Congratulations, you decided to create your own blog. Now what? This might seem like an easy questions until you realize there are an ocean of blogging platforms available ranging from free to a couple hundred dollars a year. The first question you need to ask yourself is what do you hope to accomplish with your new blog. Are you just using it as platform to communicate with your family and friends, communicate with your small business customers, or are you hoping to build a brand and grow your audience. In most cases the sites below will meet your needs as they provide user friendly, convenient, and low cost or free options that require no technical knowledge or time consuming setup. In fact, most of them you will be able to set up and start blogging in under five minutes!
BLOGGING PLATFORMS
- Blogger.com (GOOGLE)
- Tumblr.com (Very popular and very easy to use)
- Weebly.com (Feature Rich and offers paid upgrade options)
- Wix.com (Flash Websites, Great for photography or fashion)
- Flavors.me (Easy to set up and manage you social identity)
- Posterous (Basic and easy to set up)
- Snappages.com (Free personal option with paid upgrades, offers many features)
- Jigsy.com (Many features and offers three paid options beginning at $10 per month)
- Yola.com (They have a free option, but also offer two paid options starting at $99 per year)
- Typepad.com (They are very popular and offer three different paid options beginning at $8.95 per month)
