Twitter Link Roundup #72 – 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 one of 23 useless signs shown in a post you’ll find in the Random Fun section below.
Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups – http://bit.ly/leanpr
10 Common Small Business Mistakes & What You Can Learn From Them – http://bit.ly/gVIvOJ
Best Practices & Tips for Designing Awesome Restaurant Websites – http://bit.ly/h94W9W
crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: River Moon Coffee Roasting Corporation – http://bit.ly/hb3Y61
4 Mantras For Small Business Owners To Follow – http://bit.ly/eRCF0e
Possible tax relief for small businesses coming in the U.S. – http://on.wsj.com/epJ5vM
Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups – http://bit.ly/leanpr
The 6 Essential Steps to Writing a Killer Press Release – http://bit.ly/dT37cl
Seth Godin on being unreasonable and standing out from the crowd – http://bit.ly/gFKCrP
Top 7 U.S. cities catching entrepreneurial fewer – http://bit.ly/fsyGbf
Good overview of lean software development – http://bit.ly/gLam4w
What dressing up vacuum cleaners as people has to do with better engineering time estimates – http://bit.ly/hcxgY5
The Top 10 Best Ways to Fail as an Entrepreneur – http://bit.ly/hzIqlh
What to learn from Groupon’s whopping 50% rev share – http://bit.ly/fx4Amo
How to Turn Disaster Into Gold – http://bit.ly/eBvZhQ
Startups, Think Again: Writing Code Is Not Your Biggest Challenge – http://bit.ly/gKpMky
Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99? – http://bit.ly/gN9yqw
Good advice for entrepreneurs looking to get attention for their new startup – http://bit.ly/fPjqbe
Some good advice about hiring employees – http://bit.ly/h98YCI
Cried from laughing at this lean startup parody video – http://bit.ly/hxx8Ct
Thinking about getting an MBA? Here’s one point of view why you shouldn’t – http://econ.st/hVNPry
Four great examples of social innovation happening right now – http://bit.ly/hTzXZ0
iPadonia and the coming ad rebellion – http://bit.ly/gbsgJ3
Messaging Trust and the Decline of Peers – http://bit.ly/dRfLXZ
Interesting move by Blekko to ban content farm search results – http://tcrn.ch/iczadj
Facebook ad performance…horrific is putting it nicely – http://j.mp/gyzIir
LinkedIn demographics & stats (100+ million members!) – http://slidesha.re/e0Uv8a
Tax Talk for Online Freelancers – http://bit.ly/fxUt4f
The Art of the Design Critique – http://bit.ly/dRhdnD
Tips for Creatives to Succeed on crowdSPRING – http://bit.ly/hebg5B
The Price is Right: Breaking Down the Design Process – http://bit.ly/g8pbGW
Unusual and Creative T-shirt Designs – http://bit.ly/fEiVCB
Round-Up of Photoshop CS5 Tutorials – http://bit.ly/g00ABL
Eight Ways to Combine Typefaces – http://bit.ly/fMOST3
Interview with a crowdSPRING designer: 12 Questions: Meet Clara Garnier (México) – http://bit.ly/hFDqVY
50+ Cool Snowboard Designs – http://bit.ly/gJ3bA1
85 Creative Vector Illustrations – http://bit.ly/eInbkY
Russian sausage art – http://j.mp/aZB3r
Making It a Mobile Web App – http://bit.ly/fSZDL4
100+ Examples of Artistic & Creative Resume Designs – http://bit.ly/hmTGEK
Great slide deck on designing mobile experiences – http://slidesha.re/c7wEae
40 Must Learn Text Effect Tutorials in Illustrator – http://bit.ly/fOT9Ww
350+ Free Textures – http://bit.ly/hoiVbF
How to Do a Quality Check When Choosing Fonts – http://ow.ly/3KayE
50 Fresh and Awesome Free Fonts – http://bit.ly/dYRo6R
Old Video Games Ads – Top 55 – http://bit.ly/gw9uRd
A Quick Look into Black and White Typography – http://bit.ly/h0qfml
Infographic: The 50 Most Popular Typefaces in the World – http://ow.ly/3NMkA
Dispelling myths about design and creativity – http://bit.ly/hfeyRB
27 Creative Candles – http://bit.ly/gpbGs3
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
50 Fresh and Awesome Free Fonts – http://bit.ly/dYRo6R
How to Do a Quality Check When Choosing Fonts – http://ow.ly/3KayE
Best Practices & Tips for Designing Awesome Restaurant Websites – http://bit.ly/h94W9W
Call To Action Buttons and the Psychology of Color – http://ow.ly/3HtLB
50 Free Web UI, Mobile UI, Wireframe Kits And Source Files For Designers – http://bit.ly/fIRcYG
40 Detailed Examples of User Interface Design – http://bit.ly/hdyjAZ
Simple tips for improving web typography – http://is.gd/3SHNXO
25 Examples of Subscription Forms and Buttons in Web Design – http://bit.ly/gHMANW
60+ Nature Inspired Website Designs – http://bit.ly/gK9OZD
Hand Drawn Style in Web Design – 40 Excellent Examples – http://bit.ly/gL8Zus
Is crowdsourcing the next step in outsourcing or a new way to collaboratively engineer products? – http://bit.ly/h3B2HR
Tools to Help You Learn Copywriting (or Get Better at It) – http://bit.ly/hMzH5r
The 6 Essential Steps to Writing a Killer Press Release – http://bit.ly/dT37cl
American Book Review’s list of the 100 best first lines from fiction – http://j.mp/gME0eb
Fascinating interview with Isaac Asimon about creativity, education and science – http://bit.ly/eleWrm
Tips for Creatives to Succeed on crowdSPRING – http://bit.ly/hebg5B
It turns out that not everyone likes the CAPS LOCK key – http://bit.ly/f7TUbp
British Engineer Designs Own Heart Valve Implant, Saves Own Life – http://bit.ly/hpcxK8
Moderate aerobic exercise in older adults improves memory – http://tw.physorg.com/215711877
Interesting … An AI system that can hear what you’re typing – http://bit.ly/ghFOKj
Google’s Elemental API Periodic Table – http://tcrn.ch/h2BdMy
Laptop History in Photos – http://bit.ly/f3i48x
Excellent account of how the Internet grew the porn industry & now threatens to cripple it – http://bit.ly/haepvF
India is a remarkable country. Some great photos showing a few highlights – http://bit.ly/eFpiyE
Nicely detailed article about the key business visionaries at Google – http://bit.ly/gm2CGs
Remarkable storage growth numbers for Amazon’s S3 service – http://bit.ly/fM5M1I
Beethoven reimagined as modern jazz, priceless – http://j.mp/eZfCYz
If accurate, an interesting twist on the iPhone/AT&T exlcusivity deal & bad sign about iPhone’s future – http://bit.ly/hxqmqs
Excellent idea to change education paradigms in U.S. schools (No Right Brain Left Behind) – http://bit.ly/gqUNmT
Volunteers translate Egyptian phone messages in real-time http://bit.ly/glTJvv
23 Completely Useless Signs – http://bit.ly/eF1GI7
The best online ad placement ever? – http://bit.ly/ghMq4w
Main reason why husbands are encouraging their wives to use Facebook – http://abcn.ws/gnWgmT
Great news for vegetarians. Taco Bell doesn’t have beef in their beef. Go for it – http://huff.to/f2GDUc
I hope you enjoy these links! Please leave a comment and let me know what you liked/didn’t like.
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