Stand Out Blog

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1. Other

12 Questions: Meet Cyrene Quiamco (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. Pla..

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1. Other

A New Perspective on Creativity

In 2009, Mike and I spoke at a Chicago Convergence conference about creativity. In our presentation- A New Perspective on Creativity – we talked about the democratization and evolution of the creative industries. We believe..

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1. Other

Interview with crowdSPRING (by Tim Jahn)

A few days ago, Tim Jahn of Beyond the Pedway spent the morning talking with us about crowdSPRING, crowdsourcing, chia Lincoln (see the video!), and our community. Tim did a very nice job editing – here’s a concise version ..

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1. Entrepreneurship

Leadership Is Not Management (but you need both)

Discover your unique leadership style. Unlock your potential with our free quiz!

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker

Many confuse leadership and management. They are not the same. However, successful businesses must have strong l..

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1. Other

Book Review: Twitterville by Shel Israel

Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods, by Shel Israel, is different from the many Twitter books that have been published since 2007. This difference makes Twitterville a must read for a..

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1. Marketing

Is Your Marketing Tail Wagging The Dog?

A few days ago, I listened to a radio interview of Andre Agassi – widely considered one of the greatest tennis players ever. When Agassi started playing professionally, he ran 5 miles every day to stay in peak condition. Wh..

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1. Small Business

Small Business Legal Issues: Trade Names, Logos and Trademark Law

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If you’re an experienced entrepreneur or business owner, you already know that protecting your brand is important to building your business and maintaining your customers’ trust.

If you’re a first-time ..

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1. Small Business

Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 1)

You have a great idea, a viable business model, and investors lined up. Now, you need to build your website. You’ll likely start by hiring a consultant or consulting firm. Consultants can be valuable resources, and good rel..

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1. Marketing

10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM Marketing Tips

crowdSPRING is a small company (our team is 10 people). For a small company, efforts spent on one marketing initiative typically detract from other marketing initiatives. Entrepreneurs and small businesses often ask us abou..

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1. Marketing

5 Things Your Small Business Should Do Today To Increase Profits

I never fully understood the challenges of operating a small business until co-founding crowdSPRING. There’s a lot to do, but so little time to accomplish everything.

Here are five practical tips from my own experience w..

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1. Entrepreneurship

Start-Up Tip: Leadership Is Not Management

Discover your unique leadership style. Unlock your potential with our free quiz!

In the book Tribes by Seth Godin, Godin suggests that anyone, anywhere can be a leader. The one thing holding most people back is the fear of failure.

Tribes is about choosing to lead or not to lead a g..

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1. Nonprofits

crowdSPRING Community Gives Back – In Our Own Backyard

Give Back is the crowdSPRING community’s way of helping worthy non-profit and charity causes in need. Creatives in the crowdSPRING community have agreed that for these special projects, no monetary awards will be given. cro..