to get Inspiration | Internet Dreamz – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

The image above shows a map of the Internet, created by an anonymous researcher, who hacked hundreds of thousands of computers around the world in order to create the map. Empower Your Small Business – NEW edition: marketing, lean business, paid search, #1 mistake – [link]. Lean Business: Freelancers for ALL My Friends!

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

We write often about small businesses and startups and lean approaches to marketing and other business functions. If you are going the build-it-yourself approach careful use of social media tools, public relations, and other word-of-mouth tactics can help you to attract the right workers to participate.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Lean Startup 101 for Developers – [link]. Internet Advertising Hits New Revenue Record – [link]. Not Everything That Can Be Counted Counts – [link]. The VC Market: An Adaptive System – [link]. Strategy is Not a To Do List – [link]. Beware the Nile perch – [link]. Steve Jobs’s Strategy?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link]. Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link]. How did Internet Explorer get to be so bad (relative to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox)? Crowdsourced Workforces Rising | Xconomy – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup – [link]. The Economics of Attention: Why There Are No Second Chances on the Internet – [link]. Time to move to Kansas City for faster Internet speeds? image credit: EpicV27.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

As the manager of an internet business, our approach has always been “light-touch” and our assumption has always been biased towards “self-serve.” Related posts: New Years Resolutions For Small Businesses and Startups. Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2013

Interview: Rand Fishkin CEO of Moz on Lean Marketing – [link]. Google Serves 25 Percent of North American Internet Traffic – [link]. Yes — GigaOM – [link]. 7 Ways to Guarantee Instant Customer Happiness – [link]. PR Nudges Its Way to the Content Table | by Josh Sternberg – [link]. Video] – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand – [link]. Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand – [link]. PARC’s idea to reinvent the Internet sounds a bit confusing – [link]. – [link]. Constitution?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups – [link]. 40 People Who Changed The Internet – [link]. Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link]. Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Top 5 myths about the lean startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Hard to believe that 80% of <5 year old kids in US use the Internet – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Marty Zwilling.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 22, 2012

Determine project goals and strategy: One of the key tenets of a lean approach to management, is the definition stage; determining a project’s goal is the first and most important step in the process. Related posts: Crowdsourcing: a 7+7 Primer (Pt. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition. Photo: Leo Reynolds.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. The Internet is trying to tell us something – [link]. – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies. Marty Zwilling.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

Plus many high-tech and Internet companies are increasingly international and may have team-members distributed around the world. With the productivity tools available to us via the internet, with cell phones, laptops, and other connectivity tools, can the truly virtual company work effectively and prosper? Photo: TheRogue.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link]. Newsweek turns to digital-only publication – [link]. Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model – here’s why – [link]. Want to get a job at a startup? Show them WHY.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

What Hasn’t Changed: The Internet Keeps Getting Bigger. The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link]. US not the fastest in internet speeds but we’re way ahead of Congo, Central African Republic and turtles – [link]. A VC: What Has Changed – [link].

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

The Digital Dream Team Way before the Internet phenomenon, we had created “Rocket Science the brand ” that was much bigger in size and importance than Rocket Science the company. Companies in the entertainment business around the world knew who we were, and were interested in meeting us, if only to see what the hype was about.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. Not encouraging…teens have trouble communicating without the Internet – [link]. SaaS CEOs: Measure Customer Engagement – [link]. 26 Promising Social Media Stats for Small Businesses – [link]. Very shady, if true.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2010

Generally, my picks lean toward “investor friendly” high technology ones, but since these are not so cheap and easy to start, I’ll add a few more, like Internet website and software products, that can be started on a shoestring these days: Smart-phone applications. Social network marketing. I believe it will happen, but it hasn’t yet.

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Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Internet investor Dave McClure coined the acronym &# AARRR ,&# to remember the parts of Customer Relationships on the web.). Filed under: Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. This post is part five. Week 5 of the class. Stay tuned.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Public relations consulting. basic infrastructural costs like phone and internet service, scheduling and invoicing software, etc… marketing and advertising costs. Passive income can be handy for bolstering your bottom line and an important safety net for lean seasons. Public Relations Society of America.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

A large number of these customers had mailed back their registration cards (this was pre-Internet) with their names, phone numbers, job titles, etc. Since this was the marketing department, I was going to be planning to spend some advertising and public relations dollars. Has anyone ever spoken to a customer?” Why?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2014

Right now, today, appearing in virtually every corner of the the internet you can be find my neighbor’s video along with thousands of others and witness one of the most successful, most impressive viral media campaigns of all time. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 19, 2013

After nearly 10 years of an increasingly social media-driven internet, a number of rock stars have emerged. Look at all of their accounts, dig beyond their main FB and Twitter accounts to their more targeted channels that promote everything from specific offerings, to their own philanthropy, to their public relations and media channels.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Members from the strategy team might have some insights that can help the Public Relations Team, while the PR Team might have share ideas to pitch to Creative. Our lean, limited asset business provides us the opportunity to focus our efforts on sales, marketing and most importantly our customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The best thing about our new media paradigm, is that anyone or any business can get their message out to the world via the Internet. An important part of your overall marketing strategy is public relations. And I mean all of the media, from blogs, to industry journals, to internet radio programs, to the traditional press.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. While the product is being engineered, Marketing begins to create web sites, corporate presentations and sales materials.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

In 1998, Google was the new kid in an established (if not quite mature) market for Internet search, and by 2004, it was by far the leading Internet search engine, handling almost 85% of the search requests on the web. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Use the tools that the Internet provides you and make sure that someone from your company has their eyes and ears tuned in! Related posts: Small business and startup tips: which type is your brand? Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Get started.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

Thanks to Hope Gibbs, Inkandescent Public Relations ! #3- We were originally leaning towards the mountain where the Greek God of partying was born, Nysa or the actual Greek God for partying, Dionysos, also called Bacchus, but the names didn't excite us, and we didn't want to have to explain it to everyone who. Inkandescent Inc.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. Marketing develops a complete marketing communications plan, provides Sales with a full complement of support material, and starts the public relations bandwagon rolling.

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