crowdSPRING is a marketplace for creative services. A customer puts out a project and sets the job price. Designers can choose to create a proposed solution, and the customer picks the winner. It has attracted controversy, with professional designers saying that spec work hurts their industry. That is, a designer has to create a fully […]
Archives for October 2009
Managing Your Social Media Marketing Time
Do you sit down to spend 30 minutes checking your social networks, and then look up 3 hours later? Do you get sucked into Mr. Computer, like Sheila Scarborough says? Barry Moltz asked how to manage social media time at the Small Business, Big Impact panel at BlogWorld Expo. Here’s the best answer I came […]
Investor lessons for small town businesses
Bob Jacoby is a business startup investor in Texas. He offers some advice to entrepreneurs: Make your idea work on the small scale first, then you can grow from there. [Subscribers, you may need to click through to the site to see the video.] Interviewed by Becky McCray at NASVF – the National Association of […]
Social media? Yeah, we’re looking into it
Three studies in a row hit me with the reality that social media is far from mainstream. Most small businesses are not using social media. Small businesses are using websites and email marketing more than social media, but most aren’t even using those tools. (Citibank survey) Most tourism pros are not using it either. Considering […]