crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 8, 2011

It’s not easy being lean – [link]. crowdSPRING to Create a New Logo for UN Population Fund’s Worldwide 7 Billion Actions Campaign – [link]. Why the United Nations is turning to crowdsourcing to launch its ’7 Billion Actions’ campaign – [link]. .&# -Jeff Bezos [link]. You don’t know the basics.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups – [link]. SPEC Campaign [link]. Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link]. Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. There is no “big break” Not in comedy, and not in startups – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

We write often about small businesses and startups and lean approaches to marketing and other business functions. If you are going the build-it-yourself approach careful use of social media tools, public relations, and other word-of-mouth tactics can help you to attract the right workers to participate.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

The image above is an ad created by TBWA for Moustaches Make A Difference – a campaign to raise support for prostate cancer research. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. Who’s Next? – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 31, 2011

One of the least expensive and most effective ways that small businesses can grow is through the strategic application of public relations. You should determine exactly what it is you are trying to accomplish through public relations efforts and then measure your progress towards that goal. 2,500 Twitter followers?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Crowd funding part 2: Creating a successful campaign – [link]. Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business – [link]. Ten Ways to Find Your Center of Gravity – [link]. Good post about the pitfalls of code refactoring for startups – [link]. Facebook comments: Pros and cons for business – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 12, 2013

Years ago, however, the concept of integration applied mainly to consistency in branding elements and a unified message in advertising, public relations and sales promotion. Your PPC campaigns drive conversion testing as well as content creation. Your public relations supports SEO and content efforts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link]. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link]. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link]. Ad Nauseum Leadership: Use Repetition to Reiterate What’s Important – [link]. Who says startups are easy | Om Malik – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., Stay tuned.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Search engine marketing is a tactic that is perfect for a lean, iterative approach to marketing. For instance, if you have a simple goal of driving additional traffic to your site it is easy to measure the results (and cost) of the SEM campaign. Here is a short tutorial for getting your Facebook campaign going: Set goals.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

To help businesses with their online and offline advertising campaigns. Public relations consulting. Passive income can be handy for bolstering your bottom line and an important safety net for lean seasons. Public Relations Society of America. Every business needs accounting. Advertising consulting.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 17, 2012

Make sure that you make your posts easily linkable; share them on your Facebook, tweet them out to your follower, use a sharebar or other tool to make sharing a one-click proposition for your readers, and promote your posts via other pages on your site or in your email campaigns. Related posts: Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Last week I wrote about some ways that not-for-profits could leverage the concepts of lean marketing. The non-profit benefits from increased promotion to a larger audience, and the small business can benefit from positive public relations, stronger audience engagement, and marketing opportunities that they might now otherwise have.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 19, 2011

Related posts: Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!). Better to bite your tongue than to get bit when the interview is published. Photo: United Nations Photo.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 19, 2013

As a result of more and more small businesses have sought alternative channels for their marketing strategies, such as value-add partnerships, inbound marketing campaigns, search engine optimization and social media marketing. Develop your own best practices for your social marketing campaigns and repeat what works again and again.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!). Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand. Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Photo: Katie Weilbacher.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 3, 2012

We have written often about lean marketing techniques, provided lots of ideas on tactics and strategies for marketing, discussed budgeting , offered pointers on testing , given advice on analysis , and suggested tools to use, but we have never really talked about what NOT to do with your marketing efforts. Not setting goals.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2014

Right now, today, appearing in virtually every corner of the the internet you can be find my neighbor’s video along with thousands of others and witness one of the most successful, most impressive viral media campaigns of all time. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2011

Plan out your exit campaign much as you would plan and execute a great marketing campaign. Related posts: New-to-the-world: strategic marketing for startups and small business. Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Understand value. photo: Paul Bence.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

Understanding and knowing what steps to take to carry out a successful PR campaign can be daunting, confusing and quite overwhelming. It’s important to set definitive goals and objectives of your PR campaign in order to provide a specific purpose for your communication among the audience you are trying to reach. Continue the momentum.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 26, 2024

This philosophy is demonstrated in her collaborations, as she leans on art to help fill the gap between society and technology. After spending more than a decade in communications and public relations, she joined what grew into one of the most active VC firms in Eastern Europe.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2011

While most businesses use a marketing model that tends to lean heavy on the desire to go from know us to buy from us, any business that fills each of these seven touchpoints will be well on their way to finding and keeping customers that become part of the lead generation and conversion team. All rights reserved.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

Michelle Garrett of Garrett Public Relations says: Small business owners need to do more networking to make more contacts, not only for possible referrals, but as resources and even as friends you can turn to when you have a question or problem related to your business. Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

I reminded her that all the Lean tools she learned in class–Customer Discovery, business model and value proposition canvases– contained her answer. They created the “Intel Inside” campaign. Apple was trying to resurrect a then-dying company by reminding people what Apple stood for with their “Think Different” ad campaign.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. This is a really smart ad campaign from IBM | PSFK – [link]. 20 noteworthy campaigns guaranteed to inspire your own digital marketing | Econsultancy – [link]. Forget the coasts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies – [link]. Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies – [link]. Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies – [link]. Amazon’s secret $90 million ad campaign – [link]. Clever and Creative Sticker Advertising Campaigns – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. Email Design Best Practices For Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Leadership Rule No.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2013

Lean Marketing Tips: Public Speaking – [link]. Seven inspiring examples of charity / non-profit marketing campaigns | Econsultancy – [link]. The Most Effective Ways to Make It Right When You Screw Up | HBR – [link]. Breaking Down the Methodology Behind Word of Mouth Marketing | by Dan Martell – [link].

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Members from the strategy team might have some insights that can help the Public Relations Team, while the PR Team might have share ideas to pitch to Creative. Our lean, limited asset business provides us the opportunity to focus our efforts on sales, marketing and most importantly our customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

An important part of your overall marketing strategy is public relations. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!). Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Brand names matter (as do eyeballs).

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 10, 2015

A genius marketing campaign and a public service effort that is attention grabbing (not to mention, “awwww” inducing). Lean Marketing: Basic Metrics You Should be Watching. Skin cancer is a scourge. And dalmatian puppies are just about the cutest things that ever walked the earth. Enough with adorable dogs?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Since selling her first company, an award-winning public relations firm, Becky has studied what she has coined “stARTistry,” the art of creative initiative. In fact, a recent episode, they titled Half Baked Marketing Ideas They Got Down In The Weeds, talked about some outside of the box campaigns with real businesses.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link]. Startups: refined UX vs. quick rollouts – [link].

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Most nonprofit and mission-driven organizations run lean operations, with employees wearing several hats and having multiple responsibilities. Members organize membership drives or campaigns, setting up direct mail or email campaigns and conducting membership surveys.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. That would have given you a trifecta. March 27, 2011 at 1:07 pm. Serdar IRMAK.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Usually, the process boils down to something like the “Build → Measure → Learn” framework popularized by The Lean Startup …. I studied advertising and public relations at university, and if you’ve ever seen Mad Men, what they taught in university hasn’t changed too much since then. You can ask this with: Marketing campaigns.

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