Twitter Link Roundup #135 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More Ross | June 15th, 2012
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 above image is a banner ad designed by someone in five minutes using Microsoft Paint. Would you believe it resulted in three times more clicks than a professionally designed banner ad? Read about that interesting advertising experiment in the Social Media & Marketing section below.
More Than Half of Small-Business Owners Go Without Pay – http://amex.co/LmEWMe
What Being an Angry Customer Has Taught Me About Great Customer Service – http://bit.ly/KZTrr1
Fall In Love With Your Business, Not Your Business Plan – http://bit.ly/LmEKwt
crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: RentValet – http://bit.ly/LWO23A
Achieving The Network Effect: Solving The Chicken Or The Egg – http://bit.ly/NkF1EC
Spotlight on crowdSPRING – http://bit.ly/MALC7L
What It’s Like To Be The CEO: Revelations and Reflections – http://bit.ly/KlfZEh
Why I Have Sex With My Co-founder – http://bit.ly/LiE6jt
Exposure to Awesome Things Makes You a Better Person – http://bit.ly/LR0gsv
Acquisitions fail 70 to 90% of the time – http://bit.ly/LNp58k
What Being an Angry Customer Has Taught Me About Great Customer Service – http://bit.ly/KZTrr1
Fall In Love With Your Business, Not Your Business Plan – http://bit.ly/LmEKwt
Spotlight on crowdSPRING – http://bit.ly/MALC7L
Achieving The Network Effect: Solving The Chicken Or The Egg – http://bit.ly/NkF1EC
Mobile Advertising: The $20B Opportunity Mirage – http://bit.ly/KZRV8k
About 41% of Kickstarter Projects Fail – http://on.mash.to/MKzu7J
Tough to see why young engineers think Microsoft is cool again – http://reut.rs/LDpsE3
When do I *stop* doing customer interviews and start writing code? – http://bit.ly/NkGGKp
Why Facebook has won the mobile photo war – http://bit.ly/Klhfas
Days of Wild User Growth Appear Over at Facebook – http://on.wsj.com/KZQpCW
Anyone Who Thinks Mobile Advertising Is Going To Be Huge Needs To See These Charts… – http://read.bi/LFfVw1
Companies’ Twitter Followers Mostly Robots: Study – http://huff.to/KZRuuL
Mobile Advertising: The $20B Opportunity Mirage – http://bit.ly/KZRV8k
Maybe you don’t need great design for ads after all. Just make shit up in Microsoft Paint – http://bit.ly/LOB8pL
About 41% of Kickstarter Projects Fail – http://on.mash.to/MKzu7J
Microsoft plans ads that monitor your emotion – http://bit.ly/MGI4AS
Report says 25% of all media consumption now takes place at work. Few agencies plan for that – http://bit.ly/LDrggk
Cheatsheets Wallpapers For Web Designers And Developers – http://bit.ly/LyJVty
The 7 Biggest Creativity Killers – http://bit.ly/KBHKnJ
Top 20 Transparent Business Card Designs – http://bit.ly/KZNESa
30 Typography Examples from Advertising – http://bit.ly/KZNLx0
Lessons in Conveying Complex Ideas with Simple Graphics from the World’s Best Information Designers – http://bit.ly/K3mFWq
25 Retro Packages, Posters, and Business Cards – http://bit.ly/JQEYtb
22 Outstanding Free Collection Of Leather Textures – http://bit.ly/LNlhEc
30 cute, creative and crazy nail art designs – http://bit.ly/OIdKca
30+ Websites That Make Use of Beautiful Typography – http://bit.ly/LyKe7P
40 Beautifully Designed Mobile Apps With Excellent UI Experience in Mind – http://bit.ly/Lbvsqb
User Experience Takeaways From Online Car Shopping – http://bit.ly/Lz1Rpg
35 Useful Mobile Apps for Designers – http://bit.ly/KBHTHO
35 Creative ads Worked in Photoshop – http://bit.ly/LNljf2
Excellent Examples of Creative Postcard Printing – http://bit.ly/KBHPaY
25 Professional White Business Card Designs – http://bit.ly/LbwMt8
25 Inspiring Blue Business Cards – http://bit.ly/KYEeYY
50 Excellent Useful Tutorials For Designing Icons – http://bit.ly/LyKio7
20 Very useful After Effects Tutorials – http://bit.ly/LNlxmF
40 Inspirational Typography Designs – http://bit.ly/KYELKr
A look at Brochures that Break Your Art Funk – http://bit.ly/LyKnbd
Really Useful Resources and Tools for Responsive Web Design – http://bit.ly/OIfphG
20 Eye-Catching and Artistic Business Card Designs – http://bit.ly/KYEpDA
40 Fresh and Colorful Patterns to Spice Up Your Designs: 2012 Edition – http://bit.ly/Lz1jzE
30 Creative and Artistic Typography Examples for Inspiration – http://bit.ly/LyKMum
32 iPhone App UI Shots from Dribbble Members – http://bit.ly/LyVuCm
35 Useful Photoshop Patterns – http://bit.ly/LyKIeb
30 Sets of Free Cork Texture – http://bit.ly/LNlwPu
Interview with a crowdSPRING designer – 12 Questions: Meet Naoki Haruyoshi (Japan) – http://bit.ly/MAKXmJ
Design Patterns: When Breaking The Rules Is OK – http://bit.ly/Lxi2yD
Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to 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
Logo Design: Raster Graphics or Vector Graphics – http://bit.ly/LNlszj
Interview with Mike Buzzard: How Facebook’s logo was designed – http://bit.ly/MyFoEO
40+ Latest and Creative Logo Designs for Design Inspiration – http://bit.ly/LQwaqQ
Top 10 Mascot Logo Designs – http://bit.ly/KBFD3g
40 Code & Pixel Inspired Logos – http://bit.ly/LbwAdb
30+ Inspirational Examples of Eye Catching Website Design – http://bit.ly/KZNTN1
30+ Websites That Make Use of Beautiful Typography – http://bit.ly/LyKe7P
29 Green Eco-Friendly Website Layouts – http://bit.ly/Lxh9pU
50 Excellent Useful Tutorials For Designing Icons – http://bit.ly/LyKio7
40 Princing Page Designs That Will Convince Your Clients – http://bit.ly/KYEFCx
35 Beautiful Retro Website Design for Your Inspiration – http://bit.ly/LyKKTd
Breadcrumbs Web Design Examples and Best Practices – http://bit.ly/KYE1F8
30 Creative CSS3 Website Designs – http://bit.ly/LyLrfa
21 Breathtaking Examples of Minimal Color Usage in Web Design – http://bit.ly/LyKBiz
User Experience Takeaways From Online Car Shopping – http://bit.ly/Lz1Rpg
Does everyone cheat (at least a little)? – http://nyti.ms/MqijZ9
Exposure to Awesome Things Makes You a Better Person – http://bit.ly/LR0gsv
Is China Really Set To Dominate The World In This Century? No, It’s Not – http://bit.ly/MjbXdl
Spotlight on crowdSPRING – http://bit.ly/MALC7L
Apparently, robbing banks doesn’t pay particularly well – http://lat.ms/NzxOPL
Online electronics dealer ‘taxes’ IE7 users 6.8 percent for having old browser – http://vrge.co/LOCl0l
Median net worth in US fell to $77,300 in ’10 from $126,400 in ’07 http://sto.ly/LVnYBA
Rome’s Trevi fountain crumbling ‘for lack of maintenance’ – http://bit.ly/L2r0ss
Will India Ever Really Be America’s Partner? – http://bit.ly/KPYhsF
Great apology by Jason Alexander – http://ow.ly/btmzw
Not safe for work … Foursquare for sex (funny video) – http://bit.ly/KZNg6b
Macbook Pro Retina least repairable laptop ever (among other things, memory hardwired to main board) – http://bit.ly/MPbQXV
Not surprising that suicide rates are much higher in arranged marriages. But hard to see those cultures change – http://nyti.ms/LHWRxQ
A Flat Touchscreen With Pop-Up Buttons? What? – http://bit.ly/KlhC58
I hope you enjoy these links! Please leave a comment and let me know what you liked/didn’t like.
