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Anita Campbell

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ANITA CAMPBELL

Small business market consultant
Information Technology and Services, Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Operate online communities and provide content reaching over 1,000,000 small business owners and entrepreneurs annually.

Businesses:

Founder of Small Business Trends (http://smallbiztrends.com), the most popular, independent small-business blog and community on the Web. We help readers stay on top of trends in the small business market.

Small Business Trends has won numerous accolades, and has been featured on MSNBC's Your Business multiple times. The site won the Forbes Best of the Web award twice, in 2005 and 2008.

Also owner of BizSugar.com, the premier social media and bookmarking site specifically for small businesses.

Our businesses also create syndicated content that appears all over the Web: the American Express OPENForum.com; Business.gov; the Verizon Small Business Blog; BusinessInsider.com; and many others. I have spoken at numerous small-business events and webinars.

Advisory Boards:

I serve or have served on the following Boards and Advisory Panels:

- Northeast Ohio Software Association, the technology arm of COSE (Council of Smaller Enterprises). See www.NEOSA.org and www.COSE.org.

- Center for Information Technology & eBusiness, University of Akron School of Business. See www.uakron.edu. Past Vice Chair of the Advisory Board.

- Social Media Advisory Board for Network Solutions.

- Advisory Panel for British Airways Face-to-Face Competition

- Judge, Intuit's Love a Local Business competition.


Publications:

I am a contributor or expert source to 6 American Express OPEN Insight Guides; Deluxe Corporation's small-business banking guide; the American Express OPEN Social Media Guide; and the Intuit Future of Small Business Report.

I am the co-author of "Visual Marketing" (Wiley, Fall 2011).

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Work Experience

CEO
BizSugar, a small business social media site
5/2009 - Present
CEO
Small Business Trends LLC
10/2003 - Present
Small business market consultant
Anita Campbell Associates Ltd.
5/2002 - Present
Vice Chair and Advisory Board Member
Center for Information Technology and eBusiness, University of Akron
7/2001 - 2010
CEO and President
MotorcycleWorld.com Inc.
9/1999 - 9/2001
Senior Vice President
Bell & Howell Company
8/1992 - 8/1999

Education

Duquesne University
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University of Akron School of Law
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