
In about a year's time, small business news and information site BizSugar.com has gone from a small social bookmarking site with about 2,500 members to a growing small business social media colossus with an estimated 51,000 members and a rapid growth curve that thrills owner Anita Campbell.
In a recent interview with Brad Nellis, executive director of the Northeast Ohio Software Association, which in May awarded BizSugar it's Best …
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When you share small business news through social media here at BizSugar or anywhere around the Web, you boost your authority as an expert with your network creating the opportunity for referrals, partnerships and other connections based on your unique knowledge.
As Greg Fry of Bloggertone and a regular BizSugar contributor explains, "Sharing is caring and good for your personal brand." (See his video below.)
Obviously, here at …
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Using online video in your social media or on your favorite small business news site can be important for lots of reasons. Here at BizSugar, it's just a question of adding a link directly to a video on YouTube or whatever other video site you may prefer and sharing your online video with the whole community.
So why is online video so special and particularly for small business? Here are some key reasons:
The Big Picture
Video is …
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How do I build a community? Though not word for word, this is the question I received recently from a long time member here at BizSugar eager to cultivate a better relationship with other users on our small business social media site and (like the rest of us, I suspect) to get better comments and more votes for his link submissions.
Without pausing to think when answering his e-mail, I wrote what I always do when responding to this …
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