From the beginning, our most recent BizSugar Contributor of the Week has focused on marketing for the Web.
Scott Dudley launched LowCostMarketingStrategies.com in November 2011 and has grown it into a popular Website resource aimed at helping other online marketers find success popularizing and monetizing their content.
Taking as his role models star bloggers like Yaro Starak, Darren Rowse, and Pat Flynn, Dudley set out to build a …
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Though she is a consummate professional with years of experience in the corporate world, her business clients today all call her coach.
Our BizSugar Contributor of the Week, Stephanie Ward, a U.S. Citizen living in the Netherlands since 1999, has years of experience in business development, sales, marketing, management and consulting. But she decided to put it all to work for small business clients launching her own company, Firefly Coaching, …
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The Startup Challenge
Free business tools and resources? The opportunity to connect with fellow entrepreneurs? And my name can be on everyone's lips? What, I can join for FREE? I'm up to The Startup Challenge! Are you?
Small Business Trends is entering the ring to go toe-to-toe with BPlans.com in a friendly but feisty competition to get the most startups to sign up for fantastic free biz resources.
But who will be the top contender?
When …
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Our BizSugar community participated in its first Facebook chat Monday with great turnout and participation. Our special guest Ileane Smith of Basic Blog Tips, answered questions and shared insights on the topic of "Creating Content Gold." You can check out the entire archived chat by visiting the BizSugar Facebook page.
BizSugar community manager Niall Devitt concluded the one hour session packed with answers to a wide variety of content …
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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.
Join us for a special special BizSugar Facebook Q & A on Monday, …
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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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