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What makes a video go viral? No, we're not talking about something like the common cold or flu here. We're talking about an online video that is so popular with viewers that they feel the need to share it with their friends, colleagues or family via social media like Twitter or Facebook, or through e-mail or re-posting it on their blog or Website. Having your video go viral is often the ultimate goal of any online marketing campaign because it is a way of letting others spread your message with limited expense or effort on your part and allows you to reach a potentially huge audience as your viewers share the message with their network and those people share it with their network and so on and so on Read More

Listen to the BizSugar interview with Anita Campbell and yours truly at Small Business Trends Radio and check out this post on the importance of businesses being social, something near and dear to our hearts here at BizSugar.com. We'll be switching the link at the top of the blog post to the archived version of the show after the live Web cast. Looking forward to all of your comments Read More

Comparing the era of big brand, product-focused businesses to today's rise of the new entrepreneurial personal brand Read More

As a small business owner we love to give credit to our people when it is deserved and there are a number of ways that can be done: Through the handwritten note, pay increase or a steak dinner. You pick, but can we do something more for the superstars on our company team? A lot of big companies like to use offline media publicity to reward their people for good work. For example, ESPN did a commercial congratulating Chris Bermen on his last award. Now why can’t we do something similar to showcase the hard work of our employees? Well most of us probably can’t do something similar to a TV commercial that ESPN did for Chris Berman, but we could use social media to showcase our people Read More

Give, and you get back. If you are an expert in your field and manage to extract huge sums of money for your time, giving a percentage of that time for free will empower both you and the receiver. What comes around, goes around.. Read More

The other I posed this somewhat trick laden question on Twitter – “Is making something easier to understand dumbing it down or smartening it up?” The answers I got were mixed. Some obviously saw that I was suggesting it’s actually harder to make some easy to understand. Others clearly felt that it somewhat of a disservice to try to make things that were complicated seem simple Read More

Meet the bloggers, and support each other, this is how we get the power, and grow our blogs and online businesses the right way, here is some examples of successful Blogging Collaboration Read More

Sales people are trained to be problem solvers — we ask questions, probe — once we find a problem we attack like a pit bull and don’t let go until we’ve wrestled the problem to the ground and gotten the order Read More

Today we are going to continue our discussion with a computer support professional and find out how the methods she used to market her company can be used to make your business successful as well. Part 2 of a two part series Read More

Culture determines who will work for you, who stays, and who quits. Once formed, culture is nearly impossible to change. People who work well within the culture quickly self-select. And those who don't fit leave. Read More