If you're trying to build a better small business or searching for a new small business model, blogging may be the answer.
Blogging is a great way to demonstrate your expertise in your niche while establishing a brand that distinguishes you from the competition.
Creating great content and a distinctive approach are the important ingredients to a quality blog.
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The impact of small businesses can be huge, and no one understands this better than Dave Brock.
Brock, BizSugar's Contributor of the Week, is founder of Partners in Excellence, a global 15 member consulting firm centered on guiding a variety of Global 500 companies through their early stages and advising a variety of very large established companies as well.
"We’re a global consulting company focused on helping our clients connect …
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What makes a person an entrepreneur? Maybe it's just a decision to do something different with your life. That's how BizSugar Contributor of the Week Kenji Crosland discovered his passion.
"I became an entrepreneur in 2009 when I quit my job as a corporate headhunter in Tokyo and moved back to the U.S. with no job prospects, and no experience in the areas where I wanted to work," Crosland remembers.
He first hit upon blogging as …
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Have you entered to win your free small business book in The Big Biz Book Giveaway? If not, it's simple to do. Here are some of the titles you could win over the last few days of the contest:
Feb 3
10 copies of I Love You More Than My Dog by Jeanne Bliss (US only)
Feb 6
20 copies of It’s Your Biz by Susan Solovic (US only)
Feb 7
3 copies of Visual Marketing by Anita Campbell and David Langton (International)
5 …
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If you had to choose one job description for our latest BizSugar Contributor of the Week, Hesham Zebida, that job description would probably be community builder.
In fact, it was Zebida's passion for community building that led to his founding of Famous Bloggers, his first online business, two years ago.
His purpose at the time, for himself and for other bloggers who started with him in the community, was simple.
"I wanted to …
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If you had asked Rachel Strella in June 2010 what she did for a living, she would have told you she worked in marketing.
In fact, it was a totally random exchange with a business friend confused about how best to use social media to market her business that convinced Strella it was time to strike out on her own.
"I found a mentor named Maria through a program sponsored by a local female executives group," Strella recalled. "Maria …
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We've all heard people say that losing a particular job may have been the best thing that ever happened to them.
But for BizSugar Contributor of the Week Carolyn Higgins, president of Fortune Marketing, it might just turn out to be true. When Higgins was let go from her job selling Marketing Automation Software solutions in 2009, she knew it was time to follow her dream of launching her own business consulting company, and Fortune …
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What's better than gaining top entrepreneurial advice for yourself and your own personal ventures?
How about finding a way to share that incredible insight with others in a very visible way?
Welcome to Tim Jahn's world!
Tim is the co-founder of Entrepreneurs Unpluggd, which he describes as "a unique media and event company that brings entrepreneurs together to share their stories and lessons from experience in intimate, 'unplugged' …
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All small business owners must get acquainted with marketing, but for Fiona McEachran it was a match made in heaven.
"I've always loved marketing, since I first heard the concept in 1999," said McEachran, our BizSugar Contributor of the Week. "So when my property business in London closed due to the GFC, I returned to Australia and decided to follow my marketing passion."
It wasn't long before Fiona had launched a new business …
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Our latest BizSugar Contributor of the Week brings something unique to the table, a business model more entrepreneurs might consider to maximize their writing abilities.
When Stephanie Chandler left her Silicon Valley job in 2003, it was to enter small business with the opening her own bookstore.
The move had two major impacts on Chandler:
1.) It ignited a passion for small business marketing that has stuck with her to this day.
2.) …
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