10 Proven Tips for Evaluating Your Competitors When Starting a Business
If you’re working on a start-up or have an established company, there will come a time when you’ll need to evaluate your competitors. There are three components to a good competitive analysis: (1)...
View ArticleFresh from the SPRING: mandex
When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we recognize this gem submitted in this logo project: The challenge of this project was to...
View Article5 Important Trends In Email Marketing You Must Understand
Email marketing continues to be an important marketing channel for small businesses and startups. That’s because 81% of US consumers are more likely to make a purchase based on an email. New...
View ArticleKeeping designs timeless and offering visual solutions with crowdSPRING...
In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING creative community of 200,000+ designers & writers from 200 countries. Today we feature Natalia, who goes by...
View Article5 Major Rebranding Failures and What You Can Learn from Them
There are lots of reasons that a business may be in need of a rebrand, we wrote about six of them in the article “Six Reasons Your Logo Might Need a Makeover.” If you have decided that it’s time to...
View Article(Ebook) What Are You Waiting For? A Guide for Mom Entrepreneurs on Starting,...
Women start over 1,000 new businesses every day in the United States. During the last decade, the number of women-owned companies has grown five times faster than the national average, according to...
View Article5 Successful Rebrands and the Strategies That Worked for Them
Public awareness of company rebrands in recent years is high, and with good reason: A good rebrand can shed new light on a company, connecting it with consumers in new and effective ways. No one wants...
View ArticleFresh from the SPRING: HambaAllah
When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we recognize this gem submitted in this book cover project: The book is a chef’s collection...
View ArticleFind the Perfect Name For Your Business or Startup With These 10 Tips
Picking a good name for your business can be one of the most difficult parts of building brand identity, but also one of the most important. As Dharmesh Shah, Hubspot CTO and Founder puts it, “A great...
View ArticleWhy It’s a Great Time to Be a Female Entrepreneur
You’ve toyed with the idea of starting your own business or have an idea you’re passionate about, and the thought just keeps creeping back. “What if?” you say. “What if?”, indeed. Now’s the time to...
View ArticleHow Chatbots Are Changing the Way Businesses Communicate With Customers
At every turn, companies and organizations are competing for our attention. How many of them actually get it? To fight against the white noise of impersonal marketing, companies are increasingly...
View ArticleInterview with The Founding Moms’ Jill Salzman
If you’re a mom and you’re thinking about starting a new business or growing your existing business, you are not alone. According to the International Finance Corporation, female owned businesses make...
View Article6 Women Entrepreneurs Share Their Most Important Advice About Starting And...
There are more women entrepreneurs starting new businesses today than at any point in history. We will all benefit as a result of this trend. Women are more likely to see and fix industry gaps than...
View ArticleFresh from the SPRING: nhr
When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we recognize this gem submitted in this logo project: The challenge of this project was to...
View ArticleFive Tips on Leveraging Trademarks to Protect Your Business
Protecting your brand is an important part of building your business and maintaining your customers’ trust. A trademark identifies the product your company sells. For example, Apple is a trade name,...
View ArticleWellness Tips from Successful Entrepreneurs and Health Experts
Entrepreneurs are widely viewed as visionaries; the women and men who dare to gaze beyond what is, at what could be. But when you’re busy envisioning potentials (and managing the trillions of real...
View ArticleHow Brands Are Using Facebook Live to Connect with Customers
Ever dreamed of the chance to shout the iconic “Live from New York, it’s Saturday night!”? Well, that may still be out of reach. The good news, though, is that broadcasting before a live audience has...
View ArticleHow to Find and Hire Highly Effective Employees
We’re fortunate to have built a great team at crowdSPRING. What makes one employee highly effective and another average? For some of our job postings, crowdSPRING receives hundreds of resumes. How do...
View ArticleHow 5 Successful Entrepreneurs Stay Creative While Running a Business
Successful entrepreneurs share a common trait: they are creative. As I wrote previously: Startups are like roller-coasters. If you run or work at a startup, you experience many highs and lows and you...
View ArticleFresh from the SPRING: JACSDESIGN
When perusing our galleries here on crowdSPRING, we see some amazing work submitted in the projects. Today, we recognize this gem submitted in this logo project: The challenge of this project was to...
View Article