10 Learning Sites That Will Help Every Entrepreneur

Before your business can get off the ground, you will have to do a lot of things yourself, because you probably won’t have the money to hire someone to help you out. This means you will be required to become a jack of all trades, and master of pretty much all of them. For instance, not only will you be required to create and produce your service or a product, but you will also have to learn how to manage your finances, promote your company, and just about everything else you can imagine.

Fortunately, there are plenty of great resources online where you can get the knowledge that you need. Here are 10 best learning sites that you need to check out if you are an entrepreneur.

#1 Codecademy

Now, you may think that you don’t need to learn how to code if your niche isn’t IT, but seeing as developers are pretty expensive, your Euros are better spent on marketing or offering a better product. Learning HTML, CSS, PHP, or even Javascript will help you manage your website, fix bugs, add new features, and even develop a new one from scratch once you get a hang of it. Codecademy, with its interactive courses, is an essential resource for everyone.

#2 How To Build An Online Business: A Complete Business Plan

Another crucial (and some would say the most important one) aspect of being an entrepreneur is knowing how to make money. Although you will need a bit of luck for that, as well, this course offers a 12-hour video lesson during which you will learn to earn your 5,000€/month in passive income. You will do this by building 10 websites, with each one bringing in about 500€ a month.

#3 edX

edX offers more than 300 courses and more than a few regarding entrepreneurship and financial advice. Apart from being able to learn how to run a business, you will also have the opportunity to learn other topics which can help your business, such as big data analysis and so on.

#4 Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies & Skills

This video course will teach you how to make the most out of business negotiations. This includes being familiar negotiation techniques, and the way contracts and leases are put together, among other things. Before you can hire a sales team to do this for you, you are going have to do it yourself, and this 8-hour course created at the University of Michigan will show you all the ins and outs of business. It’s broken down into four parts, so it’s not extremely difficult to handle.

#5 Khan Academy

Khan Academy is well-known for its brilliant video courses on photography, tech, design, art, and science. However, they also have a course on taxes and accounting, which will also come in handy because, as we have already pointed out several times, you will have to wear many hats as an entrepreneur. Make sure to check it out.

#6 YouTube

While there is plenty of useless stuff on YouTube, the sheer volume of new material that is uploaded every day means that some good stuff will sneak its way on there, as well. YouTube is also one of the largest search engines out there, so you are never more than a few clicks away from finding valuable advice, presentations, seminars, and TED talks about entrepreneurship.

#7 Moz

In all likelihood, you will find most of your customers online. This means you need to master another skill, which is SEO. Sure, you may have a great product, but you also need to offer content that is both useful and search-engine friendly, so that your business/website ranks higher inside the search engine queries. Moz has all the information you will ever need on keywords, link building, social media, and all things SEO.

#8 Alison

Alison is one of the most popular places when it comes to free online courses because it has over 4 million users. They can choose between 600 different courses, and the list just keeps on getting bigger. Why is it essential? Because, it offers courses put together by Google, Microsoft, and Macmillan on anything from economy to running a business or starting your own company.

#9 Foundations Of Business Strategy

Created by a professor at the University of Virginia, this course will help you understand how to increase the value of your business. It is presented in video form, and after seven hours, you will have a pretty good idea about competitive markets, the way they work, their infrastructure, as well as how to position your business.

#10 MIT Open Courseware

Although MIT Open Courseware is primarily known for its high-quality courses on computer science, math, and science, they have also put together several online courses which tackle the topic of IT business, which will certainly come in handy for anyone who is trying to run a startup.

As you can see, being an entrepreneur has its challenges, but you also have countless tools and resources at your disposal which can help you navigate your way in the competitive market. These courses offer a multitude of information, as well as solution, so start relying on them today.

 

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