Blogging as an Entrepreneur

1. Entrepreneurial Blog I found:
http://www.matthuggins.com/

The entrepreneurial blog I found is lead by a man by the name Matt Huggins. Matt is an aspiring Internet entrepreneur. He has multiple projects, including facebook applications and his own dating website, though he uses the blog to discuss and promote and shares generally how all of his business is going as he is pursuing being an Internet entrepreneur.

Sites I found discussing blogging as a business promotion technique :
http://www.butlersheetmetal.com/tinbasherblog/

This is a blog for Butler Sheetmetal Ltd. UK. This is a small fabrication shop in North West England. This site gives information on products offered, on projects being worked on, gives a list of jobs offered by the shop, shows what kind of metals they use, and simply gives general information on how the business is progressing.

http://bursafranchise.com/

This site does not appear as a normal blog at first. The blog is used by the company Franchise Indonesia which is a directory company giving information on Franchise or Waralaba and Business Opportunity in Indonesia. Each blog post gives information about a business in their directory. The blog post will provide a name and logo of the company being mentioned, what is being looked for and what are the needs which need to be filled, and all of the contact information to pursue that opportunity. Very different from any other blog I have seen before, but highly effective for someone looking for a Franchise, or Waralaba, or business opportunity in Indonesia.

2. Other options entrepreneurs may have to market themselves would be: add spaces on websites their audience would be looking at or adds spaces in magazines their audience would be looking at. The blog is helpful for entrepreneurs because it is a way to provide constant information as to what is going on in the business of the entrepreneur. I do feel that blogs are an effective alternative to these methods because it provides so much information and it is so available to people.

3. Seeing as how I have seen more information suggesting that business is growing thanks to blogs, I would say that the research I have done supports by original thesis that blogs are effective. On the professor's scale of 1-5, I give my research a 5: Strongly support my thesis.

4. Of course, I do not see a reason to change my thesis at this point seeing as how I feel that my research up to this point is strengthening the argument.