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Herbalist and aromatherapist Ella Nunes has created a powerful brand for the soaps and lotions marketed by her Toronto-based company Ella’s Botanicals that is strongly rooted in the products themselves. Her items are hand-made, locally produced, natural and good for the environment. Starting with j Read More

BizSugar member and regular contributor Jeremiah Staes has this interesting perspective on a new social media community that may transform online marketing for small business as completely and significantly as Facebook and Foursquare. Read his overview of GetGlue, a site that organizes people not a Read More

What are your plans for using social media in your small business in 2011? In a recent post, small business consultant Jason Kienbaum mentioned a bunch of social media sites small business owners should be aware of in 2011, including BizSugar.com. Thanks for the shout out Jason! We can think of at Read More

For that employee who has everything from the small business owner who's still trying to watch the bottom line (yes, even during the Holiday season) here are some affordable gift ideas for your employees that won't put you in the red at year's end. If done right, they might even spread some Holiday Read More

Author and entrepreneur John Warrillow discusses how to build a business you can later sell in this series of videos and answers readers' questions. If starting a business or adapting an existing business to make it sell-able is ever something you have considered or wanted to do, these interviews h Read More

Anita Campbell, CEO of BizSugar.com is interviewed by Abby Johnson of WebProNews at the recent BlogWorld conference on the topic of monetizing your Website. Anita talks about some common mistakes she feels that small business people online make when it comes to monetizing their Websites and also t Read More

We took a good idea and made it better. Now it's even easier to find great small business news and information on BizSugar.com thanks to a new moderation system designed to keep more inappropriate content from ever reaching our Website and our community. Read more about the new system still designe Read More

Social media sites like BizSugar.com and others are amazingly powerful tools helping to gain visibility for your business, product, service or topic. But first it is important to know the basics of being a good social media citizen. Here are 10 dos and don’ts to be sure you give your social media c Read More

Bootstrapping entrepreneur Greg Gianforte took a revolutionary small business sales approach to launch his first product and build his company RightNow Technologies with little upfront investment. His strategy? Ask his perspective customers in the tech industry what kind of product they needed and Read More

You will never market your small business the same again thanks to new features being introduced by FB. In the old days a customer might have looked for a local business by typing a search for the type of business followed by the location into Google. But with new location-based applications being Read More