98 of the best business blogs to learn from

Whether you’re seeking out information about starting a business, accounting statements, or how to understand financial projections, there can be a lot of sources to sift through. No matter where you are in your business journey, there’s a business blog for you. Instead of scouring search engines for the best blogs, QuickBooks picked today’s 100 best business blogs. They cover a wide range of topics, so we’ve broken them down into eight major categories: 

• Top blogs for small businesses
• Starting up blogs
• Sales blogs
• HR blogs
• Marketing blogs
• Growth blogs
• Freelancing blogs
• Finance blogs

Top blogs for small businesses

To kick it off, let’s look at some of the top blogs for small business owners. Here you can find some foundational information that caters directly to small business owners and their most needed answers.

1. Small Business Administration

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was set up by Congress in 1953 to aid, counsel, assist, and protect the interests of small business concerns. The SBA now provides a wide range of programs to encourage small enterprises. The website has information on virtually every aspect of operating a small business and details funding options and requirements for becoming a government contractor.

2. Nolo Small Business

Nolo began publishing DIY legal guides for small business owners in 1971, long before the company introduced a business blog. Now one of the world’s leading online legal resources, Nolo seeks to demystify the day-to-day legalities of running a small business.

Dedicated to providing readers with high-quality, free legal content on topics like how to structure agreements with independent contractors, write a legally sound business plan, and start an LLC, they’re a great first stop during the business formation phase.

3. Fit Small Business

Fit Small Business started out in 2013 and has serviced over 80 million readers in nearly a decade on the topic of small businesses. Their focus is wide-ranging, from accounting, retail to human resources, to name a few. 

4. SCORE

Backed by the SBA and supported by a network of 10,000 volunteer business mentors, SCORE delivers low-cost and free consulting services to entrepreneurs who need help growing their businesses or navigating uncharted territory.

Their business blog features hundreds of resources on many startup topics, including advice from entrepreneurs like Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran.

5. Derek Sivers

Derek Sivers’ blog has one of the most straightforward layouts out there. Derek has had a varied career, which includes time as a musician, producer, circus performer, entrepreneur, TED speaker, and book publisher. His website is more than just a business blog, as Derek also discusses his fascination with the psychology of self-improvement, business, philosophy, and culture.

6. Courier

Courier prides itself on offering young entrepreneurs the tools and skills their businesses need to thrive. As a part of the Mailchimp brand, Courier helps business owners navigate the changing business landscape. It helps each business succeed on its own terms. With a range of guides, magazines, and newsletters, Courier will reach you in any format you prefer. (Mailchimp and QuickBooks are both part of parent company Intuit.)

7. Small Business Trends

Since its founding in 2003, Small Business Trends has become one of the best resources for small business news and tips. The website offers actionable solutions to common business challenges. With over 20,000 pages to browse, you can find advice on any issue. Its daily updates ensure fast answers to new challenges as they emerge. 

Getting started isn’t as tough as it looks when you have the information to point you in the right direction. Here is another handful of blogs that will provide you with the insight needed to get your business off the ground and put you in a position to achieve growth.

8. WPBeginner

As its name indicates, WPBeginner is a beginner’s guide to WordPress. As one of the most popular content management systems, WordPress helps users create websites and blogs. WPBeginner comes in to tech newbie web designers (or anyone setting up their own blogs) how to set up a WordPress site quickly.

Their business blog is full of helpful hints, tips, and tutorials on how to best set up your WordPress-powered site and optimize it for bringing in new readers. You’ll find posts on everything from the best WordPress themes for hotels to more advanced topics involving deep customizations. With WPBeginner, navigating the back-end of a blog has never been easier. 

9. ConvertKit

ConvertKit is an email marketing platform for bloggers, podcasters, service-based business owners, course creators, and YouTubers. It’s not surprising then that they have a business blog that teaches people how to make a living online.

10. James Clear

James Clear states the central question driving his work is, How can we live better? This writer, entrepreneur, and travel photographer has been sharing his thoughts online for nearly a decade.

His site is much more than just a small business blog. It includes posts on how to create better habits, strengthen creative thinking, increase physical performance, and sustain optimal health and lifelong learning. The core thesis is that any business in its formative stages will grow immeasurably if its owners improve these aspects of their personal lives, too.

11. Entrepreneurs on Fire

Fire Nation is best known for its podcast, a runaway success that features interviews with some of the world’s top entrepreneurs. As of today, there are more than 1,700 episodes of the podcast, a daily broadcast where host John Lee Dumas chats with successful entrepreneurs, detailing their journey and lessons learned while doling out business advice.

The blog is complementary to the podcast, expanding on the audio content.

12. The Penny Hoarder

As its name suggests, The Penny Hoarder is predominantly a personal finance website that helps its visitors save money by sharing unique job opportunities, personal stories, freebies, and more.

One of the main sections on this business blog is about side gigs, and it includes numerous articles suggesting different ways to earn additional income. Another critical category is working from home, which showcases ideas about how to create a home-based business that monetizes your existing skills.

13. Young upstarts

Young upstarts focus on businesses big and small with a wide array of topics all around the topic of startups. Some of their featured categories include thought leadership pieces, books, and reviews. 

14. ZenBusiness

This business blog contains a large number of articles covering startups, e-commerce, insurance, the gig economy, tech, office, taxes, law, funding, and marketing. Any small business owner can find answers to virtually any business-related question here.

15. Foundr Blog

Foundr is primarily a free business blog with countless articles on topics relevant to startup founders, aspiring entrepreneurs, and growing businesses. Their content covers topics like growth marketing, getting started in your niche, productivity hacks, and leadership advice.

They also have a paid monthly digital magazine aimed at young entrepreneurs. You can either purchase individual issues or take out a subscription to access in-depth interviews with successful entrepreneurs.

16. Harvard Business Review

This business blog is connected to the Harvard Business Review magazine. It contains the same articles as the magazine and includes a large archive. This means there are limits to what you can see online for free, but if you peruse articles on the site without registering, you can access three or fewer posts per month.

However, if you register for a free account, you double your quota to six articles per month. To see more articles, you’ll need to subscribe.

17. Insights by Stanford Business

The Stanford Graduate School of Business uses its Insights blog to share management research and insights from its global community of experts and leaders. They state the goal of their business blog is to “provide current and aspiring leaders with the information and ideas they need to help change lives, organizations, and the world.”

Articles cover a wide range of business-related topics in virtually every discipline taught at the university.

18. Chapman Argyros School of Business

Chapman University’s Argyros School of Business and Economics produces a blog that features insights and stories from professors, notable alumni, and entrepreneurs in the broader Southern California community. Although many of the posts on the school’s business blog relate to alumni accomplishments in business, much of the content also looks at faculty research on various aspects of business.

19. California Secretary of State

This is the official website for Shirley Weber, California’s current secretary of state. While it’s not a traditional business blog, this website contains a wide range of information that is useful to businesses in the state of California.

While there is a California bias to the content and FAQs, this site collects country, state, and federal agency information small business owners need to know. It compiles all the information that helps California business owners navigate the state’s often complex governmental and tax systems.

20. Starting a Business

The Small Businesses and Self-Employed section of the IRS website brings together a wealth of information with a focus on what new business owners need to know about federal tax obligations.

Their content covers topics like deciding whether you’re really operating a business (rather than just working on a hobby), recordkeeping requirements, checklists for starting a business, and how to calculate quarterly tax estimates.

21. Moz blog

The Moz blog offers enriching articles from a span of voices that discuss search developments, social media trends, and of course, SEO. Moz, being an industry leader in SEO tactics, gives readers advice, how-tos and insights to increase their SEO game all around. 

22. CreativeLive

CreativeLive’s business blog features insights, interviews, and detailed breakdowns from experts like Tim Ferriss, Richard Branson, Mark Cuban, and others who teach online classes on the platform. Business is one of five topic categories covered on the CreativeLive blog.

There are hundreds of quality posts that focus on self-employment, small business ownership, building a personal brand, how to make it in the world of photography, and so much more.

23. Mixergy

Mixergy was started to be a place where ambitious people learn from experienced mentors through interviews and courses. Mixergy features interviews and courses with over 1,100 business founders. These founders come from a wide variety of backgrounds, including e-commerce, social media, marketplaces, physical products, B2B, and SaaS companies.

The host and founder, Andrew Warner, covers topics on this business blog such as marketing, bootstrapping, selling your business, sales, driving traffic, and customer acquisition.

24. Influencive

Influencive describes itself as a source of unconventional wisdom and influential minds. This business blog publishes posts about general business, crafting a winning mindset, entrepreneurship, growth hacking, lifestyle, branding, social media, health and fitness, and more. They also include a library of recommended books they believe every entrepreneur needs to read.

25. Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferriss became a household name with his book, The 4-Hour Workweek. He subsequently wrote three more books and set up The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which has received more than 700 million downloads to date. As a tech enthusiast, many of his posts discuss how people can use technology to improve productivity in their businesses.

To help you gain sales acumen, we’ve compiled a list of sales blogs featuring advice, podcasts, and templates.

26. Close

Close is a sales CRM for startups and small-to-medium-sized businesses. Their business blog focuses solely on sales topics that provide in-depth guides, videos, tutorials, case studies, and real-world breakdowns of the world’s best sales strategies. 

The website aims to provide actionable sales advice to readers and includes a daily 60-second video to motivate sales.

27. LeadFuze

LeadFuze is a lead generation software platform. Their business blog publishes weekly posts, covering topics related to lead generation strategies, sales skills, and sales terminology. LeadFuze also produces a podcast featuring interviews with successful salespeople.

28. HubSpot

HubSpot is a high-profile inbound marketing company. They produce three distinct business blogs on marketing, sales, and customer success. 

The sales blog publishes posts covering virtually every imaginable aspect of sales and now contains a library of over 2,500 posts on sales alone.

29. Sales Hacker

Sales Hacker provides thought leadership, webinars, conferences, online courses, sales training, and digital partnerships. Their B2B sales blog delivers sales tips on tactics, strategies, and technology from the industry’s top thought leaders. Their articles cover sales, market development, customer success, sales ops, and leadership.

30. Jill Konrath’s

Jill Konrath is a speaker, author, and major thought leader in the world of sales. Her business blog is syndicated in numerous top publications. She sends a weekly newsletter to 145,000 people interested in her sales wisdom. The main topics she writes about include prospecting, success mindsets, working smarter, and winning deals.

31. OpenView

OpenView Labs covers more than just sales. They describe their content as “insights, actionable advice, and founder interviews aimed at helping you grow your expansion stage software company.” Their business blog contains thousands of articles covering a range of topics.

The sales section contains posts that aim to give actionable advice on topics like becoming a successful sales development representative, how to align marketing and sales at your startup, and more.

32. Grant Cardone

Entrepreneur and bestselling author Grant Cardone works with small businesses and Fortune 500 companies to find sales opportunities and customize their sales processes to make them more effective. He also offers online sales training beyond his business blog. His library of free content and videos discusses every imaginable sales and customer service-related topic.

33. John Burrows

Sales expert John Barrows provides sales training for both teams and individuals. Unsurprisingly, John’s blog posts mostly focus on the key problems salespeople encounter and how they can improve.

34. LinkedIn Sales Solutions

LinkedIn is the largest social network that makes business happen. Among LinkedIn’s content offerings is its Sales Solutions blog, which breaks down sales strategies and social selling techniques. Although their posts cover a wide range of sales-related themes, the posts tend to focus on their specialty—social selling sales trends.

35. Sales Benchmark Index

Sales Benchmark Index is best described as a business strategy consulting company. Through their work, they’ve discovered businesses that consistently exceed their revenue targets follow a five-step process. They have also curated a library of blog posts called Growth Insights covering these topics.

36. Insightly

Insightly provides customer relationship management (CRM) software to small and mid-sized businesses across a range of industries. Their business blog showcases best practices for using a CRM solution, how to get the most out of your customer relationships, and tactics for using online tools to grow your sales funnel.

The best human resource blogs

Understanding people and culture is another aspect of business life that cannot be overlooked. Below are some great HR blogs that can help you improve yourself, your company culture, and human resources.

37. Science of People

Run by bestselling author and behavior investigator Vanessa Van Edwards, Science of People aims to help you be more successful at work, in life, and in love. 

38. SHRM

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) strives to empower employees and workplaces. Their vision of HR service works to meet the challenges of today’s workplaces. With resources on legal compliance, business solutions, and various HR topics, it’s your one stop shop for success.

39. Chris Winfield

Chris Winfield has been an entrepreneur for most of his adult life and has experienced both successes and failures. After a 2013 failure, he took a good look at his life, examined his life’s learnings, and experimented with ways to improve his outcome.

He uses his business blog to share what he learned about how to work less, earn more, and get more out of each day. His blog posts concentrate on personal development and productivity, and they profile successful people he’s interviewed through his show on Entrepreneur about how to build a side hustle.

40. Help Scout

Help Scout is a business blog that covers a range of topics related to customer service, human resource management, and growth. Some of their most popular posts dive into how you can address cross-cultural customer support, stay healthy as a digital nomad, and outsource support the right way.

41. Mark Manson

Mark Manson is a New York Times bestselling author, blogger, and internet entrepreneur. He’s considered one of the world’s top personal development bloggers, and he writes in a blunt, no-nonsense fashion about happiness, self-knowledge, habits, and relationships. Some of his articles are gated for premium subscribers only.

42. Savage Thoughts

Wistia Founder Chris Savage has been blogging for years about his experience as a founder and CEO. His posts touch on a range of topics from company culture to growth strategies and product development. His transparency is refreshing and makes for valuable articles.

43. Indeed

Indeed is predominantly a site for job posts, so it’s appropriate that their business blog is primarily about employment, job seeking, and human relations. The main post categories include the best places to work, case studies of successful teams, employer branding, HR best practices, and small business hiring.

44. HR Zone

HR Zone is an online publication with hundreds of articles based on human resources and leadership. They give insight into attracting and retaining talent as well as engaging with employees, managers, and customers.

45. Skillcrush

Skillcrush is an interactive, online learning community for creatives, thinkers, and makers who want to build their coding skills. Their business blog focuses on tools, skills, and employment options, covering topics like learning tech skills, getting hired, working remotely, and freelancing. Over the years, they’ve written several blog posts detailing ups, downs, and lessons learned while freelancing on the side.

46. Zendesk

The Zendesk blog is an excellent resource for all topics related to customer service. A few of their best posts discuss how you can collect excellent customer feedback and the skills you need to provide great customer service.

47. Work It Daily

Work It Daily is an online learning platform that provides support for people who want more out of their careers. Their business blog focuses on career and work advice, and how to better manage people within an organization. Topics range from managing millennials, to networking, to growing within your career track.

48. EffortlessHR

EffortlessHR is an all-in-one employee management system, and its business blog chronicles the human side of business. Some of their most authoritative content covers compensation, customer service, emergency planning, hiring, labor laws, and employee training.

The best marketing blogs

Developing a marketing plan requires dreaming up unique ideas to persuade potential customers to purchase your product or service over a sea of competitors. Below are some marketing blogs to help you learn how to increase and improve your marketing efforts. 

49. Copyblogger

Copyblogger is one of the premier content marketing blogs. They’ve developed a huge collection of posts to help you develop your online marketing efforts. You can also join their premium community for free and gain access to their resource library featuring a wide range of training materials, books, seminars, webinars, and other marketing resources.

50. Ahrefs

The Ahrefs blog helps readers improve their SEO and marketing. Their in-depth content provides a mix of detailed tutorials, case studies, and opinion pieces from marketing practitioners and industry experts on SEO, content marketing, and social media marketing.

51. BuzzSumo

BuzzSumo is best known for its platform where you can analyze which blog posts have performed best for particular topics or competitors on social media channels. Typical topics on this business blog focus on how to create successful content, blogging best practices, and how to get more shares for businesses of any scale. 

52. Neil Patel

Neil Patel runs a renowned site for those involved in the content marketing space. Their product is a customer engagement automation platform, and the Neil Patel business blog focuses on analytics, marketing, and testing. They’ve built a huge library of detailed posts. Some of the most informative categories are analytics, blogging, branding, and conversion optimization.

53. Duct Tape Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing, founded by John Jantsch, helps small business owners with their marketing. Unsurprisingly, their business blog aims to deliver simple, effective, and affordable small business marketing advice and tactics with a bias toward online marketing. They also produce a podcast discussing ways small businesses can improve their marketing strategies. 

54. Mailshake

Mailshake is an online tool that helps marketers generate leads, build relationships, and promote their content. Their business blog covers how to generate leads, successfully send cold emails, and the occasional deep dive into content marketing. 

55. Wistia

Wistia is a video hosting tool for businesses. Think of it as a YouTube alternative for companies that want more control over their content. Their blog takes a close look at video production and marketing. It’s a one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about creating and using videos for growth, marketing, sales, and customer support.

56. Marketing Mentor

Owned and operated by marketing consultant Ilise Benun, the Marketing Mentor blog offers advice for creative business owners looking to get more out of their marketing efforts. Her blog covers a range of marketing, networking, and pricing topics that apply directly to creatives, marketers, and freelancers. 

57. WordStream

WordStream provides online advertising software to help you gain better results from your advertising, with a strong focus on PPC (pay per click). Their business blog emphasizes education about leveraging Google Ads, paid search marketing, copywriting, and content marketing.

58. BloggerJet

Tim Soulo, head of marketing at Ahrefs, founded BloggerJet to share what works for him in terms of content marketing and social media marketing. He was sick of reading advice from so-called experts who never practice what they preach, so he set out to create something different. On his blog, Tim guarantees he has tried everything he writes about. 

59. Semrush

Semrush has built a reputation for the quality of SEO information they provide site owners about their websites and their competitors’ websites. Their business blog focuses on SEO, content marketing, and pay-per-click (PPC) tactics. Some of their posts can be very detailed, as shown in this infographic: 40 Technical SEO Mistakes.

60. ProBlogger

ProBlogger is another content marketing heavyweight. It aims to inspire, teach, and support bloggers from around the world to create blogs that not only serve their readers and make the world a better place but also build income streams for the bloggers behind them. ProBlogger contains over 8,000 articles to help bloggers with topics like starting a blog, creating content, finding readers, and more.

61. Melyssa Griffin

Melyssa Griffin’s focus (she calls it her obsession) is teaching entrepreneurs and bloggers how to make their passions profitable and popular. She originally called her site The Nectar Collective, and it rapidly grew from a simple creative outlet to a popular online education site. Her business blog now specializes in topics like list-building, online course creation, webinars, and Pinterest marketing.

62. Sumo

Sumo provides several predominantly free tools website owners can use to improve their site’s marketing performance. Their business blog covers a broad range of topics designed to help marketers and founders improve their online marketing efforts.

Sumo Founder Noah Kagan is a frequent presence on the blog, sharing his sometimes wild experiments in the world of business. His insights will go the further for small or medium-sized businesses. 

63. Chris Brogan

Chris Brogan provides marketing strategy and skills training for entrepreneurs. Forbes listed Chris as one of the Must-Follow Marketing Minds of 2014 and listed his website as one of the 100 best websites for entrepreneurs.

His business blog provides education and tools to help your life and business thrive through free content, courses, and coaching offerings. His blog covers topics like how to humanize your brand, land deals with big clients, and network the right way.

64. Leadpages

Since Leadpages is a landing page builder, it makes sense that their blog is built around conversion marketing and discusses the art and science behind creating a landing page that accomplishes your goal.

Alongside this content, their business blog provides tips on how to get the most out of Leadpage’s products. Typical posts include how to write effective sales copy, how storytelling can sell your product, and how to get the most out of Facebook ads.

65. Sleeknote

Sleeknote is a tool to help you grow your email list. The bulk of their content focuses on how you can improve your sales and conversions through email. Their blog mostly covers topics related to email marketing, blog conversion rate optimization, writing, and how to generate leads from your blog.

66. Buffer

Buffer currently publishes three blogs—Open, Flow, and Overflow—that each cover very distinct topics. Open tends to focus on improving your productivity, creating transparency in your office, and building a happier work culture. Flow is all about social media and online marketing, while Overflow targets developers with relevant educational content. Typical posts cover case studies in design, social media marketing, and the science of marketing. 

67. Seth Godin

Bestselling author and prolific marketer Seth Godin gained notoriety by telling compelling stories in only a few words. He’s a deep thinker and can get away with breaking the conventional rules about blog length.

Seth’s daily business blog focuses on topics like the post-industrial revolution, how ideas spread, marketing, quitting, and leadership. There’s no telling what each day’s post will be about, but it’s guaranteed to make you think.

68. Appcues

Every business needs to onboard new customers—Appcues helps them do it. Their blog is loaded with hundreds of posts on the nuances of onboarding new customers, which every entrepreneur knows is a real challenge. Let Appcues fill you in on how to make your customers happy and successful.

69. Convince & Convert

Entrepreneur Jay Baer founded Convince & Convert in 2008. Content Marketing Institute has named his site the number-one content marketing blog in the world.

As you’d expect, his blog contains a multitude of posts on a wide range of content marketing topics, including community management, affiliate marketing, customer experience, digital marketing, email marketing, and social media, to name a few.

70. MarketingProfs

MarketingProfs provides real-world education for modern marketers. You can find a host of free tools, training, strategies, articles, online seminars, and discussion forums on their business blog. They cover a wide range of sales and marketing topics, including advertising basics, brand management, customer behavior, and public relations.

71. Quuu

Quuu helps marketers find great content to share on their social media channels, automatically posting approved content across their accounts. Quuu uses its business blog to teach people how to improve their social media and content marketing via digestible, actionable, and GIF-filled content.

Typical posts include looking into the best social media tools, content marketing basics, how to build relationships with influencers, and interviews with successful marketers.

72. G2 Learning Hub

G2 is known as the premier B2B software review site, but G2’s blog is also a hub for a broad range of business topics. While there are a handful of larger topical buckets such as productivity, technology, and design, the largest is their marketing section. You can expect to see ultimate guides, how-to articles, tips and tricks, industry insights, best software lists, and more.

Growth blogs

The recipe for success in business isn’t complete without the ability to grow and scale your efforts. Below is a list of growth blogs that are chock-full of information about business growth that can help you get your business to the place you want it to be. 

73. OptinMonster’s CRO Blog

As its name suggests, the OptinMonster Conversion Rate Optimization blog provides practical tips and step-by-step tutorials on how to boost your site’s conversions and hit your growth targets. The posts on this business blog are a mixture of case studies, tutorials, and articles on various aspects of A/B testing, growth tactics, content marketing, email marketing, and lead generation.

74. Teachable

Teachable is a platform that allows you to create and sell online courses. Their business blog generally focuses on how to develop courses and grow your audience of students. Their most popular posts cover influencer launch case studies, audience-building tactics that actually work, and how to create content that converts visitors into paying students.

75. Nir and Far

Bestselling author and entrepreneur Nir Eyal describes his blog as tackling the intersection of psychology, technology, and business, making it more than just a business blog. He calls his content lessons “behavioral design,” which he believes is the art and science of helping people get the most out of life. 

76. CXL

The CXL blog provides practical ideas on the essentials of conversion optimization. They claim their business blog is the world’s most popular conversion optimization destination.

Their content delivers actionable optimization advice, up-to-date research, and detailed process maps on conversion optimization and data-driven growth. The posts target smart marketers at a relatively advanced level.

77. The Daily Egg

The Daily Egg is the blog for Crazy Egg, the heat map software that helps you visualize where your visitors are engaging with your pages. As well as daily blog posts, The Daily Egg includes tutorials and webinars on website conversion-related topics. The top categories the blog covers are conversion optimization, landing page design, content marketing, and creating a great user experience.

The best business blogs on freelancing

Below we’ve gathered some solid business blogs for those who rely solely on freelancing as their main source of income. These blogs cover topics all related to starting, running, and managing a freelance business. 

78. Freelancers Union

Freelancers Union aims to promote the interests of independent workers through advocacy, education, and service offerings. Their business blog focuses on topics related to freelancers. 

79. Fizzle

Fizzle’s blog is for independent creatives and entrepreneurs. They publish in-depth articles on topics like content creation, marketing, product making, social media, and more. They also produce a weekly podcast on similar issues.

80. Millo

Millo provides lots of free information to assist freelancers and creatives. They package this content in a variety of media, including guides, podcasts, a newsletter, and blog posts. Their business blog has more than 1,000 articles on topics like how to freelance full time, finding high-quality clients, and using contracts that keep your work safe.

81. CareerFoundry

CareerFoundry provides online mentoring courses in UX design, UX fundamentals, UI design, web development, and iOS development to help people transform their careers. Their blog focuses on these topics as well as career changes. 

82. All things freelance writing

Jessica Walrack has been a freelance writer for almost a decade and specializes in helping people enhance their writing skills. Along with her podcast, her blog displays tons of insight into the freelance world and how to better set rates, deal with customers and produce great content. 

83. The Freelance Creative by Contently

Contently is a New York-based technology company that operates three blogs. Their Freelancer blog (at contently.net) aims to inform and educate readers about all facets of the freelancing world.

They also have two other web properties. While Contently.com focuses on brands-turned-publishers, Contently.net is for creative freelancers, and Contently.org (the Contently Foundation) helps journalists transition to the enterprise world.

84. Behance

Adobe’s blog, Behance, has a mission to empower the creative community. Their business blog tells stories of how innovative leaders master their crafts and shape their industries. They’ve interviewed a large number of creative leaders who blog about their experiences. The site’s other articles focus on career curation, distributed team collaboration, creative process development, and productivity.

85. The Work at Home Woman

Holly Reisem Hanna founded the Work at Home Woman. As this business blog’s name indicates, her content is designed for women looking to land a legitimate work-from-home job or launch their own home-based business. Forbes has named her blog one of the top sites for progressing in your career. Holly publishes posts on blogging, freelancing, self-development, time management, and more.

The best finance blogs

No matter which stage you’re at in your business journey, finance will almost always play an important role in achieving your goals. The finance blogs listed below contain information and insight that pertains directly to the financial aspect of running a business. 

86. Smart Passive Income

Since he started his business blog and popularized the concept of sharing monthly income reports, SPI owner Pat Flynn has built a high-profile online presence. Pat uses his blog to teach his tested strategies for running an online business and optimizing it, which is a stream of passive income.

He teaches his readers different business models for creating additional income sources using a variety of formats: blogging, podcasting, writing books, and teaching online courses. Pat’s monthly income report shows a behind-the-scenes look at the financial side of running a business blog.

87. Mint

Mint offers simple solutions to money management problems. In addition to its popular app, Mint offers resources on loans, investing, and payment management. Their advice goes well beyond financial security. Managing credit scores, budgets, balances, and spending with Mint's insight can turn your business into a well-oiled machine. (Mint and QuickBooks are both owned by parent company Intuit.)

88. Fundera Ledger

Operated by NerdWallet, Fundera’s mission is to provide small business owners the capital they need to grow, and their main product is an app-based service that allows users to apply directly to top lenders, compare rates, and find the best deal.

Their business blog is appropriately named the Fundera Ledger, due to its focus on finance. It provides news, advice, and actionable strategies for small business owners to earn more, spend less, and tap into the capital they need to grow their business. Their content is split into posts that fall into the categories of starting up, managing, and growing your company.

89. Making Sense of Cents

Making Sense of Cents is Michelle Schroeder-Gardner’s personal finance, lifestyle, and business blog. She initially created the blog to help her improve her own finances and grow her side income. At one point, she had $38,000 of student loan debt, which she managed to fully repay.

Michelle’s blog has won numerous awards since its 2011 debut, and it is featured on many big-name websites. The bulk of her posts are related to saving money, making money, and paying off debt.

90. Busy Budgeter

Rosemarie Groner’s blog focuses on helping readers learn to prioritize spending on what matters to them. She places a strong emphasis on structuring your life around simple things, and she believes minimizing possessions means you’ll enjoy what you have.

91. Grow

Grow is a blog produced by the company Acorns that aims to give practical ideas to transform your finances and, in turn, your life. Their business blog provides a mix of financial news, how-tos, and interviews.

92. Mr. Money Mustache

Mr. Money Mustache, aka Peter Adeney, lives the ultimate frugal lifestyle and was able to retire while still in his 30s. He now uses his business blog to talk all about how he made that happen.

Both Peter and his wife retired several years ago to focus on raising their family through a combination of investments and living a lifestyle more than 50% less expensive than their peers. The Mr. Money Mustache blog shows how you can live a frugal yet enjoyable life too.

93. InCredibly

InCredibly creates content that helps readers manage their small business capital. The content of their business blog tends to fall into three areas: evaluating capital needs, accessing the right funding, and intelligently putting your capital to work.

Their blog is the educational arm of Credibly, a small business lending platform. 

94. Sift

As the website’s name suggests, Sift is a company that helps businesses prevent fraud in the retail, fintech, and foodservice industries. Their business blog offers great information regarding keeping your business and your information safe. 

95. Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz is the author of Profit First, a book that has helped transform thousands of businesses. His simple financial framework helps business owners get a handle on their spending and saving, and his blog offers more of the same straightforward, priceless advice.

96. Kabbage

Operated by American Express, Kabbage provides business loans and lines of credit. The business blog covers a wide range of topics across a variety of verticals, with a heavy focus on financial education for small business owners. 

97. NerdWallet

NerdWallet offers financial tools and advice on getting out of debt, calculating mortgage payments, making sure you’re on track to retire, and much more. They primarily cover personal finance topics with an emphasis on managing credit cards, investments, loans, and insurance.

98. SoFi

SoFi is a financial services company with established lending and wealth management tools. Their business blog focuses on financial topics for millennials in categories like career advancement, money management, creating your dream lifestyle, and more.

Reading will only take you so far

Each of these well-established business blogs offers great insights, advice, and tactics for growing (and managing) your business. However, your success will be measured only by the actions you take—not the number of articles you’ve read. Bookmark these blogs, refer back to them, and keep pushing forward with your business every single day.

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