25 of the best small business blogs with practical tips and advice

This messaging mentor otherwise known as Ellie Kime helps small business owners explain who they are and what they do. She also writes bangin' blogs for us sometimes.

On her blog she shares small business copywriting advice for creative types, with big hits such as whether to write your bio in third person, bits about personal brands, and whether to say f*** on your website or not.

You might've heard of Catherine Erdly, as she's featured in previous blog posts of ours, like 6 success-killing features of a bad podcast pitch. She's a small business consultant, independent retail expert and membership-host.

In her blog posts, she shares the latest tips and information to help small businesses and retail brands flourish, like foolproof sales plans, retail strategies, and email marketing tools.

Katie is a virtual assistant for small businesses with over 15 years of IRL merchandising experience. She takes those pesky time-consuming admin and numbers jobs off your to do list.

On her blog she shares clever marketing ideas, tips on how to survive slow sales periods, and Shopify support, in an easy-to-digest manner.

Sophie helps introverted, creative small business owners find confidence, clarity and consistency. As you can probably tell from that description, she's a very lovely human.

She uses her blog to share insights and pep talks, so there are posts about how to do marketing on your own terms, overcoming the fear of visibility, and great advice from other creatives too.

Bonnie flippin' loves words - she's obsessed! Which is a good thing, considering she works as a content and copywriter for a living.

On her blog she shares some of her wordy wisdom and copywriting tips, alongside super important things like avoiding greenwashing, authentically showing you're an LGBTQ+ inclusive business, and whether you should post political content.

Emma is a very talented personal brand photographer and videographer, who also has a background in marketing, which is evident in both her photography work and her blog.

She shares great advice like how to refresh your brand, marketing strategies, the benefits of collaborations, and a whole bunch more.

Our very own Studio Cotton founder Aime has been featured in one of Emma's blogs - 5 website accessibility essentials for small business owners.

Vicki is another lovely branding photographer, who shares advice on her blog like posing tips, identifying your core values, and lessons she's learned as a small business owner (plus her hot takes on bad advice about personal branding).

Aside from taking nice photos and writing helpful words, Vicki has a podcast about branding called Showing Up, has a personal brand course, and a retreat too.

Angela Lyons is a freelance graphic designer, and recently started Creatives Like Us podcast, which is about "breaking down barriers and showing that a successful career in the creative industry is possible for everyone."

Her blog is packed with advice about being freelance, using stock photography, and of course, tips for design elements like fonts and brand photoshoots.

Astrid helps small business owners, freelancers and creatives with structure and consistency, through courses, workshops and more.

She has a blog where she shares tips for marketing, making sales, and being confident in your small business, with a focus on being "slow, gentle and profitable".

She's on Substack too, which she treats as a newsletter, but also has some long-form content only available to paid subscribers.

Liz is an email marketing whizz, and from what I gather, a super colourful bundle of energy too.

You probably already know how we feel about email marketing (TL;DR: it's the tits), and Liz offers workshops, templates, and a $9 membership to help you nail it.

On her blog she shares (you guessed it) free email marketing advice, such as best practices, tools for beginners, and list building strategies.

Lucy is podcast producer, working on everything from strategy to sound mixing, publishing and feedback, for all kinds of podcasts, so she's a good one to know if you're thinking of using podcasting in your marketing mix.

She blogs about the key ingredients to a good podcast, SEO strategies for your podcast, and some blogging tips too.

Inkwell is a content agency, founded by Chris Goodfellow, and their aim is to create compelling content that makes an impact and lasts, rather than adding to the clutter.

Their blog is packed with marketing trends, tips on building interest in your live event, TOV guidelines, email marketing and advice for startups - it's a great read.

We met Mark at The Podcast Show last year, and whilst his blog covers tonnes of subject matter, there are some good articles on the business of podcasting.

Mark is a maker and producer who's had his fingers in many digital pies over the years, from working on the first service that let you embed tweets into web pages, to viral music videos, to helping others with podcasting.

We couldn't not mention our pal Liz, who alongside being a brilliant podcaster, is a graphic designer specialising in branding that motivates small business owners.

On her blog, she shares insights into the tech she uses in her business, small business memberships she recommends, and how pursuing rejection changed her business.

Sim7 are an agency specialising in brand identity, campaigns and messaging strategy. A small business based in Bristol, working with global names.

Founder Simeon blogs about brand campaigns, using humour in marketing, and discussing trends - I really enjoyed the deep-dive into the rise of "messy" branding, with the likes of brat summer and authentic vibes being more popular than polished ads.

Jayne from The Alternative is a life and career coach, helping clarify goals, overcome challenges and unlock potential with guidance and support.

On Jayne's blog you'll find interesting and insightful blog posts about diversity in the workplace, biases, and racism - all super important topics that many of us could do with learning more about.

This Bristol-based digital marketing agency helps businesses grow brand presence using marketing campaigns.

On their blog they share content marketing trends, advice on SEO and keywords, and whether your ecommerce website needs a blog (spoiler: they agree with us).

Nicole is a retail expert and consultant (amongst other things) helping product businesses source suppliers, create wholesale plans, and more.

On her blog she shares retail and ecommerce advice like tips for your first trade show, creating a strategy plan for your business, and using social media marketing effectively.