Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’
The Work/Home Möbius Strip
Mike | January 21st, 2013Today is Sunday and, as is the case with most Sundays, I am working at home. Not a ton of work, mind you. I will probably put in 4-5 hours today: writing this post, updating BI data, checking in with customer service, and answering the emails that demand attention. I also was abe to cook [...]
12 Questions: Meet Ana Grigoriu (Germany)
Audree | December 11th, 2012In 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 [...]
10 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Standup Comics
Mike | December 10th, 2012Great entrepreneurs are great observers. They carefully monitor the competition, the market, their team, and their various stakeholders. Great entrepreneurs learn from the world around them and they never, ever stop learning. This is the latest in a series of posts, musing on what we can learn from the most unexpected of sources. Sure we [...]
The December cS Award and the November cS Award Winners!
Mike | December 7th, 2012Back in 2011, we announced a monthly cS Award to honor quality work by designers and writers in the crowdSPRING community. December cS Award This month we are hosting a project for the Writers in our community! No, you don’t have to be a professional writer to participate – in fact any Creative who has an [...]
Small Business and Startups: 3 Essentials for Customer Service
Mike | November 19th, 2012I had (another) bad customer service experience with an airline last week. I know – a shocker. Sometimes I start to think that poor service and unhappy customers are a requirement for the airline industry. That this is a part of meeting some unwritten baseline needed for any entrant in the space. Then I come [...]
Small Business and Startup Tips: Hire and be Human
Mike | November 12th, 2012Last week ago I discussed a great yiddish word in one of my posts and today I want to share another. This is a word many of you may already be familiar with, and that may even inspire some of you in how you live your life. The word is mensch and it describes a good [...]
The November cS Award and the October cS Award Winners!
Mike | November 6th, 2012Last summer, we announced that we would issue a monthly cS Award to honor quality work by designers and writers in the crowdSPRING community. November cS Award This month we are hosting another fun project! We need a new T-shirt designed for cS, and with the holidays on the horizon we figure we can get it [...]
Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2012 Version
Mike | November 5th, 2012Around this time last year I defined for you the Yiddish word ‘mishegoss,’ which many of you were familiar with in spite of never having heard the term before. Yiddish is just that way – it taps into certain archetypes in our consciousness and, as a result, a phrase that we might never have heard before [...]
Small Business and Startup Tips: Pricing and Analysis
Mike | October 22nd, 2012Periodically every business needs to take a fresh look at pricing their products or services. There are several basic questions that need to be asked, and then a great deal of work to analyze the current state of pricing data and then to forecast the impact of any change in pricing. First, you need to [...]
