Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’
Create Your Own Future
Ross | May 23rd, 2013Some people are stuck in the present and unable to move forward. Use the future to escape the present. Decide where you’d rather be.
12 Questions: Meet Moisés Ferreira (Brazil)
Audree | May 1st, 2013In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build [...]
Reputation and Community
Mike | April 29th, 2013A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about building relationships with your customers that are based on trust, loyalty, transparency, integrity, and honesty. While writing the post, I had in mind a project we have been working on at crowdSPRING for well over a year now. The team is really excited that in the next couple of [...]
10 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From High School Seniors
Mike | April 22nd, 2013I have written before about things entrepreneurs can learn from people who come from various walks of life. From athletes we can learn the value focus and training, from comics we learn about of risk-taking, from chefs we learn how to stay creativity under great stress, and from musicians we learn the importance of working [...]
Small Business and Startups: Cultivate Trust and Nurture Loyalty
Mike | April 15th, 2013Trust is a key for driver for your customers. Do they trust you to produce a great product? Do they trust you to deliver a reliable service? Do they trust you with their money and their time? Establishing trust with your customers takes time and consistency, but it also takes data and transparency. Companies rely [...]
Lean Business: Do Unto Others*
Mike | April 1st, 2013The golden rule of word-of-mouth marketing: Be nice to thine customers and, lo, they shall be nice to you in return. The mechanical nuts and bolts behind this idea, in social psychology terminology, is represented by the concept of reciprocity. In short it referes to how people respond to a positive action with another positive action. [...]
Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation
Mike | March 18th, 2013Our lease is up at the end of the year and Ross and I have been discussing our options. We love our office: it has all of the features we need, plus a great location, fantastic light, a dramatic view of the downtown skyline, and plenty of space. Problem is, truth be told, it probably [...]
12 Questions: Meet Sandie (USA)
Audree | February 6th, 2013In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build [...]
