Twitter Link Roundup #152 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More Ross | November 2nd, 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 is a fun look at how you can teach classical music to kids. How do you get kids to realize that Mozart, Beethoven and Bach, among many others, influenced much of today’s music? Cute.
Small Business and Startups: Slice & Dice Your Customer Service Data | crowdSPRING Blog - http://crowdspring.co/Q1J2zu
Is The Only Purpose of Customer Service To Change Feelings? Seth Godin is only partially correct – http://crowdspring.co/PSM09i
Local services online: Your friendly neighbourhood app | The Economist - http://crowdspring.co/Q0JrSM
Why A Brand Matters | Forbes - http://crowdspring.co/Q6B5ce
Six best practice tips for email unsubscribe pages | Econsultancy – http://crowdspring.co/Q1Lk1u
How Customers evaluate your product | StartupCFO – http://crowdspring.co/Q72MBQ
The Most Effective SEO Content Strategy | Duct Tape Marketing - http://crowdspring.co/RsmH9c
Yammer’s Cindy Alvarez: Five Types of People I Should Have Fired Sooner | TechCrunch - http://crowdspring.co/Q1Kv8M
Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - http://crowdspring.co/Rckwqh
To Successfully Launch A Product, You Have To Tell A Compelling Story | TechCrunch - http://crowdspring.co/RhJdla
The Nine Ingredients That Make Great Content | KISSmetrics Blog – http://crowdspring.co/Rspqj5
A startup’s first hires: What to look for | Fortune -http://crowdspring.co/Ss7IxL
Good insight about failure, pivots and investors in this post about Fab | TechCrunch - http://crowdspring.co/RvnUNb
Is The Only Purpose of Customer Service To Change Feelings? Seth Godin is only partially correct – http://crowdspring.co/PSM09i
To Successfully Launch A Product, You Have To Tell A Compelling Story | TechCrunch - http://crowdspring.co/RhJdla
10 Must-See Documentaries for Entrepreneurs | CNBC – http://crowdspring.co/RhJg0h
Thoughts on dropping out to do a startup - http://crowdspring.co/Q7D8Na
Why A Brand Matters | Forbes - http://crowdspring.co/Q6B5ce
How Zappos’ User Agreement Failed In Court and Left Zappos Legally Naked – http://crowdspring.co/Q6xkU8
Yammer’s Cindy Alvarez: Five Types of People I Should Have Fired Sooner | TechCrunch - http://crowdspring.co/Q1Kv8M
Small Business and Startups: Slice & Dice Your Customer Service Data | crowdSPRING Blog - http://crowdspring.co/Q1J2zu
Six best practice tips for email unsubscribe pages | Econsultancy – http://crowdspring.co/Q1Lk1u
The Ten Most Innovative Companies In America | Forbes – http://crowdspring.co/Q7IQyD
Lessons from a top Angel Investor: Fabrice Grinda talks about his 100 early-stage investments – http://crowdspring.co/Q7JDzu
The Pinterest-ization of the e-commerce experience – http://crowdspring.co/RrjSoR
The Most Effective SEO Content Strategy | Duct Tape Marketing - http://crowdspring.co/RsmH9c
The Nine Ingredients That Make Great Content | KISSmetrics Blog – http://crowdspring.co/Rspqj5
What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology | ben’s blog - http://crowdspring.co/Q2DODF
Google App Engine is ready for primetime says Reddit/Hipmunk co-founder – http://crowdspring.co/Q7DUK3
What Startup Life is Really Like; Entrepreneurs Share Candid Stories | Tech Cocktail - http://crowdspring.co/RoCAh3
7 Companies That Totally ‘Get’ Their Buyer Personas | Hubspot – http://crowdspring.co/Q332lb
There Are Plenty Of Failures In Silicon Valley, Thanks – http://crowdspring.co/Q5dBnP
Does your startup require a miracle? What about if it requires a couple of them…? - http://crowdspring.co/P9c1zM
Is Kickstarter A Viable Platform For Business Startups? | SFGate – http://crowdspring.co/S4BqZJ
Prioritising Features: Who’ll Use It & How Often? | The Intercom Blog - http://crowdspring.co/RtmHWF
Be Interesting – or Be Ignored | Forbes – http://crowdspring.co/Rsm7Iu
Why Working More Than 40 Hours a Week is Useless | INC – http://crowdspring.co/Q7Uauz
How Customers evaluate your product | StartupCFO – http://crowdspring.co/Q72MBQ
Avoiding operating at capacity | Gabriel Weinberg’s Blog - http://crowdspring.co/RrH9qQ
“Great companies transcend their great products … these companies adapt, innovate and reinvent.” - http://crowdspring.co/RsjXbT
Local services online: Your friendly neighbourhood app | The Economist - http://crowdspring.co/Q0JrSM
Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - http://crowdspring.co/Rckwqh
“You can’t measure your product by your competitor’s. Yours might be better, but it could still be shit.” - http://crowdspring.co/S91Yci
Why You Need to Have Fun to Be Successful | Forbes – http://crowdspring.co/Rtyy6U
15 Companies Getting Back Into The Businesses They Killed - http://crowdspring.co/Q0USK6
Why The Ad Industry Is In A Talent Rut And A Prescription For Change | Co.Create - http://crowdspring.co/RgcFry
Brands Will Become Media: Here’s How | Logic+Emotion - http://crowdspring.co/RxGYKx
Why Agencies Could Win the Talent Fight with Startups | Digiday – http://crowdspring.co/Q0VIGF
7 Social Media Mistakes that Can Keep Your Content from Going Viral - http://crowdspring.co/Rjt4vn
Why Ad Holding Companies Should Act More Like VCs | Advertising Age - http://crowdspring.co/RjzfzR
Digital Titles at Ad Agencies: Going, Going, Gone? | Advertising Age - http://crowdspring.co/RjvVom
What Is The Secret Sauce In Good Content? – http://crowdspring.co/Rrl4IM
The Pinterest-ization of the e-commerce experience – http://crowdspring.co/RrjSoR
How much are Facebook “shares” and Twitter “retweets” worth? – http://crowdspring.co/W259IM
Why A Brand Matters | Forbes - http://crowdspring.co/Q6B5ce
Twitter Advertising: Gender targeting for Promoted Products now available - http://crowdspring.co/Rgc4Gx
Advertisers Refine Mobile Pitches for Phones and Tablets | NYT – http://crowdspring.co/RjxEd2
Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - http://crowdspring.co/Rckwqh
Convincing Women in China They’re Too Hairy | Businessweek - http://crowdspring.co/RbJJ41
The Nine Ingredients That Make Great Content | KISSmetrics Blog – http://crowdspring.co/Rspqj5
Six best practice tips for email unsubscribe pages | Econsultancy – http://crowdspring.co/Q1Lk1u
Air New Zealand honors ‘The Hobbit’ with preflight video – http://crowdspring.co/Q9VTjb
45 Edge Painted Letterpress Business Cards | Best Design Options – http://crowdspring.co/Q1RWgd
30 Best Photoshop Tutorials And Brushes For Water Effect | PSDreview - http://crowdspring.co/RhWVo9
Free Vector Texture Pack for Adobe Illustrator – http://crowdspring.co/Q1RSNt
Supreme Collection Of 3D Effects Photoshop Tutorials | PSDreview – http://crowdspring.co/PMlWN3
The Story Behind The Famous FedEx Logo, And Why It Works | Co.Design - http://crowdspring.co/Q0JOg9
25 Free Creative Electric Font for your Designs – http://crowdspring.co/QNrTEg
10 Elegant Brochure Designs for your Inspiration | Web Design Habits - http://crowdspring.co/Q1SbYB
30 Awesome Advanced Level Photoshop Tutorials | PelFusion – http://crowdspring.co/Q1QKJP
30 Innovative Book Shelf Designs to Improve Your Home Decor | Best PSD to HTML - http://crowdspring.co/RhYG4E
Free Fabric Textures | TutorialFreakz - http://crowdspring.co/RhWWZg
45 Fresh and Free High Quality Icons in PSD Format – http://crowdspring.co/RhMZuT
User Interface Design Inspiration – 40 UI Design Examples – http://crowdspring.co/Q1RLBu
20+ Gadget PSD Files Every Designer Should Download – http://crowdspring.co/RhWA4N
Graphic Identity: 5 Free Art Deco Fonts - http://crowdspring.co/Q1R9vW
33 Best Free Fonts - http://crowdspring.co/RhYHW8
23 Creative Mugs Designs | NaughtyDesigner – http://crowdspring.co/Q1QZEJ
30 Never-Seen-Before Typography Posters | Dzineblog360 – http://crowdspring.co/RhXRZN
30 Brewing Beverage Package Designs | PelFusion – http://crowdspring.co/Q1R6Qz
20 Absolutely Gorgeous Food Package Designs | Top Design Magazine - http://crowdspring.co/RhRc1F
20 Superlatively Designed Photography Business Cards – http://crowdspring.co/RhN3dZ
A Collection of 90+ Vibrant Rainbow Colored Patterns – http://crowdspring.co/Q1Lh5L
26 Corporate Brochure Design Ideas - http://crowdspring.co/RhXgXO
Showcase of Very Inspirational iPhone App UI Shots From Dribbble – http://crowdspring.co/RhWHx7
20 Brilliant Brochure Designs: Creativity in Promotion | PelFusion – http://crowdspring.co/Q1NGgQ
50+ Inspiring Packaging Designs – http://crowdspring.co/RhYP84
50+ Most Beautiful and Creative Visiting Cards Design | Graphic Design Junction - http://crowdspring.co/RhYVMY
High Tech Circle Brushes: Set #11 - http://crowdspring.co/RhQcKO
A Beautiful Collection of Handmade Fonts That You Should See | Design Crib - http://crowdspring.co/RhYqTe
A Fluorescent Taxonomy Of Shapes You Never Knew Existed | Co.Design - http://crowdspring.co/Q1PeYd
How to design a Elegant Power Button in Photoshop – http://crowdspring.co/RhMLDQ
crowdSPRING designer interview … 12 Questions: Meet Xavier (Spain) - http://crowdspring.co/PVhtaR
20+ Awesome Free Fonts for Halloween - http://crowdspring.co/RhWEkY
Creative Halloween Makeup - http://crowdspring.co/RhXZrZ
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
45 Clever and Creative Logos with Combined Elements – http://crowdspring.co/Q1LdD5
35 + Logo Sketch Design Inspires you Inspiration – http://crowdspring.co/Q8B1bQ
Beautiful Typographic Logos for Inspiration – http://crowdspring.co/Q1S3bM
45 Cool and Creative Pen Inspired Logos for Inspiration – http://crowdspring.co/QNrphA
Logo Design: Pianos | Abduzeedo - http://crowdspring.co/QNrGRJ
20 Boat Logo Design Examples You Should’ve Seen – http://crowdspring.co/Q1QWJ1
23 Inspiring Logo Design Ideas for Creatives | PelFusion – http://crowdspring.co/PMm5Qw
33 Best Free Fonts - http://crowdspring.co/RhYHW8
25 Free Creative Electric Font for your Designs – http://crowdspring.co/QNrTEg
35 Fresh Logos That You Need To See - http://crowdspring.co/RhYxOM
A Beautiful Collection of Handmade Fonts That You Should See | Design Crib - http://crowdspring.co/RhYqTe
New Examples of Brilliant Web Design - http://crowdspring.co/QNriTc
10 Tips How To Handle Responsive Navigation Menus Successfully | The Usabilla Blog - http://crowdspring.co/RhXBKi
45 Fresh and Free High Quality Icons in PSD Format – http://crowdspring.co/RhMZuT
100 Creative Website Backgrounds | Dzinepress – http://crowdspring.co/RhYZwp
30 Sports Web Designs That Will Blow Your Mind | Inspihive – http://crowdspring.co/RhWwlC
Having a Center Of Attraction in Your Web Design – http://crowdspring.co/RhRoOk
31 Sexy Search Boxes | Creativeoverflow - http://crowdspring.co/Q8B07O
Choosing the Right Typography for Your Website | Creativeoverflow – http://crowdspring.co/Q1N2jx
40 Beautiful Dark Color Websites For Your Inspiration – http://crowdspring.co/RhQxx7
User Interface Design Inspiration – 40 UI Design Examples – http://crowdspring.co/Q1RLBu
50 Years Of Iconic James Bond Cars [Infographic] | PSFK – http://crowdspring.co/RjxZg2
25 Extremely Clever Tip Jars - http://crowdspring.co/Q8D3Jd
10 Jazz Albums to Listen to Before You Die - http://crowdspring.co/Rty2pH
100 Ideas That Changed Photography | Brain Pickings – http://crowdspring.co/PRCdAe
Change Your Words, Change Your Life: The Simplest Tool I Know for Immediately Transforming the Quality of Your Life – http://crowdspring.co/RckVc6
Hulu Struggles To Survive The Influence Of Its Parent Companies - http://crowdspring.co/PsO5Zm
“Can I let you in on a secret? Typing two spaces after a period is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong.” – http://crowdspring.co/RxR3r2
Forstall Out; Ive Up | Daring Fireball - http://crowdspring.co/Q32uMf
Given Tablets But No Teachers, Ethiopian Kids Teach Themselves | Mashable - http://crowdspring.co/RrpmzV
Apple CEO Tim Cook Defends iPad Mini’s “Aggressive Pricing” - http://crowdspring.co/PUZSjn
Apple Shake-Up Signals Tim Cook Era | WSJ – http://crowdspring.co/Q6wTcq
I hope you enjoy these links! Please leave a comment and let me know what you liked/didn’t like.
