Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More
Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account, I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design, web design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!
The image above is taken in Takotna, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 9, 2011. The green in the sky is the aurora borealis. More phenomenal photos from 2011 are in the Other section below.
10 New Years Resolutions For Small Businesses and Startups – http://bit.ly/t7wmEP
Small Businesses and Startups: Worst. Advice. Ever. – http://bit.ly/v6SwXL
Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – http://t.co/qujdIQZk
Radio Still Good Advertising Option for Small Business – http://t.co/oVRqihB3
crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: CorpsAfrica – http://bit.ly/x2iA7L
The ideal product manager – http://perfor.ms/uK2qJu
Stop whining and start hiring remote workers – http://bit.ly/vviGal
Good suggestions on handling customer service questions and issues – http://sto.ly/whZCLX
crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Flightwise/ MyRadar Mobile Apps – http://t.co/5TTMqMLJ
crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: NinjaDog Concepts – http://t.co/JVMH0TfV
Small Businesses and Startups: Worst. Advice. Ever. – http://bit.ly/v6SwXL
Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not? – http://t.co/83e0h2kS
Mark Cuban on Why You Should Never Listen to Your Customers – http://t.co/b5DHvVmz
The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives – http://onforb.es/zZqYcZ
My advice to startups pitching the media – http://perfor.ms/vbXP8P
Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – http://t.co/qujdIQZk
Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – http://t.co/WzfBvutC
Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and beyond) – http://t.co/2Y3XJq2G
The ideal product manager – http://perfor.ms/uK2qJu
There’s Only One Thing In Life You Can Control: Your Own Effort – http://read.bi/u32aYq
CEC’s Startup Forecast – “Never been a better time to start a company in Chicago” – http://t.co/8FckJve9
Mocked And Misunderstood – http://t.co/ubJCMtdq
Experienced entrepreneurs preserve equity – http://perfor.ms/uquQlD
What It’s Like To Be An Entrepreneur – Eboo Patel – http://bit.ly/ynsVZA
Good suggestions on handling customer service questions and issues – http://sto.ly/whZCLX
Stop whining and start hiring remote workers – http://bit.ly/vviGal
10 New Years Resolutions For Small Businesses and Startups – http://bit.ly/t7wmEP
The State of Social Marketing 2011 – 2012 – http://t.co/38z8IOAc
Has Twitter caused journalism to turn narcissistic? – http://bit.ly/vod6qk
Advertising Isn’t Dead – The Creative Process Is – http://bit.ly/u34ztJ
Advertising Firms Need To Be Downsized Before They Become Too Dumb For Their Own Good – http://t.co/niRIhwhx
End of an Era: The Golden Age of Tech Blogging is Over – http://t.co/CvUPSIRf
SEO Pricing: 600+ Agencies Share Costs of Services & Pricing Models – http://mz.cm/yeySyi
How Google+ Is Changing the Web, Even Though No One Wants It To – http://bit.ly/zeoG6J
Mobile Users Split on Check-In Services – http://t.co/deg6RQp4
Social network addiction around the world (Israelis are the most addicted) – http://t.co/RAXUY6kd
So great to see such strong support for interesting KickStarter projects (espresso machine) – http://t.co/tx9eiUln
Strong and prompt response from FedEx – good to see – to the monitor throwing video – http://t.co/1xMPCASl
Good to see Yelp/BWM integration – but are we heading to app overload in cars? – http://t.co/Idyq5U4L
The media’s fixation on size (Google+ vs. Facebook) is misguided. Why do we continue to obsess about size? – http://bit.ly/tSXmCi
Last Collection Of Creative Ads For 2011 – http://t.co/nA8Drm2Y
45 Creative Alcohol Advertisements – http://t.co/aafNlnRe
65 Free Fonts for Graphic Designers – http://bit.ly/vUwZRj
Best Of 2011: 40 Detailed Photoshop Icon Design Tutorials – http://t.co/zhcReo9P
Top 50 Photoshop Tutorials of 2011 – http://t.co/54BJzrkP
35 Amazing Book Covers From 2011 – http://t.co/l05ClXha
50 Useful and Detailed Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials – http://t.co/x9XS0uFN
50 Excellent Text Effects Tutorials in Adobe Illustrator – http://t.co/EbSqm2Fb
Last Collection Of Creative Ads For 2011 – http://t.co/nA8Drm2Y
Best Of 2011: 70 Beautiful And High Quality Free Textures – http://t.co/aL3jtSd8
45 Creative Alcohol Advertisements – http://t.co/aafNlnRe
35+ Hilarious, Epic & Nerdy Print Poster Design Inspirations – http://bit.ly/sMrAlt
Freelacing vs Agency Life – http://t.co/twbVrxJd
Palette Trends of the 21st Century – http://t.co/6736ep9n
4 Simple Steps To Make Silhouettes Using Photoshop – http://t.co/8ngY2YwA
Background Pattern Design Trends And An Inspirational Showcase – http://t.co/FVfB4cSB
35 Beautiful Brochure Designs – http://bit.ly/uIg1Nx
25 Brilliant Sports Advertisements – http://bit.ly/xoiwEY
20 Creative & Wicked Awesome Print Music Poster Design Inspirations – http://t.co/DOxRBixE
Introduction To Designing For Windows Phone 7 And Metro – http://t.co/Ov6LyyK1
Mind-Bending Facts About Colour Perception – http://t.co/5OpJCIMl
25 Useful And Free Fonts To Download – http://t.co/0nqFzw60
5 Tools to Help You Identify any Font – http://t.co/qYSOf1qV
15+ Illustrator Tutorials on Retro Text Effects and Vintage Lettering – http://t.co/F3o3Nz7i
Cool business card designs – http://bit.ly/uGgTaC
60 Absolutely Stunning Typography Projects – http://bit.ly/tlzD61
10 Superb Wedding Invitation Ideas – http://t.co/D6cHlx4q
25 Must Have Social Media Icon Packs For Web Designers – http://t.co/I1Y8RR3a
25+ Resources for Starting a Freelance Photography Business – http://t.co/CtNi6VDf
30 Very Creative Business Cards Which Will Amaze You – http://bit.ly/yh7Lor
25 Groovy Cover Up Tattoos – http://t.co/fqdRpA5p
30 Unique Movie Poster DesignTutorials for Graphic Designers – http://bit.ly/vnu3XC
20 Useful Tools, Stencils and GUI Kits for Android Developers – http://bit.ly/s5Y7t6
Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – http://bit.ly/1ySfi
Legal Contracts for Graphic Designers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – http://bit.ly/XTLkS
65 Free Fonts for Graphic Designers – http://bit.ly/vUwZRj
25 Useful And Free Fonts To Download – http://t.co/0nqFzw60
Logo Design: Cats – http://bit.ly/vZFx4Y
40 Examples of Music Logo Design – http://bit.ly/rKFLSz
Showcase of Creative Logos – http://bit.ly/AAKxk6
21 Inspiring Custom Made Logos – http://t.co/Fdpvke2g
36 Restaurant and Food Logos to Increase Your Appetite – http://t.co/BLorQx4P
Logo Design: Numbers – http://t.co/WkGgoRm9
Faces – 22 Clever Logos That Inspire – http://t.co/G2NFJpUV
Doors and Windows – 20 Clever Logo Designs – http://t.co/5KCTKD7R
20 Artistic Logos Inspired by Line Art Technique! – http://t.co/XjSiTefa
Our 50 Favorite Web Developers Resources and Tools from 2011 – http://t.co/3mVDO9T0
The 50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011 – http://t.co/87YCktyM
Best Of 2011: Best Useful jQuery Plugins And Tutorials – http://t.co/Ar5RhpSq
50 Interesting Navigation Menus – http://t.co/P3gay1pj
10 Crimes a Web Designer can Commit on Call to Action Pages – http://t.co/kTKY28oH
44 Photoshop Web Design Layout Tutorials – http://t.co/sZ2cnL73
Line25 Sites of the Year: The Best Designs of 2011 – http://bit.ly/vJd3Q2
Web Design Trends in 2012 – http://t.co/xJpxU5MA
18 Useful Web Usability Testing Tools – http://bit.ly/vDgm1K
Usability Tips and Tools for the Visually Impaired on the Web – http://t.co/gKxWstzO
Web design predictions for 2012 – http://t.co/uNGmSsKG
40+ Fresh jQuery Image and Content Sliders Plugins – http://bit.ly/v72j5F
20+ Examples of Perfect Landing Page Design – http://t.co/6L2oH2Ge
Best practice in e-commerce design – http://t.co/Z0iklNMJ
Front-end Style Guides – http://t.co/iqxUaRtx
How To Create An Effective FAQ For Your Website – http://bit.ly/vZTrCf
6 Outstanding Wireframe Resources to Inspire Your Next Design – http://bit.ly/tMlz8b
30 Examples of Using Background Patterns in Web Design – http://bit.ly/uaRiOD
Freebie: Free Vector Web Icons (91 Icons) – http://bit.ly/w2rctu
Web Design Mistakes and How to Solve Them – http://bit.ly/vJcg0y
50 Rules for Dads of Daughters – http://bit.ly/xpaHV5
DSLR’s days are numbered. Great post about future of cameras – http://bit.ly/ADqmDx
The Funniest T-Shirt Designs of the Decade – http://t.co/x5TA06uP
War. Disaster. Death. Hope. The Year in Pictures: Some remarkable images – http://t.co/8bw7bVDp
The 50 funniest tweets of 2011- http://t.co/w2K8VLBW
Web helps level the field – http://t.co/Reqnh0mu
2011 tech highlights – from @waltmossberg – http://t.co/lEimgcGA
An Essay on Realistic Space Combat – http://t.co/yfLbLvb4
Microsoft done with CES after this year. Tech tradeshows days are numbered – http://t.co/9U1mLPT5
MIT begins offering “credential” for free online courses. This will shake up education – http://t.co/g9eaks9y
This will give you pause – income inequality in America visualized as physical map of NYC – http://t.co/ezHuA36U
Amazon Says Long Term And Means It – http://t.co/qIjWO2gC
The best engineering flow chart ever – http://t.co/Kf3QeVpm
The Butcher & Larder whole animal butcher shop in Chicago – http://t.co/2AQNcFA6
Nick Bilton proves FAA’s restrictions on electronics during take-off & landing not based on science – http://t.co/CztuVTPg
~$41 billion has been lost or is likely to go unspent in gift cards issued since 2005 – http://sto.ly/uKLhrn
For The 3d Week, Kindle (Incl. The Fire) Sales Have Surpassed 1 Million Per Week – http://t.co/fdp5wPOy
There are far too many writers – and that’s bad news for writers (except those at the top) – http://bit.ly/vShKq2
AI will change our relationship with tech – http://bbc.in/sL1yUH
This is wild. A contact microphone, a hard surface, and some software – http://youtu.be/erz-9f4M9B4
Fantasy vs reality – http://bit.ly/uwIgQS
I hope you enjoy these links! Please leave a comment and let me know what you liked/didn’t like.
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