Biz Sugar – Sharing Your Small Business News in a Community

If you want to share tips and tricks from your business to help other small businesses out there, visit the Biz Sugar community. I’ve been using their platform for years to learn and engage with other like-minded businesses.

I’ve met small business owners from around the world there and we have helped each other out online over the years. (Inspire To Thrive has been a member there since 2012.)

The New Biz Sugar Small Business Advisors Directory

Recently, Biz Sugar started a small business advisors directory for people to find services and products from small businesses. You can see the categories on the left-hand side of the website to choose from. 

If you need some guidance choosing an advisor? Not finding what you need easily?  Join our Mastermind Community and message our Community Manager Gail Gardner.

How Biz Sugar Works

So you can submit yours or others’ post on the Biz Sugar Community. You are allowed up to 5 posts per day. Then people vote and can comment on the posts as well.

You can view them by the most popular or the most recent posts. I like looking at them both ways. Sometimes I like to know what is popular and other times I want to read the most recent content.

Oftentimes, others will click on the link to read the articles which are on your website. It can drive targeted traffic to your website!

Filling Out Your Bio

Be sure to fill out your bio along with your business blog or website link. People can follow you and friend you as well on the network – just like most other types of social networks.

If you have been online for a while you may recognize some of the Biz Sugar community members.

Generating Traffic on Social Media

I was inspired to write this post after they mentioned my last article on Facebook. Oftentimes, my articles may show up on Twitter or in a Google alert via Small Biz Trends.

That website tends to drive even more traffic to mine as readers check out the articles there and come over to my other website.

They also do Facebook live events for the community and they tweet consistently.

Join us on Facebook TODAY at 1PM ET for a #liveevent, “20 Hacks to Get ‘er Done with Virtual Teams.” https://t.co/u74s1LZyHm

— BizSugar (@bizsugar) July 7, 2020

Here are five do’s and don’ts of employee goal setting you can use to motivate your employees so they can aim and hit their target every time. https://t.co/iQyPy2dFXs #Employees #Motivation pic.twitter.com/XX9H3ILPBq

— BizSugar (@bizsugar) June 23, 2020

What Types of Businesses Are on Biz Sugar?

There are a lot of marketing companies, however, there are quite a variety of different types of business on Biz Sugar.

For Example:

Entrepreneurs like Martin Z Willing of Start-Up Professionals. He is consistently posting on the network.

Martin Lindeskog from Econetcast, a podcaster, and entrepreneur. He is one of the most active commenters on the site today.

Ivan Widjaya of Small Business CEO.

Oak Tree Business – A larger small biz helping credit unions from the state of California.

I’ve noticed a few others like Cox Business and Search Engine Journal.

What Is the Benefit for Your Business?

• Generating more targeted traffic to your website if you are a B2B business.
• Connecting with other like-minded people in a safe online environment.
• Learning new things about the business.
• Sharing information to help others with their business.

I’d love to know if you are in any business communities online? I’d love to know more in the comments below!