Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’
Announcing The Very First cS Award!
Ross and Mike | July 5th, 2011Last month we announced that we would be issuing a monthly cS Award to honor quality work by designers and writers in the crowdSPRING community. The first award was to go the the designer or writer who was awarded at least one project during the month of June, and who had the highest average buyer score for [...]
America’s founding entrepreneurs: revolution at work
Mike | July 5th, 2011On this Independence Day, 2011 I have been thinking about the summer of ’76 and America’s Founding Fathers. Their importance to the world has been analyzed every way imaginable; thousands of books have been written about their efforts and accomplishments, and they are held up to generations as examples of great political and military leaders. [...]
The CLV three step: drive, convert, enrich.
Mike | June 27th, 2011In a post last week, Ross discussed the need to find a balance between driving traffic and conversion for web-based businesses. It’s a great video and a very valuable discussion of one critical issue of strategic emphasis that many web-based businesses grapple with. Ross’s overriding point was that a business should not choose between a [...]
Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand
Mike | June 20th, 2011In the world of startups and small business there are two basic kinds of company: those the media pays attention to, and all the rest. If your company has a compelling story, a unique product , or an interesting personality behind it you may be fortunate to leverage that advantage and convince a reporter to [...]
12 Questions: Meet Keith Woodruff (USA)
Audree | June 14th, 2011In 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 [...]
Entrepreneurship at its most basic
Mike | June 13th, 2011Greg Hartle is re-learning the hard way what it means to be an entrepreneur. A successful small businessman with a decade of experience, he set out this past winter to visit all 50 states, to interview 501 entrepreneurs from across the country and, at the same time,to reinvent his life from scratch. On January 5th, [...]
5 Tips for Entrepreneurs on maintaining your focus: checklists rock
Mike | May 17th, 2011As entrepreneurs and founders of businesses we have a great many balls in the air at any given time. The average day finds many of us actively managing a team, communicating with investors, raising funding, performing HR chores, recruiting, keeping the books, executing marketing plans, performing customer service, and taking out the trash. To accomplish [...]
12 Questions: Meet zaxgarner (USA)
Audree | May 11th, 2011In 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 [...]
5 Tips for Entrepreneurs: in praise of train schedules
Mike | May 10th, 2011There is a myth that has developed over the years about entrepreneurs and their legendary 20 hour days. Everyone knows that we eat all of our meals at the office, sleep under our desks, never see our families, and forgo friends and social lives. Well there is a certain truth to that, but the entrepreneurial [...]
Sweet Music Doc Straight Out of Austin
Bianca | May 2nd, 2011Echotone, is a stellar documentary covering life in the Live Music Capital of the World, also known as Austin, TX. As people flock to Austin to experience its eclectic music culture, it produces a catch-22 for those working artists and their new neighbors. Echotone showcases the fight between the preservation of the music scene and [...]
