Today is the 4th anniversary of #Smallbizchat. I started the weekly live chat on Twitter on April 22, 2009 to help small business owners get answers to their pressing questions.
The mission of #SmallBizChat is to end small business failure by reducing the learning curve as you start and grow your small businesses.
The show takes place every Wednesday night from 8-9pm Eastern Time. Each week, I interview other small business experts on a topic related to running a successful small business. I am humbled that we are still at it after all these years. My team and I have conducted nearly 200 shows in the last few years. We only take off four weeks a year for holidays; otherwise you can count on us every Wednesday night.
We started #Smallbizchat to build an online community of entrepreneurs on Twitter. These days, we are a fixture on the vast schedule of Tweetchats that take place every day of the week on Twitter. Hundreds of entrepreneurs join us each week to listen and join in on the conversation and, on an average Wednesday night, the community generates over 1,000,000 media impressions across Twitter.
#Smallbizchat is a peer-to-peer mentoring session each week, where not only does my special guest answer interview questions, but the attendees are free to answer questions and pose follow-up questions to the guest as well. It all moves pretty fast, but we use @Tweetgrid to keep the conversation going. We feature authors, journalists, and small business experts as guests on #Smallbizchat. We also have corporate sponsors that join us each month with special offers and giveaways for our #Smallbizchat community. Additionally, the chat question and answer session is repurposed as a blog post every Thursday on www.succeedasyourownboss.com, so that if you missed the live chat or don’t use Twitter, you can still benefit from the content and conversation.
To join the weekly conversation you can use the hashtag #Smallbizchat and use your Twitter account to sign in to our preset Tweetgrid link, or for beginners, we suggest using Tweetchat. For the latest information on the weekly chat guest, follow @Smallbizchat for information.
Smallbizchat was created to help with the isolation that many small business owners and solopreneurs feel while running their businesses. What I’m most proud of is the supportive network that has been built, where small business owners can find answers and inspiration for their businesses and practical strategies to advance their business goals.
I would like to thank my co-host Amanda Miller Littlejohn @AmandaMogul and the entire SmallBizLady team for helping me to have one of the longest running and most successful tweetchats on Twitter. Here’s to many more years of celebrating small business success.
As always if you are a small business owner or author with some expertise to share, submit your information to be a guest on #Smallbizchat via our guest intake form. Keep in mind, the more specific the topic suggestion, the most likely you are to be selected as a guest.
Thank you all for supporting us each week as loyal followers of #Smallbizchat, don’t forget to join us tonight. You know I love to give away free stuff. Happy Anniversary.
Happy Anniversary Melinda. I wish I could join one of your chats because they sound interesting, but the time is bad for me. That’s sacred family time here.