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Jim Kukral creates bizSugar tutorial video

Published by JohnH
I was pleasantly surprised when I recently discovered that Jim Kukral had taken the time to create a BizSugar tutorial and post it on the Small Business Trends website. It means a lot to me that one of our members did this. I've noticed that other social media sites have enthusiasts who create little scripts and plugins to make it easier to use their sites. But, until now, anything new on this site was created or modified internally. I'm …

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Twitter field added to profile info

Published by JohnH
It's a small change, but many of you have been asking for it. We've replaced the IRC field (has anyone used that since the 90s) with a field to add your Twit name in your profile information. Now people can follow you where ever you go.

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My interview with Small Business Trends Radio

Published by JohnH
The other day I had to opportunity to be interviewed live by Anita Campbell and Steve Rucinski as a featured guest on Small Business Trends Radio. I've always been a fan of Anita's Small Business Trends website and many of BizSugar's top-voted articles come from her blog, so I felt honored to be invited on the show. Typically, guests will give advice based on their industry knowledge and then end the show by talking a bit about their …

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How to add a bizSugar voting button to Blogger

Published by JohnH
If you use Blogger (Blogspot) to host your blog along with our voting button, you may have noticed an irritating little quirk: the total number of votes show up correctly on individual post pages, but not on the front page. Even worse, if a reader tries to submit a post from the front page, they end up submitting your entire front page. But fear not, we have an answer. The following will add the BizSugar voting button automatically …

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PRESS RELEASE: bizSugar Launches Small Business Newsletter

Published by JohnH
The small business social news Web site now provides e-newsletter showcasing its most-voted-for articles. Kansas City, Mo, May 14, 2008 - Business owners and managers have a new way to receive the latest small business news and ideas each week. BizSugar (www.bizsugar.com) announced today it has launched BizSugar's Top 10 This Week, a weekly e-mailed newsletter showcasing the top-voted articles from the BizSugar.com Web site. BizSugar …

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A week worth writing about

Published by JohnH
Things can get pretty hectic at any start-up, so I always appreciate it when I have a good week. Last week went really well for BizSugar, so I thought I'd share a little. I had two interviews and we launched the first issue of Top 10 This Week. First, Lisa Alexander interviewed me for WAHNewsToday. WAHN is a new website that provides some great advice for home-based business owners and for people who sell for companies that use a multi-level …

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bizSugar now provides forum feeds from EvanCarmichael.com

Published by JohnH
You may have noticed that at the bottom of each of BizSugar's story pages, we now have a "Related Forum Posts" area. Based on keywords from each article, those links will take you to related forum posts from EvanCarmichael.com. Evan Carmichael has built a fantastic site for entrepreneurs. In addition to some powerful business information from well-known experts like David Allen, Jay Conrad Levinson, Michael Gerber, Jeffrey Gitomer, Seth …

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bizSugar voting button plugin available for WordPress

Published by JohnH
For those of you who use WordPress for your blog (and many of you do), I'm happy to announce that we now have a BizSugar social voting button plugin created especially for WordPress. To download it, locate the "BizSugar vote plugin" on our BizSugar tools page. As of this post, the plugin has not been tested with the new WordPress 2.5, but should work fine with other WordPress 2.x versions. This is a nice little plugin that allows …

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bizSugar feed added to Alltop

Published by JohnH
Around the same time that BizSugar was launching, another news service was just putting on its finishing touches. Guy Kawasaki, entrepreneurship guru, venture capitalist and author of one of my favorite business books, "The Art of the Start," launched a news site called Alltop. Designed as a simple way to get all of the top news stories all of the time, Kawasaki added a "small business" area. No, not a "business" section or even a "finance" …

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My first interview

Published by JohnH
Well, let me clarify, my first interview regarding BizSugar. My first interview ever was a television interview regarding a book I helped write when I was the publisher of a small business magazine. The entire experience could best be described as a nightmare. The local news station asked me to write down the questions the interviewer should ask. Simple enough, except that I was never asked any of those questions. Instead, I was asked questions …

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