{"id":564,"date":"2008-10-10T16:57:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T16:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expandsmtest.com\/franchiseking\/american-expres\/"},"modified":"2017-01-09T13:50:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T13:50:46","slug":"american-expres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefranchiseking.com\/american-expres","title":{"rendered":"American Express Open Forum; It&#8217;s Becoming Quite The Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>                                             <\/p>\n<p>Open Forum, <\/strong>the <strong>American Express <\/strong>Small Business website is really starting to become popular. With the likes of renowned experts on small business like Guy Kawasaki, Ramon Ray, and Brent Leary, the site is getting some serious buzz. <strong>Open Forum<\/strong> just won a <strong>Gold Award<\/strong> at The 2008 <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Mixx<\/span> <\/strong>2.8 Awards. <strong>Watch this really short, cutting edge video.<\/strong> {Just click The Gold Award <strong>Open Forum<\/strong> box, below the main one}<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anita Campbell<\/strong> of <strong>Small Business Trends<\/strong> fame, helps run things over there, and the amount of content being pumped out by the team of <em>small business experts<\/em> is pretty amazing. Read Anita&#8217;s article about the site, and it&#8217;s authors, including links to some of the most popular articles written thus far.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smallbiztrends.com\/2008\/10\/look-who-is-appearing-on-the-american-express-open-forum.html\/\"><strong><br \/>Here.<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Forum, the American Express Small Business website is really starting to become popular. With the likes of renowned experts on small business like Guy Kawasaki, Ramon Ray, and Brent Leary, the site is getting some serious buzz. Open Forum just won a Gold Award at The 2008 Mixx 2.8 Awards. 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