The Anonymous Widower

The Blog Based Small Business

This blog is absolutely standard WordPress.  all I pay for is a small amount of extra storage and the use of VideoPress to put my videos in the blog. I think I pay about thirty dollars a year.

This blog is in effect a complete web site, with a contact form, searching and all the things you’d expect from a professional website. It also doesn’t have adverts or other things that will annoy my readers.

It differs in one way to a professional website, in that updating it just needs a small amount of form filling in a web browser.  The difficulty is about the same as sending an e-mail.

So could you run a small business on a blog such as this?

I’ll use the example of a lady who does small repairs and alterations to clothes and household furnishings. There used to be and probably still is, someone like that in Cambridge market a couple of days a week and C got her to shorten and alter clothes for her. I was taught to do all this by my mother, but don’t think I could manage it now, with my hands.

Such a business could work well off the back of a blog. Say she repaired an expensive evening dress for someone in Dulwich, she might post a picture of the repair, with a brief description in the blog.

As Google knows everything immediately from WordPress, someone searching for evening dress mending, Dulwich, may well find the blog.

Gradually, as the blog expands you’ll get more hits and from the statistics, you can find out how your visitors got there.

So the blog does your market research in addition to getting your customers.

February 10, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | Computing | Blogging, Internet, Web Site, WordPress