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12 Questions: Meet Catherine Feeman-Fick (Wisconsin – USA)

In 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 ..

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12 Questions: Meet Emanuel Hărdăuț (Transylvania, Romania)

Small Business

The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Surviving The Startup Zombie Apocalypse

I’m a fan of The Walking Dead, a U.S. cable television series about surviving a zombie-infested world.

What can entrepreneurs learn from a television show that features mindless, reanimated corpses with an insatiable..

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12 Questions: Meet Bojan Bundalo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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Four Key Lessons For Entrepreneurs And Small Businesses From The World’s Best Brands

Over the past few years, I’ve shared lessons that entrepreneurs and small businesses can learn from the world’s best brands. For example, I wrote about five lessons small businesses and startups can learn from the ..

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12 Questions: Meet Nausika Georgakopoulou (Greece)

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The Secret To Content Marketing Success: Storytelling

Marketing is storytelling. Stories help shape beliefs and also help people remember the things you want them to remember. Authentic and compelling stories, told as part of your content marketing strategy, help build a brand..

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Small Business and Startups: 5 Marketing Myths

Marketing is simple right? For every dollar your company spends on it, you should see over a dollar in the sales generated in return. In other words as long as the ROI is positive any marketing effort can be considered ..

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Surprise Is One Of The Most Powerful Small Business Marketing Tools

It has always been difficult to stand-out in a crowded market. When the products you sell are also available from thousands of other vendors at the same or lower prices, how do you differentiate your business and convin..

Small Business

How To Avoid Bad Advice That Can Kill Your Small Business Or Startup

In a recent post, Ev Williams (co-founder of Twitter, Blogger and Medium), suggested that all startup advice is wrong (presumably, including his own post on this subject). Ev pointed out that what works for one entrepr..

Small Business

How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer Without Losing Your Shirt

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Most business owners dread having to talk with and hire lawyers. Some fear they’ll end up paying exorbitant legal fees or that they’ll receive bad advice that will destroy their business (if you’ve wa..

Small Business

Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet

“Model” is a verb. It traditionally means to fashion or shapes a three-dimensional out of a material such as clay or wax. In business, the verb usually refers to tools created to make projections of sales or profits. Still,..

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Brand Identity

Cultivating a consistent, authentic brand never ends. But, we’ve gathered all the resources you need to do it right.

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Design

Good design is good business. Check out these actionable insights on graphic, web, print, product, and packaging design.

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Entrepreneurship

Leadership, inspiration, and business know-how. The actionable insight entrepreneurs need to succeed.

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Marketing

Reach more customers and expand your market with actionable tactics, strategies, insights, and resources.

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Small Business

Small businesses do it all with less. Our marketing tips, tools, and growth strategies will help you run your business better.

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Agencies

Marketing techniques, trends, tools, and more to help modern agencies grow and thrive.

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Nonprofits

Nonprofits must accomplish a lot, with less. Our tips, tools, and insights will help you launch and grow your nonprofit.

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Musings on a variety of topics related to small businesses, startups, design, and marketing.

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