Blogs are great. You can learn so much from them. Some blogs are interesting whereas some are entertaining and funny. Some are educational others are just plain weird. There’s a blog for everyone.
Blogs are getting more and more popular and don’t look like they’re going to stop. Many people actually read blogs instead of magazines or newspapers.
In this post we will be showcasing our favorite blogs of 2014. These blogs are going to be in the business, entrepreneurship or blogging/make money category. You may have also want to check out Our Favorite blogs of 2013.
Each of the blog that I recommend include a small lesson you can learn from the blog or business. These lessons are practical and help you to improve your own blog or business.
Pinch of Yum
This is an awesome blog all about food! Food is my favorite thing to talk about. Pinch of Yum has some amazing, mouth-watering pictures of food that seriously make me hungry.
The blog is run by Lindsay and her husband Bjork, who are pretty cool and their writing style is fresh and funny.
The difference about this and any other food blog is that they discuss and display the monthly income they generate from the website. Lindsay also teaches people how to start their own food blog at Food Blogger Pro.
Lesson Learned: If you want to become successful at blogging make sure you write in a genuine style. Don’t try to sound like a robot and make your writing fresh, funny and interesting.
Chris Ducker
Chris Ducker is the genius behind this blog. He is an advocate of outsourcing and uses it really well.
He teaches people how to start their own business and outsource it effectively to other people. Chris gives some great advice and has many great articles on his blog.
Make sure you sign up for his Business Bootcamp where he shows you how to start, run and grow a business. The good thing about it is it is completely free. He also runs Virtual Staff Finder in which he helps you find Virtual Assistants to help with your business.
Lesson Learned: When you are running a business you can’t do everything by yourself. You have to outsource to people who can do it. Consider getting virtual assistants. It may cost you money but the amount of time you will save will do you wonders.
Oliver Emberton
Oliver Emberton is a man of many talents. He is a writer, blogger, programmer, entrepreneur and artist. Oliver runs the synonymous blog. Oliver writes about life and how to make it better. He has an excellent writing style and knows how to keep the reader hooked through use of stories.
He also makes excellent use of pictures and has some awesome artwork along with his blog posts. His pictures are very informative, funny and to the point.
He promotes his articles and work through Quora extensively as well as Facebook and Twitter. If you would like more help with social media, check this site out.
Oliver is a very talented writer and is also in the process of writing his first book. He also has a successful software company called Silktide.
Lesson Learned: He has some awesome pictures along with his blog posts and this is what you should put in with your blog posts as well. No one likes a blog post with no pictures, its just plain boring.
Write high quality articles like Oliver does and you are destined to succeed and have a successful blogging career.
Entrepreneur Boost
Entrepreneur Boost provides articles, advice and information on business, entrepreneurship and affiliate marketing.
Entrepreneur Boost is run by ChrisGuthrie and he also publishes monthly income reports. His income reports show high earnings and they are very inspirational. Chris has a podcast as well where he shares his secrets on earning thousands of dollars a month from affiliate marketing.
Chris’ blog is geared more towards affiliate marketing but he also discusses other things on his blog like buying and selling websites and launching a business.
Lesson Learned: Chris’ blog Entrepreneur Boost is a very inspirational blog and part of this reason is because he is transparent.
He discloses his income on his blog and tells you exactly how he did it and where the income came from. He also shows you how you can get the same level of success as him.
I recommended you check out his podcast which is available on iTunes and his books which are available on Amazon.
App Empire
App Empire is one of those blogs that you just can’t afford not to read. App Empire tells you how you can build your own App Empire from mobile apps.
The founder Chad Mureta has over 46 apps and they have been collectively downloaded more than 35 million times worldwide. Chad is earning big bucks from his apps!
Chad used to be a real estate agent before he had an horrific car accident that had him in in intensive care in hospital. He survived and wanted a change from being a real estate agent as he was bed ridden.
In came his friend who showed him an article of the gold rush of apps. A couple of months later and with some clever outsourcing he was already making money from his apps. Fast forward a couple of years and he was making millions.
You may have heard of his apps like Finger Print Pro and Emoji.
His blog teaches you how you can build your own app empire from scratch and what necessary steps you have to do. Chad’s blog includes articles, interviews and resources on building your app and how you can make millions from apps.
Lesson Learned: Like Chris Ducker, Chad also uses outsourcing very effectively. Learn to outsource properly and you will see massive business success. He also has a very good mindset and loves to learn. Try learning as much as you can about business and whatever else you want to get into.
Income Diary
If you want to learn how to make money online then this is one blog that you must bookmark. It has some great articles and I have learnt a lot from this blog.
Income Diary was founded by Michael Dunlop in 2005 and since then the blog has received millions of views and has also launched four additional blogs.
This is a great blog for web entrepreneurs and teaches you how grow your business, increase your productivity, creating your own digital product and much more.
Income Diary has also been featured in many top publications including The New York Times and Business Insider.
They also have their own products which are awesome in their own right. Popup Domination which helps you increase your email subscriber rate and skyrocket it up. I highly recommend getting this product as it will do wonders for your blog or website and will increase your subscribe rate highly.
They have a variety of great products and software products that help improve your business. I suggest you check them out.
Lesson Learned: Income Diary has some very interesting and actionable articles. If you want to make your articles more viral, make them more actionable and interesting. So at the end of your article the reader actually takes something away and knows what to do.
Also if you are interested in growing your business you should do what Income Diary does and diversify your business. Start and build more businesses or blogs and create great products.
Amy Lynn Andrews
This girl definitely knows how to blog! Amy is a successful blogger who teaches others how to become a successful blogger like herself.
Amy teaches you how you can build your own blog and make money online. She teaches you various methods of how you can earn money online.
Amy Lynn has a nice friendly tone and she writes as if she is talking to a friend. Amy Lynn has a straightforward way of writing and gets straight to the point.
Her posts are very informative and she makes her posts actionable. Her articles have step by step actions to them and they are very easy to follow. Her newsletter (which she calls Useletter, which is a pretty clever name) is excellent.
It includes tips and tricks that she doesn’t include in her blog as well as exclusive content. It is a very popular newsletter and her subscribers seem to love it.
She also has a book available in which she tells you how you can improve your time management skills. It has already received some rave reviews.
Lesson Learned: Amy Lynn writes her blog like she is talking to a friend. She has a great writing style. If you want to make your blog better I suggest you you write in a better style. Write like you are talking to a friend.
Give away tons of value first. This can include giving away great content in the form of articles, videos, audio, pod casts and anything else. When you do giveaway tons of value, your customers will start to appreciate you more and you will start to gather a bigger fan base.
These are just some of our favorite blogs. I have learned learnt a lot from these blogs and I regularly check them out. Obviously I do read a lot more blogs than just the few mentioned in this.
This post would be going on for ages if I was to include all of my favorite blogs.
I hope you have enjoyed this article and have took away a lot from this article. If you found this article helpful then I would appreciate if you could share this article with anyone else who would find it helpful.
What are your favorite blogs? What is the best thing you learnt from them? Leave a comment in the comment section below.
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