Resources
New SEO Starter Guide From Google
Ross | October 6th, 2010Google’s revenue from adwords in 2009 was USD$23 billion. While adwords can be part of a strong small business marketing strategy, most startups and small businesses can’t afford to pay much for traffic. There are excellent alternatives, including search engine optimization (SEO). A few years ago, Google released a very useful search engine optimization starter [...]
Free resources for small businesses from Google
Ross | September 21st, 2010Google has many terrific free resources for small businesses. Below, we summarize our six favorite free resources for small business from Google. In each case, we describe the resource, help you understand why you should consider using it, and offer tips on using with links to additional information if you’d like to read more about [...]
Tips for writing with teams: 5 great collaboration tools (not to mention the Declaration of Independence)
Mike | July 6th, 2010In high school we are taught that “writing means revising.” When working with teams, it is critical that the revision process be as simple and streamlined as possible. Here’s what Wikipedia says about the process: “In a true collaborative environment, each contributor has an almost equal ability to add, edit, and remove text. The writing [...]
Crowdsourced Writing Projects on crowdSPRING
Ross and Mike | February 10th, 2010“Write without pay until someone offers to pay” – Mark Twain Since May 2008, the crowdSPRING community (now over 50,000 creatives, from 170+ countries!) has helped thousands of entrepreneurs, small businesses, startups, agencies, and Brands (from over 70 countries), with graphic, website, and industrial design projects. We’ve paid millions of dollars to designers and want [...]
New Features for Buyers and Creatives
Ross and Mike | December 21st, 2009Last week, after many months of development during 2009, we released 100% new software code for crowdspring.com. While rewriting the code that powers our site, we made a number of improvements – for both buyers and creatives. Here’s a list of those improvements and a brief description of each: Improvements for Buyers Ability to save [...]
Dear Buyer (redux), or 4 tips for posting and managing your crowdSPRING project
Mike | November 16th, 2009Seven months ago I wrote a post and shared some data which I hoped would help crowdSPRING Buyers to find success and happiness with their projects on the site (well maybe not happiness, but you get my drift). Well, since then we have had more than 5,800 new Buyers registered, had over 336,000 more entries [...]
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