The Thoughtful Entrepreneur 1443 – Finding Reliable Resources with Crowdspring’s Jason Byer
Jan 18, 2023
20:12
In this episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with Jason Byer, Marketing and Partnerships Manager at Crowdspring.
Jason talks about the impact he provides to CrowdSpring and his passion for helping businesses grow and shape their brand into something much stronger through the services they provide. He says they've curated their market heavily by bringing in talented people they've vetted and offering their clients dozens of different concepts and avenues to take their brand and see it come to life.
Jason shares how important it is for their company to ensure their employees are doing the best job possible to be able to deliver quality results for their clients. He also talks about their selection process in terms of acquiring creatives and talent to join their team - making sure they recruit only the best people. The best part? The price is incredibly reasonable for the amount of work their clients get back.
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About Jason Byer: Jason Byer is the Head of Marketing and Partnerships for Crowdspring, a Chicago-based branding firm that helps businesses, agencies, and nonprofits of all sizes start, run, and grow their business through design and a denomination of quality. Crowdspring dramatically simplifies the design process by handling the complexity so that you can focus on getting great results. Crowdspring started to address a fundamental problem with the design process, most clients had little choice, and most designers had few opportunities to find clients. Jason is the oldest of 7 children. He was raised and attended school in Florida, but realized he needed to feel a change of seasons, so he moved to Chicago. He’s equally comfortable reading The Game of Thrones and Dostoyevsky while training for triathlons and endurance races and brewing beer. He authored Get The Job: How to use personal branding to jump-start a career and dominate the competition.About Crowdspring: Crowdspring is the world’s leading marketplace for buyers and sellers of crowdsourced creative services, including logo design, web design, graphic design, product design and even naming companies and products. Clients who need a new logo design, stationery design, web design, banner ads, marketing materials, product design, company name, product name or other creative content simply post what they need, when they need it and how much they’ll pay. Once posted, creatives from around the world (more than 200,000 from 195 countries work on crowdspring) submit actual work – not bids or proposals. As the submissions come in, buyers are able to review, sort, rate, provide feedback and collaborate with multiple creatives until they pick their favorite. The Crowdspring community has worked with the world’s best Brands, including Amazon, LG, Starbucks, Microsoft, Barilla, Philips (and many more), with many of the world’s best agencies, and with tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and startups from 100 different countries. Since launch, crowdspring has been featured in many media publications and shows, including Forbes, New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Crain’s, Chicago Tribune, Advertising Age, Chicago Tonight, Fast Company, SmartMoney, and many others. The company is privately held and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Tweetable Moments: 01:25 - "It's fun to see these ideas for entrepreneurs just getting started or businesses that have been operational for decades hone in and craft that brand to something much stronger." 04:24 - "It comes down to quality. It comes down to making sure that the people that are on our platform are doing the best work possible." Apply to be a Guest on The Thoughtful Entrepreneur: https://go.upmyinfluence.com/podcast-guest Links Mentioned in this Episode: Want to learn more? Check out Crowdspring’s website at https://www.crowdspring.com/ Check out Jason Byer on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonbyer/ Check out Jason Byer on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JasonByer Check out Crowdspring on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/crowdspring/ Check out Crowdspring on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/crowdspring/ Check out Crowdspring on Twitter at https://twitter.com/crowdspring/ Check out Crowdspring on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/crowdspring Don’t forget to subscribe to The Thoughtful Entrepreneur and thank you for listening. Tune in next time! More from UpMyInfluence: We are actively booking guests for our The Thoughtful Entrepreneur. Schedule HERE. Are you a 6-figure consultant? I’ve got high-level intros for you. Learn more here. What is your #1 Lead Generation BLOCKER? Take my free quiz here. Want to learn more about all the podcasts managed by UpMyInfluence? Opt in here.
- How Crowdspring Achieved Mass Interest Today?
- Partnership Opportunities with Crowdspring
- Resources that Crowdspring Provides
About Jason Byer: Jason Byer is the Head of Marketing and Partnerships for Crowdspring, a Chicago-based branding firm that helps businesses, agencies, and nonprofits of all sizes start, run, and grow their business through design and a denomination of quality. Crowdspring dramatically simplifies the design process by handling the complexity so that you can focus on getting great results. Crowdspring started to address a fundamental problem with the design process, most clients had little choice, and most designers had few opportunities to find clients. Jason is the oldest of 7 children. He was raised and attended school in Florida, but realized he needed to feel a change of seasons, so he moved to Chicago. He’s equally comfortable reading The Game of Thrones and Dostoyevsky while training for triathlons and endurance races and brewing beer. He authored Get The Job: How to use personal branding to jump-start a career and dominate the competition.About Crowdspring: Crowdspring is the world’s leading marketplace for buyers and sellers of crowdsourced creative services, including logo design, web design, graphic design, product design and even naming companies and products. Clients who need a new logo design, stationery design, web design, banner ads, marketing materials, product design, company name, product name or other creative content simply post what they need, when they need it and how much they’ll pay. Once posted, creatives from around the world (more than 200,000 from 195 countries work on crowdspring) submit actual work – not bids or proposals. As the submissions come in, buyers are able to review, sort, rate, provide feedback and collaborate with multiple creatives until they pick their favorite. The Crowdspring community has worked with the world’s best Brands, including Amazon, LG, Starbucks, Microsoft, Barilla, Philips (and many more), with many of the world’s best agencies, and with tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and startups from 100 different countries. Since launch, crowdspring has been featured in many media publications and shows, including Forbes, New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Crain’s, Chicago Tribune, Advertising Age, Chicago Tonight, Fast Company, SmartMoney, and many others. The company is privately held and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Tweetable Moments: 01:25 - "It's fun to see these ideas for entrepreneurs just getting started or businesses that have been operational for decades hone in and craft that brand to something much stronger." 04:24 - "It comes down to quality. It comes down to making sure that the people that are on our platform are doing the best work possible." Apply to be a Guest on The Thoughtful Entrepreneur: https://go.upmyinfluence.com/podcast-guest Links Mentioned in this Episode: Want to learn more? Check out Crowdspring’s website at https://www.crowdspring.com/ Check out Jason Byer on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonbyer/ Check out Jason Byer on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JasonByer Check out Crowdspring on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/crowdspring/ Check out Crowdspring on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/crowdspring/ Check out Crowdspring on Twitter at https://twitter.com/crowdspring/ Check out Crowdspring on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/crowdspring Don’t forget to subscribe to The Thoughtful Entrepreneur and thank you for listening. Tune in next time! More from UpMyInfluence: We are actively booking guests for our The Thoughtful Entrepreneur. Schedule HERE. Are you a 6-figure consultant? I’ve got high-level intros for you. Learn more here. What is your #1 Lead Generation BLOCKER? Take my free quiz here. Want to learn more about all the podcasts managed by UpMyInfluence? Opt in here.