Twitter Link Roundup #144 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More Ross | September 7th, 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 video above shows Billie Holiday (one of my favorite singers) singing “Strange Fruit”, a song that Time manazine named, in 1999, the “song of the century”. The song is a protest against racism. Few people know that the song was written by a white Jewish guy from the Bronx – the author has a pretty strange story which you can read about in the Other section below.
Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner – http://crowdspring.co/QheOFS
Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From – http://crowdspring.co/RBe4MP
4 Pieces Of Practical Advice for Women Entrepreneurs – http://hub.am/QlXPlK
crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Bridge The Gap Villages – http://crowdspring.co/Obf8ry
More Vacation is the Secret Sauce – http://crowdspring.co/Tmc4d9
Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt? – http://crowdspring.co/ODDULV
Why Convertible Notes Are Sometimes Terrible For Startups – http://crowdspring.co/TmaQyy
4 Pieces Of Practical Advice for Women Entrepreneurs – http://hub.am/QlXPlK
How To Be a Genius: This Is Apple’s Secret Employee Training Manual – http://crowdspring.co/ODFXiS
Staffing your startup? Pick the right kind of staffer – http://crowdspring.co/O1Wrqe
The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula – http://crowdspring.co/Qh6lPq
Practical Advice for Raising Early Stage Venture Capital – http://crowdspring.co/RoOVQU
8 Elements That Make A Great SaaS Website – http://crowdspring.co/RHFelg
Ecosystem 101: The Six Necessary Categories To Build The Next Silicon Valley – http://crowdspring.co/Q2vgaY
Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner – http://crowdspring.co/QheOFS
Why you should continue working on your bad idea – http://crowdspring.co/RqAKe9
Making Money While Keeping Prices Low: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Explains It All (Mostly) – http://crowdspring.co/RHFctC
Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right – http://crowdspring.co/R2mnlL
Do Older Or Younger Entrepreneurs Have The Greater Advantage? – http://crowdspring.co/Reed9Z
More Vacation is the Secret Sauce – http://crowdspring.co/Tmc4d9
Amazon’s Bezos: Maybe the most second-guessed genius in tech – http://crowdspring.co/RoW3wC
Fred Wilson on Why the Collapse of Venture Capital is Good – http://crowdspring.co/R2n5zA
Win, win win all around … 37signals invests in The Starter League – http://crowdspring.co/OUOPEv
Incubator 1871 Nurtures Chicago’s Growing Startup Scene – http://crowdspring.co/NHM1WY
Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From – http://crowdspring.co/RBe4MP
I’ll take a gigabit to go. Hold the wires – http://crowdspring.co/Qhfon1
Deconstructing the canned Pepsi Facebook feed – http://crowdspring.co/Q136gK
U.S. Mobile Advertising: Twitter Sales Are Double That Of Facebook In A Google-Ruled, $2.6B Market – http://crowdspring.co/Qh6y5p
10 Steps to reinvent media strategy – http://crowdspring.co/PIl2ft
Nobody Reads Ad Agency Blogs – http://bit.ly/IPaWJu
Pinterest is 4th largest source of referral traffic now. Interesting that Twitter keeps receding – http://crowdspring.co/UuLXyN
No longer newest idea under the sun, but reminder that we can all create easily w/ new platforms – http://crowdspring.co/PIlQRx
40 Naughty Animals In Extremely Creative Advertisements – http://bit.ly/Q6wvtQ
Where Are All the Female Creative Directors? – http://crowdspring.co/R2p0Eh
Old Spice continues to show a smart understanding of social. Fun video – http://crowdspring.co/TijfBw
35 Creative and Beautiful Business Card Design examples for your Inspiration – http://bit.ly/Q6x6vI
The Law on Fonts and Typefaces: Frequently Asked Questions – http://awe.sm/k3uxP
45 High Quality Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials – http://bit.ly/NH7xuT
20 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials of August 2012 – http://bit.ly/OUFVp3
Showcase of 38 Well Designed iPhone Application Websites – http://bit.ly/T0AY1M
The 11th Principle of Good Design – http://blog.wells.ee/design-11
30 Useful Arrow Brushes for Photoshop – http://bit.ly/R2gwga
The Ecommerce Graveyard: How 37 Popular Sites Used to Look – http://crowdspring.co/TXIjuY
35 More Gorgeously Designed Cakes – http://bit.ly/OUFivs
25 Examples For Most Creative Brand Identity Showcase For Inspiration – http://bit.ly/Q6xY3v
Common portfolio mistakes (and how to fix them) – http://bit.ly/OUERBr
60 Advertising Posters With Inspiring Ideas – http://bit.ly/OUFESM
40 Naughty Animals In Extremely Creative Advertisements – http://bit.ly/Q6wvtQ
5 Simple Tips for Designing Better iPhone Apps – http://bit.ly/Q6ziDj
40 Photoshop Brushes Effect – http://bit.ly/Q7ovmV
20 Excellent Examples of Bruchure Design – http://bit.ly/OUFbA9
35 Inspiring Food Packages – http://bit.ly/OUFNFS
34 Awesome Print Ads – http://bit.ly/Q6xAlm
50+ Inspirational Typography Posters For Creative Minds – http://bit.ly/OUFU4e
30 Inspirational Typographic Illustrations – http://bit.ly/Q7oeQS
25 Excellent Design Resumes – http://bit.ly/OUFJGe
Changing Perspective: A New Look At Old Problems – http://bit.ly/R2fBfQ
Packaging Design Inspiration – http://bit.ly/OUF7Ay
The September $1,000 cS Award and the August $1,000 cS Award Winner! – http://crowdspring.co/SkC35o
30 Excellent Restaurant Menu Design – http://bit.ly/R2dw3D
30 Creative and Beautiful Packaging Design examples for your inspiration – http://bit.ly/Q6xk5X
19 Beautiful book cover designs for your inspiration – http://tnw.co/T0AKrt
15 Superb Car Brochure Designs for Your Design Inspiration – http://bit.ly/NH7zmv
50 Creative and Minimal Movie Posters – http://bit.ly/T0AwAK
30 Free Bokeh Brushes to Create Bokeh Effects in Photoshop – http://bit.ly/Q410OR
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
42 Business Logo Design Inspiration #6 – http://bit.ly/Q412q9
Responsive Web Design: Some of the Best Tools in the Game – http://bit.ly/R6YhV1
30 Fresh and Useful CSS3 & Jquery Effects with Tutorials from 2012 – http://bit.ly/R2e8pK
Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms – http://crowdspring.co/QmsjEj
50+ Exquisite Examples of Circular Trends in Modern Web Design – http://bit.ly/Q6xKsV
8 Elements That Make A Great SaaS Website – http://crowdspring.co/RHFelg
How kids make friends — and why it matters – http://crowdspring.co/O1VQET
Beyond a joke: the truth about why we laugh – http://crowdspring.co/ORuSLg
Stanford Scientists Cast Doubt on Advantages of Organic Meat and Produce – http://crowdspring.co/PGIjyn
Don’t give up on organic food quite yet. (studies are always flawed) – http://crowdspring.co/R8pVD4
What Happens to Stolen Bicycles? – http://crowdspring.co/O1VXjL
The Hidden Truths about Calories – http://crowdspring.co/PGFFsD
In fewer than 2 weeks, Amazon will begin charging sales tax for purchases by Californians – http://crowdspring.co/Qn6tQZ
If you’re wondering why Presidential candidates spend so much on ads … they may actually work – http://crowdspring.co/QmvmMB
Is Netflix dying by a thousand cuts? As more content becomes non-exclusive or leaves, how will it attract customers? – http://crowdspring.co/TigwIn
Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits – http://crowdspring.co/Q2vtLq
ascinating look at Bill Clinton’s talent as an orator – comparing the speech on the teleprompter to one he delivered – http://crowdspring.co/RHFsc9
Amazon doesn’t share actual numbers, but pretty clear that ebooks are trouncing paper – http://crowdspring.co/RqADzt
The Strange Story Of The Man Behind ‘Strange Fruit’ – http://crowdspring.co/TmbGeB
Think your “to-do” list is tough? You’ve got nothing on Thomas Edison’s – http://crowdspring.co/Q1jQH4
Shares of Sony are at a 32 YEAR low – http://crowdspring.co/Q1jvnF
Does Self-Awareness Require a Complex Brain? – http://crowdspring.co/PGF1vb
Sometimes, copyright laws are utterly stupid (take tv streaming, for example) – http://crowdspring.co/O1W9iZ
With silly movies like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, anyone surprised movie ticket sales are down? – http://crowdspring.co/QhfYkD
I hope you enjoy these links! Please leave a comment and let me know what you liked/didn’t like.
