9 Educational Resources For Beginner Entrepreneurs
Now that you’re an entrepreneur yourself, you know this isn’t as glamorous and effortless a path as influencers and media paint it.
Author:Suleman ShahReviewer:Han JuSep 27, 202232 Shares631 Views
Now that you’re an entrepreneur yourself, you know this isn’t as glamorous and effortless a path as influencers and media paint it. Your head must be spinning from the sheer number of things you have to take care of!
How much in taxes will you have to pay? How do you predict your business income and expenses? How much overhead is fine? How do you increase your sales? How do you promote your product on, say, Amazon? Or social media?
These are just some of the questions you have to grapple with every day. But there’s some good news: the internet is full of educational resources that can answer some of them for you.
Just make sure to free up enough time for learning from them, with the help of thecollege paper writing service Essaypro, for example! And if you don’t know where to start, here are the nine best resources you should at least take a look at.
Foundr
Made by entrepreneursfor entrepreneurs, Foundr is your education hub for online courses and weekly podcasts. The website also has a knockout blog with actionable tips on virtually anything that may come in handy for you, from a guide on selling on Amazon to tips on writing great Instagram captions.
Don’t know what to start with when you visit Foundr for the first time? Check out these three online courses:
- Finance for Founders (Alexa von Tobel);
- Learn How You Can Start a Profitable Online Store in 12 Weeks or Less (Gretta van Riel);
- How to Find a “Hot Product” that Will Sell on Amazon in Any Economy! (Melisa Vong).
What’s more, Foundr also offers free phone consultations to aspiring or novice business owners. Yes, you’ve read that right – you can pick a professional’s brain for free!
The Balance
When you open this website, you’ll see articles onlanding a part-time jobor making savings on its homepage. Don’t let it make you close the tab. Instead, go to the More menu section and click Building Your Business.
In this section, you’ll find a lot of information you’ll need while running your business. For example, the Balance has:
- A glossary of key terms;
- A F.A.Q. section;
- Articles on everything related to running a business organized into 8 categories.
Inc.com
Inc.com is akin to a bottomless treasure chest full of gold – with the gold being the how-to articles and guides for entrepreneurs, of course. Do you want to polish off your leadership skills? Inc.com has the Lead section for you! Want to understand how to grow your business? Jump right into the Grow section!
Besides that, Inc.com has ultimate guides on anything from taxes (it’s titled Tax Strategies) to insuring your business and employees. So, make sure to explore the website thoroughly and visit every section and subsection – you’ll find plenty of gems along the way.
And top of all that, Inc.com also organizes free online events for business owners. If you attend one, you’ll get a chance to learn from real-world successful entrepreneurs and executives!
How to Start a Startup by Sam Altman
If you don’t know the name, Sam Altman is the president of Y Combinator – the most successful startup accelerator in the United States. Back in 2014, he and other startup experts taught a class at Stanford University. He then put the recordings of this class, CS183B, online, accessible for free.
Yes, here you won’t hear anything aboutinspiring movies for entrepreneursor how to write Instagram captions. But these 20 videos amount to over 1,000 minutes of distilled knowledge on creating and running a startup. They cover how to:
- Come up with ideas and select just one;
- Gain users and grow;
- Approach marketing and sales;
- Find the right team and hire employees;
- Get funding;
- Create a business strategy and more.
HubSpot
HubSpot is known for its free CRM and other business tools. So, any small business owner should know this company’s name. But those tools aren’t the only thing HubSpot has to offer!
Its Educational Resources section is packed with free workbooks, ebooks, guides, templates, and more for marketing. There are also some great tools, like Website Grader, Make My Persona, and Growth Grader. And while you’re there, don’t miss out on free marketing courses at HubSpot Academy (with free certification, too!).
Here are just some of these courses:
- Digital Marketing;
- WordPress Training;
- Learn Ecommerce Marketing and Sell Online;
- Content Strategy;
- Inbound Marketing;
- SEO Training.
GrowthHackers
If youcan’t sleep at nightbecause you can’t figure out how to grow your business, GrowthHackers’ blog is the place to be for you.
Focused on growth hacking, it doesn’t try to dumb down or oversimplify any concepts or terms. Instead, GrowthHackers’ writers explain, for example, building effective referral loops in an in-depth – but still easy-to-understand – way.
Apart from the blog, GrowthHackers also organizes online events, so you might want to check them out. And its Community page is full of case studies you can learn a great deal from!
Buffer
Few enterprises can succeed without a strong social media presence. But if creating it remains a mystery for you, don’t worry: Buffer’s library can help you ace it. There, you can find guides written by pros on working with:
- Instagram;
- TikTok;
- Twitter;
- Facebook;
- LinkedIn;
- Pinterest.
Looking for something more general? Don’t worry: there’s a Small Business Marketing section, too! And on top of that, there’s the Flow blog with even more guides and breakdowns.
Are you a podcast person? Buffer has two podcasts to offer you, too: The Scienceof Social Media and Breaking Brand.
Shopify
If you’re running an eCommerce business, Shopify’s blog is a must-read for you. Yes, even if you don’t use Shopify itself. Why? This blog is full of comprehensive guides on everything from selling t-shirts online to dropshipping.
Want something more substantial than a bunch of blog posts? Shopify has free online courses to offer you! At Shopify Learn, you’ll find courses on building a print-on-demand empire, eCommerce email marketing, and more.
On top of that, Shopify also has two podcasts. Masters is focused on marketing advice and actionable strategies, while Vanguard’s episodes are, essentially, small business case studies.
LegalZoom
LegalZoom itself is an online service designed to help you figure out all the legal paperwork by filling out simple questionnaires. But even if you don’t want to use it, LegalZoom’s resources section is worth checking out.
Brought to you by real-world legal experts, those guides can help you clear up some legal aspects of running a business.
Want to register a trademark? LegalZoom has a guide for that. Want to figure out which type of patent suits you best? LegalZoom describes all of those types in one post.
In Conclusion
The internet isn’t limited to just these nine resources when it comes to entrepreneurship, of course. But they’re the cream of the crop – and a great helping hand for any beginning entrepreneur. So, go ahead and take a look at them!
And if those resources don’t quite cover your needs, here are five more educational resources that haven’t made the cut – but they can still be a great source of knowledge to business owners like you:
- Entrepreneur: an all-stop-shop for news, guides, expert opinions, and webinars;
- Moz: everything you need to know about SEO gathered in one place;
- Wix: if you don’t know where to start with creating a website and promoting it, Wix’s blog is for you;
- ShopifyNation: a blog dedicated to running an eCommerce business with Shopify;
- Practical Ecommerce: a platform full of general and specific guides on running an online store.
Suleman Shah
Author
Suleman Shah is a researcher and freelance writer. As a researcher, he has worked with MNS University of Agriculture, Multan (Pakistan) and Texas A & M University (USA). He regularly writes science articles and blogs for science news website immersse.com and open access publishers OA Publishing London and Scientific Times. He loves to keep himself updated on scientific developments and convert these developments into everyday language to update the readers about the developments in the scientific era. His primary research focus is Plant sciences, and he contributed to this field by publishing his research in scientific journals and presenting his work at many Conferences.
Shah graduated from the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (Pakistan) and started his professional carrier with Jaffer Agro Services and later with the Agriculture Department of the Government of Pakistan. His research interest compelled and attracted him to proceed with his carrier in Plant sciences research. So, he started his Ph.D. in Soil Science at MNS University of Agriculture Multan (Pakistan). Later, he started working as a visiting scholar with Texas A&M University (USA).
Shah’s experience with big Open Excess publishers like Springers, Frontiers, MDPI, etc., testified to his belief in Open Access as a barrier-removing mechanism between researchers and the readers of their research. Shah believes that Open Access is revolutionizing the publication process and benefitting research in all fields.
Han Ju
Reviewer
Hello! I'm Han Ju, the heart behind World Wide Journals. My life is a unique tapestry woven from the threads of news, spirituality, and science, enriched by melodies from my guitar. Raised amidst tales of the ancient and the arcane, I developed a keen eye for the stories that truly matter. Through my work, I seek to bridge the seen with the unseen, marrying the rigor of science with the depth of spirituality.
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