Please say hello to Niall Devitt, our new Community Manager here at BizSugar.
Many of you know Niall from Bloggertone, where he has been co-founder and Community Manager. I recently acquired a majority interest in Bloggertone and became the new CEO there (backstory here) . So, it just seemed to make sense to ask Niall to manage both communities. To our good fortune, he agreed!
Bloggertone is a very engaged B2B community. There’s …
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Woo-hoo! Meet our latest "Contributor of the Week," Ileane Smith.
Ileane started her small business adventure two years ago when her daughter Nikki convinced her to start a blog. Since that time, Ileane hasn't looked back.
Though she originally began her blogging efforts as simply a way of relating stories and connecting with others online, it didn't take long for Ileane to identify a real need in the online community, basically …
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Are you eligible to be our BizSugar "Contributor of the Week" on Facebook? Fred Leo is! So give him a big hello!
Today, the business coach with 10 years experience practicing corporate law is featured in our "Contributor of the Week" profile.
Though he never started out with the goal of becoming an Internet entrepreneur, Fred slowly fell in love with blogging and online businesses over a four year period. Today, Fred oversees a …
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Everyone is always speculating about the next big thing, the next big business idea. And I've recently located some new and very interesting ones in a piece titled, "Is One of These Business Ideas the Next Big Thing?" These are business ideas that you may never suspect - the business of butlers and butchers:
"The opportunity is not in being a butler . . .but in training them and finding them homes. . . Lest you think there’s not enough …
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We're pleased to welcome Steve Chou, BizSugar "Contributor of the Week" on Facebook to the list of BizSugar members we've profiled for their efforts.
The "Contributor of the Week" is our way of thanking BizSugar members who have "liked" our Facebook fan page and make what we think is a really cool contribution to BizSugar.com. Read more about how you can be eligible here.
Steve and his wife started their online business for a very …
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The winners have been chosen in the employee engagement contest! There were a lot of great ideas provided and we'd like to thank everyone who participated by leaving their suggestion in the comments section.
Without further adieu, the winners are:
Breanna Perry of BreannaPerry.com:
"Improve company culture so that employees want to come to work, to interact with their colleagues, and to work on their projects.
Providing the opportunity …
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Frederique Murphy has wanted to have her own business since she was 11 years old.
Back then she was given a school assignment to interview a person she admired and chose her grandfather.
"I remember being in complete AWE hearing him telling me about all of his business adventures, a real entrepreneur!" Murphy recalled. "From that moment on, the entrepreneurial spark was in me and it was only a matter of time for me to make it happen!"
Today …
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Shawn Hessinger, our long-time Community Manager here at BizSugar, has gotten an offer he couldn't refuse. He has taken a full-time job as an employee with another B2B site. As a result, he's not able to continue in the part-time Community Manager role here at BizSugar.
We're going to miss Shawn! I'm very happy that he has found a full-time job and that our association together working on BizSugar helped prepare him for that role.
As …
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While recently reading an article online it occurred to me that many resources tend to make assumptions and alienate themselves from new entrepreneurs by being too advanced in their speech, writings, etc. One mistake that I see many guilty of is assuming that your readers are already "in the know."
As hard as it may be for many of us to believe, there are still many "newbies" in the online entrepreneurial world. Thousands of new people …
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Meet David Leonhardt, our most recent BizSugar "Contributor of the Week" on Facebook. It's a little recognition we started a little over a month ago for regular BizSugar contributors who are also fans on our Facebook site.
If you already contribute regularly to BizSugar.com and would like to be eligible to be named BizSugar "Contributor of the Week" on Facebook, first "like" our Facebook page here then read more about the "Contributor …
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