Which are the best advice blogs for entrepreneurs, small businesses and start-ups? With so many experts sharing advice for business owners on succeeding within a highly competitive landscape in 2016, you could spend your whole working week reading them all.
To save you time and help you refocus, we've sifted through and picked out some of our favourite best entrepreneur blogs for 2017. Enjoy!
1. Carrwood Park
OK, you may be thinking this is simply shameless self promotion. But there's a good reason we've included ourselves in the list. Most people know us as office space and meeting room experts. But we've been developing and perfecting office space for many years and have worked with hundreds of business owners in that time.
Optimising workspaces - to promote creativity, productivity, networking opportunities etc - requires an in depth knowledge of business trends, people management, talent recruitment and development, and many other concerns and interests for business owners. We share these insights regularly on our blog.
So if you're not a regular subscriber and want to keep up to date with weekly tips and advice on topics such as entrepreneurialism, growing a business, HR and employee productivity (as well as moving offices, designing office space to promote creativity, planning effective meetings and much much more), click the subscribe link below and we'll email you once a week with each new blog post.
2. Start-Up Donut
The Start-Up Donut is brimming with relevant, timely and interesting content aimed at helping businesses succeed. It provides a reliable source of information designed to help small business owners save money and time. The blog covers six primary categories – start-up, sectors, marketing, law, tech and tax. This well-designed and easy-to-navigate start-up blog provides an engaging mix of feature articles, how-to guides, video content, expert Q&A sessions, and much more.
If you’re an entrepreneur, Leeds-based or elsewhere, requiring some advice for your start-up, we recommend you check out the Start-Up Donut.
3. Small Business.co.uk
This is another great blog for small business owners and entrepreneurs. Small Business.co.uk provides comprehensive information on financing, starting up and running a business, with regularly updated blogs, giving readers fresh content to engage with.
Each different section has a handful of sub-categories, designed to cater for every aspect of starting up and running your own business. For example, under the ‘running’ header, you’ll find information on marketing, business management, legal advice, office and homeworking, and much more, with each different sub-section containing a pool of relevant, updated content.
Take a look at Small Business.co.uk for informative and useful content about every aspect of starting up and running your own business.
4. Business Grow
Business Grow was founded by Mark Schaefer, an author, speaker and educator who has been hailed as having one of the “top five marketing blogs in the world”. Focused on marketing designed to help small businesses grow and succeed, the Business Grow blog claims to sit at the junction between marketing, technology and humanity. Readers can subscribe to receive Mark Schaefer’s innovative and forward-thinking blogs via email, so they can keep up-to-date with the rapidly evolving world of digital marketing, directly through their inbox.
Check out Business Grow yourself to determine whether this progressive blog could help your company grow.
5. Great Business
Great Business is a blog compiled by the government that provides businesses with support, advice and inspiration. We have to admit that the government blog is highly useful in helping start-ups find sources of information and practical advice to help make their new business venture a success.
Business Grow provides engaging and informative content centred around several main categories, including finance, employment and skills, new markets, and regulations. The site provides a number of inspirational case studies, involving individuals and businesses that have gone on to succeed within a business landscape.
This government-funded blog also has a business support helpline, which encourages anyone with questions, queries or concerns about starting up and running a business in the UK, to call and chat with a business advisor.
The site also includes an Accelerate page, dedicated to nurturing company growth and acceleration through the likes of innovation networks, digital skills, apprenticeship programmes and much, much more.
Why not take a look at the Great Business blog and put your start-up on the road to success?
6. Women On Business
Women On Business is an award-winning online portal which provides information and news on what entrepreneurs need to be successful in the business world. The blog comprises of a comprehensive and inspiring list of contributors from around the globe, providing a wide variety of motivational business advice to women.
If you are looking for advice on succeeding in business, check out Women On Business for advice and inspiration.
Networking events for women in Leeds and Yorkshire
Carrwood Park is home to a number of influencial networking groups, such as Connect Gazelles and Forward Ladies. When it comes to getting our hands on useful business advice, information about networking events in Yorkshire, resources for business support and advice on developing skills, there is literally a limitless encyclopaedia of business information under our fingertips.
For more great business advice, information about networking in Leeds, support for entrepreneurs, not to mention engaging content about the many advantages of co-working, and much, much more, check out Carrwood Park’s regularly updated blog.