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 Read more about Jim Kukral creates bizSugar tutorial video[More…]
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.
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 Read more about My interview with Small Business Trends Radio[More…]
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 Read more about How to add a bizSugar voting button to Blogger[More…]
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 Read more about PRESS RELEASE: bizSugar Launches Small Business Newsletter[More…]
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. Read more about A week worth writing about[More…]
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 Read more about bizSugar now provides forum feeds from EvanCarmichael.com[More…]
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 Read more about bizSugar voting button plugin available for WordPress[More…]
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 Read more about bizSugar feed added to Alltop[More…]
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 Read more about My first interview[More…]