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This web 2.0 tool has been voted as one of the most attractive ones for

entrepreneurs within the Web Marketing Category

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wordpress.com Key characteristics• Wordpress.com provides free blog hosting for

registered users • Wordpress.com has the following key characteristics:– Wordpress.com is the most popular online publishing platform,

currently powering more than 20% of the web– You can start a blog or build a website in seconds without any

technical knowledge– Overall, the WordPress.com network welcomes more than 409

million people viewing more than 15.5 billion pages each month. Wordpress.com users publish about 41.7 million new posts and leave 60.5 million new comments each month

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Key benefits for entrepreneurs• “I use WordPress for my website. I love it because it has allowed me to create

my website and all the tools to learn how to maintain it and develop it” - Monica Yearwood – Ayurvedic practitioner, author, healer and yogi

• What are your three favorite online tools or resources and what do you love about them? “I love Facebook because it gives me a chance to stop thinking of the business, Wordle which is a visual tool to display data with, and WordPress which is a great tool for blogging (simple and easy to use)” - Deborah Sweeney – CEO of MyCorporation

• “I decided to open a WordPress Blog to chart my language learning journey. Soon I discovered that I loved to write and the blog began to grow and expand. It gave me the perfect incentive to use my Italian skills in a meaningful way and I also began to connect with people all over the world. Now because of the blog, in addition to being a graphic designer, I am also a writer and a facilitator of language immersion trips in Italy” -Melissa Muldoon – La Studentessa Matta

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How to use it effectively• Wikipedia wordpress.com• The features you’ll love – wordpress.com • Wordpress Tutorial - SiteGround• Create a free website or blog with wordpress.c

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• Wordpress Tutorial How To Make A Website Properly With WordPress - Step By Step Video Training – James Stafford (video)

• How to make a wordpress website – Tyler Moore (video)