http://blog.bizsugar.com Get the scoop on bizSugar Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:41:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.bizsugar.com/2008/08/12/my-interview-with-small-business-trends-radio/ 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 ... http://blog.bizsugar.com/2008/05/29/how-to-add-a-bizsugar-voting-button-to-blogger/ 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, ... http://blog.bizsugar.com/2008/05/20/press-release-bizsugar-launches-small-business-newsletter/ 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 ... http://blog.bizsugar.com/2008/05/12/a-week-worth-writing-about/ 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 ... http://blog.bizsugar.com/2008/04/28/bizsugar-now-provides-forum-feeds-from-evancarmichaelcom/ 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 ... http://blog.bizsugar.com/2008/04/07/bizsugar-voting-button-plugin-available-for-wordpress/ 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 ... http://blog.bizsugar.com/2008/03/15/bizsugar-feed-added-to-alltop/ 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 ... http://blog.bizsugar.com/2008/03/13/my-first-interview/ The month of January was painfully quiet. That's when we officially launched our site and put out our first press release. While I didn't expect a flood of publicity, I thought that maybe someone, anyone, would write about us. Not a line was written. In retrospect, there were a few things we ... http://blog.bizsugar.com/2008/03/05/bizsugar-gets-some-press/ The "Top this Week" sidebar feature has been modified to show the top voted articles within the last 7 days. Before the change, the feature showcased the top voted articles Sunday through Saturday. While that's a more accurate description of the term "Top this Week," we thought it was rather unfair because an article ... http://blog.bizsugar.com/2008/02/17/top-this-week-feature-modified/