Small Business Advice Fast, Easy to Find at BizSugar

January 31, 2011 · 62 comments

Small business owners and those of us who advise them need a fast way to find the best content related to marketing and running a small business.

My readers may already be familiar with voting sites like Sphinn for SEO. BizSugar is a similar voting site that focuses specifically on information of interest to small business owners including Small Business Advice.

Since many blogs ARE small businesses and I and many of my favorite bloggers offer small business advice I am encouraging us to all become active on BizSugar.

BizSugar is free to join – find, share and support
high quality Small Business Advice

My WordPress consultant Derek Semmler has already added the BizSugar this! button to the top of the posts just to the right of the Twitter, Facebook and StumbleUpon sharing buttons and I encourage all bloggers in our niche to do the same.

The more of us who are active on BizSugar
the more supportive and influential we are.

Jim Kukral and Small Business Trends were nice enough to put together this short (9:05 minute) video on how to use BizSugar:

BizSugar Resources:

Frequently used links:

About BizSugar
BizSugar Small Business Advice Blog
BizSugar Voting Buttons WordPress plugin (Includes the bizSugarThis share button I’m using which is smaller. Using it submits a post if it isn’t there already or adds a vote if it is the same way the larger Vote buttons work.)
BizSugar Voting Buttons for Blogger

Collaborators active on BizSugar

Links to Twitter followed by BizSugar profile in alphabetical order by primary Twitter username:

@708media on Twitter and BizSugar
@ffiliateXFiles on Twitter and BizSugar (Ron Cripps)
@AndyNathan on Twitter and on BizSugar
@AskKim on Twitter and BizSugar (Kimberly Castleberry)
@Authopublisher on Twitter and BizSugar (Ivin Viljoen)
@Brad Harmon on Twitter and AggieBrad on BizSugar
@BusinessSavante on Twitter and BizSugar (Duncan Campbell) – Duncan is a BizSugar moderator
@ConnieFoggles on BizSugar
@DanielSharkov on Twitter but DSharkov on BizSugar
@DonnaFontenot – BizSugar
@DonPower on Twitter – DonPower on BizSugar
@DragonBlogger on BizSugar (Justin Germino)
@Eren McKay on Twitter – erenmckay on BizSugar
@ExtremeJohn on Twitter and on BizSugar
@Ileane on BizSugar
@GrowMap on Twitter and on BizSugar (Gail Gardner)
@Karl Foxly on Twitter – Karl Fox on BizSugar
@Kikolani on Twitter – Kristi on BizSugar
@marketingm8 on Twitter and on BizSugar (Peter Masters)
@mmangen on Twitter and on BizSugar (Michelle Mangen)
@NewBizBlogger on BizSugar (Michele Welch)
NittyGriddy most places including on BizSugar but NittyGriddyBlog on Twitter (Ingrid Abboud)
@SEOSmarty on Twitter and Ann_Smarty on BizSugar
@Sprout_Insights on Twitter and on BizSugar
Stephanie Suesan Smith is @lambdakennels154, @icgardening27, @icphotos1, @icwoodworking on Twitter and StephanieSuesanSmith on BizSugar
@TristanHigbee on Twitter – TristanH on BizSugar
@VirtuosoBlogger on Twitter – Friend Gautam Hans on BizSugar
@Zachsbuzz on Twitter and on BizSugar
Who did I miss? Don’t be shy! Let me know in fhe comments or directly if we’re already in touch on Skype or IM.

How do you become a collaborator?

Simply support whatever these bloggers do that you believe in:

Vote for their content on BizSugar IF you like it.
Retweet their Tweets on Twitter.
Review them on StumbleUpon.
Friend them on Facebook.
Like their Facebook Fan pages.
Consider adding their RSS feeds to your Twitter using TwitterFeed or your favorite Twitter Management Tools IF you feel their posts are consistently of interest to you and your followers.
Connect with them and friend/like/review their blogs on Blog Communities like BloggerLuv, Technorati, Blog Engage and other Blog Directories.

What we need is a tool that collates all this information that can pull up collaborators by niche, location, or closeness. I’ve been seeking someone who can create this tool (which would be highly marketable and we would gladly test and promote it) since my post SMM Tools Wanted for Power Bloggers, Social Networkers published in December 2009.

Small Business: 6 Resources on the Web for SMBs (growmap.com)
Small Business Internet Marketing – Where to start, priorities, what is most important (growmap.com)
Small Business Advice Fast and Easy to Find at BizSugar (growmap.com)
7 Social Bookmarking Sites Worth Exploring (socialmediaexaminer.com)

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graphic design buffalo Twitter: matthewacoleman March 19, 2012 at 3:47 am Twitter: @matthewacoleman

i just joined BizSugar and im still waiting if it’s for me..

Danny who writes about Pole chain saw September 19, 2011 at 1:34 am

BizSugar is definitely growing in popularity.
They are also advertising on many sites I frequent, so business must be going well.
After reading this, I am thinking about signing up. But I’m already getting so much info and support from blogs like Growmap.
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JoAnn Lefebvre Twitter: JoAnnLefebvre March 18, 2011 at 2:35 pm Twitter: @JoAnnLefebvre

Have you tried mBlast for identifying influencers? I was leaning over Marshall Sponder’s shoulder while he took the demo for a test drive. He was like a kid in a candy store…….very excited about the data coming back. Here’s a link to webmetricsguru’s post, so you can take a look t mBlast. Jason Falls also liked this platform.
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growmap Twitter: GrowMap July 4, 2011 at 11:10 pm Twitter: @GrowMap: Hi JoAnn,

I hadn’t even heard of it yet. Marshall does more comparison testing than anyone I know of so he sees stuff before we do. The link didn’t come through in your comment for some reason so I found it on Marshall’s site:

Link to @WebMetricsGuru review of freemium mBlast Influencer Analysis platform.
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Janet Twitter: janetcallaway March 17, 2011 at 9:06 pm Twitter: @janetcallaway

Gail, aloha. Thx so much for inviting me to leave my BizSugar link. Here it is:

http://www.bizsugar.com/user/submitted/janetcallaway

The video was very helpful. On my “to do” list for the weekend is to spend the time to learn how to work with BizSugar effectively.

Though I started to add people to my friends list from the list above. Since I am not sure whether it was a cyberspace glitch or defective link, I will click on them tomorrow and, if they don’t work, will let you know which ones. Some did work; some did not.

Hope all is going well with your move. Aloha. Janet
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Susan Spencer Twitter: susantspencer February 18, 2011 at 8:27 am Twitter: @susantspencer

This is a great video on this blog about biz Sugar. I will make sure to start using it to promote my new book and blog. Thank you again. I have just been adding other social sites besides Twitter and Facebook.

Susan
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Michelle Mangen Twitter: mmangen February 8, 2011 at 6:09 am Twitter: @mmangen

Gail:

Thank you so much for adding me to your list. I’m trying to be better on all of my social bookmarking accounts with submitting articles I find of interest on a daily basis. I tend to overlook BizSugar from time to time because they aren’t an option on the Shareholic toolbar (yet?)

I also like TJMcCue but I can’t remember what his user name is on BizSugar.

If you find someone to develop the collaboration tool you mention be sure to let me know.

Business Portal February 8, 2011 at 1:49 am

Very much informative site, I found some useful content to start small business

Kimmo who writes about fräknar February 27, 2011 at 8:35 am

Dude, stop spamming. Seriously.

growmap Twitter: GrowMap February 27, 2011 at 12:51 pm Twitter: @GrowMap: Hi Kimmo,

Spam is in the eye of the beholder. IF I had found the same comment on any other blogs I would have deleted it, but it IS a unique comment. Yes, it is a weak comment and I do need to tighten up my commenting policy to prohibit short comments that do not add to the conversation.

For now, though, he is linking to a business site that could be of interest so I left it. When time allows I will be doing a general comment cleaning and then it may go.
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Don Power Twitter: Sprout_Insights February 7, 2011 at 1:26 pm Twitter: @Sprout_Insights

Hi Gail.

I just spent 10 minutes and added everyone you’ve listed here as a friend on my Sprout_Insights account. I’ll do the same for my donpower account the next time I upload a post.

Cheers and thanks!

- Don
aka @donpower
aka @Sprout_Insights
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growmap Twitter: GrowMap February 7, 2011 at 3:18 pm Twitter: @GrowMap: Hi Don,

Thank you for running with this. I added your other Twitter account to your entry in this post.
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