You may have noticed our tag cloud here at BizSugar. Or maybe not.... There's nothing special about it. It's just a page with a bunch of keyword tags. You could see a similar page on tens of thousands of websites online.
But when was the last time you saw a tag cloud in the shape of your logo? I frankly had never thought about it, until a reader in the U.K. sent me logos for BizSugar and another of our sites, Small Business …
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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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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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We and our partners at Bloggertone.com are planning another blogging contest in April. It will be called "Sugartone" (the name is a combination of BizSUGAR and BloggerTONE - get it?).
And our contest partner, Bloggertone, is looking for sponsors. This is an excellent opportunity for any company that wants visibility among small business owners and entrepreneurs. With registered members of nearly 200,000, and over 50,000 active monthly …
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Are you receiving the BizSugar newsletter? What???? You say you haven't heard about the newsletter? Well, let me tell you about it.
Each Friday like clockwork we put out an email newsletter. Amanda, one of our Moderators, is in charge of the newsletter and she does a great job putting it together. It usually goes out before noon, Eastern U.S. time. The newsletter goes out to over 6,000 subscribers.
The newsletter is simple …
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Fresh on the heels of last week's announcement of Wayne Liew being appointed Moderator, we're super excited to add another moderator to the BizSugar crew. (Hey, we get a spiffy new design and a software upgrade, and we're on a moderator tear!)
John Sternal of Understanding Marketing joins us today as a Moderator. His role, like the other moderators, is to make sure the site is kept plum full with a wide variety of content from many …
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Please give a warm welcome to Wayne Liew, who has just been appointed a Moderator here at our new and improved BizSugar. Wayne joins our other Moderators in keeping the site dynamic and useful for everyone else.
In this role Wayne will be helping keep the site stuffed with great business content -- and just generally making it a rockin' place for everyone.
Wayne came to our attention because he visits the site regularly and participates …
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This famous and misquoted phrase about "stinking badges" comes from The Treasure of Sierra Madre, a classic film. In it a Bandito, claiming to be a Federale, utters something like this line when challenged by Humphrey Bogart to show his badge and prove he's a federal officer.
But the Bandito in that film never saw our badges. If he did, he would have proudly flashed his BizSugar badge.
And have we got badges for you ...
If you'd …
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BizSugar has been acquired! Yes, Small Business Trends LLC has purchased BizSugar. We're super excited. Over the next few weeks we'll be making a number of improvements in the site. Meanwhile, here is the full text of the press release announcing the acquisition:
Cleveland, OH (PRESS RELEASE - May 22, 2009) — Small Business Trends LLC announced that it has acquired BizSugar.com, an online social media and content sharing website for …
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