BizSugar.com › User › ShawnHessinger › Published

Jim Kukral recommends this 28-page free report on content writing and SEO from the folks at Copyblogger. You can download it straight from a link on Jim's site. I haven't read it myself yet, but honestly have great respect for the Copyblogger team so it's on my to-do list. Hey, if anyone else has already seen this report and would like to give some feedback, please leave a comment below Read More

If you want to change your business, your employees and your life, why not change all the situations that are keeping you where you are? It may be simpler than you think. The smallest change can make huge alterations in your business making you more competitive, more productive and more efficient than you are today. Watch the video link and take a look at how you can discover the best way to improve the situations that impact your business and how to change the Read More

What can you learn from successful brands like Cracker Barrel about keeping customers coming back and always engaged with your product or service? As it turns out, some fairly simple steps keep customers engaged and not only coming back for more but staying longer once they do find you and visit. If loyal customers should be the goal of every small business than reading this post is key to finding success Read More

Representatives from the U.S. Small Business Administration and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services discuss the realities of new health care reform and its impact on small business as well as answering some important questions from the public. As with the other video on health care, we'd like to invite some discussion from the BizSugar small business community. Please leave your comments below Read More

The National Federation of Independent Business has put together this video about concerns raised over the new healthcare reform legislation. The reform remains controversial with small business organizations who insist it will be costly and prevent both growth and creation of new jobs. However, supporters insist many small businesses will be exempt from the healthcare mandate and that it will eventually make healthcare less expensive for all business. What do you think. We'd love to hear from the community on this. Leave your comments below Read More

BizSugar is a proud sponsor of the SmallBiz Social Media Summit to be held in Hutchinson, Kansas June 4-6. Learn more about using social media to promote your small business and bring you more of the customers you want. Please read this post on the event with links to further information and a special opportunity for the BizSugar community. Read More

Famed VC investor Fred Wilson shares this great post on the importance of pricing when it comes to products or services. Can pricing actually be a kind of marketing? More important, can increasing th Read More

Editor and tech evangelist Ramon Ray gives this great roundup with additional links to more details on some interesting tech of potential use to your small business. Click through to the article and Read More

Paul Chaney had a rewarding job with a young and growing company, but in the end he needed to follow his heart. This move has led him to focus on his passion for small business and for speaking in an effort to inspire others and help small businesses grow. But it has also led him to leave the security of full-time employment to become a small business person himself. Sometimes the best way to mak Read More

The National Federation of Independent Business has created a video and explanation of its opposition to a healthcare bill that may be voted upon as early as Sunday which business advocates say will be tremendous hardship on U.S. small businesses. We'd like to hear from the bizSugar community. Do you agree with the current healthcare package being debated in Washington. We'd like to hear from the Read More