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What’s in Your Small Business “Field of Dreams”

Small Business Field of Dreams BizSugarIn the movie "Field of Dreams," Kevin Costner is famously told "If you build it. They will come." We think the same is true of your small business. And to that end, a few weeks ago we asked BizSugar members the simple question "What is your number one small business goal in 2011?" Our hope was that by doing a bit of crowdsourcing, we could mine our great small business social community for some ideas that contributing members might, …

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What is your number one small business goal in 2011?

BizSugar Small Business GoalWhat is your number one small business goal in 2011? I posed this question yesterday on both our Facebook and Twitter pages. You can see the responses so far on our Facebook fan page. I'm hoping there will be more forthcoming. But why did I post the question and what are we hoping to get from all of this? And what does the question about our members' futureĀ goals have to do with small business news and small business social media, …

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Small Business Is…

We'd like your help finishing the sentence above. Every small business person or entrepreneur will likely have a different answer when asked to define small business, an answer that says a bit about what small business means to them, so here's how you can contribute: If you're on Twitter and haven't already done so, start following us @BizSugar (we'll be sure to follow back). Then make a Tweet completing the sentence "Small Business …

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Promote Your Website with bizSugar

(A little social marketing goes a long way, says Matthew Ringer of SmallBizBee, who talks about how you can use a handful of tools to promote your Website to success online in this interview with BizSugar.com.) Matt, the first thing I notice when I click on your site from BizSugar.com is the BizSugar intro at the top of each post. Can you tell us a little more about how you set that up? That's done with a free Wordpress plugin called …

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Take Your Small Business Global

(How can you take your small business global? In my interview with international marketer Cindy King we discuss the tools, approaches and core concepts that can make your cross-cultural marketing strategy a success.) Hi Cindy. First, thanks so much for agreeing to the interview. Could you tell us a bit more about yourself and what you do? Hi Shawn, I am North American but have spent all of my professional life based in Europe in international …

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