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14 must use online resources for young entrepreneurs
Every young entrepreneur wants to be successful. To become successful, you have to be knowledgeable, there are a lot of resources available to use and learn from. Learning new skills is necessary to starting a new business and sometimes, unfortunately, can be expensive. Here are some online resources available for young business owners and entrepreneurs in no particular order.
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur.com is perfect for businesses or business owners. It contains helpful blog posts, resources and content, useful for any tips and tricks that there are to learn. All content is free to read/use and almost daily there are releases of new content/blogs ready to read, learn from and share.
HubSpot academy
There are a lot of free courses available through HubSpot Academy and at the end of each course you are awarded with a certificate. This free certification program offers courses on inbound marketing, sales and customer service.
These skills are a definite must if you aspire to become a business owner or young entrepreneur. HubSpot provides a lot of information in different formats, such as blogs and videos as it’s an online learning platform. Why not? It’s free!
Mashable
Mashable is a go-to resource for nearly everyone. It’s good for staying up to date with anything technology related or even selecting the best technology platform, piece of equipment or software for you or your business.
It’s straight forward and is easy for the least tech-savvy of entrepreneurs to use. So if you’re looking at getting the down low on entertainment, culture, technology or science, Mashable is a brilliant resource for just that.
Forbes
Similar to Entrepreneur.com, Forbes is a compilation of insights on business, culture, entrepreneurship and current events. All of these topics are portrayed through blog posts, news and content.
Again, all content is free to read and utilise and there’s new content released almost daily. You can pick up any relevant information from the content on this site which you can adopt within your own business.
Flipboard is a news and social network aggregator. When using Flipboard, registration is required but is completely free. It aggregates content from news feeds, social media and other sites and presents them in a magazine format.
It’s available online and also as an app, so you can read articles and news anywhere from a smart device. Perfect for on the go.
CodeAcademy
CodeAcademy offers free interactive programming sessions on HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP. An account with them is free and you can save any progress as you go along.
Learning code is essential only if you go down the path of not choosing a developer for your website. It’s up to you if you build your own site, but as we’re almost in 2019, websites are extremely important to have for your online presence.
Moz
Moz is a great resource for if you want to learn search-engine optimisation to help alongside getting your website as visible on search engines as possible. Besides the free Moz Academy, there are webinars, beginners guides to SEO, link building and also social media training available.
Youtube
Believe it or not, YouTube is one of the largest search engines at the moment. It is full of many weird and wonderful videos about literally any subject or topic, but it’s perfect for online learning.
There are literally videos on just about anything, so whatever you want to become more knowledgeable on, get yourself on YouTube! It’s a free and easily accessible resource for almost everybody.
Gary Vee (Gary Vaynerchuk)
Gary Vee is a successful entrepreneur who runs an 800+ staff agency, his own YouTube channel with over 1.6 million subscribers, has his own podcast show and also has his own website. He talks about business, entrepreneurship, his story and more.
He provides a tonne of value through his content in areas such as business, digital marketing and social media. He is a great resource and there is always something that you can learn from him and his entrepreneurial experience.
Valuetainment by Patrick Bet-David (PBD)
Patrick Bet-David is the CEO of PHP Agency which is a national financial services marketing company and the host of Valuetainment. Like Gary Vaynerchuck, he provides much knowledge about business and entrepreneurship.
His YouTube channel, which has over 900k subscribers, provides plenty of value and information to be able to teach entrepreneurs. He also runs a website similar to Gary Vee’s. Valuetainment is another great resource to use when starting off as a young entrepreneur.
Podcasts
Even though podcasts aren’t official learning courses, like YouTube, they are easily accessible and brilliant for learning. The only difference is you listen and not watch, but they still provide the same information as a video would do, just without the visuals.
You can access these via your computer or on your phone/smart device. They can be streamed or downloaded via iTunes for iOS or via android apps such as Podcast Republic.
Medium
Medium is a place where words matter. Medium taps into the brains of the world’s most insightful writers, thinkers, and storytellers.
Inc
Visit Inc.com for the latest issue of Inc. Magazine and get advice, tools, and services that help your small business grow.
Quora
Quora is “a place to share knowledge and better understand the world”.
