Keeping your employees engaged and focused can be a challenge at times. According to a study conducted by Hewitt Associates, June of 2010 saw the biggest decline in employee engagement in 15 years. We’ve found some suggestions to increase employee engagement in this article titled, “Why Employees Are Less Engaged Than Ever:” Provide meaningful work Read more about Employee Engagement: Provide A Suggestion, Win A Gift Certificate[More…]

We and our partners at Bloggertone.com are planning another blogging contest in April.   It will be called “Sugartone” (the name is a combination of BizSUGAR and BloggerTONE – get it?). And our contest partner, Bloggertone, is looking for sponsors.  This is an excellent opportunity for any company that wants visibility among small business owners Read more about New Blogging Contest: Sponsors Wanted[More…]

Get your copy of the new SugarTone ebook now available free online. For those who might be unaware, the SugarTone contest, a collaboration between BizSugar.com and our friends at Bloggertone, the business blogging community, attempted to collect and rank contributions from the collective communities of BizSugar and Bloggertone providing the top contributors, as ranked by Read more about Free SugarTone Ebook Now Available[More…]

Well, last week marked the wrap up of our second SugarTone Sweet Blogging Contest and we’d just like to thank everyone who participated from both BizSugar, the small business news and social media community, and the Bloggertone business blogging network to help make this contest a success.  As Niall Devitt at Bloggertone put it:   Read more about A Big Thank You From Our Team![More…]

Well, the SugarTone Sweet Business Blogging Contest is under way and you can already watch the contestants stacking up over at the BizSugar.com and Bloggertone Facebook sites. We wish all the contestants the best of luck and hope all BizSugar members will participate as well by voting and commenting on the entries found under “SugarTone” Read more about SugarTone: Are You A Participant?[More…]

If your blog post has the right tone, we may just give it some sugar. Yes, that’s right, it’s time for another round of the Sugartone “Sweet Business Blogging Contest”, a competition in which we are again collaborating with our good friends at Bloggertone, the business blogging community. This time our theme will be “Making Read more about BizSugar and Bloggertone Together Again for Sugartone Contest[More…]

Shawn Hessinger, chief moderator and blogger for bizSugar.com, your source for social news and networking, interviews Niall Devitt and Cindy King of small business blogging network Bloggertone about Sugartone, the sweet blogging contest, a joint effort between the two communities running this week from March 15-19. Get more details here.