There are lots of ways to improve your small business, but taking advantage of additional resources that can give you added information and expertise is often a great place to start.
BizSugar already offers great small business resources in the form of helpful business articles and other content on our main site and the opportunity to interact with an estimated 200,000 visitors all interested in small business just like you. But …
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(Editor's note: For those of you who don't already know, Scott Fox is the creator of what he likes to call the "friendliest" small business coaching community online, ClickMillionaires.com. Like us here at BizSugar.com, Scott knows the value of small business communities not only as a way to help others but as a small business model in their own right. We were glad to have a chance to sit down and talk with Scott about communities and …
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Social media is a two way street allowing your small business to communicate with your network of fans and potential customers and allowing them to talk to you resulting in both positive and sometimes negative feedback.
Whether it is on BizSugar or on another social media channel where your business might participate, how you deal with and react to this feedback can be a critical part of defining your brand or business.
At …
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Welcome! It’s the last Wednesday of the month which means it’s time to take a step back and interview another small business who we think is rocking social media in a pretty cool way. This week we’re excited to share a recent conversation we had with Robbie Vitrano, co-founder and Chief Brand Architect of Naked Pizza.
If you’re not familiar with Naked Pizza, it’s time that you are. Not only are they doing pizza better by encouraging …
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(Why does your small business need a community or need to be part of one. Here at BizSugar, of course, we've got some very definite ideas about how small business community can work for you. Small business communications and strategy consultant Laura Petrolino is a longtime member of our community and helps her clients with advice and education through a community of her own and talked to us recently about why it's so important.)
1. Hi, …
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You've probably heard before that social media, including sites like our own BizSugar small business news and information community can be great places to market your content and, by extension, your product or service.
So why would anyone, least of all a social media community moderator like myself EVER tell you to stop using social media for marketing?
Well, the answer is I'm not. Just bear with me!
Recently, while glancing …
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We are thankful each week for the great content BizSugar members share with our small business news and information community. That great content is now paying off big time for users as BizSugar surpassed 175,000 members last week.
This means small business leaders posting content on BizSugar now have a huge audience and for those starting out it is larger than anything they may have hoped to achieve early on with their site.
But still …
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We're proud to announce that BizSugar.com has hit 175,000 members and counting with 95,000 subscribers to our weekly newsletter.
Though this is good news for us (you may hear the pop of a champagne cork in the background :)), it's also good news for you, the small business owner, since BizSugar is much more than just a place to find great small business related articles online.
If you've been sitting on the sidelines thus far, …
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Recently we introduced BizSugar readers to a new feature here on the blog – it’s where we talking to small business owners (and even some big brands) to learn about how they’re using social media to build their business and ask them to share some tips, insight and like experiences. So far we’ve spoken to Adam Wallace to hear how Roger Smith became known as “the social media hotel” and how Petco is using social media to connect …
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There are plenty of tools you can use to improve the performance of your small business blog, but creating a blog that can easily be shared on social media sites can be just as important for building brand and traffic these days.
Here at BizSugar.com, we see our share of business blogs and know some of the factors that can improve a blogs standing in a small business community. Are any of these factors that could help with your blog?
Write …
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