By choosing to run a free blog at wordpress.com you’re essentially giving up control of that blog to a third party. This won’t matter for many blogs, but if the blog in question is your main business blog, wordpress.com isn’t the place for it.
Self hosting your own blog gives you back that control, but what if you don’t have the time nor the technical expertise to excerise that control? What then?
Having just retired from a professional career you may want to continue on a part time basis with some consultancy work – partly for continuity of working with people and also perhaps for financial reasons. Let’s face it, the pension may have to last another forty or fifty years and another income stream may come in handy.
When launching an online business you want speed, efficiency and low cost.
If you can get early to market with a good product, with a high margin, then you definitely have a viable business.
To achieve this you need an excellent set of tools that work well together