Posts Tagged ‘fun facts’
Tips for small business: 7 biases that can effect your decision making
Mike | October 18th, 2010Einstein once said, “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” Common sense, Einstein was arguing, can often be the enemy of rationality, science, and fact-based decision-making. We are all guilty of this; every day our decisions are tinged by favoritism, rules of thumb, partiality, heuristics, predilection; call it what you will [...]
3 historical innovations and the businesses they birthed
Mike | October 6th, 2010Innovation has been a driver in business for just about as long as business has existed. From the invention of the wheel (and the first appearance of tire salesmen on cave wall paintings) all the way up to the modern web browser (and the appearance of flashing ad banners and obnoxious pop-ups) businesses large and [...]
5 historic billboard campaigns (or everything old is new again)!
Mike | September 20th, 2010Billboards and outdoor advertising have been around for almost 150 years now and in many ways are precursors to, and cousins of, today’s online campaigns, both paid and viral. Companies have been using techniques such as eye-catching design, creative content, and clever placement to create word-of-mouth and build buzz for their products dating back to [...]
I’m in Logo Love: Toblerone Logo Design
Audree | August 5th, 2010“I’m In Logo Love” is a new series on the crowdSPRING blog. Periodically, we’ll pick a logo we’d like to take home from a bar and tell you why. And if you think it’s a bit strange to have a crush on a cleverly designed logo, get in line – my mom has already lectured [...]
Friday Fun Facts – Traffic Jam!
Mike | May 1st, 2009As a small business startup we spend a great deal of time looking at and analyzing data to help us drive strategy, make adjustments, and better understand our customers. We try hard to not be robotic in our response to numbers, but rather to let them inform our decisions and our direction. Here is the [...]
Friday Fun Facts – Creatives gettin’ biz-ay
Mike | April 24th, 2009As a small business startup we spend a great deal of time looking at and analyzing data to help us drive strategy, make adjustments, and better understand our customers. We try hard to not be robotic in our response to numbers, but rather to let them inform our decisions and our direction. Here is the [...]
Friday Fun Facts – Dear crowdSPRING Buyer….
Mike | April 3rd, 2009As a small business startup we spend a great deal of time looking at and analyzing data to help us drive strategy, make adjustments, and better understand our customers. We try hard to not be robotic in our response to numbers, but rather to let them inform our decisions and our direction. Here is the [...]
