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Learn New Skills Development Strategies For 2012

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Skill Development Strategies- Learn New Skills

Learn New Skills-Skill Development Strategies

OK learn new skills Bloggers’ and Listeners’.  We are ready to wrap up 2011 and have set our eyes on the New Year for learning new skills.

Learn new skills– reflective thinking

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

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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Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools/ Free Education Resources Online

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Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools/

Free Education Resources Online

Welcome to the Top 50 Free Websites2011 Skills and Performance Tools, Published by Learn New Skills Blog- The #1 Trusted Resource For Skill Development Strategies: Grow Yourself, Grow Your Business: Including A Combination Of Free And Inexpensive Skills And Internet Performance Tools For Online Marketing.

Our company delivers more value on any product or service we deliver-Guaranteed.

Top 50 Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools

See top 50 Listing At www.learnnewskillsblog

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.

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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
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!!!

# 2 Ranked Free Education Resource Online-The Open University

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. 

# 3 Ranked Free Education Resource Online-Wikipedia

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

# 4 Ranked Free Education Resource Online- GCFLearnfree.org/

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.

# 5 Ranked Free Education Resource Online-Alison

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.

 6 Ranked Free Education Resource Online- Tech Tutorials

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.

8 Ranked Free Education Resource Online-Kutztown University
of Pennsylvania

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.

 # 9 Ranked Free Education Resource Online-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

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.

10 Ranked Free Education Resource Online- creatingminds

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

Please check out our website for inexpensive internet skills and tools to increase your personal perfromance and online marketing performance

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Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools/  Free Internet Marketing Resources

Free Internet Marketing Resources–  Overview

“It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate, than by doubling your traffic.” Jeff Eisenberg

Some say- internet marketing is all about content, I say internet marketing today is all about relationships.  Why the shift, why the change?

We don’t have any quick fixes, shiny gadgets, buttons or the newest gigs that bring
instant riches, like some products and websites claim.  Our strategies for your personal growth and development, and your future successes are grounded in you having the right knowledge, skill sets and performance tools so you can do the right things-
right.  Hopefully if you do, you will ultimately live a fuller, richer life with the life style you desire.

When it comes to internet marketing, I’m no genius. It probably took me longer to get my arms around the learning curve than most.  Even now I struggle between the
concept of marketing and the internet. For me the difference is clear. While I’m no techie, marketing today is the internet, even if you are an  offline business model.

I now have several successful businesses online selling consumable products and
information products.  My conclusion after fours years is, the more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know.  But for me, it’s a life long journey, a hobby and a passion.  If this top 50 free skills and performance tools shortens your learning curve, than I have
accomplished my goal to share and educate you.

If you are a small business offline, it’s time recapture the web’s business-expanding
potential with these free resources for internet marketing.  If you are already embracing online marketing, maybe it’s time to grow to the next level. If you are new to online marketing, statistics show that right now over 65% of all consumers look to the web first for local business.  So, offline or online marketing, the internet is a great tool to grow and expand your business.

Free Internet Marketing Resource- The Value

As more businesses realize the importance of a competitive online presence,
corporations large and small, start-ups, government organizations, and
non-profits alike are seeking high level skills and performance tools for
online marketing, to increase online visibility.

Internet Marketing is all about increasing online exposure, attracting new customers and
converting customers online and offline through contents: by attracting customers, educating your prospects by helping them and hopefully converting prospects to customers so a business can increase revenue and profits.

Here is the best of the best free websites and free marketing resources online.

Wordpress Top 50 Free Websites 2011 Skills ANd Perfromance Tools
WordPress Top 50 Free Websites 2011 Skills ANd Perfromance Tools

# 1 Ranked Free Internet Marketing Resources Online And Ranked 11 Out of 50-. WordPress Blogging
Software 

Using WordPress blogs are very beneficial because they are extremely SEO friendly and
the really good news is-search engines really like and favor them. To me, blogs are like aspirin.  If the drug companies
would have known how beneficial it is, they would keep them prescription so they can charge more for them.  Blogs are just like aspirin-and that they could be the best free internet strategy for the non tech IM Professionals.  I don’t want to mislead you here.  They are equal to websites, and websites are very important.  Websites are a lot more complicated to get right and keep right, and SEO is no simple task either.  This is one of the easiest ways to create profitable websites and adding helpful “plug-ins” makes them even more useful. You can use WordPress blog as a stand alone website with its own domain name or in combination with a regular website; make sure to have them keyword related.  Then post away, add keyword links, images and videos to your posts and just keep doing it. There are plenty of free Plugins and they are great performance tools for internet marketing.

# 12 Free Internet Marketing Resources Online- Free Web Submission

They provide free  manual and auto submission to the highest rated, free Internet Search Engines  and Directories. This is a one stop submission service to get your website  listed in all the internet search engines and directories.  They are listed and ranked according to  popularity. Rankings are determined by Alexa.com and Google.com and are updated  regularly.   You need for search engines to find you before customers can find you easily.

# 13 Ranked Free Internet  Marketing Resources Online- Search Engines/Keyword Tools.

Shows list of related search counts and advertiser competition.  Everyone marketing
online uses this tool frequently.  It’s the first place to see if there is traffic for the keyword, name or phrase you chose for your business or new products.  It gives you monthly search results and global results for how many websites contain that keyword search.  Very valuable tool..

# 14 Free Internet Marketing Resource Online-  Google Analytics

Once you get the traffic, you are only half way there.  Next you need to know what that traffic is doing once it gets to your site, and that is the key.  I use this program to make my online pages perform better and bring in more sales. Skills and performance tools is
everything on the web.  I find Analytics good for fine-tuning my “buy now pages” on all my sites, and just as important, I use it to increase the conversion rate of my traffic.  This has made all the difference in the world in developing my online business.

# 15 Free Internet Marketing Resource Online-YouTube Videos

The numbers are out.  35% is the actual percentage of all searches being conducted in the market today, are actually coming from videos.   Videos are the future of marketing on the web, so using YouTube videos to promote your site or product is a no-brainer.  Videos are another key to SEO tanking.  Here’s why: the reason is mainly because Google will place a popular video on their first page listings, almost instantly.  Some webmasters suggest you shouldn’t use YouTube videos because it will draw traffic away from your site, but I find it’s a fair trade off for the ranking and SEO support it
provides.  Three steps to video marketing:

  1. I always create a video as one of my first steps in an online
    campaign
  2. I launch the videos on an RSS feed
  3. I submit the feed to all social media sites.

# 16 Free Online Internet Marketing Resources Online StartupInternetMarketing

Startup Business Tools, Tips, Strategies and Services.  Learn how to start and grow your internet business successfully.  Whether you are presently running your own
business or just planning to start one. Their collection of internet marketing resources will save you time and money!  Dan Porteous delivers a lot of content here.  They are committed to providing startup business with the cutting-edge marketing tools and tactics needed to keep abreast of the ongoing changes within this ever-changing industry.   Start by bookmarking this page and be sure to come back often!

# 17 Free Internet Marketing Resources Online- Alexa

If you are researching competitive keywords, this is a great tool for finding the
links your competitors have on their web. This really makes this a valuable tool, surprisingly, along with sites like Compete, Alexa, this is one of my most valuable information gathering tools.  It may not be completely on point, but it will give you enough relative information you can use to further your marketing goals.

# 18 Free Internet Marketing Resources Online- Ezine Artilces

It’s still about content.  Sure it’s more about relationships, but content is king for finding customers and building relationships.  Provide high valued articles and people will find them and read them.  Article marketing is still my most effective marketing tool on the web, maybe because I used this approach right from the beginning.  I find using sites like free submission sites and directories vital to a complete online promotion.  I know using articles is considered “old school” but this method still works, especially using unique articles with good solid content.

# 19 Free Internet Marketing Resources Online-Animoto

You have to be able to produce videos easily and effectively for you video SEO marketing campaigns.  This free site lets you create stunning video slides.  All you do is create a Power Point Presentation or whatever software you use, save them as jpegs and upload them to Animoto.  You pick the slide theme and the music.  All free videos are 30 seconds, just enough time to get a pointed message of keywords delivered for
Google ranking on videos.  Then, upload them to your YouTube account and…it’s like magic.

# 20 Ranked Free Internet Marketing Resources Online-Internet Resources

This is a pretty comprehensive site.  Here is what I use it for primarily.  This is the most powerful RSS feed management and promotion tool available. The first of its kind for automatically submitting RSS feeds.  No better or quicker way to get your blog, website or video out there than through an RSS Feed.  All you need to do is go to feedburner.com, enter your url and they provide the RSS feed for free.  Along with that, you can also check many of the webs analytical tools for SEO right on their site like your page rank, keyword density, back links to your site.  Critical tools for effective SEO all in one place for free.

Top 10 reasons to use free internet marketing resources online:

  1. Free internet marketing resources online:  all sites are all certified and trusted
  2. Free internet marketing resources online:  all sites are free-
  3. Free internet marketing resources online:  all sites have high level skill training
  4. Free internet marketing resources online:  all sites have high performance tools for online marketing
  5. Free internet marketing resources online: all sites are authorities
  6. Free internet marketing resources online:  all sites are unique and original
  7. Free internet marketing resources online: these sites deliver high performance internet tools

  8. Free internet marketing resources online: all sites are useful everyday

  9. Free internet marketing resources online: all sites will take your online business to the next level
  10. Free internet marketing resources online: all sites are truly winners as part
    of the top 50 Free Websites 2011

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Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools/Top 10 Free Entrepreneur Resources Online

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Top 50 Best Free Websites 2011 Skills And Performance Tools/ Top 10 Free Entrepreneur Resources Online

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:

  1. acquire knowledge and learn new skills
  2. use high level performance tools to become effective
  3. 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 Winnner Top 50 Free Websites 2001/Top 10 Free Entrepreneur Resources Online
# 1 Winnner Top 50 Free Websites 2001/Top 10 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.

# 32 Ranked Free Entrepreneur Resources  Online For 2011 – SBA Small Business
Association

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.

#36 Free Entrepreneur Resources Online  For 2011–  Entreprenuer.com

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
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# 37 Free Entrepreneur Resources  Online For 2011-  The 500 Group.Com

OK, this one I have to come clean on.  This is my new business development site for
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Market Research Surveys Made Easy.  All of the Fortune 100 use SurveyMonkey, and
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# 39 Free Entrepreneur Resources Online For 2011-Mindtools

This website touts essential  skills for an excellent career.  It goes
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 # 40 Free Entrepreneur Resources  Online For 2011- U.S. Patent and
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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.

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Increase your value prosoposition with thinking skills

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And increase your value

Are you tired of hearing no?  No, you don’t have the skills we need.  No you didn’t get that promotion.  Maybe it’s time you take steps now to learn new skills that every employer and company are looking for.

 When it comes to increasing your core values as an individual or in growing your company, nothing can enhance your value proposition more than to learn new skills.  Companies spend a great amount of time and money developing their value proposition and here’s way.

Learn new skills- defining a value proposition

A value proposition is promising some value to be delivered and a belief from the customer of value that they will experience. A value proposition can apply to an entire organization, or parts thereof, or customer accounts, or products or services.  Creating a value proposition is a fundamental business component and a critical high level business strategy.  Kaplan and Norton are two world known business strategists, and here is a short summary of what they have to say about a value proposition. “Strategy is based on a differentiation and satisfying customers is the source of a sustainable value creation.

Learn new skills-high level strategy

If it holds true for companies, doesn’t it make sense for individuals as well?  In these tough competitive times with high unemployment, erosion of good quality jobs and intense competition on the jobs that are out there, now more than ever you need to increase your value proposition and the best way to do that is by learning new skills.

Here is the key point to value propositions.   A value proposition is the solution to a customer’s problem and in your case, maybe it’s a prospective employer.  It goes hand in hand with the problem the company or the product is solving or what the company needs from a job candidate.  With that knowledge in hand now we need to take a deeper look at developing a personal value proposition so that you can increase your own personal value.

 A personal value proposition “should be a statement of the tangible results a company will get from hiring you, the unique skills and benefits you will bring to an employer that others won’t.”  That is where a unique and differentiated strategy comes in.  Before we begin to develop a personal value proposition (PVP) let’s digress and look at a new term we need to introduce called: “value drivers” and the best place to start for understand this term is the investment banking world. 

Did you ever wonder why one business has buyers lined up willing to pay top dollar while another sits on the market for months, or even years?   What do buyers look for in a prospective business acquisition? The characteristics buyers seek must exist before the sale process even begins.   It is the job of the business owner to create value within their business prior to a sale.

 Learn New Skills: High Level skills- Value Drivers that enhance value

Here is a short list of the items, common to all industries, which drive up value for an entrepreneur’s called: “Value Drivers.” Here are the critical key value drivers for any successful business:

  • A stable, motivated management team
  • Operating systems that improve sustainability of cash flows
  • A solid, diversified customer base
  • Facility appearance consistent with asking price
  • A realistic growth strategy
  • Effective financial controls
  • Good and improving cash flow

These are the core reasons a buyer is willing to pay a premium price.  The more successful you are in developing each component, the higher your business value. These value drivers are centered on their perception of risk and return.

Now let’s take a look at the core value drivers when you learn new skills to increase your personal value proposition.  These are the critical skills employers are looking for today when you learn new skills.  Interesting to note, for the most part they haven’t really changed for years.

 Job skills and formal education

  • Communications skills
  • Thinking skills
  • Leadership skills
  • Pride in your work and a hard work ethic
  • Creativity and the ability to solve problems
  • Time Management and
  • Self Confidence
  • Flexibility and adaptability
  • Learn new skills

Sure, there are specialized high level skill sets some people have like: project management, graphics art, internet marketing.  The list goes on and on and yes, having high level skill sets greatly increases your value tremendously.  When you learn new skills, these aslo increase your value tremedously as well.

Make the time commitment now and learn new skills.  The best one to start with without a doubt is thinking skills.  Our Be Thinkful© skill set development program includes three skills in one

  1. Thinking skills
  2. Creativity skills
  3. Influence and persuasion skills

Learn these skills now at http://www.bethinful.com/ and increase your value proposition. And most important of all…and keep on learning.   After all, if you have a passion for learning and learn new skills like thinking and creativity, you will already be on well on your way to increasing your value.

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