Want to Blog?

Originally posted on 9 Jan 2014

If you’re looking to start a blog or want to move an existing one to a better service, you might want to check out these great blogging websites.

A blog gives you your own online space where you can tell stories about your firm, your life, you can share insights and opinions about a topic on which you have expertise, or you can inform clients/customers about your successes your firm has achieved recently. Blogging has become a pastime for some and a way to make money or enhance a business for others.

There are plenty of popular blogging platforms to help you find a solution that fits your blog’s needs.

Some of the best blogging and publishing platforms on the Internet today are covered in an article by Jack Russell last year, here. His list includes:

• WordPress: two options – wordpress.org or wordpress.com
•  Blogger: blogger.com
• Tumblr: tumblr.com
• Medium: medium.com
• Svbtle: svbtle.com
• Quora:  quora.com
• Postach.io: postach.io
• SETT: sett.com
• Ghost: ghost.org/features
• Squarespace: squarespace.com
• Typepad: typepad.com
• Posthaven: posthaven.com

For me, two blogging platforms stood out from the pack WordPress.com and Blogger.

Lilach Bullock, one of the leading commentators on the use of social media, says that the beauty of blogging is that anyone with an Internet connection and the ability to read and write, can do it. It’s that easy.  By blogging, you can start building an online following, get more people to notice you, establish yourself as a knowledgeable person in your field, or as an expert, land a better job or even make money from it. Blogging can have some amazing advantages – but, to be honest, it also requires a lot of hard work, creativity and imagination.

Lilach is really worth following. She is a regular contributing writer to Better Business Focus, my company’s monthly business magazine. Look up Lilach and read her tips here, particularly her article: A newbie’s guide to blogging here.

Finally, I’d like to mention an interesting website I came across today: http://fiverr.com/  For only $5, you can buy quite a lot. Take a look. It could be very worthwhile.

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Martin Pollins

Managing Director at One Smart Place

Martin Pollins is a Chartered Accountant and MBA with wide experience in corporate finance and business management. He has served on the boards of several companies, including those listed on the London Stock Exchange, AIM and OFEX. He is Chairman and Founder of OneSmartPlace and was a Council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales from 1988 to 1996. He was managing partner of PRB Martin Pollins, based in Sussex, the first Accountancy firm to advertise on British television.He went on to create and launch the CharterGroup Partnership (the UK’s first Accountancy network) and then LawGroup UK (at the time, one of the largest networks of lawyers in the UK). In recent years, he helped to raise several £millions to fund British films such as The Da Vinci Code, Bridge of San Luis Rey, Head in the Clouds and Merchant of Venice with actors such as Charlize Theron, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, F. Murray Abraham. Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Hanks, Ian McKellen, Audrey Tautou, Penélope Cruz, Steven Berkoff, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes and many more.

He has written over 700 business publications (see Glossaries at http://onesmartplace.com/resources/glossaries/) and is editor of Better Business Focus (see http://onesmartplace.com/resources/better-business-focus-magazine). His Blog, on a wide range of subjects can be found at: http://onesmartplace.com/blog/

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