Twitter Link Roundup #81 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More Ross | April 8th, 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!
The image to the left is the cover for the comic book Cat Woman, designed by Adam Hughes.You’ll find more cool comic book covers in the Random Fun section below.
How To Find Your First Customers And Grow Your Business – http://bit.ly/eJ4zyb
crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week – Thumbtack Press – http://bit.ly/i9GQt2
How To Find Your First Customers And Grow Your Business – http://bit.ly/eJ4zyb
11 Candid Truths About Entrepreneurship From VC Mark Suster – http://read.bi/hgEB4O
Top 5 Myths about Distributed Teams – http://bit.ly/erzjdT
Product design at GitHub http://awe.sm/5Hm8r
Lean Marketing: Don’t Believe Your Own Press Releases – http://bit.ly/ih5ckP
Why I Run a Flat Company – http://bit.ly/g7Dwxv
The need for ad industry to evolve & stop complaining – http://bit.ly/giKZGF
How to Create Compeling Advertising – http://bit.ly/gryhN3
100 Guerrilla Marketing Advertisements for your Inspiration – http://bit.ly/e5t7d7
Good post by @benkunz in BusWeek about Facebook’s potential to dominate banking – http://buswk.co/g39PBN
CPC & conversion rates are abysmal. Why would people “save” ads to review later? – http://bit.ly/hlU7tJ
Specialist agencies to help w/ Facebook ads, but not atrocious conversion rates – http://on.wsj.com/hAhgrX
Interesting perspective from @malbonster about Instagram – http://bit.ly/g07ryJ
Are you listening? – http://bit.ly/gReXAz
You need to be HUMAN, not amateur, when building communities. Good advice but wrong perspective – http://bit.ly/gY78G6
Hulu On Track To Generate $500 Million In Revenue This Year – http://read.bi/ex1g5N
How To Find Your First Customers And Grow Your Business – http://bit.ly/eJ4zyb
30 Very Funny Print Ads – http://bit.ly/gGGWdn
Print Design Tips for Web Designers – http://bit.ly/i7hBdf
Mobile Form Design Strategies – http://bit.ly/eMaudF
30 Best Creative and Professional Free Fonts For Designers – http://bit.ly/fN3lCi
34 Spectacular Beer Bottle Labels and Designs – http://bit.ly/fAX9Fo
Hi-Res Plaster And Concrete Texture Pack – http://bit.ly/hQIjQw
Color Calibration for Your Devices – http://bit.ly/fr8rdy
The Coolest Comic Book Covers of All Time – http://bit.ly/fuZ8Y1
Worldwide Graphic Design: How Different Nationalities Design Part 2 – http://bit.ly/fbWHsY
FREE: 350+ Human Vector Silhouettes – http://bit.ly/idLy0F
50 Simplistic, Minimal and Inspirational Fashion Labels – http://bit.ly/foKEMB
45 Simple Yet Engaging Book Cover designs – http://bit.ly/ifdLUE
A good read about why it’s important for designers to push clients towards good design – http://bit.ly/e5n6RL
45+ Amazing Fashion Brochure Design Examples – http://bit.ly/eYWyDk
Well thought out points on building a web design community – http://bit.ly/eOjUVk
30 Very Funny Print Ads – http://bit.ly/gGGWdn
crowdSPRING creative interview: 12 Questions: Meet Troy Tessalone (USA) – http://bit.ly/fLj0Cd
Design Trends vs. Great Design – http://bit.ly/f1eBx2
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
Sexy Logo Designs – http://bit.ly/gZ1tYu
40 Creative Logo Designs – http://bit.ly/g0Uk6Z
Logo Design: Phones – http://bit.ly/eqOvjl
30 Best Creative and Professional Free Fonts For Designers – http://bit.ly/fN3lCi
60+ Fresh Creative Logo Designs for Design Inspiration – http://bit.ly/ewnmLs
30 Beautiful Logos Created With Inspirational Elements Of Nature – http://bit.ly/hLPCDD
Usability Best Practices For eCommerce Websites – http://bit.ly/hkLYpt
Huge Showcase of Detailed Interface Design Elements – http://bit.ly/e5d0ix
50 Blue Website Designs to Inspire and Impress You – http://bit.ly/eLhlz4
50 Product comparison tables in web design – http://bit.ly/fAfdUv
Usability Best Practices For eCommerce Websites – http://bit.ly/hkLYpt
Context menu design on the Web – http://bit.ly/geLYy4
Fundamental Guidelines Of E-Commerce Checkout Design – http://bit.ly/fWIQuJ
Superb Examples Of Login Forms – http://bit.ly/gErBzg
Perfume Packaging – The Visual Image of Odor – http://bit.ly/gcbhE5
Nice Baggages and Suitcases Designs – http://bit.ly/fw25ZQ
27 Recyclable Packaging Designs for Inspiration – http://bit.ly/ecupbH
Progressive Disclosure in User Interfaces – http://bit.ly/ge05w8
Usability Best Practices For eCommerce Websites – http://bit.ly/hkLYpt
Context menu design on the Web – http://bit.ly/geLYy4
17 Ways to Simplify ‘Sign Up’ (Study) – http://bit.ly/flZ55q
Phenomenal video of Q&A with Garry Kasparov at Google earlier this year – http://bit.ly/gbL2YJ
Are you a student & love hacking software? Consider participating in Google’s Summer of Code 2011 – http://bit.ly/gSrPNb
Google art museum photo project – http://bit.ly/dLtKjT
Another good example from @benkunz showing how we reach wrong conclusions based on bad data – http://bit.ly/ewK2U3
Groupon is Hastening the Demise of the Newspaper Industry – http://bit.ly/fQTLbk
10 photographs of children from around the world and their bedrooms – http://bit.ly/hhmIwq
Puzzled about Dish Network’s purchase of Bluckbuster bankruptcy assets – http://bit.ly/hU5bwq
Not a good start to the Charlie Sheen tour. Detroit show sucked – http://nyti.ms/dJsa65
The Coolest Comic Book Covers of All Time – http://bit.ly/fuZ8Y1
Mindblowing aerial photographs around the world – http://bit.ly/fKr8co
female Old Spice commercial parody – http://bit.ly/fQYkXk
Google jokes around with Gmail Motion and then someone uses Kinect to make it real – http://engt.co/hlcCTZ
I hope you enjoy these links! Please leave a comment and let me know what you liked/didn’t like.
