Blogtipping My Way Around the World of Entrepreneurship Blogs
Blogtipping is a great way of finding blogs – particularly those that you might not know about. The concept is simple:
- Pick 3 blogs you like.
- Post 3 things you like about each one (on the 1st day of every month.)
- Post 1 tip for each one.
- Contact Easton Ellsworth to let him know you’ve participated – since Blogtipping is his baby.
In January I asked you to suggest some of the best entrepreneurship blogs. Just to be safe, I asked twice. There were plenty of great submissions, but digging around I decided to highlight 3 that you might not have noticed, but are worth a second look.
Blog #1: Ready Fire Aim (feed) by Bill D’Alessandro
- I love the look of Bill’s blog – ultra clean and simple. The “handwritten” font at the top is a nice, personal touch.
- Bill provides a nice balance of entrepreneur and technology content, although I’d love to see more entrepreneurial-related stuff to what he’s doing with Groupvine.
- The del.icio.us links at the bottom are a nice touch. I don’t typically notice these on other blogs, but at least two of those posts caught my eye.
Tip: I guess I already made my tip – write more, and write more about what you’re learning as an entrepreneur.
Blog #2: Startup Princess (feed) by Kelly Anderson
- Most posts are short and to the point. It’s a good approach for Kelly’s audience, and it means there’s little time wasted reading her blog. Plus, Kelly’s tapping into a big network of women entrepreneurs to bring you their ideas and advice as well.
- Kelly has a refreshing style that adds some brevity and fun to the lessons she’s sharing.
- Kelly focuses on actionable things you can do to help your business. Here are a couple examples: Risk Calculations and Medidate, Get Inspired and Record Your Entrepreneur Experiences.
Tip: Put a feed link front and center at the top of the sidebars. Use of the big orange buttons that you see on so many sites. This is going to help people and encourage them to subscribe.
Blog #3: Diary of a Startup (feed)
- They’re out there networking and making connections – using the Web to draw attention and benefit others. Things like interviews and hosting carnivals are a great way to generate some buzz and contribute to the community.
- Lots of practical advice and guidance from people living the startup life.
- A simple, clean design that focuses on the content and not much else.
Tip: Who are you guys? Why isn’t there an ABOUT page? And a generic CONTACT email hurts my feelings somehow. I want to contact people, not generic email inboxes. My only other tip would be to blog more often (we want more content!) and throw in some shorter posts.
That’s it for this edition of blogtipping about entrepreneurship…I hope you enjoy these blogs, participate on them and keep on coming back!
Don’t forget how much I love your attention! If you like what you’re seeing, please subscribe to the feed via RSS or email.
Thanks so much, Ben! ;) I appreciate the compliments and glad my style works, because I don’t have time for long posts, etc. I am trying to get my site redesigned and the FEED is definitely going to be front and center. If I can only learn a bit of HTML…any good sites to learn? I appreciate the advice and mention.
Kelly – it’s been awhile since I upgraded my HTML/CSS skills (although I should!) I would recommend doing a search on Google for CSS tutorials — most WordPress work these days is more related to CSS than HTML, and you should find some decent results right at the very top…
Thanks Ben! I really appreciate you featuring me, and I’m glad you enjoy my design.
I’ll definitely be trying to post more soon, thanks for the tip!
Thanks for the tips Ben. I made my Feeds front & center. Now, it’s time to work on my “About Us”.
I look forward to Blogtipping in the future.
Ponn
http://www.EmpowerWomenNow.com
Ponn – glad the tips helped you improve your own blog!
I like the idea of blog tipping, and thanks for the references. I’ve got 3 new blogs to check out now.
Great minds again think alike ben :) I’ve been planning on doing the blogtipping thang :) , but have gotten so caught up… Thanx for both the links and the reminder
GP in Montana
Glad I could point you guys to some worthwhile sites. Enjoy! And spread the joy through blogtipping, it’s worth it!
Ben,
Looks like I’m the last one to check in here, but I wanted to extend our gratitude for highlighting Diary of a Startup. Point well taken on the shorter posts, I’ve often thought that myself. I guess that’s why the communication experts say it’s easier to write a paragraph than a sentence that says the same thing.
Thanks once again for the advice and the highlight.
Andrew
Andrew – thanks for stopping by and commenting, it’s appreciated. Being brief is hard! But I wish you the best of luck…and hope you’ll keep commenting here and participating in the community.
I want to start a blog but do not know how or which ones are best to go for nay tips would be fantastic :)
Tom – your best bet is to look at sites like problogger and others that are top sites for blog tips and advice.
If you need more help in terms of designing a blog, etc. let me know. Just shoot me an email — byosko@gmail.com.
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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