Entrepreneur.com -- Being a successful entrepreneur means you have to wear a lot of hats, especially when your company is just starting out and you don’t have enough employees to cover all the areas you need.
Learning the new skills necessary to start a new business can be expensive, but fortunately the initiative for free, high-quality, educational resources online has only continued to grow in the past few years. Below are some of the resources available to learn more about marketing, entrepreneurship, business management and more.
1. CodeAcademy
This great resource offers free interactive programming sessions to help you learn programming languages such as HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP. You can save your progress as you go with a free account. Learning to code can help entrepreneurs fix bugs if they don’t have a developer, or even go down the road of building their own website or products (such as apps).
2. HubSpot Academy
The free certification program offers courses on inbound marketing, including website optimization, landing pages and lead nurturing. These skills are a must for business owners as they try to grow their business and online presence.
Related: 21 Resources to Make You a Better Entrepreneur
3. Moz
If you want to learn search-engine optimization to make sure your website is as visible as possible, check out this treasure trove of resources from SEO leader, Moz. Besides having the free Moz Academy, there are also webinars (live and recorded), and beginner’s guides to SEO, social media and link building.
4. LearnVest
The most successful entrepreneurs know how to manage their money both on a business and personal side. In addition to having extremely affordable finance classes, LearnVest also offers some of its classes for free, such as “Building Better Money Habits” and “How to Budget.”
5. Niche consultant courses
The Internet has made for a coaching boom, which is extremely helpful to entrepreneurs who want to learn how to start or better a business in a specific niche. Some great coaches and organizations that routinely have free courses and ebooks on building a business include Natalie MacNeil and MyOwnBusiness. Try searching “niche keyword” + “business course” to find one most applicable to you.
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Interested in getting free registration for the upcoming KnowledgeFest in Indianapolis? Then here are some questions to help you decide:
What are you doing to help your cause?
In the early 1990s the Internet was just becoming popular and a man with a vision left his job and home in New York to map out his course that would change consumer purchasing forever.
What did the man do after he moved away from New York?
There was a trade show for all “Book Store” owners and he drove himself for this four-day “INDEPENDENT TRADE SHOW” to learn how to become better at what he was planning on doing. Topics included “Selecting Opening Inventory” and “Inventory Management”. In the mean time, his associate was learning other aspects of the business to build one of the most successful teams in US history and with a threadbare budget.
Who was the man and what was the name of his business?
Before I answer you let me ask you this, between who the man is and what the man did to become successful, what’s most important? If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
- Tony Robbins
You see you have before an outstanding opportunity to do what the man I am talking about did! We have some of the best trainers in the field of car audio coming together to help you to learn to become better at what you are planning on doing!
We have people like Jason Kranitz, Micah Williams, Mike Bartells, Eric Carter, John Schwartz, Ken Ward, Harry Lichtman, Bryan Schmidt and of course yours truly. You have manufacturers wanting to invest their time and energy on how to make your facility better and more profitable, and yet you look for or make excuses not to go!
By the way, the man Tony Robbins is talking about above is Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com.
Based on all the above info, you ask, "Del, what should we do?" The answer is, I would beg, borrow or do whatever it takes to get yourself and your staff underneath the teaching of these great leaders in our independent industry which we all love so much and come learn the secrets like Jeff Bezos learned in the early 1990s.
Now, as promised, here's what you do to get your FREE registration: 1. Go to http://bit.ly/KF4Free. 2. Fill in your contact information. Be sure to enter your title under 'Registrant Title.' 3. Under 'Exhibitor Name,' select the vendor you're most excited to see at KnowledgeFest Spring Training. 4. Under 'Registration Classification,' select 'I am a VIP retailer invited by an exhibitor.' 5. Click Registration Confirmation and that's it! You'll receive a confirmation in your email.
We look forward to helping you in Indianapolis at our own Independent Trade Show on April 11th-13th 2015.