While there are many great business blogs about, they are not always easy to find amongst the legions of make money online blogs. So I’ve gathered together a list of what I believe are the Top 100 Business Blogs on the Internet. If you feel I’ve missed a blog out then contact me and tell me why.
The blogs are listed in order of their Technorati rankings (T), their Alexa rankings (A) are show as well. The rankings are correct at the time of posting.
- Business Opportunities Weblog T: 12 A: 16,213
- Copy Blogger T: 36 A: 7,825
- Seth Godin T: 47 A: 10,314
- MicroPersuasion T: 169 A: 33,643
- How To Change The World T: 180 A: 14,709
- Duct Tape Marketing T: 215 A: 31,714
- Freelance Switch T: 312 A: 10,638
- A VC T: 1,226 A: 27,737
- Rough Type T: 1,253 A: 69,429
- Successful Blog T: 1,432 A: 44,935
- Small Business Canada T: 1,517 A: N/A
- David Allen, Getting Things Done T: 1,549 A: 53,592
- Springwise T: 1,913 A: 23,858
- Small Biz Trends T: 2,155 A: 63,364
- Fast Company T: 2,310 A: 12,141
- Instigator Blog T: 2,477 A: 58,816
- Occam’s Razor T: 2,548 A: 45,541
- Smart Wealthy Rich T: 2,879 A: 79,415
- eMoms At Home T: 3,443 A: 27,125
- Escape from Cubicle Nation T: 3,467 A: 202,751
- The Marketing Technology Blog T: 3,496 A: 47,038
- Business Pundit T: 3,724 A: 114,669
- The Engaging Brand T: 4,404 A: 433,644
- Influential Marketing Blog T: 4,779 A: 98,886
- Drew McLellan - The Marketing Minute T: 4,820 A: 129,669
- The Digerati Life T: 4,873 A: 53,353
- Success From The Nest T: 4,908 A: 95,008
- Business Blog Consulting T: 5,186 A:237,901
- Church Of The Customer T: 5,576 A: 250,201
- Todd And T: 5,643 A: 161, 019
- Net Business Blog T: 5,936 A: 36,107
- Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing T: 6,583 A: 92,784
- Bootstrapper T: 7,497 A: 50,304
- About.com Entrepreneurs T: 7,797 A: N/A
- Blogtrepreneur T: 7,897 A: 53,011
- Branding & Marketing T: 8,200 A: 710,326
- Simplenomics T: 10,252 A:288,753
- Freelance Folder T: 10,543 A: 63,590
- HELLO, My Name Is Blog T: 11,395 A: 422,218
- Self Made Minds T: 11,704 A: 39,719
- Sox First T: 12,894 A: 994,161
- Young Go Getter T: 14,239 A: 45,373
- Trust Matters T: 15,462 A: 58,403
- Small Biz Survival T: A: 18,074 A: 875,069
- The Personal MBA T: 19,207 A: 142,649
- The Entrepreneurial Mind T: 21,958, A: 155,166
- Blog Business World T: 23,025 A: 252,405
- Working At Home On The Internet T: 23,247 A: 423,900
- Biz Informer T: 24,631 A: 904,745
- EmpowerWomenNow T: 25,837 A: 117,085
- Biz Plan Hacks T: 27,048 A: 1,335,732
- CreateBusinessGrowth T: 32,949 A:197,290
- Business Opportunities and Ideas T: 33,205 A: 282,805
- The KISS Business T: 35,496 A: 621,082
- Startup Spark T: 35,747 A: 386,949
- Buzzoodle Buzz Marketing Blog T: 41,092 A: 467,418
- MindPetals T: 41,714 A: 128,487
- Marketing Deviant T: 43,764 A: 281,072
- Go Big Network T: 44,842 A: 25,303
- Cool Business Ideas T: 49,679 A: 187,126
- Neville’s Financial Blog T: 52,048 A: 140,296
- Atlantic Canada’s Small Business Blog :T 52,589 A: 795,253
- College Startup T: 53,143 A: 184,398
- Reflections Of A Biz Driven Life T: 79,365 A: 361,398
- Branding Blog T: 93,462 A: 1,110,518
- Carnival Of The Capitalists T: 93,462 A: 1,897,375
- Young Entrepreneur T: 104,933 A: 26,491
- Marketing Genius T: 132,066 A: 2,222,119
- Better For Business T: 137,774 A: 590,797
- The Small Business Blog T: 140,824 A: 577,490
- Focused Mind T: 162,356 A: 520,971
- Small Business Tips T: 166,367 A: 74,005
- Lifes Perspective T: 194,358 A: 179,801
- Business Opportunities Blog T: 199,700 A: 832,678
- The Savvy Entrepreneur T: 224,227 A: 391,147
- Egg Marketing Blog T: 231,062 A: 740,867
- The Franchise King Blog T: 273,240 A: 520,732
- Small Business Entrepreneur T: 317,977 A: 883,094
- The Great Startup Game T: 331,293 A: 421,492
- Work At Home Start Up Guide T: 345,597 A: 1,190,178
- Dorm Room Biz T: 360,865 A: 957,072
- Startup Blog T: 377,609 A: 2,552,189
- Open Innovators T: 395,824 A: 1,230,257
- Get Entrepreneurial T: 437,475 A: 446,085
- Bplans Blog T: 437,475 A: 1,373,525
- Stuff4Restaurants T: 461,534 A: 298,982
- Canadian Entrepreneur T: 484,461 A: 237,901
- Strategize T: 487,964 A: 2,856,731
- The Marketing Spot T: 587,893 A: 2,550,840
- The Ravings Of A Mad Entrepreneurial Scientist T: 587,893 A: 566,836
- More Than We Know T: 871,446 A: 2,964,420
- Solo Entrepreneur T: 1,212,405 A: 471,491
- Stuff4Business T: 1,391,575 A: 298,982
- Consultant Journal T: 4,262,598 A: 667,342
- Startup Addict Musings T: 4,446,976 A: 1,03390,690
- Edith Yeung T: 8,911,336 A: 125,290
- Boostrap Me T: 8,911,336 A: 550,348
- The Selling Sherpa T: Not Listed A: 772,292
- BizzBangBuzz T: Not Listed A: 1,484,797
- The Freestyle Entrepreneur T: Not Listed A: 1,519,518
I define a Business blog as one that provides business ideas, advice, commentary or feedback on business in general. I’ve excluded any site that I feel is primarily a news based site or that is merely posting content from other sources. I’ve also excluded sites that are too new or have not been updated for over a month.
If you think I’ve missed a blog out then contact me and tell me why.
This blog is about business opportunities and ideas that I spot, think of or hear about and think are useful and interesting. It is intended to provide ideas and inspriation for you to help you find the right business idea for you to then grow it into a successful business.
What a great list here. You can find whatever your heart desires here. I will have to bookmark it to look at later. Thanks again.
That list is a cracker! Thanks for that John.
Luke.
Sweet, thanks for the link love!
Thanks for including the Buzzoodle Blog, John. You have a very complete list. Keep up the good blogging.
Wow! You really have been busy compiling all of this, thanks, I have been looking for a good list like this because you can waste hours wading through some pretty ordinary stuff to find the gems. Thanks John.
I have been looking for a list of business blogs as well. I did not know most of them. Thank you!
Thanks guys, I’ve been building up my reading list since March
There are also some other really good business blogs that I’ve excluded as they are still a bit too young or because they’ve not been added to for over a month.
Thanks for link John. I didn’t know start up blog ranked so high. I simply enjoy sharing my learnings.
Steve.
Hi John
Thanks for the hard work. It’s a real boost to find my business pondering blog (Kiss Business too - no more Double Dutch in business) among the 100 best - never saw it that way
Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)
That’s a lot of reading.
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Thank you for compiling the list, as well as being incredibly honoured to be on it…I have already subscribed to 5 I hadn’t seen before…thank you!
Anna,
Many thanks, comments like that make the effort well worthwhile.
John:
What a wonderful resource you have compiled. I hope you don’t mind but I’ve added it as a resource to my blog as well. You’ve really captured the sense of community on here.
One blog I’d like to see added is ConverStations http://www.converstations.com by Mike Sansone. He’s a blogging coach who shares lots of business advice.
thanks again!!
Chris Brown
Branding & Marketing blog (#34 for now!!)
John:
Loved this idea and I’ve reposted your list on my blog. Thanks for all the hard work to make this valuable resource.
Chris
Chris,
Thanks and no I don’t mind. I’ve added ConverStations to my RSS feed and will start reading it. Maybe it’ll be included next month.
Excellent work, John!
Cheers mate,
Cris
That’s quite an honor. I really appreciate even being considered for this, but to be in the Top 100 (and quite high in the top 100) is fantastic. I’ve put so much effort into my blog over the last year and a half - this makes it all worth while!
John
Great information to people interested in business and blogging. Would surely update your list in my bog too
george
John, Thank you so much!
I am honored. Some days I just write, and write, and well…write, hoping to add to the small business blogosphere,and sometimes feeling that I am just spinning..
This honor came at an opportune time1
Joel Libava
The Franchise King Blog
Wow, this is an honor for Lifesperspective to be on the list considering that it is only about 5 months old. Tks for the mention and it is definitely a great encouragement to continue writing despite the down seasons
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Hi John,
Thanks for including my blog (Influential Marketing) on your list. Glad to hear you find the content useful!
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Thank you so much for including my blog More Than We Know - it is not quite three months old so I’m excited that it made the top 100. I do try to post just about every day - so there’s a lot to read!! I’ll be adding the list to my blog plus a link back to your article.
You might want to adjust your figures for Ducttape marketing.
One problem with Technorati is they don’t allow for blogs that are in a folder and the way people move stuff around, which can cause multiple entries.
This one for their Technorati is more accurate
http://technorati.com/blogs/www.ducttapemarketing.com
If you feel I qualify as a business blog then I would be somewhere in your top10
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Andy,
You have an excellent blog which I enjoy reading however I felt it was too Internet focused and not general enough to be included.
Thanks for the correction re Duct Tape Marketing.
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Thanks for including my site on this awesome list! I appreciate it.
Anita
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John,
Hugs to you!! Thanks for compiling this great list and thanks so much for including Biz Informer! You’ve made my day! I recognized a lot of my fav blogs as well and will enjoy pursing the list for some new places to learn and grow in business!
Deborah
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Thanks for the link, John. I’m thrilled to see that About Small Business Canada has made the list!
All the best,
Susan
Great list, thanks for the link. Its an honor to be mentioned!
Hi John:
Thanks for much for including Escape from Cubicle Nation on this list! I just took some time off to spend with my new baby, and wrote my first post yesterday. It gave me a boost to be included with the illustrious list of friends and colleagues.
Cheers to you, and thanks for the hard work!
-Pam
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John,
Thanks for including The Marketing Spot and thanks for doing the work of compliling the list. You’ve given me more great blogs to read.
John,
Thank you for listing Marketing Genius from Maple Creative on your Top 100 list. That’s quite an honor. We are truly humbled.
Best regards,
Skip
Thank you so much for including me in such an honorable list! Among CopyBlogger and Seth Godin! Wow what a true honor.
Thanks for the include buddy.
I think this is the first rank list YGG has been a part of. 42’s a great number to start at!
Thanks for adding me John. I’m honored to be in the list.
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Great list, I suggest you create an OPML file of the feeds and offer it for download on your blog!
My idea for you
John,
Just wanted to join in with the other honorees and say thanks for including the Solo-E.com/Solo Entrepreneur blog! As a multi-author blog we are a bit different and it’s nice to be noticed!
Thanks,
Terri Z
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Good morning all,
As a member of John’s elite Top 100 list, I have asked John to get us {Top 100} a badge that we can put on our blogs to announce it to the world!
Of course, the right thing to do would be to make sure we link it back to John Crickett’s blog.
Thanx again, John.
Nice job!
Joel Libava
#77
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I believe mine might be eligible for this list also and have emailed you separately. Thanks for this list - it is good to see what I can aspire to. There are probably others at the Top 100 Australian blogs list that could be eligible for this list too - business blogs that is. http://blogpond.com.au/top-100-australian-blogs-index/
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Thanks for your effort in compiling this. I thought it was pretty cool to be on this list.
I do have a question, though, about the rankings. For example, when I look up Dane Carlson’s blog at Technorati (http://www.technorati.com/blogs/www.business-opportunities.biz), it says that it’s #12 and in the Top 100. But when I click on the Top 100 button, it’s not even there.
It looks to me like the data on the individual blog profiles and that on the Top 100 page are quite a bit out of sync, and I don’t know whether that’s a timing issue or if they’re not even using the same algorithm.
For another example, Guy Kawasaki’s blog is shown above as being at #180, but as of today, his Technorati blog profile puts him at #32, and he’s at #28 on the Top 100 page. Do the rankings really change that quickly? Or is something else going on? Any idea?
Also, I recognize the difficulty in deciding what’s a “business blog” vs. something else, e.g., a “technology blog”, but I was wondering if you could explain a little bit your reasoning behind including, say, Business Opportunities Weblog, Successful Blog, Smart Wealthy Rich and eMoms at Home, but excluding Problogger, Dosh Dosh and ShoeMoney. Another great one along those lines, though not as well known (yet), is Genius Types.
Again — great job compiling the list and thanks for including me.
Scott,
Technorati hand edits their Top 100 list, something Guy Kawasaki has blogged about in the past.
Deciding which to include was hard, I expect that future versions of the list will become more and more business focused.
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Great list. I think you mentioned all popular blogs and I like it. I think doing this could help us all. I’m thrilled to be on the list.
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I’m looking forward to making lists like this in the future with my new business blog.
John, I’ll be checking your site often to stay motivated.
Thanks, Jason
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John,
What a generous project for your readers, the blogging community and business leaders! Thank you so much for taking the time to create the list and field all the questions/e-mails that I can imagine this generated.
I’m honored to be on your list and hope I can introduce my readers to your great content as well.
Best,
Drew
The Marketing Minute made the grade!…
I’m always astonished at the amount of time some bloggers generously pour into providing resources for their readers. Mack Collier has created the top 25 marketing blogs and now John Crickett over at Business Opportunities and Ideas has created the to…
http://www.manager-tools.com is primarily a podcast site but still think that it might qualify. They have a ton of registered members and their Technorati rankings seems to fit in your list. They have been around for over two years and have a lot to say about business and management. Perhaps it begets another top XXX podcast list.
What a list.
It must have taken a long time to put together and certainly shows that The Business Coaching Blog has got a long way to go to even make it to the bottom of the list.
I’m very impressed that you come in at number 53.
Great to see this list! Its amazing how many great blogs are out there and the list grows daily!
I am a regular reader and member of YoungEntrepreneur.com so I am glad to show my support. I am also a regular reader of the about.com small business blog, always some great tips!
Looking forward to seeing your next list!
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Thanks for the list.. now i’m wondering whether a new comer like me can ever be in that list..
cheers
Azlan
http://www.azlanhussain.com
Hello John,
Albeit a bit delayed, I would like to thank you for including my blog in your top 100. Kudos to you for taking the time to create such a great list in the first place.
Cheers
CA
Any chance you could prepare an OPML file of these blogs so I could, perhaps, upload them to Google in one fell swoop rather than one at a time?
Cheers
Parkylondon
Paul,
Sorry no, it’d take me just as long as you to produce it. I’ll look at producing one for future lists though as it can be done while preparing the list.
Great list. I have bookmarked this page to come back to. Keep up the great work!
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no problem John. Thanks for the list though, it’s great.
what a creteria to be a top site like you post? and can you post for next about tips to be top blog?
thank for you answer.
Great list you got there John.. Would you mind having a look at Personal Development for the Book Smart ( http://RichGrad.com ) to see if it fits your criteria?
SJ,
Looks interesting, I’ve subscribed to your RSS feed and will consider it for next time.
Cool.. =)
Hey, very nice list! I didn´t see my blog on that list
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A comprehensive list, I hope to be on it one day.
I started my blog, Business Leader Success Advice, last September and I am very pleased with the response.
I provide down to earth, practical advice that looks at business from the customers point of view.
The intent is to enable business leaders to be better informed and to make their businesses more profitable.