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bizSugar is a Digg-like site for small businesses. The site allows business owners, managers and entrepreneurs to discover, share and vote for the best business tips, trends, news and strategies on the Web.
For anyone who is already a Digg user you will feel quite at home with the layout that bizSugar has chosen. You can view the most immediately popular stories as well as the top stories from today, yesterday, the past week, month and year.
Personally I think it’s a useful service for entrepreneurs. As a business owner I’m always trying to stay on top of news that can impact my company. Because I’m an online business as well, my focus is typically staying on top of topics related to Google, SEO, link building, Page Rank, online marketing, etc.
I have found it difficult to use Digg to get this information. I have customized it through my account but there is no category for “Entrepreneurship.” The closest you get is “Business and Finance” which covers a range of articles that I have no interest in. As a result I waste my time sorting through irrelevant material to get to the stuff that I want.
bizSugar helps weed through all the useless posts to bring you hot information that is relevant to running a business. When I first clicked on the homepage I discovered a number of interesting articles that intrigued me to click further. They included:
- Test: mornings may be best for email marketing
- Recession-Proof Your Business
- Tony Robbins motivates you in 20 minutes: TEDTalks
So far so good bizSugar! These were great articles!
If you come across a story that you think would be of value to other business owners you can add it to the bizSugar system and vote on it. The more bizSugars, or votes, that a story gets, the higher up it ranks, just like the Digg system.
The website is coming out of beta so if you haven’t heard the name before, don’t worry.
Founder John Holsen (usename JohnH) is the most active contributor to bizSugar but he’s not the only one submitting content. There is an active community and, so far, the stories that they are adding are certainly of higher value to business owners compared to what you can find on Digg.
bizSugar gets two thumbs up in my books. I will definitely be back to check up on the latest small business news and hope their membership base continues to grow and add additional quality articles.
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