Reflective thinking is looking to the past. Reflective thinking involves personal consideration of one’s own learning. It considers personal achievements and failures and asks what worked, what didn’t. I wrote an entire post on it so you can always review it for more details…it’s time to move on.
Learn new skills- what did we learn in 2011
Thinking and creativity are two essential skill sets for improving performance, getting ahead, getting hired and getting promoted.
Learn new skills-what did we accomplish
Value Drivers-improve your business or personal proposition
We set the foundation on “Value Drivers” for individuals and entrepreneurs to be able to create their own personal branding and business brands by enhancing their value proposition. Personal branding is the hottest strategy and trends for the coming New Year. Remember that for next year.
We got the message out that companies are looking for great thinkers. They hire more of them and pay them better.
We showed you the keys to become a great thinker including several high level posts on specific thinking strategies.
We think we hit the nail on the head with a HIGH A by delivering the top 50 free websites for skills and performance tools in the following categories:
Education
Entrepreneurs
Free Publicity
Social Media
Internet Marketing
Learn new skills- where did we come up short
Our strategies are focused on skills and tools for improving performance for employees, managers and entrepreneurs. We think we got that right. We think our top 50 free websites starts to address the missing component for our complete strategy.
Learn new skills-completing our strategy
Learn new skills will also be focusing on entrepreneurs that either have or are planning to have an offline or online businesses and want to improve their online marketing performance.
Our approach to these loyal listeners will be what we call…improving your online marketing performance 1 pixel at a time. We prefer the ripple effect for sustained long term effectiveness, versus the big splash.
We will be offering affordable internet skills and tools for these entrepreneurs at our new internet skills and tools website. The real thrust of our efforts for the New Year on this site is strictly to improve your internet skills and provide high performance internet tools for internet marketing.
You can only truly serve one master…so we are choosing blogging and WordPress as the key platform to all of our offline/online marketing efforts.
The tools are easy to use and the skills are even easier to learn. In the above paragraph, we mentioned our new internet skills and tools website. We
are featuring a bundled product that includes 60 videos on learning everything
you need to know about WordPress and an info book on blogging for cash: how to monetize your blog and or how to make money with your new blog is you want to.
These two products are a great way for beginners and advanced bloggers to really get their arms around the world of blogging and WordPress. You can buy them both for only $7.95 at http://www.internetskillsandtools.com/ now.
Learn new skills-a look into our blogging calendar for 2012
Here is a short list of posts coming in 2012 to help you learn new skills:
Innovation can change your life- this will come out just before New Years.
What is drive-what motivates us?
Motivation- the heart of self improvement
Develop your intuition
Learn new skills-what can time management bring to yourself improvement
More on self improvement strategies and tips and learn new skills
Showcasing-a proprietary online marketing strategy focused on how to set up your offline/online business for the price of a good dinner in a moderately priced restaurant; includes the 5 simple steps to the how and where to do it. I predict we can teach you everything you need to know and do for an initial investment of less than $50: maybe even less than $35, with an annual operating expense of less than $100 all in. You won’t want to miss that. If you follow our showcasing strategy, I will show the inside secrets for creating your own products, or info products and the keys to becoming an effective affiliate marketer and make commissions on another company’s products.
Offline/Online Marketers-Hostgator: it’s all in the web hosting service, and the inside strategies and keys to their high level internet performance tools.
Contrary to what you have heard: content is the medium and relationships are king
Influence and persuasion- how to get others to understand and accept your ideas
Before I close, I think it’s time to ask you if there is something special you want to learn about or if there is a special problem you need help with. You can either post it or email us at info@learnskillsets.com. Also, if you have any ideas, suggestions or thoughts to help us improve what we do or help you, just let us know.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah and Happy Holidays to you and we wish you a healthy and prosperous New Year for 2012. We think 2012 looks very promising for you to learn new skills, enhance your skill development strategies and to improve your personal or offline/online business dreams, goals and aspirations.
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We have two themes behind the top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance tools:
1. No Money? No Problem!!!
2. Using skills and performance tools together is ike magic!!!
Learn more about this top 50 listing by scrolling to the bottom of this blog and read the Intro. It all started in this posting and it will give you more insight to the listing and our storyline why we chose this list and employees and managers as our listeners. See Universal World of Entrepreneuer’s for the full story.
Free education websites for 2011ranks to the top of our top 50 list and is the beginning of the top 50 listing. The first 40 already published has brought in hundreds of positive comments. It sounds like we hit this one out of the park. We’re excited so many people have positive comments, and see these resource as something very useful. That makes my efforts meaningful and rewarding.
There were two comments that stand out: 1 was from an internet marketer:“I charge for this and you’re giving it away for free.” That tells me the list is right on point. 2 “action requires knowledge, now I can get to work”. Keep the positive comments, they are appreciated it. Also, please share this list with your friends and colleagues. They will appreciate it too.
We hope this list continues to bring insight and value to everyone who reviews it as a great resource tool for free skills and tools for personal improvement and internet marketing performance.
Top 10 Free Education Resources Online For 2011
When it comes to free education online, these top 10 free resources are the best of the best. I think they top the other four categories as well. Learning new skills is paramount to your future successes, personally and professionally. We really believe that!!!
No tuition money? No problem!
There are many websites and top universities that offer free learning and training programs and courses right online. This list ranks the best of the free websites and online learning university courses available for people who want to enhance their personal knowledge or advance in their current fields.
From leadership training, project management, absolutely anything you want to learn, these 10 free websites can accommodate you. Our candidates include top universities, online training programs, educational programs in every subject, and seamless educational websites that provide everything you could ever want in new skills, with a click of the mouse.
Universal World Of Entrepreneur’s, Where Everyone Resides
Statistics tell our story and the facts don’t lie. In the Universal World of Entrepreneur’s and Employees, where everyone of us resides, less than 5% of business owners and employees have all the skills
necessary to run or manage a successful business. On the other side of the same coin, that means 95% of employees and entrepreneurs need to enhance their knowledge and skill sets. Everyone competes in this Galaxy no matter what their profession or business. They include a cast of colleagues and
competitors we call Rising Stars, Fast Trackers, Exiting Talents and Wannabe’s.
There is no better place for managers and business owners to start honing those educational skills than right here.
Mind Tools # 1 Winner Overall Top 50 Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools
# 1 Ranked Free Education Resource Online And Ranked 1 Out of 50 Aa the best of the best-Mind Tools
Why this website that competes with some of the top universities in the world, as well as other online educational websites. “This website is about as
seamless and user friendly as they come!”
This website is also listed under entrepreneurs resources also, but makes the best of the best in education overall as our top pick. This site provides a wide variety of essential skills for an excellent career. It provides education for you if you are an entrepreneur as well. Including training in: Leadership Skills, Team
Management, Strategy Tools, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Project
Management, Time Management, Stress Management, Communication Skills, Creativity Tools, Information Skills, Career Skills. This is the only website that gets an expose’ in two categories…my hats off to them. Bravo!!!
Open University creates and provides quality, innovative online learning opportunities to anyone who wants to improve their technology, literacy and math skills needed to be successful in both work and life. By delivering over 750 different lessons to millions of people in over 200 countries and territories ABSOLUTELY FREE, GCFLearnFree.org is a worldwide leader in online education. From arts and science to business and management programs, all for free. Complete activities to assess your
progress and compare your thoughts with sample answers.
If you are conducting any kind of research, especially for finding out about websites, you will use this site for sure, just by default. If you research a term or concept, this company typically comes to the top of the page with an answer. Wikipedia (i/ˌwɪkɨˈpiːdiə as they pronounce it is a free web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles (over 3.78 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site, and it has about 90,000 regularly active contributors. As of July 2011, there are editions of Wikipedia in 282 languages. It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet ranking sixth globally among all websites on Alexa and having an estimated 365 million readers worldwide. It is estimated that Wikipedia receives 2.7 billion monthly page views from the
United States alone
When it comes to home study courses, this site has the basics covered for employees looking to get on a fast track to learning new skills. For the entrepreneur, learning
new skills is the hallmark of all great leaders. They cover the basics for computers, careers, internet basics office suite and more.
Their claim is: they are the world’s leading free online learning resource for basic and essential workplace skills. Alison provides high-quality, engaging, interactive multimedia
courseware for certification and standards-based learning. All courses on this site are accessible for free to individual learners. It is their belief that through Alison, the cost of access to high-quality education can be removed. That’s what we’ve been talking
about in education. No money, no problem, no excuse. Learn new skills today.
Just as their name implies, this site offers thousands of free computer tutorials covering a wide range of computing topics such as: Photoshop, Linux, Windows 7, virtualization, computer hardware, programming, and much more. In fact, TechTutorials, covers nearly all aspects of computing. They have a separate site completely dedicated to computer hardware tutorials as well. If you are interested in computer certifications such those offered by Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA, LPI, and others, you should start by reading their Introduction to Computer Certifications. Learn how to save a ton of money on certification books, practice tests, CBT training and other materials by reading Learn How To Get Certified… For Less!
7 Ranked Free Education Resource Online-Stumble Upon
StumbleUpon helps you discover interesting web pages, photos and videos recommended by friends and like-minded people. There is a ton of information on
this site. Why waste your time searching for what you are looking for in the vast internet when this site can save you a lot of time. They help you find more information
related to your interests than you may not think to look for.
On-Demand Online Learning Programs. This site offers over 90 Online Learning
Programs and adding new ones all the time. This is one of the largest collection of free on-demand entrepreneurial training resources available in the United States as part of their “Success Network”. The benefits of the online courses to an entrepreneur, small business owner, or start-up business are: Learn from the start or brush up on business concepts. Courses are available anytime. Watch videos, play, pause, and rewind. Current content keeps you updated on business issues. Access over 70 business courses, 24/7.
MIT OpenCourseWare is supported through the generosity of people like you, who
believe that unlocking knowledge can empower minds. While the educational information is free, they do request donations by credit card. Find Courses in Architecture and Planning, Engineering, Health Sciences and Technology, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Management, Science, Other Programs, as well as Cross-Disciplinary Courses, Supplemental Resources.
Welcome to the world of CreatingMinds. This is a simple and easy website with a
primary goal that provides you with real and useful principles, tools, articles
and quotes about all matters around being creative and using creativity. Being
creative is a great skill set and one that everyone should learn to enhance.
When you talk about great thinking, you can’t be a great thinker without being creative. Thinking is a two dimensional skill set. These are two skills critical to enhance your
value proposition. You can learn more about thinking and creativity at http://www;learnskillsets.com
Top 10 reasons to use free education resources online:
1. Top free education resources online-you want to continue learning and growing
2. Top free education resources online- you need to shore up some skills to perform better
3. Top free education resources online- you want to be a rising star or fast tracker
4. Top free education resources online-you understand the value of education
5. Top free education resources online- you want to increase you personal value proposition
6. Top free education resources online-your tired of others getting the good jobs
7. Top free education resources online-you want to be the next one promoted
8. Top free education resources online- you have a passion for learning
9. Top free education resources online- you want to enhance your core disciplines and skill sets
10. Top free education resources online- great leaders lead by example and continued learning is what great leaders do
Continuing with our count down to the top 50 list.
Let’s start with a quote that pretty much sums up the world of entrepreneur’s. I’ve been using this anonymous quote since the first day I saw it over 20 years ago.
“Entrepreneurs live the first half of their lives like most people won’t, so they can live the second half of their lives like most people can’t.”
Free entrepreneur resources- a little about the publisher
As an entrepreneur and leader, I always lead by example. I feel fortunate to have learned later in life the value of education. I don’t bring this up to brag but to show you a passion for learning skills. I went through The Wharton Program Executive
Education and a Harvard Program on New Business Development- where I earned what they called Sheep Skins.
In my last three years of my employment agreement on my buy out, besides implementing a new learning initiative, I completely retooled my own core disciplines and skill sets. I hold these Masters Certificates: Master Black Belt Six Sigma, Masters in Human Resource Development and Masters in Strategic Organizational Leadership- all from Villanova University.
I have to admit, I’ve pretty much failed at retirement. One has to have a sense of purpose and meaning and golfing, boating and fishing didn’t quite do it for me. I’ve since launched several new online businesses, and the one I launched in 2008 is currently selling products nationally and in over 27 countries, with over 175 sales consultants and affiliates.
Now let’s dig into the world entrepreneurs. Most entrepreneurs, especially young
entrepreneurs and small businesses are strapped for cash. We call that the Catch 22. They have no cash and few resources, yet they are looking for all the same products and services that big companies use.
It is important to look professional yet also squeeze every penny when starting out, in order to be effective and successful. As an Entrepreneur, you need to:
acquire knowledge and learn new skills
use high level performance tools to become effective
have access to internet tools for online marketing
These 3 components will allow you to grow either an online or offline business.
Here are the best top 10 free entrepreneur resources online for 2011. These free resources are known to be trusted authority sites. They will help you with the startup days of your venture and help you grow and manage your business to the next level. This is the second category to the top 50 count down, published
in reverse order. this group starts at # 31 of 40 with # 1 winner in free entrepreneur resources online.
# 1 Ranked Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011 And Ranked 31 Out of 50-Mint
For entrepreneurs, it’s all about cash flow, cash, or lack of it. No matter what your situation, when it comes to money, cash is king, and this is one of the best free ways to manage your money. Mint brings all your financial
accounts together online or on your mobile device, automatically categorizes your transactions, lets you set budgets and helps you achieve your savings goals. What you need, when you need it. Mint pulls all your financial accounts into one place. Set a budget, track your goals and do more with your money, for free! That’s what smart, prudent, successful business owners do.
If you are thinking of starting up, then start here.When it comes to training
and support for new entrepreneurs and small business owners, you can’t beat
this site. They have tons of free information on this site to train and coach you along the way. They even provide coaching and mentoring programs as well. You can’t beat the SBA when it comes to free and entrepreneurs. Don’t forget them for small business loans either.
# 33 Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011-EVERNOTE
Talk about a high level performance tools…this is some free site with a mobile application to boot. I use it to make electronic saved notes for everything. Know what that means? Now you can save your ideas, things you like, things you hear, and things you see right on your phone or laptop. Evernote works with nearly every computer, phone and mobile device out there. Find things fast with keyword searches is a great feature. Here are a few of the ways I use it. I keep all my notes on any subject and
project online. No worries about losing them with hard disk crashes or backups. Back-up is automatic. I typically access it from my smart phone where I keep my notes with me. I keep all my online order confirmations in Evernote, and I always have a record of everything I purchase online with the help of Evernote. You will love this performance tool.
# 34 Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011-Mail Chimp
You can’t be in business today without e-mail. MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results. It’s like your own personal publishing platform. Their
Forever Plan is free and will accommodate you until you reach scale.
# 35 Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011-Google Alerts
Want to know if others are talking about you or your company, or do you want to keep your ears to the floor on special topics that could impact your business? ThenGoogle
Alerts is for you. Its service is content change detection and notification, offered by the search engine company Google, that automatically notifies users when new content from news, web, blogs, video and/or discussion groups matches a set of search terms selected by the user and stored by the Google Alerts service.. One of the keys to success is to research and monitor everything! Alerts is a great service to track when a keyword is mentioned online. Set them up for your name and your business. You can also set it up for industry words to track news and updates in your field. You want to
know when someone mentions your company so you can respond accordingly and this
service delivers that notice right to your inbox.
Business ideas and trends from Entrepreneur Magazine. This site provides the latest news, expert advice, and growth strategies for small business owners. Learn how to
write a business plan for success, or find hundreds of full or part time business ideas. You can even find franchise opportunities and small business franchises, as well as learn everything you need to know on starting a small business…FREE.
OK, this one I have to come clean on. This is my new business development site for
entrepreneurs and inventors. But it is loaded with free information on growth strategies, and core disciplines for small businesses, inventors and entrepreneurs.
It also includes great insight in the areas of the lost art: marketing, licensing, finance and entrepreneuring. This site has one of the best dictionaries for basic marketing terms and venture capital terms online. Hey, it’s free and extremely useful.
Market Research Surveys Made Easy. All of the Fortune 100 use SurveyMonkey, and
hundreds of thousands of individuals use our market research surveys before launching
a new company, product, or service, or before introducing new pricing. Want to know what your customers really want and need? Just ask them and survey
them. This is an awesome free site for you. If you think about this tool, put a little creative juices behind it, it could be a great resource for you in creating new products
and services.
# 39 Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011-Mindtools
This website touts essential skills for an excellent career. It goes
way further than that if you are an entrepreneur. This website is seamless. Click on any of their skills and your information is right there for you. From Leadership Skills, Team Management, Strategy Tools, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Project Management, Time Management, Stress Management, Communication Skills, Creativity Tools, Information Skills, Career Skills. I call these high level skill sets.
This is a phenomenal site and gets a high rating in another category as well. This is the only website that gets an expose’ in two categories…my hats off to them. Enough
said.
Want to know what a patent is? A patent is an intellectual property right granted by the Government of the United States of America to an inventor. Then there are rademarks. Trademark Office of the USPTO handles trademarks only. Any startup company needs to be familiar with this sight for preliminary checks on trademarks and patents. Always seek professional help but these are great screening tools if you are familiar with how they work. I always use this tool for checking product names to make sure some other genius isn’t already using what I just came up with.
Top 10 Reasons To Use Top 10 Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011:
1. Use Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011: the more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the better you perform.
Use Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011: learning where to look is half the battle and we solved that problem.
Use Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011: they’re totally FREE
Use Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011: your competition will use them.
Use Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011: great entrepreneur’s are great leaders and great leaders are always learning and just love free resources.
Use Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011: to grow your business to the next level.
Use Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011: to grow personally and professionally.
Use Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011: to launch a new business.
Use Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011: to learn all about being an entrepreneur, a top performing one at that.
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So here, are the ranking for free publicity online. They represent the most useful
free marketing performance tools in the category of free publicity online for 2011. They are the office start to the top 50 count down. The top 50 list will be published
in reverse order starting with # 41 of 50 and # 1 winner in free publicity resources online.
When it comes to free publicity online, advertising is a must for your business in
order to increase traffic online or offline. This is particularly true when you’re just starting a business.
Simply stated, entrepreneurs need free publicity to get the word out about their start
up or existing company. Make sure you use all 10 of these free publicity resources online to generate major buzz around your company without spending a dime.
Here the top 10 free publicity websites that will promote your business for FREE, and others will let you place ads FREE!
#1 Winner Ranked Free Publlicity Online 2011
# 1 Ranked Free Publicity Websites And Ranked 41 Out of 50- PRLog.org
PR Log is an online press
release distribution and press release submission service. When you market a new business or product, this is a must step in the beginning of any marketing campaign. This invaluable free publicity online tool and combination SEO tool stands out as number 1 for marketing your business and launching new products and services. I use this extensively, because press releases go a long way begin to rank you with search
engines, helps get you found easier online by your target listeners as well as ranked
in your keywords. Very helpful.
Here is a real sleeper!!! They may have won number 1 if it wasn’t for the small service fee they charge (like $1 a day-enough time to do what you need). This is the only site that actually charges- out of all 50 FREE sites I included. Here’s why. For less than a cup of coffee, (that’s why they are listed) you have access to publishers contact information for all the top consumer magazines, such as addresses, phone numbers, editor-in-chief and managing editor, website URL, email addresses, circulation, frequency. I used this program to launch our Yum Drops Flavoring business by locating target publications. I sent them samples and a press release. We got lucky and ended up in Better Homes & Garden as a feature story in their May special Edition 2010. Nothing can jump start a new business like free media coverage. It makes all the difference in the world. Using this site is a must for new businesses and or new product offerings.
Their mission is to run an open, free platform that gives people a simple way to organize their interests online. This company lets you submit your startup website link on their website. Using a short simple description is all they need. Then each week one startup will be chosen and featured on a widely read blog.
This is a blog that helps online startups navigate through emerging technologies and marketing opportunities to succeed. Just fill out their form with necessary
information about your new venture. They will only review your site if you
provide adequate information and they only pick sites that are actually
providing a service and adding value to the visitors. If you provide them with quality good information, you will have a good review
This is a user driven internet startups community. Entrepreneurs, investors, and bloggers stay informed on up-and-coming internet startups using this blog platform,
where internet entrepreneurs submit their startup to see what others think about it. This is a great way to find out what your market is thinking about what you’ve created. Great
Insight!
Place your ad free on this website. They include over 140 classified ad sites and marketing forum monitored-high traffic sites.. You can submit as many free ads
as you wish. Submitting ads on their site lets your ads be SEO friendly and keyword driven. You can include pictures, prices, as many ads as you wish, links back to your site, contact info, even videos.
Craigslist is an awesome website that allows anyone to network, find social groups, find
jobs, volunteer and intern opportunities. They also provide, freelance temporary or permanent work which is great for entrepreneurs to make some extra cash and launch a freelance business. Employees can also post their resume. They include a personals section as well like an ongoing classifieds/ community resource center. It is updated daily by everyday people
Whether you are brand new to E-Bay, or just want to take your sales to another level, E-bay will get you on the right track to success. There are two areas of support they provide for entrepreneurs’: How to Sell and How to Increase Sales.
Connecting you to the media for free, this unknown website has some great ways to promote you and your business. Pitch Rate gives you – the AUTHOR, ENTREPRENEUR, SMALL BUSINESS OWNER or EXPERT – free and
instant access to the media, by making it easy for you to connect with
journalists in need of your expertise. Pitch Rate helps you land the kind of media coverage that boosts your exposure and catapults you and your business to the next level! That’s why this less familiar website has made the top, ten when it comes to free publicity for you.
All over the internet people are struggling because there are not enough good
places to advertise. Finally someone had the good sense to solve the confusion
with. This website offers: Free Featured Links, Free Classy Style Ads, Free Banner Ads, Free Exit Pop Ads, Free Text Ads, Free Contact Mailings, Plus Multiple Ways to Earn a Living Online!
It doesn’t get any better than these 10 websites for free publicity online…
While these websites are free, hands down, they still deliver incredible value when
it comes to the top free online resources for free publicity. These are truly high level performance tools and when you master the skills behind these tools, they truly become magical.
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Our company delivers more value on any product or service we deliver-Guaranteed.
“I say money spent wisely always brings back great returns and rewards. I also say
using free resources are the heart, the pulse and the prudence of wise people.”
We have two themes behind the top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and perfromance tools:
2. Using skills and performance tools together is like magic!!!
At Thanksgiving time, everyone thinks about being grateful and sharing, and I am no different. I produced this free list for my students, customers and loyal followers who want to continue to learn. I know that everyone that reviews this information will get tremendous help and value, and ideally, something meaningful develops for you by using the top 50 free resources.
These top 50 best free websites 2011 and resources are all FREE sites. Free Skills. Free Tools. Use them every day to grow yourself or your organization.
Let’s start with a quick lesson and a quick footnote on blogging. When it
comes to blogging and posts and a blogs structure like headlines, redundancy
seems to be the hallmark in order to maximize your post, your search engine
optimization and your keyword density. Sometimes the best way to getting the message through loud and clear is also to repeat it and revise it subtly, because saying the same thing different ways clicks with some people better. You will find this post to be true to this footnote for the reasons just mentioned.
“Originality is the art of concealing your source- Thomas Edison
While there is a lot of truth to this quote, that is not our philosophy. We’ve
taken the high ground to share and enlighten you on the most effective skills
and performance tools on the internet.
The top 50 best free websites list is the best of the best free resources for employees and managers who want to learn new skills so they can grow personally and professionally, as well as for
entrepreneurs wanting to grow their business offline or online by taking it to the next level.
Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools. The 5 categories we picked, the exact categories will be revealed in a second, for this free list is in the areas of:
High level internet skills and tools for perfromance and
online marketing
This list is unique. Sure we have a few of the basics that any top
50 site holds, more importantly, it also holds more real gems than it does the
typical sites usually mentioned. Some of our sites at first glance may seem a little obscure or unfamiliar to main the stream, but we assure you they are loaded with excellent resources in the categories we included. Who really needs another Yahoo reference or Google search tool. Sure, several of the critical must have tools are there, but for the most part, this list is quite unique.
Our top 50 best free websites list of free resources online was compiled specifically for both employees and managers looking to grow personally and professionally, but also for entrepreneurs looking to start a businesses, or small businesses looking to grow to the next level. All of these sites for learning new skills and knowledge, as well as for using high level performance tools and internet tools are FREE, except one- and they would have won the best of the best in free media publicity. Only trouble with this site is: they charge a very small service fee-less than a cup of coffee. More about them later. All in all, there are 50 free websites online 2011, covering 5 categories, with one #1 winner in each category as the best of the best.
Before I go further, I recognize that all readers may not know me or know anything about me. When you learn a little about me, you will understand why this list about free resources, these categories and why this list will appeals to my customers and any
employee, manager or entrepreneur, basically anyone wanting to learn new skills.
Here’s a little about me…and I’m not just another pretty face. My name is George Napoli and I’m a little older and part of the new 40 generation. I’ve been passionate about entrepreneuring since 1989. 10 years later I had 450 employees and I was
fortunate to sell my business to my Executive Management Team. In my three year employment agreement before the sale was completed, I initiated a new learning initiative called Insight Career and Professional Development.
Between that program and my online boutique specializing in free coaching
for inventors and entrepreneurs in growth strategies for new business
development, I have trained and coached thousands of employees, managers,
inventors and entrepreneurs in Leadership Training, Six Sigma, New Business
Development and a wide range of subjects, core disciplines and life changing
skill sets like innovation, thinking and creativity. I thought I retired in 2008, more on this in the entrepreneur category.
In an era of quick decisions, push buttons and scrolling bars, some people like to scan and read the headlines only for their content. The top 50 list can easily be scanned by
category. Others like to read more to learn and understand the full storyline. Either way, the choice is yours.
The internet is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills and find useful tools for being effective and for improving your online marketing performance. You just have to know where to look. Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to
search for sites, but we wanted to save you a lot of time and frustration, and
best of all- they are all in one place and FREE!!!. These websites and resources are all trusted authorities within their category.
This top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance tools will be especially helpful to anyone looking to learn new skills and especially entrepreneurs and small businesses wanting to use the most effective performance tools and online marketing tools to help them grow and accomplish their goals. Learning new skills and having effective performance tools are especially important to becoming a top performer.
Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools- Influencing Key
It doesn’t matter if you are an individual, employee, or a business owner marketing online or offline.. The internet is a major influencing key and learning tool for you. Also, if you are an entrepreneur and looking to start a local business, statistics show that over 65% of all consumers check the internet first for local companies before they
buy. If you haven’t already done so, it’s time to embrace the future by marketing your small business online.
Top 50 Free Webistes 2011 Skills ANd Performance Tools-Awards Badge #1
Here is the official award emblem for our 1st place winners in each of the 5 categories for the top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance tools. These resources are all dedicated to their body of knowledge (BOK), meaning they are not merely directories that point you to other places. Their common goals are for the advancement of learning new skills, or providing you with the most effective and functional skills and performance tools.
Here are the 5 categories we chose, a total of 10 in each category, for our top 50 best free websites 2011 skills and performance tools:
Education- there is no better place to acquire knowledge and develop skills than on the web. From leadership skills to any subject you want to learn about and master: it’s right here in these top 10 free education sites. Top online universities, top online training programs, and websites that teach you new skills and knowledge in a wide variety of subjects and disciplines.
Entrepreneurs– it’s all about knowledge and experience, and having the right skill sets to be successful. These are the best of the best for free sites for business owners and entrepreneurs wanting to use high performance tools to become more effective, to grow and manage their business or for launching a new business and products.
Internet Marketing– Many on this list will be new to you. These sites will greatly enhance your internet presence for online marketing. Great for offline and online marketers. These high level Internet skills and high level performance Internet tools will jump start your business, or take it to another level.
Social Media Support– everyone knows the many popular social media sites out there. So you won’t see them here. What you will see is support for social media
to help you measure your social media effectiveness in marketing. We also include a selection of sites that are analytical and track and monitor social media, as well as bloggers that are respected authorities for helping you manage your blogs effectively. As more online marketers turn to social media, communicators need to find monitoring tools to track and measure social media activities, visibility and trends. These sites give you the inside story into hot subjects, trends and what people are actually tweeting, posting and writing about. Find out if they are
talking about you and find out what they are saying.
Free Publicity/Media Online– no better way to launch products and services and promote your business than through free advertising and free publicity. In our opinion, these ten across the board are real gems. These sites, just like many of the others are typically used daily for our online marketing needs. Start using them today.
Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools- Power of the Web
It’s easy to forget these days that the web started out as a place for academics and
researchers to trade data and knowledge. Recapture the web’s brain-expanding potential with our free resources for educating yourself online, learning new skills and
using internet performance tools.
By now you may be asking why we chose- learn new skills and internet performance tools from all the possible subjects available? And why emphasize employees and entrepreneurs as our target listeners? In an era of a shrinking economy, 401k’s
reduced to 201k’s and record unemployment levels, people need to become more
self reliant-which drives the entrepreneurial spirit. That covers why we chose entrepreneurs. Employees and Managers need new skills to compete in the job market, to perform better and to grow personally and professionally and they need them to run and manage the business they were hired for. That’s why the top 50 list is geared to them as well.
Universal World of Entrepreneurs
Universal World Of Entrepreneurs
Statistics tell our story and these facts don’t lie. In the Universal World of Entrepreneur’s and Employees, where everyone of us resides, less than 5% of all business owners and managers have all the skills necessary to run or manage a successful business. On the other side of the same coin, that means 95% of employees and entrepreneurs need to enhance their knowledge and skills. Every one of us competes in this Galaxy no matter what their profession or business. They include a cast of colleagues and competitors we like to call: Rising Stars, Fast Trackers, Existing Talents and Wannabe’s. You can read all about this Galaxy on our blog.
With so much emphasis on consumers becoming self reliant for their own economic well being, it’s important to note that never before in the history of our country, has it been easier for entrepreneurs to start a new business. Today, entrepreneurs can launch a small business faster and with less upfront capital than ever before. This is especially true with the explosion of the internet.
The five categories we chose gives all consumers and especially employees/managers and entrepreneurs, the most focused selection of educational skills and performance
tools, with the widest range of utility for success in learning and growing
personally and professionally, for achieving business goals, enriching lives
and improving life styles. Growing from a Wannabe or Existing Talent to Rising Star and Fast Tracker, should be everyone’s aspirations, and it is certainly within everyone’s reach The top 50 best free websites for 2011 have two dimensions to them. Some are skill driven, for knowledge and learning, the others are tool driven for increasing
performance. They can be used for everything from learning to be a successful entrepreneur, becoming a top performing employee, or for anyone looking to enrich their lives and life styles through learning.
Learn New Skills staff believes it’s a COMBINATION of SKILLS and the most effective “USE” of PERFORMACE TOOLS that will help you grow personally and professionally, and help you become more successful as an online or offline-business bar none.
Before we introduce our 50 candidates and our 5 first place winners let’s take a deeper look at what exactly a skill is and what exactly a tool is, since we use these terms throughout. It’s important to know and understand the difference between them.
Skills– (sk
l) n.
1. Proficiency, facility, or
dexterity that is acquired or developed through training or experience. See
Synonyms at ability.
2.
a. An art, trade, or technique,
particularly one requiring use of the hands or body.
b. A developed talent or ability,
something you learn: writing
skills.
Tools (t
l) n.
1. A device, such as a saw,
used to perform or facilitate manual or mechanical work.
2. A machine, such as a
lathe, used to cut and shape machine parts or other objects.
3. Something regarded as
necessary to the carrying out of one’s occupation or profession: Words and content are
the tools of our trade.
4. Something used in the performance of an operation; an instrument: “Modern democracies have the fiscal and monetary tools . . . to end chronic slumps and galloping inflations”(Paul A. Samuelson).
It’s like Magic!!! And the most important thing to remember…using skills and the right performance tools in combination- is like MAGIC!!!
In our opinion, knowledge comes first, than skills. And when it comes to skills
and tools, skills out-trump tools every time. That’s being loyal to our company name: Learn New Skills. However, when the right high level performance tools for either being more effective, or for online marketing are used effectively, it’s the tools that win and keep you ahead of the competition. Here is an example of what we mean when we
say- using new skills and tools “in combination” is like MAGIC!.
Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011: Skills And Performance Tools- Like Magic
“Using skills and performance tools in combination is like Magic! I will relate it in a short story.
I’m playing golf one day in a major local charity outing and one of the prizes is a $350 ticket to a magic show, that if won, would be brought right to your home for you and your friends to enjoy. I love magic. I keep searching for the kid within, so I buy
three tickets for a good cause, and place two tickets in the magic show box and
one ticket goes in the hopes of winning tickets to the Yanks vs. The Sox.
Later that evening I learn that I was the winner to the magic show. So I’m
sharing my story with a friend about winning, and telling my friend how much I
love magic, and that I’m thinking about stopping by the local magic shop to buy
some magic tricks. Maybe develop a new hobby to entertain myself and close friends.
He laughed, though I didn’t think that it was a particularly funny statement. It was his comment after the laugh that got me. His comment brings everything to light. He said “you can buy all the magic tricks, props and tools you desire, but at the end of the
day, you will never be a magician.” That is what we call a teachable moment and what we mean by knowing the right skills and using the right tools together…it’s like magic- you become a MAGICIAN!
“Success is never final and failure is never fatal”
When it comes to learning, the best lesson of all is to learn that we need to change our one dimensional orientation towards goals, to a dual-dimension. When we have a single orientation towards goals like success, the trouble is, once we become successful; sometimes we lose our sense of purpose, drive and motivation. Not so when you have learning and new skills as part of your goals. There is something always new to learn and learning lets you grow personally and professionally and lets you take any successes to the next level.
Over the next 5 days, we will release one category each day starting with free publicity online. We think the free publicity online category is one of the most interesting and useful and runs at the heart of any entrepreneur or new businesses. Typically, they have little to no cash and resources. We end our top 50 with what we think is the Heart of the top 50: EDUCATION. The other three categories will be revealed in no particular sequence, but are none the less of great interest and value to all.
In closing I want to share a little insight on the three things that everyone KNOWS:
Three Things We Know
We know what we know
We know what we don’t know
We don’t know what we don’t know
From this we learn, there is so much more to know.
Like we said in our opening statement:
“No Money? No Problem!”Using skills and performance tools in
combination is just like MAGIC!!!
We hope you find our top 50 best free websites for 2011 useful and valuable.
Learn new skills for self development and improvement today. Use high performance internet tools today to grow your business to the next level. Your future successes, dreams and aspirations depend on it.
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