Twitter Link Roundup #78 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More Ross | March 16th, 2011
Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account, I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design, web design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
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How a Tiny Company Created a Global Marketplace – http://bit.ly/i2toHT
Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – http://bit.ly/eiBUPj
Do You Count Every Hour In The Day Or Make Every Hour In The Day Count? – http://bit.ly/eeokPA
Business Owners Should be Happy – http://bit.ly/h9b3Qh
Legal Risks And Dangers Of $99 Logo Stores – http://bit.ly/dtxKJ3
crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: eatingGF.com - http://bit.ly/dUEYMR
Top 5 myths about the lean startup – http://reut.rs/gIyWBB
Do You Count Every Hour In The Day Or Make Every Hour In The Day Count? – http://bit.ly/eeokPA
Outstanding Forbes interview with Yuri Millner – The Billionaire Who Friended the Web – http://bit.ly/e8DNYK
8 Lessons From HubSpot’s $32 Million Round with Salesforce, Google, and Sequoia – http://bit.ly/hz9SPJ
Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – http://bit.ly/eiBUPj
Entrepreneurs Need to Find the Best ‘Curators’ – http://read.bi/eCrnKn
How can I tell if I am failing at my start-up? – http://bit.ly/ej0OKg
Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why – http://bit.ly/hkpuhG
Interesting results in Google’s research for what it takes to be a better boss at Google – http://nyti.ms/fJonU4
Getting Started: How Wufoo Went from Concept to Launch – http://bit.ly/bFKH0u
Ex-Googlers at almost every Silicon Valley startup & VC – http://bit.ly/h6T09q
Legal Risks And Dangers Of $99 Logo Stores – http://bit.ly/dtxKJ3
More, better, faster: UX design for startups – http://bit.ly/i2pSDI
Business Owners Should be Happy – http://bit.ly/h9b3Qh
Excellent Bloomberg video about how Twitter was founded & the early challenges – http://bloom.bg/g1mjo5
Is This The Future of Advertising? – http://bit.ly/dXrKvf
Risky move by Twitter to squeeze its ecosystem – http://bit.ly/fJAe1z
Google and Facebook are the future of news delivery, according to a new report – http://bit.ly/ekImeZ
Hard to believe that 80% of <5 year old kids in US use the Internet – http://on.mash.to/fnadlI
Want your ads to get more clicks? Advertise on smaller sites. Conversions will still suck – http://bit.ly/g4HDyc
Tweet happy if you want to win business: new research – http://bit.ly/h4yifV
Eye-Tracking Study: Everybody Looks At Organic Listings, But Most Ignore Paid Ads On Right – http://selnd.com/gYk2VS
Motion Graphics In Advertisements – 30 Cool Examples – http://bit.ly/feZ5xe
5 Tips for Better Advertising in Mobile Apps – http://on.mash.to/e007vn
50 Excellent Adobe After Effects Tutorials – http://bit.ly/ihWyLW
Content vs Design – Which is More Important? – http://bit.ly/fBDUIX
Now and then: How film titles have evolved – http://bit.ly/ew6ucr
The Anatomy of a Type: In Simple Words – http://bit.ly/eSPO4B
The Secret Of Successful Minimal Font Usage – http://bit.ly/fpZThr
Different Image Formats – And When to Use Them – http://bit.ly/eb9qIR
Amazing & Newly Designed Business Cards For Your Inspiration – http://bit.ly/ijqbhn
Common Elements Used in Wooden UI Design – http://bit.ly/fwZ02J
45 Calligraphy Art Gorgeous and Excellent Examples – http://bit.ly/epBfzn
Very detailed and impressive post about the best design-related Twitter accounts to follow – http://bit.ly/gmojeC
Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – http://bit.ly/1ySfi
Legal Contracts for Graphic Designers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – http://bit.ly/XTLkS
60+ Stunning Logos of Companies To Inspire – http://bit.ly/fsk1hr
The Anatomy of a Type: In Simple Words – http://bit.ly/eSPO4B
MIT Media Labs’ new logo has 40,000 variations – http://bit.ly/gOeJHv
100 Creative Logo Designs for Your Inspiration – http://bit.ly/eCFbzZ
Form Field Usability: Avoid Multi-Column Layouts – http://bit.ly/f1YG7Q
50 User Interface Design Tools A Web Designer Must Have – http://bit.ly/fFw5gF
100 Awesome CSS/Javascript Plugins and Coding Techniques – http://bit.ly/i0Um6i
Modal and Modeless Boxes in Web Design – http://bit.ly/hufD7g
Building a Constructive 404 Error Page (With Examples) – http://bit.ly/hhI1id
Wireframing, UX and Web apps – http://bit.ly/gtwS9N
Web Culture: Grid-based Layout Designs – http://bit.ly/gnPsNd
The Ultimate 20 Usability Tips for Your Website – http://bit.ly/g8FYZf
Showcase of Vibrant Colors in Web Design – http://bit.ly/ewfImm
Top Navigation vs Left Navigation: Which Works Better? http://bit.ly/fhrSTd
Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques – http://bit.ly/h0hANo
User Interface Patterns for Dealing with Interactive Content – http://bit.ly/hxaBId
16 Simply Stunning All-Black Packaging Designs – http://bit.ly/eDdumg
Good read on How to design a delightful user experience – http://bit.ly/eg8QWv
Using Game Mechanics in UX Design – http://bit.ly/fPqDkW
Wireframing, UX and Web apps – http://bit.ly/gtwS9N
The Ultimate 20 Usability Tips for Your Website – http://bit.ly/g8FYZf
How To Ruin Good User Experience In 20 Simple Steps – http://bit.ly/f5alSp
UX is 90% Desirability – http://bit.ly/h1izHm
More, better, faster: UX design for startups – http://bit.ly/i2pSDI
Excellent overview of the user experience in Angry Birds (and why the game is popular) – http://bit.ly/gqLa5s
Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed – http://bit.ly/i39jDu
Incredible Workspace Design – World’s Most Popular Tech Companies Offices – http://bit.ly/gvwtog
How a Tiny Company Created a Global Marketplace – http://bit.ly/i2toHT
Are patent trolls hurting digital innovation? – http://bit.ly/fC3C4s
The Future of Nuclear Energy – http://s.hbr.org/eHRfer
Oracle Integrates Crowdsourcing Into CRM – http://bit.ly/dFKCSZ
What If There Weren’t So Many White People? – http://bit.ly/g8x4Yj
Best photogallery I have seen so far of the earthquake in Japan – http://bit.ly/e45oIa
Malawi Boy Builds Windmill Out of Junk – http://bit.ly/gpYomU
20 most hilarious movie poster remakes – http://bit.ly/fKstZJ
80+ Very Creative and Funny Photoshopped Images – http://bit.ly/gCGgAB
Carnival 2011 – 43 spectacularly vibrant photos of celebrations around the world – http://j.mp/hQsAwt
Amazing Michael Jordan typeface poster – http://yhoo.it/icMSHa
The truth about iPad2 – http://ow.ly/49Hj2
I hope you enjoy these links! Please leave a comment and let me know what you liked/didn’t like.




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