Archive for August, 2012
Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Gelatini
Amanda | August 30th, 2012Well, the time has come. The sun is setting earlier and earlier; kids are filtering back into school; summer is ending. And while many of us are looking forward to finding our flannels and getting ourselves to an apple orchard, the end of summer is always bittersweet. But! Before September 21st rolls around, there is [...]
Branding and Consistency: Lessons From Morton Salt
Mike | August 27th, 2012Great brands come and go, and over decades many of the strongest brands in the world have fallen into obscurity and been forgotten, shrouded in the mists of time and long absent from store shelves and our consumer consciousness. Developing a brand is pretty simple; a company invents a name, a symbol and, sometimes, a phrase [...]
Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Good Migrations
Amanda | August 22nd, 2012Let’s not mince words here: moving abroad is rough, rough stuff. After someone finds their House Hunters International perfect home, they are faced with packing up their stuff and trusting strangers– who may or may not speak their language– to ship it safely half-way across the globe. As the founders of this week’s Small Business [...]
7 Habits of Highly Effective Employees
Ross | August 15th, 2012We’re fortunate to have built a great team at crowdSPRING. What makes one employee highly effective and another average? For some of our job postings, crowdSPRING receives hundreds of resumes. How do we find the the most effective people to join our team? Contrary to the way most companies hire – we never hire the [...]
