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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Maintaining traditional channels like phone, email and live chat support are a must—but a solid support community can cut that burden drastically, saving you time and money. But good communities are more than support channels. An effective support community relies on members to generate much of the support. It’s Worked Before.

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5 Things I’ve Learned from Running BizSugar

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When my company, Small Business Trends, LLC, first purchased BizSugar in the summer of 2009, the best way I could describe it was as a miniature version of Digg, except that BizSugar focused soley on sharing information geared toward small and mid-sized businesses. Work on Building a Community. This is still true.

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How To Start A Blog For Your Small Business

Buffer Social

After all, you’re a small business owner, and probably not a trained writer. A blog can also be a low-cost way to elevate your small business’s reach and also build credibility with your followers, making it a win-win situation. Why start a blog for your small business?

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Should You Design Your Website Using WordPress?

Small Business Mavericks

More and more, I’m seeing small business websites using WordPress as a CMS. Even churches and community service organizations are using WordPress as a CMS and designing their websites using this free open source software. Is that a good idea? In a word, there is nothing wrong with using WordPress as a CMS.

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Open Source is a feature, not a benefit

The Way of the Web

Open source is a wonderful thing. But reading Matthew Ingram’s post last week about the lack of adoption for an open Twitter alternative highlighted the key reason why so few open source projects become mainstream success stories at the level of WordPress or Firefox.

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Why WordPress Rules

Small Business Mavericks

It is open source and therefore easily manipulated for one’s own purposes. There is a strong support community. A huge development community is always at work to make WordPress better. There are several reasons for this: It is free.

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Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison)

The Marketing Blog

. ‘Facebook’ being a closed platform the community considers it as a friend focussed channel. Mashable Community’s Opinion Obviously the number of reactions cannot be directly translated to the likelihood of a user joining either of the two networks. ’43′ respondents have voted in favor of Facebook !