Twitter Link Roundup #170 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More Ross | March 15th, 2013
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 chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. For a fun look at many other interesting facts, see the Other section below – 30 charts you didn’t know you needed.
Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – http://crowdspring.co/YndMsm
Crowdsourced Workforces Rising | Xconomy – http://crowdspring.co/12P0SM6
Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money? – http://crowdspring.co/YpyyHC
Understanding the Consequences of the Business Decisions You Fudge On – http://crowdspring.co/Y4yrFg
The science of how temperature and lighting impacts our productivity | The Buffer – http://crowdspring.co/YadDMF
Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – http://crowdspring.co/Yp0ajb
Good, in-depth look at the economics of food trucks – http://crowdspring.co/Yu9PoH
How You Can Benefit from All Your Stress | Heidi Grant Halvorson – Harvard Business Review – http://crowdspring.co/YtpRzc
Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money? – http://crowdspring.co/YpyyHC
Understanding the Consequences of the Business Decisions You Fudge On – http://crowdspring.co/Y4yrFg
Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley | The Verge – http://crowdspring.co/YHFQcE
The science of how temperature and lighting impacts our productivity | The Buffer – http://crowdspring.co/YadDMF
Launch with Bugs | Scott Meade – http://crowdspring.co/Yl5kgn
Why Branding Is the Next Essential Startup Competency – http://crowdspring.co/YcEc3Q
5 Things Great Leaders No Longer Do – http://crowdspring.co/YcEFTK
Crowdsourced Workforces Rising | Xconomy – http://crowdspring.co/12P0SM6
1:1 criticism ratio | 37signals blog – http://crowdspring.co/Yp0M8x
Embrace Work-Life Imbalance | Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic – HBR – http://crowdspring.co/YcEiZe
Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – http://crowdspring.co/Yp0ajb
Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – http://crowdspring.co/YndMsm
Greed is Groupon: can anyone save the company from itself? | The Verge – http://crowdspring.co/Ya4rb5
I bet you over-engineered your startup – http://crowdspring.co/16mNUnO
Good, in-depth look at the economics of food trucks – http://crowdspring.co/Yu9PoH
Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks | TechCrunch – http://crowdspring.co/Yuauqd
What Most Businesses Forget About Customer Service | Overit Blog – by Lisa Barone – http://crowdspring.co/YtrtZS
How did Internet Explorer get to be so bad (relative to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox)? | Quora – http://crowdspring.co/YadRn5
How to Be Happy: An Entrepreneur’s Perspective | Forbes – http://crowdspring.co/Yqfpp8
Marc Andreessen: Not every startup should be a Lean Startup or embrace the pivot | Gigaom – http://crowdspring.co/YbPh5a
How Solo Founders Beat The Odds and Get Into Top Accelerators | WSJ – http://crowdspring.co/Y8QnPl
Culture Code: Creating A Company YOU Love | by Dharmesh Shah – http://crowdspring.co/YcSzEl
How You Can Benefit from All Your Stress | Heidi Grant Halvorson – Harvard Business Review – http://crowdspring.co/YtpRzc
Working While You Sleep | Dave Trott’s Blog – http://crowdspring.co/YnTSNT
Remain Teachable – http://crowdspring.co/WlhBlc
Seth’s Blog: “You’ve got ping, but they’ve got no pong” – http://crowdspring.co/YsAKkU
Steve Jobs Had It Wrong: Why You Should Look To Consumers For Product Innovation | Co.Create – http://crowdspring.co/YnUbIn
Zombie Startups | Danielle Morrill – http://crowdspring.co/Y4xwVp
An Entrepreneur’s “Stop Doing” List | Inc – http://crowdspring.co/12MQxQW
Google Study Says Mobile Searchers Act Quickly, With 55 Percent Of Conversions In The First Hour | TechCrunch – http://crowdspring.co/Yaeehv
The Virtues and Opportunities in Being #2 | saastr – http://crowdspring.co/YcWBN1
“How an online collaborative design process helped Ineke create packaging for its fragrance launches in record time.” http://crowdspring.co/YsaLKj
“Silicon Valley loves to talk big about innovation; it’s just not as good at following through.” – http://crowdspring.co/Y4wZmk
Being a visionary is a sucker’s bet – http://crowdspring.co/Y4wGYQ
Plenty of opportunities left for subscription based online services – http://crowdspring.co/YcRrAw
What to do when you hire someone better than yourself…. | Tom Tancredi – http://crowdspring.co/Znqrjf
Vinod Khosla To Entrepreneurs: Venture Capitalists Are Not Your Friends | Forbes – http://crowdspring.co/Y4wQPQ
Stop Reinventing Disruption | Maxwell Wessel-Harvard Business Review – http://crowdspring.co/ZmjdMb
Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money? – http://crowdspring.co/YpyyHC
The real reason why ebay ads don’t work – http://crowdspring.co/Yc85OK
Facebook Newsfeed Advertising: Why We Won’t Do That Again | MarketingProfs – http://crowdspring.co/Ya3nnR
Imagining a World Without Cookies | Digiday – http://crowdspring.co/12JjJbl
Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks | TechCrunch – http://crowdspring.co/Yuauqd
Google Study Says Mobile Searchers Act Quickly, With 55 Percent Of Conversions In The First Hour | TechCrunch – http://crowdspring.co/Yaeehv
ViralSearch: Identifying and Visualizing Viral Content – http://crowdspring.co/YahXLR
Steve Jobs Had It Wrong: Why You Should Look To Consumers For Product Innovation | Co.Create – http://crowdspring.co/YnUbIn
5 Content Marketing Mistakes that Even the Pros Make – http://crowdspring.co/YcE5Ft
40+ humorous print ads | Webdesigner Depot – http://crowdspring.co/Yd8SB0
Did eBay Just Prove That Paid Search Ads Don’t Work? | Ray Fisman-Harvard Business Review – http://crowdspring.co/12JrKgB
Design Trends 2013 – Flat and Minimal | Abduzeedo – http://crowdspring.co/VHNIeT
Photoshop add-ons you should be using – http://crowdspring.co/YcEpnR
25 Free Dirty Fonts | TutorialFreakz – http://crowdspring.co/Z1WXHw
Basic Rules to Design a Black and White QR Code – http://crowdspring.co/YnUtlu
20 Free High Quality Vintage Texture Packs – http://crowdspring.co/Yd3cqH
Eye-Catching Red Business Card Designs – http://crowdspring.co/Yd4vWP
20 Mouthwatering Ideas for Music Cake Designs – http://crowdspring.co/Ydaqeh
30 Beautiful Examples Of Typography Designs | NaughtyDesigner – http://crowdspring.co/Yda2N9
44 Incredible Sand Sculptures That Make You Say WOW | InstantShift – http://crowdspring.co/Y4DXI4
30 Free Clean Fonts – http://crowdspring.co/Y4DINc
40+ humorous print ads | Webdesigner Depot – http://crowdspring.co/Yd8SB0
50 best infographics designs inspirations | web3mantra – http://crowdspring.co/Yd9hUh
40+ Most Creative Food Trucks | 1 Design Per Day – http://crowdspring.co/Y4E4n8
The science of how temperature and lighting impacts our productivity | The Buffer – http://crowdspring.co/YadDMF
30 High Quality Free Bokeh Textures – http://crowdspring.co/Y4E6eK
Overcome Designer’s Block: Tips and Tricks | Designmodo – http://crowdspring.co/Yd8WRq
30 Latest Designs of Business Cards | Photography Heat – http://crowdspring.co/YdaevE
Cutting Edge CSS3 Typography Techniques – http://crowdspring.co/Yd9syL
Branding identity design inspiration | TN Graphic – http://crowdspring.co/Yd9dUs
14 New Free Fonts – http://crowdspring.co/Yd4eTQ
10 More Examples of Great Typography – http://crowdspring.co/Yd4OB0
Great New Typography Design Inspiration – 51 Examples – http://crowdspring.co/Yd9ner
25 Sustainable Green Business Card Samples for Inspiration – http://crowdspring.co/Y4E5Hy
Typography Best Trendy In 2013 | Grafix Designs – http://crowdspring.co/Yd47Yf
25 Cute Pink Business Cards Collection | NaughtyDesigner – http://crowdspring.co/Y4B2z3
Awesome Wedding Invitations | Abduzeedo – http://crowdspring.co/Yd4qSU
30 Wickedly Fantastic Snowboard Designs – http://crowdspring.co/Yd4Atv
30 Charts You Didn’t Know You Needed – http://crowdspring.co/Zsfywp
Designer Toolbox: 11 Free Icon Sets | DesignWoop – http://crowdspring.co/Yd3Ww7
29 Brochure Design Collection inspiration – http://crowdspring.co/Yd3u0Q
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
30+ Cute Food Business Logos – http://crowdspring.co/Y4ATM5
30 Free Clean Fonts – http://crowdspring.co/Y4DINc
Branding identity design inspiration | TN Graphic – http://crowdspring.co/Yd9dUs
14 New Free Fonts – http://crowdspring.co/Yd4eTQ
40 Brilliant Number themed Logo Design examples for your inspiration – http://crowdspring.co/Ydalr2
The Five Worst UX Mistakes Websites Make | UX Magazine – http://crowdspring.co/Yd4Kkw
Design for People, Not Interfaces | Design Shack – http://crowdspring.co/Y4BBsR
20 Awesome E-Commerce Websites | Inspihive – http://crowdspring.co/Z1X7P2
50 Inspiring Light Effect in Web Design – http://crowdspring.co/YnUQME
Search with Filters Responsive Design Pattern | CSS-Tricks – http://crowdspring.co/Y4BbTe
35 Fresh CSS3 Tutorials and Techniques – http://crowdspring.co/Y4BjSD
Inside the New York Times’ web redesign | The Verge – http://crowdspring.co/Yai4XR
38 Fresh jQuery Plugins for Web Developers | Splashnology – http://crowdspring.co/Y4DNk4
Design Trends 2013 – Flat and Minimal | Abduzeedo – http://crowdspring.co/VHNIeT
A Beginner’s Guide to Mobile Responsive Design | Copyblogger – http://crowdspring.co/Yd3pdF
50 HTML5 Web Design Examples For Inspiration – http://crowdspring.co/Y4DJRa
20 Free High Quality Vintage Texture Packs – http://crowdspring.co/Yd3cqH
Designer Toolbox: 11 Free Icon Sets | DesignWoop – http://crowdspring.co/Yd3Ww7
Inside TED: the smartest bubble in the world | The Verge – http://crowdspring.co/YMyPax
7 Famous Musicians Who Stole Some of Their Biggest Hits – http://crowdspring.co/Yq6tDo
Inside Google Street View: From Larry Page’s Car To The Depths Of The Grand Canyon – http://crowdspring.co/YIWsRq
30 Charts You Didn’t Know You Needed – http://crowdspring.co/Zsfywp
J.C. Penney Desperately Needs a Strategy | Roger Martin-Harvard Business Review – http://crowdspring.co/Yl3lsb
Google Launches Help Center For Hacked Sites | Search Engine Land – http://crowdspring.co/YqfRDL
“Real U.S. home price appreciation from 1890 to 1990 was just about 0 percent.” – http://crowdspring.co/YYD9R3
Patient has 75 per cent of his skull replaced by 3DD-printed implant – http://crowdspring.co/YIyV38
I hope you enjoy these links! Please leave a comment and let me know what you liked/didn’t like.
