CT Biz Blogs

In keeping with today’s earlier post on what you need to do to begin blogging; #5, Read blogs, here’s a good list of business blogs.

With more and more people jumping on the business blogging bandwagon, it’s getting to the point that there is far more out there than you could ever hope to read on a regular basis. To help you filter that infoglut down to a more manageable level, here is my list of the ten most practical blogs for entrepreneurs.

I found this list via one business blog I read religiously that isn’t in the top 10, but should be: ProBlogger.

The great thing about blogging is that it’s much easier to create a blog than it is to create a web site. You can start a blog for very little money; your biggest investment will be time. And, especially at first, you don’t have to spend more than a few hours a week on your blog.

This is an overview of the things you’ll need to start blogging.

1. A blog hosting platform. In order for your blog to be “on the internet,” you’ll need to find a blog hosting platform, or a web service provider, who will host the pages of your blog on their computers. These computers run special software called web servers which manage the delivery of web pages upon requests from web browsers such as Internet Explorer or Firefox. I’ve written a bit about blog hosting platforms in What are some of the ways to create a blog and How to create a blog on Blogger. I’ll be writing more – this is a big subject.

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