
We'd like to take this opportunity to introduce two new moderators to the BizSugar team.
BizSugar.com is a social media site offering news, tips and information for the small business community and is policed by an international team of moderators in an effort to assure the best possible experience for our members.
Membership in the BizSugar community is free and users are encouraged to submit helpful articles and posts related …
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Though it may be hard to believe these days, there are still plenty of businesses that doubt the validity of social media both as a marketing tool and for its actual ability to generate sales.
For example, back in May, a survey conducted by Citibank Small Business, a division of Citigroup Inc., found that three quarters of respondents in a survey of 500 U.S. small businesses with 10 employees or less saw no value in using social media …
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Like any successful rock band, a good social media community has its groupies, those faithful fans whose devotion goes far beyond the average user's into the realm of true passionate involvement.
Here at BizSugar, we're gratified to have such fans, folks like Heidi Kalman (here's her story), who's taken the time to post some very thoughtful observations about the way to be successful at BizSugar or pretty much any other social media …
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Just like produce at your favorite supermarket or farmer's market, content and information introducing you and your expertise to members of your social media community, whether BizSugar or any other, must be tantalizing enough to make visitors want to return again and again and of sufficient quality to inspire trust on the part of potential clients and customers about the quality you offer.
Consider these ten tips inspired by your local …
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(The folks putting together a SmallBiz Social Media Summit specially designed to help small businesses take advantage of the tools available through the social Web are moving their concept online transforming a face-to-face meeting originally scheduled for June 4 – 6, 2010 in Hutchinson, Kansas, into a virtual event anyone can attend spread over eight weeks beginning after Labor Day. BizSugar is a proud media sponsor of the event …
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