Twitter Link Roundup #158 – 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 graphic above shows the average age at which people reach the lowest point of happiness in their lives. The substantial age differences between countries are very interesting.
10 Tips To Help You Build a Successful Small Business Brand | Duct Tape Marketing – http://crowdspring.co/TdLz7o
Best Collaboration Tools For Remote Teams – http://crowdspring.co/T64Ojg
The Science of Persuasion: How To Persuade Others To Do What You Want – http://crowdspring.co/ShU8Bz
7 Web Productivity Tools That’ll Maximize Your Efficiency | Forbes – http://crowdspring.co/T94qRb
crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: miiCard | crowdSPRING Blog – http://crowdspring.co/12m0lxe
Focus on Customers not Competitors – http://crowdspring.co/RWo0mS
Losers exist. Don’t hire them | Pando Daily – http://crowdspring.co/T9w1Bx
Your Competition is Never “No One” – http://crowdspring.co/SdzwtW
10 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Standup Comics – http://crowdspring.co/Z52JZX
Best Collaboration Tools For Remote Teams – http://crowdspring.co/T64Ojg
New study on companies worth $100M+ shows how much of a lie the Web 2.0 fad was | Pando Daily – http://crowdspring.co/RKrvfO
Vision | Jordan Cooper’s Blog – http://crowdspring.co/SGNcKR
Vision vs. Pivot | QUIBB – http://crowdspring.co/RKpG2x
New Research: The Skills That Make an Entrepreneur – Bill J. Bonnstetter | Harvard Business Review – http://crowdspring.co/SOaK0v
The Science of Persuasion: How To Persuade Others To Do What You Want – http://crowdspring.co/ShU8Bz
How I negotiated my startup compensation – http://crowdspring.co/T1CRcv
Understanding Instagram and why Flickr might just have a chance | Gigaom – http://crowdspring.co/TdRk56
Focus on Customers not Competitors – http://crowdspring.co/RWo0mS
Some Quick Sage Advice for Young Employees Early in Their Careers – http://crowdspring.co/SNbF1a
Launch Early, Launch Simple and Test | WSJ – http://crowdspring.co/SLn6Gw
Your Competition is Never “No One” – http://crowdspring.co/SdzwtW
I don’t care about crowded markets | by StartupCFO : Mark MacLeod – http://crowdspring.co/Ta0H5D
Be yourself. Abnormal people create abnormal returns – http://crowdspring.co/SjIMgp
The History Of LeanStartup (and how to make sense of it all) | SaintSal – http://crowdspring.co/RWn0yZ
Does Tech Create Jobs Around the U.S.? Maps And Graphs And Charts, Oh My! | TechCrunch – http://crowdspring.co/RKsvAP
Nine Ways Successful People Defeat Stress | Heidi Grant Halvorson -Harvard Business Review – http://crowdspring.co/TcTAJS
7 Web Productivity Tools That’ll Maximize Your Efficiency | Forbes – http://crowdspring.co/T94qRb
7 Tips For Getting Acquired – http://crowdspring.co/S0SR1n
Startups Cannot Afford to Have Indispensable Employees (and not for the reason you think) | Rand’s Blog – http://crowdspring.co/Tbkm5h
How Your Work Environment Affects Your Creativity | Clarity Blog – http://crowdspring.co/S4aflT
20 Tech Trends That Will Define 2013, Selected By Frog|Co.Design – http://crowdspring.co/TdR1qM
CEO Brian Chesky Says Airbnb Will Be Filling More Room Nights Than All Hilton Hotels By The End Of 2012 – http://crowdspring.co/Ta13cL
Fortune Exclusive: Larry Page on Google | Fortune Tech – http://crowdspring.co/T9yRXd
In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again | Businessweek – http://crowdspring.co/SKwx9b
Scaling Support for 2 Million Users | MailChimp Blog – http://crowdspring.co/RKppNb
Great piece by Jon Morris in Inc magazine on building your business team – http://crowdspring.co/T1CsGU
The Paradox Of VC Seed Investing | TechCrunch – http://crowdspring.co/SKwoTn
Ron Conway steps back as Y Combinator cuts team funding – http://crowdspring.co/Tadd5n
Netflix Rival Redbox Instant By Verizon Movie Service Ready To Launch | AllThingsD – http://crowdspring.co/SdBiLJ
Losers exist. Don’t hire them | Pando Daily – http://crowdspring.co/T9w1Bx
5 Leadership Lessons From Tim Cook | Business Insider – http://crowdspring.co/SKuRwu
Customer Service on Twitter: Top Brands Respond To Only 14% Of Tweets | The Realtime Report – http://crowdspring.co/S6Rbni
Inside the IPO pipeline: It’s all B2B, all of the time | GeekWire – http://crowdspring.co/SGLnxF
Ask any entrepreneur: The freelance economy is a sucker’s game – http://crowdspring.co/SLmP6u
Five UX Research Pitfalls from cofounder of Meebo – http://crowdspring.co/Se69I2
Everything is my fault | Derek Sivers – http://crowdspring.co/T644uk
Inside the Elephant Room at Kayak | Businessweek – http://crowdspring.co/SOfxyV
The evolution of culture at a startup – http://crowdspring.co/S4aBJx
Peter Thiel’s Unorthodox Management Philosophy of Extreme Focus | iDoneThis blog – http://crowdspring.co/SGLCJ8
Netflix Gets Warning Over Facebook Post | Business Insider – http://crowdspring.co/RKodct
Peter Thiel on The Future of Legal Technology – http://crowdspring.co/TK2FbV
Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do | Fortune Tech – http://crowdspring.co/RKA1vx
The Era Of Easy Riches In Mobile Apps Is Over | ReadWrite – http://crowdspring.co/RLecMb
Webbmedia Group 2013 Tech Trends – http://crowdspring.co/SLmYaf
Six Social Media Trends for 2012 David Armano |Harvard Business Review – http://crowdspring.co/Ta3qw3
The Can’t-Miss Social Media Trends For 2013 | Fast Company – http://crowdspring.co/SdKVdn
A Rant on Why I Disagree with so many Blogging and Content Marketing Experts – http://crowdspring.co/RHUnFK
Customer Service on Twitter: Top Brands Respond To Only 14% Of Tweets | The Realtime Report – http://crowdspring.co/S6Rbni
The Science of Persuasion: How To Persuade Others To Do What You Want – http://crowdspring.co/ShU8Bz
The Biggest Disruptions To Hit The Ad Industry In 2013 | Forbes – http://crowdspring.co/T63Tzf
Why I hate ‘Content Marketing’ and ‘Blogger Outreach | Forbes – http://crowdspring.co/11YP9r8
Mobile SEO Is Not A Myth: 8 Popular Claims Refuted | Search Engine Land – http://crowdspring.co/SOeajP
Great Marketing Is Utilitarian – http://crowdspring.co/VuKnva
Best Free Fonts of 2012 – http://crowdspring.co/RWC1km
96 alternatives to Helvetica – http://crowdspring.co/ULamgM
Buttons and Badges – 40 Tutorials to Help you Create One| Dzineblog360 – http://crowdspring.co/SLpsp1
Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – 20 Cartoon Characters – http://crowdspring.co/RWDh79
15 Awesome Examples Of Brochure Designs | Inspihive – http://crowdspring.co/RWDozx
500 + High Quality Ink and Watercolor Brushes For Photoshop | Design Inspiration – http://crowdspring.co/RWC5AC
50+ Impressive and Inspirational Print Designs | GoMediaZineGoMediaZine – http://crowdspring.co/RWxOwZ
Surprises when Designing an iPhone App | Jack Groetzinger – http://crowdspring.co/SibuhD
A Showcase of Beautifully Designed Business Cards | Designing Mall – http://crowdspring.co/SLsGbW
20 Beautiful Photoshop Tutorials of 2012 | LuckyWP – http://crowdspring.co/SLsDgz
7 Web Productivity Tools That’ll Maximize Your Efficiency | Forbes – http://crowdspring.co/T94qRb
25 Amazing Examples Of Typography Designs | TutorialFreakz – http://crowdspring.co/RWwbzy
25 Beautiful Nature Inspired Logos | TutorialFreakz – http://crowdspring.co/RWD3g9
23 Creative Business Card Designs | mameara – http://crowdspring.co/SLszgC
The Latest And Best Looking Fonts You Could Download And Use – http://crowdspring.co/RWCdjB
Free Vintage Paper Sleeves Textures – http://crowdspring.co/RWyJh0
A Collection of Vibrant Pink Business Cards | Graphic Design Inspiration Blog – http://crowdspring.co/RWxyOC
Interview with a crowdSPRING designer … 12 Questions: Meet Ana Grigoriu (Germany) – http://crowdspring.co/T5L27C
Free Sand Textures | TutorialFreakz – http://crowdspring.co/SLr7L9
Time to Look At Only the Best Brochure Designs | Dzineblog360 – http://crowdspring.co/SLqjpC
There Is No Getting Round These 40 Inescapable Fonts In 2013 – | noupe – http://crowdspring.co/RWvpSY
Design Principles: Part One | Creative Beacon – http://crowdspring.co/RWwV7A
Free Paper Seamless Patterns | Webdesigner Lab – http://crowdspring.co/SLpaOP
20 Effective and Amazing Ad Campaigns | PelFusion – http://crowdspring.co/RWveao
Amazing and free Resourceful Fonts For Designers | Dzinepress – http://crowdspring.co/SLp4H3
The December $1,000 cS Award and the November $1,000 cS Award Winners! – http://crowdspring.co/RHUJMB
Creative idea rethinking the lockscreen on the iPhone … Rethinking the Lockscreen | The Verge – http://crowdspring.co/RHSj0g
Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to 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
Best Free Fonts of 2012 – http://crowdspring.co/RWC1km
62 Branding Identity And Logo Designs – http://crowdspring.co/SLsIk4
Showcase of Awesome Branding Collections | Front-end Magazine – http://crowdspring.co/SLpZHq
The Latest And Best Looking Fonts You Could Download And Use – http://crowdspring.co/RWCdjB
20+ Beautiful Christmas Logos | TutorialFreakz – http://crowdspring.co/SLrBRq
96 alternatives to Helvetica – http://crowdspring.co/ULamgM
Amazing and free Resourceful Fonts For Designers | Dzinepress – http://crowdspring.co/SLp4H3
There Is No Getting Round These 40 Inescapable Fonts In 2013 – | noupe – http://crowdspring.co/RWvpSY
Five UX Research Pitfalls from cofounder of Meebo – http://crowdspring.co/Se69I2
Restaurant Web Designs: 40 Yummy Cafe & Restaurant Websites and Trends | DesignModo – http://crowdspring.co/RWuH8o
10 Must-Have User Interface Design Tools – http://crowdspring.co/SLrtS4
25 A Must-Use Free Responsive Image Sliders | Web Design Habits – http://crowdspring.co/RWv3vB
Huge Collection of Blue Website Designs | Graphic Design Inspiration Blog – http://crowdspring.co/SLsPw2
300 Beautiful Icons For Web and User Interface Designers | Graphic Design Junction – http://crowdspring.co/SLsMR2
Websites Design for Mobile Applications: Trends and Examples | DesignModo – http://crowdspring.co/SLsAkA
The Significance of Warm and Cool Colors in Web Design – http://crowdspring.co/SLr9Th
Best Free UI PSDs of 2012 – http://crowdspring.co/RWxnTu
27 Classic Examples of Retro and Vintage in Web Design – http://crowdspring.co/SLq79R
Stop designing for screen width, design for content | Webdesigner Depot – http://crowdspring.co/SKwla1
50 User Experience Best Practices – http://crowdspring.co/RWpuNS
The average age at which people reach the lowest point of happiness in various countries – http://crowdspring.co/ScPK6Q
20 Tech Trends That Will Define 2013, Selected By Frog|Co.Design – http://crowdspring.co/TdR1qM
Animal mating habits can be pretty strange – http://crowdspring.co/Sdrph8
I quit Twitter for a month and it completely changed my thinking about mostly everything – http://crowdspring.co/RTY9vH
Top 10 Everything of 2012 – http://crowdspring.co/TdP4ut
The power of ignoring mainstream news – http://crowdspring.co/SGOYvH
Best Buy Can’t Match Amazon’s Prices, and Shouldn’t Try | HBR – http://crowdspring.co/SLZ6TZ
I hope you enjoy these links! Please leave a comment and let me know what you liked/didn’t like.
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