Meet our most recent BizSugar "Contributor of the Week" on Facebook Jim Armstrong of Get Busy Media. Jim not only runs his own small business through social media but, like so many small business owners today has relied on it for many of his most critical business activities including finding a partner.
"Last December, I reconnected with an old high school buddy, Steve Murphy, via Facebook," Jim said in a recent interview. "I was …
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Meet Matt S. Mansfield of Matt About Business, our most recent BizSugar "Contributor of the Week" on Facebook.
Matt says he started his company to help small business owners learn more about the online world.
"A lot of folks were talking about Internet marketing, websites, SEO, online software and the cloud," says Matt. "But not many were talking to the audience who stood to benefit the most: small business owners. I wanted to …
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Say hello to Holly Hanna, our first BizSugar Facebook "Contributor of the Week."
Holly has always wanted to be a stay at home mom, so when she was expecting her daughter she began to make plans, saving money and beginning to look for home business options. But she soon became frustrated at the lack of viable opportunities out there.
After her daughter was born, the pressures of motherhood delayed her entrepreneurial ambitions for …
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Have you checked out BizSugar on Facebook yet?
If not, you may want to click over and "Like" our BizSugar fan page today to take part in our new "BizSugar Small Biz Contributor of the Week" contest. Here's how it works!
Starting this Wednesday, we'll be picking a link shared on the BizSugar main site by one of our Facebook fans to give a special attaboy or attagirl by sharing the link on Facebook as our "BizSugar Small Biz …
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Would you like to help choose the Top 100 Small Business Influencers of 2011?
BizSugar.com is proud to be a sponsor and supporter of the 2011 Small Business Influencer awards. The Small Business Influencer awards recognize the companies and people who are responsible for supporting the small business community -- those who create great products and services, and provide information and guidance that small businesses need in order …
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(Niall Devitt is part of the driving force behind Bloggertone, a fascinating business blogging community based in Ireland, and is no stranger to social media marketing either. Last week Bloggertone published a tongue-in-cheek post on blogging's demise by community member Anne Perez. Below, Niall talks about seeing blogging as a genre of social media and how social media can be used to market your business blog.)
Hi Niall. Thanks so much …
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It might seem strange to some folks that as a leading social media business site we here at BizSugar.com still love business blogging so much.
In fact, it's generally assumed that with the rise of social media sites on the Internet today, blogging is on the decline. See this admittedly tongue-in- cheek post recently by our friends at Bloggertone.com via BizSugar about the death of the blog, a death that has been prematurely reported …
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Building your brand is one of the most important things you can do with social media. This is probably not news to you.
But how do you go about building your brand? Where do you look for inspiration and how do you know that you're headed in the right direction?
Last week, a few members of Scott Fox's ClickMillionaires community asked me about the origin of the BizSugar name and logo.
I decided to do a bit of research and contacted BizSugar's …
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We’re back with another SMB social media interview! Last month we introduced you to Naked Pizza Co-Founder and Chief Brand Architect Robbie Vitrano who shared the story of how one pizza chain was using Twitter and Facebook to not only sell healthier pizzas, but to start a greater conversation about diet-related obesity. If you missed our social media interview with Naked Pizza, we had a great chat.
This week we have another SMB rockin’ …
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We've talked recently to both Laura Petrolino of 365 Days of Startups and Scott Fox of ClickMillionaires about how to create and manage small business communities that create value for your followers.
As community manager here at BizSugar.com, I strive, with our global team of moderators, to create a relaxed environment where members, including small business owners, those working in small business or interested in small business … 
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