20 Small Business Blogs to Follow for Biz Owners

Small business owners and entrepreneurs often face the difficult task of having to wear a lot of hats.

When you’re starting out, you don’t have the luxury of time or money to hire agencies or employees for every task. You’ll sometimes have to act as your own accounting, IT, marketing, legal, or HR department.

But you likely don’t have any background in all of those fields, so how should you learn where to get started?

That’s where small business blogs come in. They come in all shapes and sizes, geared towards every niche and industry.

Our Favourite Small Business Blogs

Having a blog is the easiest way to get your business out there. Blogs are usually written by experts in their industry and they can be used as a tool for lead generation, content marketing or simply to tell people about yourself.

If you want to start blogging (but don’t know where to start) here are 20 of our favourite blogs that can help small businesses.

1. Kabbage

The Kabbage Blog is a great source of resources, trends and ideas related to small businesses. It gathers information from all over, giving it some added diversity for its advice that can be used by all types of small businesses. It also puts out very timely content, such as this guide to managing cash flow when you have more seasonal customers.

2. QuickSprout

Neil Patel is a huge resource for businesses that need advice on digital marketing, search engine optimization, social media, and more. He will often put out very helpful market research and established best practices to follow on his blog, QuickSprout.

Those guides are invaluable for a small business doing it on their own, and he is good at staying on top of trends. He also writes guides to help various niches, such as this great step-by-step guide on creating an eCommerce website.

3. Small Business Trends

This is a very good blog that covers the full range of topics about running a small business. You can learn about marketing, management, technology, finance, and more. They review books and apps, as well as discussing news and laws concerning small businesses.

4. DIY Marketers

This is another good marketing resource for small businesses that want to do their marketing in-house. You can learn creative and effective marketing strategies, find new tools to improve your productivity and efficiency, and so on.

5. Killer Startups

Killer Startups is one of the best blogs about starting a business. It gives great advice on how to form and manage a successful startup company. It churns out a wealth of guides and articles almost every day, on any topic that could help a startup.

It covers motivation, networking, recruiting employees, productivity tips, funding and investment, marketing, and more. For a good sample, read their good article on getting the most out of online data.

6. Noobpreneur.com

Noonpreneur is a blog for small business owners, written by small business owners. They get contributing articles from successful entrepreneurs who are willing to share their insights and tips for success.

All of the articles are aimed at “newbie entrepreneurs”, making it a great resource for first-time small business owners. The articles cover everything from general tips, ideas, marketing strategies, business management, technology, legal elements, finance and taxes, and more.

To get started, you can read their great guide to making a pitch to venture capitalist investors.

7. Both Sides of the Table

This one is written solely by Mark Suster, who has twice been an entrepreneur in his life. He sold his first company and is now a venture capitalist—hence the name of his blog. His experience from both sides allows him to give extremely valuable insights to help a small business owner.

Whether you want to know about sales, management, leadership, startups and more, Suster is able to give good small business advice. One great example is his article on how optimizing space has a big impact on productivity.

8. Google Small Business

You can’t run a successful business these days without the internet, and Google is central to all online marketing. If you want to learn about best practices on SEO and paid advertising through Google, where better to get your information than Google?

This ones gives great updates, webinars and tips for using all of the Google properties to the maximum effectiveness. For example, they had a good webinar in early October to help small businesses plan for the holidays.

9. BizSugar

BizSugar is much more of a community-based resource, where other real small business owners share their tips, advice and news. The user-generated content makes it very fresh and very diverse, so you are sure to find content that can help your type of business.

For small businesses just starting out, it can be a great resource for beginner guides such as how to create a sales funnel.

10. Small Business Survival

If you have are in small towns or rural areas, this is a good business advice blog geared towards your types of markets. It leans more towards social media marketing topics, but will dabble in other matters such as event marketing for service-based businesses.

11. Convince and Convert

This is a good blog to learn how to use social media and content to engage with your customer more. Their guides are always backed up with real data and evidence, so it’s easier to take productive action. A good example of their data-focused articles is this statistical look at content marketing.

12. OnStartups.com

A blog run by the well known and highly successful entrepreneur, Dharmesh Shah. He launched his blog to help give unique advice for people in the startup and small business community looking to get started. He had a great article looking at how startups are more likely to allow employees to work remotely and have success with it.

13. The Franchise King

Joel Libava, the self-proclaimed Franchise King, is an advisor to small business owners who are thinking about franchises. If you want to expand your business into a franchise or buy one within a company, he gives great advice.

Thinking about being a franchise owner? Read his article on if you can make $100K as a franchisee.

14. Search Engine Land

For all things Google and Digital, Search Engine Land is one of the premier blogs that small businesses should use. It covers everything — search engine optimization, local SEO, search engine marketing, social media marketing, and more.

The articles here a great resource to learn about the impact and best practices whenever Google updates their search algorithm.

15. Blogtrepreneur

A blog managed by a pair of brothers who are entrepreneurs, sharing news, advice and analysis for other entrepreneurs. They have a good guide on starting a home-based business with no capital to start with.

16. Evergreen Small Business

Evergreen Small Business is written by a CPA that has a history of helping small business owners with their finances. The author, Stephen Nelson, focuses on financial details such as taxes, incorporation kits, investments, and more.

As a small business owner you can use his advice on maximizing depreciation deductions under updated laws concerning taxes and jobs.

17. Mixergy

Mixergy is a blog that brings the experience and expertise from seasoned entrepreneurs to newbies. They include interviews with people who have succeeded and failed, with an overall theme of being passionate about business.

This interview with the founder of a $1.9 billion dollar cyber security company is a good sample of their content.

18. David Mihm

If your business has a local, physical store location then you should be investing in local SEO. If you want to learn how to get started, David Mihm is a great resource. He puts out constant updates on trends and best practices.

Most important, every year he puts out an annual Local Search Rankings Survey that is an invaluable guide for the year. You can also try his Ten Commandments of Online Marketing for Small & Local Businesses.

19. Intuitive Accountant

The Intuitive Account blog is not focused on helping small businesses directly. However, many small business owners could learn a lot about accounting and finance to help run their business from it.

Their guides and trends on using the latest in accounting software, such as QuickBooks, are a great resource. You can start with part one of their series on setting up a QuickBooks online company.

20. Buffer

In addition to being a good blog for social media marketing insights, it also has an active and vibrant online community. They are very good at sharing the data they glean from their own experiments and campaigns, whether they succeed or fail.

Try reading their recent article on competitive research of your competitor’s Facebook ads.

Small Business Advice Blogs Are Invaluable Resources

Managing a small business can be difficult. That’s why blogs about running a small business can be such a major help. You can learn more about how to run your own marketing, management, recruitment, and more.

Most importantly, you can learn from other entrepreneurs and experts in your field about what can help you succeed. These 20 blogs are just a start, it’s a good idea to find other blogs that you find are the most helpful for you.