Five Free Business Resources and Downloads to Help You and Your Organization Grow

Continued learning has always been a critical component of my professional success. I recommend that everyone, no matter what career path you’ve taken, make self-improvement an integral part of your professional development. With the amount of content available online today, barriers to continued learning have been virtually eliminated. I wanted to share a few of my favorite resources that I’ve come across in my efforts to continually improve my professional standing and enhance skills, add new competencies and generally improve the value I add to an organization. These free business resources are great for both you as a professional and to help enhance your business or the business you support.

HubSpot Learning Academy

I love this one. There are so many excellent training videos here to help you with a variety of business and marketing efforts, and the best part is that you don’t have to be a HubSpot customer to access them. You simply setup a free account, login and begin learning. The programs are broken up into tracks, which you complete by watching a series of videos and taking quizzes to ensure the content sinks in. Samples of the types of tracks you can follow include:

• Business Blogging Strategy: Attracting and Monetizing an Audience Through Content
• Measuring Brand Engagement and Emotional Connection
• Sales Manager Training: Strategies for Developing a Successful Modern Sales
• Lead Management: Segmentation, Nurturing, and Lead Qualification
• SEO Training Course: Building Sustainable Traffic for Business Growth

Whether you’re looking to improve your website, build a better connection with your target audience, or enhance your sales efforts, there is something here for you. Tracks typically contain over an hour of content, so the learning is in depth and can really benefit you and your team.

65 Free (or close to free) Courses

Continuing on the theme of free courses, this is an article I came across on Inc.com. Higher education is finding it more and more difficult to compete and stay profitable in today’s market, especially with the emerging threat of free online learning options (like the HubSpot option above). In attempt to face this challenge, universities are beginning to offer free courses themselves. Would-be students are able to take a course and get all the content for free. To receive the certificate, you’ll often have to pay, but if that’s not your goal, then the learning is free. Here are some course options from well-respected universities highlighted in the article:

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