Rather than design and build a website, you could start a blog. It’s quick and easy to do, the search engines will love you, and for next to no cost you can become an expert in your field.

The use of blogging or web-logging, as it’s properly known, has increased by over 60% in the past year alone. And for good reason.

Blogging is a great route for home based business owners to show off their knowledge and to start a conversation with customers.

Blogs require little or no coding, can be run at little or no cost and it takes around three minutes to set yourself up.

• Visit the Blogger website to sign up 
• Start your blog with a brief description as to what it does 
• Add a photo of yourself 
• Begin by blogging privately and open it up to the public when you feel ready 

Two other blogging platforms you might like to try are TypePad and WordPress.