Using online video in your social media or on your favorite small business news site can be important for lots of reasons. Here at BizSugar, it’s just a question of adding a link directly to a video on YouTube or whatever other video site you may prefer and sharing your online video with the whole community. Read more about Using Online Video In Your Social Media[More…]
How do I build a community? Though not word for word, this is the question I received recently from a long time member here at BizSugar eager to cultivate a better relationship with other users on our small business social media site and (like the rest of us, I suspect) to get better comments and more Read more about How To Build A Community[More…]
We’d like to take this opportunity to introduce two new moderators to the BizSugar team. BizSugar.com is a social media site offering news, tips and information for the small business community and is policed by an international team of moderators in an effort to assure the best possible experience for our members. Membership in the BizSugar community Read more about Welcome New BizSugar Moderators[More…]
Though it may be hard to believe these days, there are still plenty of businesses that doubt the validity of social media both as a marketing tool and for its actual ability to generate sales. For example, back in May, a survey conducted by Citibank Small Business, a division of Citigroup Inc., found that three quarters of respondents Read more about How Social Media Helps Your Business Make Money[More…]
Like any successful rock band, a good social media community has its groupies, those faithful fans whose devotion goes far beyond the average user’s into the realm of true passionate involvement. Here at BizSugar, we’re gratified to have such fans, folks like Heidi Kalman (here’s her story), who’s taken the time to post some very thoughtful Read more about Advice From A Social Media Groupie[More…]
Just like produce at your favorite supermarket or farmer’s market, content and information introducing you and your expertise to members of your social media community, whether BizSugar or any other, must be tantalizing enough to make visitors want to return again and again and of sufficient quality to inspire trust on the part of potential Read more about 10 Tips For Marketing With Social Media[More…]
(The folks putting together a SmallBiz Social Media Summit specially designed to help small businesses take advantage of the tools available through the social Web are moving their concept online transforming a face-to-face meeting originally scheduled for June 4 – 6, 2010 in Hutchinson, Kansas, into a virtual event anyone can attend spread over eight weeks beginning after Labor Day. BizSugar is Read more about Organizers Take Social Media Summit Online[More…]
Three cheers for BizSugar.com which last week won Best Of Tech Award For Best Social Media App presented by the Northeast Ohio Software Association. We’ve posted links to some of the congratulatory Tweets that went out after the victory from members and supporters of the BizSugar community. (Just click on the images below to be taken Read more about BizSugar Wins Best Social Media App Award[More…]
Just like the community in which you live, social media neighborhoods are created by the people who inhabit them. Here at BizSugar.com, for example, we feel we have one of the best online communities on the planet, but making a difference in your social media community or neighborhood has to do with your effort and the efforts Read more about Five Tips For Your Social Media Neighborhood[More…]
A huge part of networking in small business today happens not just at the local chamber of commerce event or even down at the local coffee shop, but online, through BizSugar.com or one of many other social media sites out there. But how do you smile, share a business card and make friendly conversation with Read more about 10 Tips For Networking Like a Social Media Guru[More…]