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2012-05-16

Are you wondering how you can leverage Pinterest for your small business?

Pinterest is currently one of the hotest websites. For some businesses, Pinterest is delivering more user trafic than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn combined.

For those of you who haven’t heard of Pinterest, here’s a brief summary: Pinterest is a free social sharing site launched in 2009. Pinterest invites people to “pin” images and videos from all over the web, to pinboards directly on Pinterest. You can, for example, pin images of your favorite wedding dresses if you’re preparing for a wedding, or your favorite cars if you’re a car enthusiast. Other people browse or search for images that interest them and when they find such images, they’ll share them with their own followers and friends by “repinning”, “liking” or commenting on the images and videos.

Pinterest offers a new channel for businesses to connect with existing and new customers. But is Pinterest right for your small business? Should you invest your time to learn yet another social network? How can you best leverage Pinterest to increase sales?

We answer these questions in the following 10 tips for how your small business can use Pinterest to increase traffic and sales.

1. Learn what’s popular on Pinterest. Pinterest’s value to your business is in its network effect. When you add an image to your Pinterest board, you want that image to be “repinned” or “liked”. The more times users engage with your image by repinning it, liking it or leaving a comment, the more exposure you’ll have.

Pinterest makes it easy for you to see what’s popular. Visit the Popular section of the site and you’ll see what other people are sharing, and their comments. Now ask yourself: what does your business do and how can you leverage similar images on your own Pinterest boards.

Don’t force the connection – if you are a financial consultant, would it help your business to post images of phone booths or cakes? Probably not. Try to find synergy between popular images and your company’s products or services.

To succeed on Pinterest, your images must be interesting – nobody will repin boring images. For example, if your small business is a bakery and you create fancy cakes, you should be posting original images of your cakes every time you create one. People love cakes.

2. Share other people’s content. It’s never enough to simply “pin” your own content. As you should do on all social networks, take the time to find and pin other people’s content.

You can find this content on Pinterest and repin it, or you can pin original content from sites you already visit.

Pinterest makes it easy to pin from the web – there are numerous extensions available for most browsers.

3. Set up topical pinboards. Avoid the urge to create one pinboard and pin everything there. Think about the types of things you’d like to pin and create topical pinboards to help you (and your potential customers) classify the images you’re pinning.

For example, our imaginary bakery might have the following pinboards: Beautiful wedding cakes, Weddings, Funny Cakes, Family Parties, Cake Recipes, etc.

Look at how your competitors or other companies are using Pinterest and the types of pinboards they’ve created. For example, the yogurt company Chobani has created a rich group of pinboards on many topics that interest its customers and potential customers.

If you are a painter, share images of painted rooms – ones you painted and others, as inspiration for your potential customers. If you create gift baskets, share images of your baskets and other unique gifts.

4. Add prices and promote you products. Don’t be shy about creating special pinboards to promote your products. You can easily add prices to your images – and use a pinboard to promote special sales. Threadless does this very effectively.

Even if you don’t add prices, you can promote your products on dedicated pinboards. For example, Nordstrom promotes different collections on separate pinboards.

5. Set up a Pinterest competition for your fans and customers. One great way to use Pinterst is to invite your customers to pin images of your products to their pinboards. Offer a small prize for the best pin.

Here’s how one company, Nails Inc., leveraged Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter to promote its products in a competition that invited its customers to share images of their painted nails.

6. Include your fans and customers. Pinterest makes it easy for you to invite your fans and customers to pin directly to your pinboards.

If you’re worried about inviting everyone to help, select your favorite or most active fans or customers and invite them to help.

Ask your fans to pin their favorite photos of your products. Or ask fans to pin photos showing how they use your products in unusual and creative ways.

7. Add a Pinterest “Follow” or “Pin It” button to your site. When you add one of these buttons, you encourage your customers and potential customers to pin your products or content to their own pinboards.

Pinterest makes it easy to add these buttons.

8. Be smart about keywords. When you add a new pin, you have an opportunity to add keywords that will help other users find your content. You can add multiple keywords, so think about ways that customers might be looking for products you’re pinning.

For example, if you’re posting images of cakes, you can add the following keywords: #cakes #bakedgoods #weddings #cupcakes #bakery #food.

9. Engage with other users. Always keep in mind that Pinterest is a social network. Don’t silo yourself and expect everyone to come to your pinboards. Take the time to browse, repin and comment on other users’ images. That’s how people notice you and ultimately, your products and services.

10. Hold Pinterest only promotions. One good way to build a following and expose your customers to Pinterest is to create unique offers only on Pinterest. People like to share deals – this is a good way to spread the word about your company’s products and services.

How do you feel about Pinterest? Do you have other tips you can share with small business owners or a question? Please leave a comment below.

Small Business Spotlight of the Week: AppMonsta

2012-05-16

I was recently blessed with an iPhone and have fallen into the world of apps. Lord knows all of us here at the cS offices love our apps. Just last week Ross insisted all of us download SayHi Translate and speak to him in Swedish. This is a true story, I encourage all of you to tweet at him for the details.

This week, my app honoree is AppMonsta. If you and/or your company are in the process of developing a mobile app, look no further than this company. AppMonsta is truly a one stop shop when it comes to brainstorming, researching, and developing. Businesses are able to identify niches in the marketplace, gauge growth, and find publishers and developers. And that’s just with their tool AppInsights. AppEverything allows users to identify the top apps in multiple countries, as well as collect social media metrics on popularity and reviews. There is also a weekly email available, AppHighlights, that gives a run down of top app downloads and other trends. Overall, pretty rad.

AppMonsta used crowdSPRING in the development of their own app, Federal Job Search Pro, which connects the workforce with available government jobs.

The ever jovial Jeremy took some time to answer our Small Biz Questionnaire:

How would you explain what you do to somebody’s grandmother?

AppMonsta provides data about apps and app stores, helping companies make more informed decisions based on data.

What are some industry specific challenges you faced?

We have worked hard to make the massive amounts of data into consumable products – boiling down our Big Data into even more useful and actionable insights for customers of all kinds.

What was your biggest learning curve/experience?

We’ve needed to learn a great deal more about databases, data structures, and the app stores as a whole. Every app store is different and every one has something valuable to offer to every type of business – its just a matter of finding it and highlighting it. Ask questions on our new blog (Ask AppMonsta) – we’ll answer all those we can with our data!

What made you use crowdSPRING?

One of our projects needed some outside inspiration, creativity and design chops – crowdSPRING offers all three. We needed an icon for one of our iPhone apps – Federal Job Search Pro – an app that was was designed for a niche in the iPhone app store that we found with our data.

What’s the craziest story you have from starting your own business?

We are designing an ‘AppMonsta’ at the moment – a big and huggable beast that loves apps. It has felt a bit like an animation studio with drawings and sketches everywhere. Our gaol is to make this data more approachable as we know it can help app developers, entrepreneurs, investors and researchers alike.

If you could go back, would you do anything differently? If so, what and why?

We would have learned from this app market data first, then we’d have built the apps we found the market wanted.

How do you see your company growing in the future?

With more and more attention on this burgeoning app eco-system, there is a rising need for data to inform decisions in the mobile space. AppMonsta will be there – adapting to the changes in the market, and making sure the most cutting-edge app market data gets to our customers.

Six words of advice to those looking to start their own company.

Talk to customers. Build them value.

AppMonsta’s call for a knock-your-socks-off icon received 96 entries.

Dear Mentee

2012-05-15

Hi. I’m Mike. Yesterday Amanda posted an article in which she talked about the experience of professional life for a young person just starting out in her career. Well, as of tomorrow Amanda has been working at crowdSPRING for one year (note to self: get cake for Amanda); for the first few months she was an unpaid marketing and PR intern but was ultimately promoted to the position of underpaid marketing and PR intern. She and I have worked closely together during this time and have gotten to know one another well, developing an appreciation for the other’s sense of humor and learning about each other’s strengths and weaknesses. Over the months, Amanda has gained lots of marketable skills, made huge strides in her professional development, and contributed to our efforts and our culture. And the filing has actually gotten better! This is the second of two blog posts reflecting on the mentor-mentee relationship and how both sides can gain insight and experience success.

Dear Mentee,

First, let me thank you for the hours of effort you have given to our company in the past year; your work is truly appreciated as is your willingness to learn, to listen, and to contribute in any way you can. In your letter, you mentioned that you felt intimidated by my professional accomplishments; I do realize that Ross and I might be a little frightening, but that is the last thing we think about when interfacing with you and everyone else on the team in our day-to-day work. It is important for you to remember that, first and foremost, we have a business to run and we don’t have a great deal of time to consider whether we might be intimidating. But even if you are scared, it is critical in your professional life to be outwardly confident, unruffled, and self-assured; employers look for these qualities in their workers, and you need to develop the ability to conceal and self-doubt. Listen, we all have insecurities and we all secretly expect that we will eventually be found out, but my advice is that you deal with your own uncertainty and not let it become a vulnerability to you professionally.

You also mentioned in your letter that you are afraid of failing. Don’t be. Try things, experiment, let yourself take risks in your professional and personal lives. Yes sometimes you will fall flat, sometimes your efforts may backfire, and occasionally you will even meet with disaster, but more often than not your effort will pay off and the risk you took will be rewarded. Understand exactly what it is you are afraid of and then face it; as Master Yoda said, “Named must your fear be before banish it you can.” Remember, nobody here expects you to know everything, or to be capable of doing everything; we hired you because we thought you were bright and competent and that, most of all, you had the capacity to learn and grow. What we do expect from you is that you will be assertive, take chances, gain knowledge, and stretch your limits.

Your input and ideas are valued, but remember that not every meeting or every moment is the appropriate one to share these with your bosses. There is a time and place for everything and you have to be conscious of the fact that we typically have multiple balls in the air and might not have time to listen to your latest insight about how we can better run the business. In your professional life you will have some bosses who are open to your input and others who will resent it; one of the key skills you can develop professionally is the ability to gauge people – be a human barometer and learn to understand the moods and personalities of those around you. Keep in mind that context is key when offering your ideas and that those ideas are more likely to be accepted, or even tolerated, if you choose your moments wisely.

As a manager I have learned that criticizing one’s subordinates is something of an art; a good supervisor understands that sometimes you have to tear someone down another times you need to build them up. For better or worst, I probably am better at the build-up than the tear down part, but ”sugary, self-esteem building euphemisms?” Seriously? I want you to feel good about your work here and about your role in the company, but just because I compliment your work it doesn’t mean that I am trying to be obsequious or ingratiating. The flip side to this coin belongs to you, however. Taking criticism and internalizing negative feedback is as much an art as giving it. My best advice is that when your boss is going on about your latest failure or your shortcomings as a member of the human race, you train yourself to stand there, nod your head, and bite your tongue. And, most importantly, listen closely and don’t let your own biases get in the way of taking that criticism to heart, learning from it, and growing into a better professional.

As for having you listen in on everything that I do, well we’ll see. Again, this is about context and sometimes it will be appropriate to have you involved and at other times it will make sense that you be a fly on the wall, but sometimes it is simply not the time or place to have you there and you have to respect that. Make yourself available, but don’t expect that you will get to sit in on the meetings with investors, or that I will invite you to listen in on every call. Trust that I have a strategy for you and that I will know best when you should be included and when it is simply not suitable. This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t ask to be included, but expect that often times the answer will be no.

Finally, your schedule. Yes, I know you have classes to attend, and yes I know that you have projects due, but do your best to be as available as you can. If you’ve got extra hours, hang out here; if you have homework to do, do it at your desk; and if you have other professional obligations try to schedule them around the commitment you have made here. If you are intent on being involved, on learning, on growing professionally then you have to be around here to do those things. Try hard to just be around as much as you can and the probability of accomplishing these goals will increase correspondingly.

So thanks again for everything you’ve contributed in the last year: your time, your energy, your intelligence, your humor, and your ideas. We appreciate what you bring to our company and look forward to watching your career take flight!

Sincerely,

Your Mentor

Photo: 20th Century Fox

Dear Mentor

2012-05-14

Hi. I’m Amanda. I know you’ve seen me in and out of these parts for a little over a year now, but here’s a formal introduction: I’m 22-years-old and I just graduated from college. I’ve been fortunate to have three internships during my undergrad years. My tenure at crowdSPRING has included working on PR, marketing, and mastering our co-founder Mike’s filing system. This is the first of two blog posts reflecting on the mentor-mentee relationship and how both sides can gain insight and experience success.

Dear Mentor,

First of all, thank you so much for this opportunity to work for you. I’m sure you are incredibly accomplished and admirable and slightly intimidating in your success. I am really hoping that I’m smart and savvy enough to keep up with you, and that we both can learn a lot from each other.The first, single most important thing I will tell you is: I’m terrified of failure. Unlike you, I haven’t much experience with professional success OR professional failure. I don’t know what it’s like to really mess something up. More importantly, I don’t know that if I fail at something and do mess up, it’ll probably be okay. I have almost zero faith in my problem solving abilities. Frankly, I have almost zero faith in any of my skills. If you ask me to do something and I seem hesitant, it’s not because I don’t want to or feel it’s beneath me, it’s because I am scared. I feel like those who have worked professionally for a long time forget how terrifying those first few months, or even years, of work can be. I am petrified that someday soon, I will be forced to move into my parent’s basement and cry about my student loan debt. Don’t coddle or baby me or not ask me to do something difficult, just remember how frightening it can be.

Try to make it clear from the outset if and how you want input and ideas from me. So many people talk about how great it is when young people offer their ideas and they should never be afraid to do so. My experience has told me otherwise. I may be coming from an internship that didn’t want my input. I may be coming from a classroom whose professor is condescending and dismissive. Do not assume that any one expectation you have is universal and does not need to be clarified. There’s a really simple way to do this, too– just ask! During a meeting, ask me directly for my thoughts and, soon enough, you won’t have to because I’ll know that is what you value.

Please try your hardest to respect my schedule, especially if you’re bringing me on as a student. If I’m going to school full time or part time, it means I have class, homework, group work dates, meetings with my professors, meetings with professional organizations, and on campus activities on my plate. Any student worth hiring will probably keep school as their number one priority– as it should be! Trust that my job with you is probably my second priority. I may not be able to work late all the time; I may not be able to come in an extra day often. It’s not because my work with you isn’t important, it’s honestly because I have an eight-page paper and a Photoshop layout due Thursday at noon and every minute of my day is scheduled to allow for this. Let’s develop a mutual respect for one another’s busy lives.

I can handle criticism. Generation Y gets a lot of flack for being whiny and sensitive to criticism. For what it’s worth, most successful and smart people my age like getting constructive feedback about their work. I would even say they are hungry for it. If I have a bad idea or fail to meet your standards, let me know. Don’t be a jerk, but also don’t feel like you have to give those sugary, self-esteem building euphemisms. Most of us find them pretty condescending.

Finally, let me listen in on everything that you do. Got a phone call? Let me pick up the other line. Have a meeting scheduled…can I sit in on it? I can learn so much from listening. I can learn what questions need to be asked; I can learn how to phrase those questions. I can learn how to gracefully say no; I can learn how to enthusiastically say yes. I can probably learn a good joke or two. I really just want to learn everything about anything that you do.

Thank you, again, for this opportunity. I hope we can both grow in this relationship, and if done right, stay in contact for years to come.

Sincerely,

Your Mentee

Editor’s note: Amanda Warner, the author of this post, graduated last week from Columbia College Chicago, where she was Class Valedictorian. We’re trying to figure out how we can get her more hours over here at the crowdSPRING office…

Photo: 20th Century Fox

Twitter Link Roundup #130 â Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

2012-05-11

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 an ad created by TBWA for Moustaches Make A Difference – a campaign to raise support for prostate cancer research. More interesting ads in the Social Media and Marketing section below.

Growing Your Small Business Using Social Media: The Facts – http://bit.ly/JfbaI1

Web Tool of the Month: crowdSPRING – http://bit.ly/IIQ5GA

Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – http://bit.ly/ImKDaT

How to Increase Trust for a Landing Page Design – http://bit.ly/JZnGsr

Better Agile Than Smart – http://bit.ly/J9Di3c

The 5 Qualities of Remarkable Bosses – http://bit.ly/JN9J5a

Four Things to Get Right When Starting a Company – http://bit.ly/JewYHD

8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses – http://bit.ly/Ja53TR

Six Myths of Product Development – http://bit.ly/IAYevk

When Selling is the Worst Way to Win Customers – http://hub.am/JYMXJ8

Building It Is Not Enough: 5 Practical Tips On User Acquisition – http://bit.ly/IMfZca

Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity – http://bit.ly/IPcnXs

Crowdsourcing taps public for work, money, ideas – http://bit.ly/KmvBUJ

If You’re Competing On Features You’ve Already Lost – http://bit.ly/KwmMKZ

Tips for small business (and startups): Negotiating With the New Recruit – http://bit.ly/J9uuqk

Growing Your Small Business Using Social Media: The Facts – http://bit.ly/JfbaI1

The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth – http://bit.ly/JCo0xb

If You’re Not Pissing Someone Off, You’re Probably Not Innovating – http://bit.ly/JCnwqS

Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity – http://bit.ly/IPcnXs

Fred Wilson: what crowdfunding means for the VC business – http://bit.ly/Jesq3W

Good reminder about the importance of face to face communications – http://bit.ly/JexdlS

When Selling is the Worst Way to Win Customers – http://hub.am/JYMXJ8

Andreessen Horowitz Confirms Its Scout Program, Calls Out Lazy Angels Who Hate Competition – http://bit.ly/JesvER

Are You Willing To Pay For The Change You’re Demanding? – http://bit.ly/Kjc9It

VC Rights: Up, Down, And Know What The Fuck Is Going On – http://bit.ly/Je0IAy

The 5 Qualities of Remarkable Bosses – http://bit.ly/JN9J5a

8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses – http://bit.ly/Ja53TR

Poor long term returns by VC funds, according to Kauffman Foundation – http://bit.ly/JesrVv

What I learned from raising venture capital – http://perfor.ms/yRB2WZ

Better Agile Than Smart – http://bit.ly/J9Di3c

Four Things to Get Right When Starting a Company – http://bit.ly/JewYHD

So what exactly is a tech company? – http://bit.ly/JesoZY

If You’re Competing On Features You’ve Already Lost – http://bit.ly/KwmMKZ

It’s Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement – http://bit.ly/KjbEhu

Taking E-Mail Vacations Can Reduce Stress, Study Says – http://nyti.ms/JO5YfT

Six Myths of Product Development – http://bit.ly/IAYevk

Crowdsourcing taps public for work, money, ideas – http://bit.ly/KmvBUJ

Early Startup Time Wasters – http://bit.ly/LJSEuP

The CEO who invented a cure for hiccups – and, oh, yes, she’s 13 – http://j.mp/Ja37uK

Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. Who’s Next? – http://bit.ly/KayBTX

The Maturation of the Billionaire Boy-Man – http://bit.ly/IEffbQ

How to Increase Trust for a Landing Page Design – http://bit.ly/JZnGsr

Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – http://bit.ly/ImKDaT

Is Facebook Larry Page’s Moby Dick? – http://onforb.es/INEEKx

Building It Is Not Enough: 5 Practical Tips On User Acquisition – http://bit.ly/IMfZca

Web Tool of the Month: crowdSPRING – http://bit.ly/IIQ5GA

After Timeline, Top 50 Brands See Facebook Comments Dip 11%, Likes Rise 11% – http://bit.ly/IPcGl0

Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – http://bit.ly/ImKDaT

Tips for small business (and startups): Negotiating With the New Recruit – http://bit.ly/J9uuqk

Building It Is Not Enough: 5 Practical Tips On User Acquisition – http://bit.ly/IMfZca

30 Sophisticated Ads To Give You Great Inspiration – http://bit.ly/JVYybF

Very shallow argument that Facebook is not a publisher, and thus should not be blamed for horrible ROI – http://bit.ly/K1C3Cj

Another Big Newspaper Says Digital Ads Shrank Last Quarter – http://dthin.gs/K7gvlZ

Klout to expand +K button – http://bit.ly/J7GmHy

50 More Humorous Print Advertisements to Make You Smile – http://bit.ly/JVYIQr

Creative Advertising In These 90+ Epic, Smart & Beautiful Ads – http://bit.ly/J93Xtu

Beautiful And Creative Advertising Design Ideas – http://bit.ly/Jfbt6A

22 Fresh And Free Fonts For Your Design – http://bit.ly/KA4usf

100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design – http://bit.ly/JcxYMg

60+ High-Quality Graffiti Fonts for Your Design Works – http://bit.ly/KwTaHJ

50 Photoshop And Illustrator Tutorials For Creating Text Effect – http://bit.ly/JQPMGc

700+ Ready to Grab Free Photoshop Pixel Patterns – http://bit.ly/J8ICUy

30 Gorgeous Examples of Very Creative Business Cards – http://bit.ly/Jfcagt

48 High Quality Wood Textures – http://bit.ly/JfcvQ1

40+ Beautiful And Creative Letterpress Designs – http://bit.ly/J8IN1S

35 Different Types of Liquid Textures – http://bit.ly/KOaKXZ

20 Beautiful Examples of Efficient Brochure Designs – http://bit.ly/J94Lyl

20+ Step by Step Tutorials in Designing a Typographic Poster – http://bit.ly/IRxqf6

15 Useful Chrome Extensions For Designers And Developers – http://bit.ly/J94ICF

25 Flashy Pink Business Cards – http://bit.ly/ImKfci

20 Creative and Appealing Business Card Designs – http://bit.ly/Jf9DTm

50 Amazing business cards – http://bit.ly/JVYAR5

30 Free and Appealing Outline Fonts – http://bit.ly/Jf9jE7

Food Packaging – 10 of The Tastiest Designs – http://bit.ly/JfcFXS

Beautiful And Creative Advertising Design Ideas – http://bit.ly/Jfbt6A

Free Peeling Paint Textures – http://bit.ly/J8GyM8

How to Use Drop Shadows in Photoshop – http://bit.ly/Jf9Zt2

New Design Practices for Touch-free Interactions – http://bit.ly/JQPFup

30+ Examples Of Brilliant Typography Designs – http://bit.ly/JVYDvZ

45 Useful Paper Textures – http://bit.ly/J8Iu7s

30 Spectacular Red Business Cards – http://bit.ly/ImKxQw

Free Stone Textures – http://bit.ly/ImKq7n

Rough Concrete Tiles: Texture Pack – http://bit.ly/ImKunD

12 Questions: Meet Tiffany Silverberg (USA) – http://bit.ly/Kq8mG2

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

25 Inspiring Logos with Innovative Use of Typography – http://bit.ly/JriyiP

30 Free and Appealing Outline Fonts – http://bit.ly/Jf9jE7

20 Simple, Yet Clever Logos – http://bit.ly/JVYQPW

36 Impressive Logos Inspired By Cats – http://bit.ly/JQPYoV

22 Fresh And Free Fonts For Your Design – http://bit.ly/KA4usf

Turn It Up: Musically Inspired Logo Design – http://bit.ly/JVYPeH

60+ High-Quality Graffiti Fonts for Your Design Works – http://bit.ly/KwTaHJ

40+ Creative uses of Ribbons in Web Design – http://bit.ly/ITrqwN

Footer Design Trends – http://bit.ly/JVYGbd

World of Watercolor: Beautiful Watercolor Effects in Web Design and Tutorials – http://bit.ly/JQPu27

30 Orange Website Designs Which Look Stunning – http://bit.ly/J8HuAj

How to Increase Trust for a Landing Page Design – http://bit.ly/JZnGsr

30 Inspiring Examples of Textures in Web Design – http://bit.ly/JfaRy3

30 Beautiful Gray Web Designs for Inspiration – http://bit.ly/ISnA66

20 Pure Websites with Clean White Backgrounds – http://bit.ly/JNs9jY

22 HTML5/CSS3/jQuery Tutorials for Frontend Web Developers – http://bit.ly/J8InbZ

UI: Proper Indicators for Hidden Elements – http://bit.ly/IEkzgh

30 Awe-Inspiring Black and White Website Designs – http://bit.ly/JVYusA

21 Beautiful Examples of Typography in Web Design – http://bit.ly/ImKuUU

Top 10 most read books in the world – http://bit.ly/J2WHzh

Ever come across such people (constantly talking on the phone)? http://youtu.be/AgOEvi9rbHs

Disturbing data on how chemicals affect people (and animals) – http://nyti.ms/IPcdiS

So you know, how astronauts sleep – http://j.mp/J0y86I

The Unknown Inventor Whose Work Is Saving The Developing World – http://bit.ly/J8I693

Suncream Ingredient ‘Zinc Oxide’ Linked To Skin Cancer – http://huff.to/ITlmYy

Amazon Leaps Into High End of the Fashion Pool – http://nyti.ms/JesqAX

People to marry robots? With a 50% divorce rate in the U.S., doesn’t seem far fetched – http://slate.me/Jesscg

Ha – there’s scientific support for the egos of “social media experts” – http://on.wsj.com/Jesktb

Given what passes for journalism today on some sites/publications, this robot is sure to be a huge step up – http://bit.ly/J9CN9m

Once Upon a Time in Dubai-Amazing photographs of a time before the boom – http://bit.ly/JwMiIS

I hope you enjoy these links! Please leave a comment and let me know what you liked/didn’t like.

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