These marketing and small business eCourses are ideal for anyone who runs a small business and wants to develop their understanding of marketing and various other aspects of running a small business.
Special offers are often available on many of these courses – just click the read more buttons below for individual course details.
Marketing eCourses
by JEREMY SCHOEMAKER – Price $49
This course is designed for 2 people:
Business owners – The world is changing VERY rapidly and what people are trying to sell you is often times years old! In this course I am going to walk you through everything you need to not only prepare for the future but also be light years ahead of your competitors. The udemy platform is perfect for this course whether you are going to do the tasks yourself or have someone on your team do it. The content remains forever!
People looking to start their own business – The local small business space is the largest untaped resource on the internet. Many small business owners know they need this service but have no idea where to start. In this course there is a special section about how we have had success approaching clients, figuring out the pricing structure, contracts, and about everything else.
by MIGUEL HERNANDEZ – Price $297
Videos Rule. If your company’s website doesn’t have them, you are missing out on an awesome way of communicating with your customers. Videos are an easy and dynamic way of letting folks know about your products or services and they can mean the difference between a lookie-loo and actual sales.
Unfortunately, many companies let the high costs of professional videos turn them off to the real power of this marketing medium. Some folks even create low quality videos in-house.
As dynamic and powerful as videos can be, bad videos can be just as persuasive… in a totally negative way – giving potential customers a bad impressive of your company. Rather than adding poor quality videos to your site, you’re probably better off not adding videos at all.
Now your company can stand out from the crowd and you don’t need to spend $10K in order to have a professional video produced for your site. Are you ready for this? You can start enjoying the benefits of learning how to make your own, professional quality videos now with the help of an awesome video series that teaches you everything you need to know.
by BRAD GEDDES – Price $249
Search advertising is one of the most effective forms of advertising that exists as it has a lower lead cost than most forms of advertising.
With search advertising, you no longer have to go out and waste your precious time finding new customers. Your potential customers are already looking for your products and services through search engines. What you need to do is make sure that your company is being found when people are looking for you.
Google dominates the search landscape. There are 12 billion queries on Google sites each month in just the United States. When you examine how many search queries Google processes worldwide, the numbers become staggering.
While search advertising is very effective; you need to make sure you are doing it correctly, or you can just as easily waste money as well. This course will teach you the fundamentals you need to know to create effective search marketing campaigns with AdWords, Google’s search marketing product.
by ANDREW WARNER – Price $49
Learn the Quick-Start method – No excuses! I’ll show you a system that will enable even a shy technophobe to post a first interview within 3 days.
Land big-name guests – This alone is worth the price of the whole course. I’ll show you how to get people you never thought you’d meet to say, “yes!” to your interviews.
Start even without an audience – You don’t need a big audience to land big guests. I’ll reveal the dead-simple technique I used to get top interviewees when I didn’t have an audience.
Grow your site’s traffic – When you post an interview with celebrities — even if they’re only considered celebrities in your industry — their fans will discover your site.
Ask the right questions – I’ll show you a technique for coming up with questions that draw out your guests. You’ll learn how to create interviews your audience will absolutely love.
Learn to generate revenue – You don’t need to learn to sell to generate revenue. I’ll show you how to have your site sell for you. It’s the only way I sell and you could copy it exactly.
Learn to record & edit video interviews – You do NOT have to do video or audio interviews, but just in case you choose to do them, I’ll show you how. You’ll see my computer as I edit a 1-hour interview in a jiffy (under 10 minutes!).
Get mentored by your heroes – This is the best reason to take this course. By interviewing, you’re literally learning directly from the people you admire. Not from their books. Not by watching from the sidelines. But by directly getting to know them.
by TAARIQ LEWIS – Price $97
Cold calling and talking to a stranger is the hardest thing anyone can do. However, if you’re practicing customer development or conducting market research for your startup, it’s super critical to get the person to speak with you on the phone and not hang up. Getting to success will consists of roadblocks in the form of gatekeepers, voicemails, and testy people who are just plain grumpy.
How do you overcome your fears and get President Obama to take your call? Get the most important person you need to reach on the phone, the first time.
NOTE: The author guarantees you’ll make your investment in this course back within your first five cold call conversations!
Taariq Lewis brings extensive experience and enthusiasm in selling innovative enterprise software solutions into new industries and companies. Currently, Taariq is Founder at Stanzr, a startup B2B interactive group-chat and group marketing company. Previously, Taariq, led initial Sales, Marketing and Channel development for HiveFire and Terametric.
Taariq received his MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and is a Sandler Sales President’s Club member of Boston and San Francisco.
Social Media eCourses
by DAN MARTELL – Price $19
An award winning Entrepreneur, Dan recently co-founded Flowtown, a social marketing platform focused on helping small businesses achieve real results in the world of social media. Now living in San Francisco, Martell spends the majority of his time looking at ways to build a bridge between Silicon Valley and New Brunswick. As an informal angel investor, he is active in advising entrepreneurs using the Lean Startup approach to gain market adoption.
The 5 Lectures in this course are:
- Dan Martell, Co-Founder of Flowtown – Introduction to Social Media Marketing
- Stew Langille, Vice President of Marketing at Mint.com – Creating Engaging Content
- Laura Lippay, Search and Social Marketing Consultant – Improving Your Search Rankings With Social Media
- Jeff Widman, Founder of Brandglue.com – Leveraging Your Audience to Increase Your Reach
- Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder of awe.sm – Optimizing and Measuring Your Impact
by SEO CHEMIST – OLIVER WHITHAM – Price $27
Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social bookmarking tools with over 80% female user base. This is almost unique online, but despite its huge available target audience, few marketers have really explored how it can be used to generate new leads and sales.
The good news is that we have been researching and testing Pinterest techniques to generate sales, leads and just plain traffic to your website, and brought them all together in this simple guide!
If you are not sure what Pinterest is, or you have tried to use it without much success, let me lead you through some actionable techniques to be a bad ass at Pinterest marketing.
These techniques include
- Pin Optimization
- Board Optimization
- Affiliate Marketing on Pinterest
- How to Market on Pinterest
- and more!
by SEAN CLARK – Price $40
Even if you have been using Twitter for some time the ideas within this course will help you become more efficient and productive in your use of Social Media.
This course consists of 17 Lectures with over 2 hours and 20 mintues of video, which takes you through the principals used in building yourself up as an authoritative figure within your market sector on Twitter.
During this series we will learn how to identify your target market, create a professional Twitter profile and find content to share. Then you will learn how to combine all of these into an efficient and effective strategy using freely available online tools.
At the end of this course you will have created a semi-automated system that will allow you to curate content around your area of expertise and share it with your target audience all day whilst you work. You’ll also learn how to engage with your audience, monitor the social space and measure the effectiveness of your social media strategy.
Blogging eCourses
by SAM BAZ – Price $20
The course is probably one the most in depth and at the same time easiest to follow and understand courses on WordPress to date.
It is also the largest on udemy aswell as the cheapest paid course on wordpress on udemy.
The course consists of a huge collection of 60 videos from everything on how to utilize and get the most out of exactly everything you need to know about making the most of your WordPress website or blog.
A few examples of videos you will be able to follow with ease are:
Video 8 – How To Install Plugins Automatically
Video 11 – How to Install WordPress Themes Automatically
Video 17 – How to Insert Audio or MP3 Files
Video 20 – How to Add YouTube Videos to WordPress Automatically
Video 18 – How to Use Gravatars for Your Blog
Video 23 – How to Add Google Analytics to WordPress
Video 27 – How to Install and Use the All-In-One SEO Plugin
Video 46 – How to Set A WordPress Page As Your Blog’s Home Page
AND MANY MORE VIDEOS ON VARIOUS TOPICS WITHIN WORDPRESS!
by CHRIS VASSILOPOULOS – Price $50
Do you really want to know how to correctly promote what you love?
First things first.
The lessons here are very specific and tangible one by one points. You can further enhance your knowledge after this seminar by KNOWING WHAT TO SEARCH FOR in the Internet regarding SEO. This way after this seminar you will be able to get rid of confusion about SEO and grow with further free knowledge. Most people are confused from where to start on SEO or what to do/implement. As I said to my classes: Take this seminar seriously and use it and you can grow a new profession and career out of it. And I am serious. These things here are all what you need to know. They will change up to a point after 6-12 months but you will not care… as you will already know what to learn to evolve.
This seminar has all the juice. No partially described freebies to lure you buying something else for the same thing. No trying to sell web design services or some tools. This is it, fair and square.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) eCourses
by DAVID AMERLAND – Price $70
Based upon the best-selling SEO Help: 20 steps to get your website to Google’s #1 page this is a practical, step-by-step search engine optimization guide to help your business gain higher ranking, more traffic and more customers.
In this course you get to see exactly what you have to do in order to make your website rank high and increase visibility, organic traffic and profits. Ultimately, you want your website to appear on Google’s first page.
To prove that it can be done against any odds I took my own (HelpMySEO.com) to the first page of Google for the unrelated search term “Why are People Poor?” against over 800 million competing pages.
The course is designed to help you achieve the same results.
by LEN SMITH – Price $90
Let me show you how to make your website into a money magnet.
Yes, I’m a freelancer working from home, yet I really do get more than 1,000 visitors every day – day in, day out. That’s auditable. And it’s not the mythical ‘hits’ that some people boast about. These are real live humans. Around a third of a million a year! That’s why I now have to farm work out.
IF YOU ARE A WEB DESIGNER, APPLICATION DEVELOPER, FREELANCER, THIS COULDN’T BE MORE APPROPRIATE. YOU ARE SELLING TO EXACTLY THE SAME AUDIENCE I SELL TO.
And I did all the search engine optimization myself. I don’t pretend to be an SEO guru. In fact, I hate technology but I realized some time ago that your rankings in Google searches are too valuable to entrust to others. And there’s no need to spend a fortune with SEO companies when you can achieve astounding results yourself without any technical expertise. After all, no-one knows your business like you do, and no one can be as highly motivated.
In this course, there’s no sales hype. I just lift the kimono and show you exactly what I did to my own site – and
you can do exactly the same to your site – just ‘copy and paste’. And, yes, it does take into account the latest changes that Google has made to its ranking algorithm.
by KEITH CARPENTER – Price $197
Google Places offers local businesses the opportunity to get their business ranked quickly at the top of page 1 in the Google search results. Never before in the history of search engines has their been a bigger opportunity for small local businesses to cash in on the search engines in their local market.
Until recently, when a consumer typed a keyword phrase into Google there were just 10 results on the 1st page and that was it. You were competing with the entire country for 10 spots on that coveted first page BUT… Not any more! Now you are only competing with the businesses in your local area because Google is now showing a ’7-Pack’ of Local Businesses at the top of Page 1.
Keith Carpenter is a life-long entrepreneur going back to his first ‘blow pop’ business at age 11. He has a passion for small business and start-ups and helping small business owners leverage the power of the internet to grow their businesses and make more money.
He believes the very foundation of the United States and many other countries are the small business leaders who step up, take a risk and put it all on the line in the name of ‘capitalism’ and ‘opportunity’.
His true fulfillment is helping businesses grow and become more profitable through the understanding and strategic implementation of sound and proven online marketing strategies.
Web Design and Development eCourses
by VICTOR BASTOS - Price $199
With “Become A Web Developer From Scratch”, you will learn everything about Web Development, even if you’ve never programmed before!
The full course has more than 220 video lectures, divided into 8 chapters. Each chapter will give you a new level of knowledge in Web Development. We’ll start from the basics with XHTML, CSS and Javascript to more advanced and the most popular/requested programming languages nowadays, such as PHP, XML, JSON, AJAX, JQUERY the MYSQL database and the new HTML5+CSS3!
At the end of each chapter or “level”, I will show you how to create a simple application using the languages you’ve learned so far. The source code of each final project will be available for you to download as well.
“Become a Web Developer from Scratch” will give you a new perspective on how the Internet works and after you completed the course you will be able to create your own websites and apps with the latest technology. Hope you enjoy!
by ROBIN NIXON – Price $99
HTML5 for Beginners is the fastest way to learn HTML5. This highly informative and popular course, already taken by over 1,600 people, is taught by Robin Nixon, author of Learning PHP, MySQL and JavaScript (the most popular book on web development worldwide for over two years). The course covers everything you need to know to learn HTML5 and leverage its power to create highly dynamic websites.
Because it starts from the first principles of HTML, you need no prior knowledge of the subject, since the course begins with a thorough introduction to HTML (which skilled users can skip), before moving onto what’s new in HTML5.
HTML5 is the latest version of the Web’s bedrock markup language, HTML. But it has come to stand for much more than the average, slow-moving technical standard. HTML5 is intended to make web sites behave more like conventional desktop applications, incorporating video, complex interactions and data as well as greater compatibility with mobile devices.
by MARK LASSOFF – Price $49
There isn’t a web site out there– whether it be WhiteHouse.gov, IBM.com or the site for your local high school– that isn’t written in HTML. If you do any level of web development– from editing pages on a WordPress site to designing original pages from scratch, understanding and being able to code in HTML and CSS can give you a level of control, and power over your designs that you’ve never experienced before. This course helps you learn the html and css you need to know now (versions 4.01 and XHTML) as well as prepares you for the future with coverage of HTML5.
In this course, designed, authored and hosted by master trainer Mark Lassoff, you will learn HTML and CSS, including everything you need to create a creative, quality and sound web site. Almost four hours of video instruction in punctuated lab exercises where you apply the very skills taught in the course. With an instructor available to answer your questions, and course with both wide coverage of HTML and CSS topics and deep discussion of those topics, there is no better or faster way to learn HTML and CSS for Beginners!
by CHRIS CONVERSE – Price $150
Learn to create a web design that automatically conforms itself to multiple screen sizes. This course will show you a step-by-step process for creating a design that rearranges content, resizes elements, and adapts itself based on the size of your visitor’s screen size.
Learn how to reposition the main navigation of the site based on the device browsing your website.
We’ll create a web design that makes use of HTML5 and CSS3, while maintaining backwards compatibility with older browsers. The secret ingredient of CSS3 that makes this all possible is the media querying capability. CSS media queries allow us to define CSS rules based on screen size, and ultimately give us precise control over how our designs adapt to different screen sizes. In addition to adjusting layout, we’ll explore using CSS to define all imagery in our design, allowing us to send optimized imagery along with our customized design experience.
Apply varied amounts of compression to images to optimize download speeds across devices.
Course includes HTML, CSS, and Photoshop templates for use in your own multiscreen web design projects.
by ROBERT TUCKER (AND 1 OTHER) – Price $99
PHP and MySQL are incredibly powerful open source technologies that allow people to create functional websites and apps that go way beyond basic HTML. While it can seem intimidating to someone with no background in coding, working with PHP is much easier than many realize. With the right guidance and a desire to learn, most people can learn how to put together a functional web app in a few days!
This PHP / MySQL Tutorial Video Course is narrated by Robert Tucker, a long-time trainer, lecturer and consultant who specializes in helping people learn how to use technology to solve real world problems. In this high-impact course, Robert walks users through the creation of a functional PHP / MySQL interface from beginning to end, explaining where needed the important technical points without relying on excessive jargon. This is not an overview of complex theory, but a hands-on primer that will allow even beginners to create usable solutions quickly!
Robert shows you how to make the most from these free technologies used by everyone from small startups to the biggest technology companies in the world.
by HUW COLLINGBOURNE – Price $99
Ruby is famous for being easy to learn, but most users only scratch the surface of what it can do. While a typical Ruby tutorial or book focuses on Ruby’s trendier features, this course reveals the secret inner workings of one of the world’s most popular programming languages. It helps you learn Ruby in one of the easiest ways possible, through 10 simple steps that will have you writing clear, maintainable code in no time.
Rather than bog you down with a lot of theory, this course takes a hands-on approach and focuses on helping you learn Ruby so that you’re productive on day one.
Whether you’re new to programming or just new to Ruby, this Ruby tutorial is your guide to rapid, real-world software development with this unique and elegant language.
by MARK LASSOFF – Price $49
“As a business guy I have no place in programming.” Ten years ago, you would have gotten away with that easily. Today, you say that to your friends and they scoff at you quickly before they go back to their computers to fix actual problems and do real work.
So how do you get started? If you want to do something useful, learn JavaScript. In these days when the browser is becoming more and more central to all computer use, knowing “the language of the browser” is the most important step!
Now, a few years ago, you’d be marked out as a weirdo for saying something like that. There’d probably be some kind of witch-burning ceremony or something, because JavaScript was this stupid language which had stupid syntax and stupid scope and was used to do stupid things by stupid people and just led to awful spaghetti code and killed kittens.
These days competent programmers have started to identify its real potential and uses, and it’s gone from an incompetent toy to the main language of the browser. It’s become cool and basically every developer needs at least a beginners understanding of Javascript. And I don’t mean cool as in “look at this cool bouncing text”; I mean cool as in “hey, check out that cool guy over there writing JavaScript, look how cool he is!”
by INFINITE SKILLS – Price $59
In Java for Beginners, expert author and professor Mike McMillan starts you along the path to enlightenment with Java. You’ll learn the basic concepts, tools and functions that you will need to build fully functional programs with the popular programming language, Java. Java is the base for all object-oriented programming langauges.
Starting with the download and installation of the JDK (Java Development Kit), this video tutorial will teach you the different types of variables (bool, int, etc), what an operator is and how to use it (+,-,%,etc). You will learn about object-oriented programming, and creating classes and objects. You will control your programs with different types of control loops such as while and for, as well as making decisions with if-else statements. Each chapter is capped of with exercises so you can put in to practical use, what you learn in each section.
By the completion of this instructional video course, you will have the base knowledge that you need to create functional and useful Java programs. This video tutorial comes complete with working files and code samples, so you can work alongside the author as he teaches you each concept.
Writing eCourses
by LEN SMITH – Price $90
You really can make money as a freelancer
Just imagine, earning your living – a good living – without the hassle of commuting. Be your own boss. All you really need is a PC or Mac and a broadband connection – plus a desire to write and a bit of flair. Three months from now that could all become a reality. You will be a copywriter!
Unlike any other guide on How to be a Copywriter…
Unlike so many guides on the subject, it’s not a jumped-up list of ‘useful phrases’. It won’t tell you ‘how to make a million dollars overnight’. Instead it is a unique, detailed step-by-step guide to becoming a successful freelance copywriter working from home, from scratch.
Step by step
Follow each step and you can make between £300 ($450) a day and – with more experience – £500 ($750) a day. Not exactly a get rich quick formula, but a very respectable income. Especially for someone who is their own boss, has few overheads, doesn’t have to commute to work, and chooses exactly how much or how little work they want to take on. Because my website has been live for some time now, I get more than I need and have to turn work away.
by JASON MATTHEWS – Price $29
Instructed by Jason Matthews, author of five titles published as both ebooks and paperbacks, this course teaches all free methods for self-publishing. The lessons total 8 hours of packed information made easy to understand.
How to Make, Market and Sell Ebooks All for Free is packed with information, tutorials, a complementary PDF version of the book with over 200 links to sites and software that will help you accomplish these goals with retailers and at your own websites. The advice is simple enough for computer beginners and relevant to experts who could use extra guidance.
If you want to make, market and sell ebooks and do it all for free, then this course is the one source for everything it takes to succeed at this.
Graphics eCourses
by INFINITE SKILLS – Price $99
This Adobe Photoshop CS5 for beginners course is narrated by Adobe expert Andy Anderson. This Photoshop course will teach you the fundamentals of Adobe Photoshop with easy to follow, practical examples.
Starting with the basics, you will learn how to setup your work environment, open files, and perform various editing functions that Photoshop has to offer. Beyond the standard functions that Andy will instruct you on, he also covers, in some depth, color correction, layers, levels, Adobe Bridge, blending, masks, alpha channels, and much much more. Andy’s witty instructional style will keep you interested and entertained throughout the whole of this training course on Adobe Photoshop CS5.
By the conclusion of this video tutorial, you will be fully versed in the use of the basic tools of Adobe Photoshop CS5, and able to open, edit and prepare images for use in print, or digital media such as PDF’s or the Internet. Included are full work files, to allow you to learn right along with the instructor using the exact same files that he does.
by INFINITE SKILLS – Price $59
Along with Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator is one of the most important graphic design tools in the world, and absolutely the best choice if you want to create vector graphics that can be endlessly resized without degradation. Andy Anderson’s Illustrator CS5 for Beginners video course can help you quickly become proficient with Illustrator’s cutting edge tools and functionality.
This Adobe Illustrator video tutorial teaches you to work confidently with vector graphics no matter what your focus. You will get a thorough introduction to the individual tools Illustrator offers and also gain a better understanding of how the program can be used as a go-to choice in virtually any workflow. Andy thoroughly demonstrates vector graphic design techniques that can be used to create logos, business cards and enormous posters, and also covers 3D, animation, file conversion and printing, too. By the completion of this computer software training course, you will be completely competent in the use of Illustrator, creating your own masterpieces of vector art. This course includes working files that allow you to work alongside the author.
Apps eCourses
by TONY BOVE (AND 1 OTHER) – Price $29
In this course, you will learn how to create apps for iPhone and iPad devices. Expert trainer and published author Tony Bove introduces you to using the iOS Software Development Kit (SDK) and Xcode to build apps for the iPhone, iPad and Universal apps. Even if you have never programmed before or built apps before, by the end of this course you will be fully capable of building apps and submitting them to the App Store.
Before you even start building an app, Tony takes you through what makes a good app, and the limitations you will face on the iPhone and iPad platforms. You will learn how to design a good user interface, how to use the iOS simulator, how to program in Xcode, and how an app runs. From there, you will jump right into building apps: designing the interface, including iAds in your app, animating, timing, and much more. You will also learn how to build iPad specific apps to take advantage of a larger screen and additional features. Finally, you will learn how to package your apps, and prepare them for submission to the app store.
By the conclusion of this course you will be fully capable of designing, creating and submitting an app to the Apple App Store, using the iOS SDK and Xcode. The author has included working files, to allow you to work alongside him as he builds an app throughout this video tutorial.
by SHAWN ARNEY – Price $89
This is the three-day (at your own pace) course I teach to businesses who want to teach their programmers how to do iPhone programming. This course retails for $3,000 for the live on site training.
You will save time and you’ll learn quickly with this course!
Shawn’s class will take you through the steps to create your first iOS app from start to finish with a “see and do” method.
You see what he does, and you do the same. Simple.
Requirements
This course requires an Apple Macintosh computer that has OSX Lion installed.
You’ll need to install the Xcode software. We have a free tutorial on how to do this.
by JEROME ARNAUD – Price $49
You read it right, this course comes with one hour of support with the instructor to ease your learning curve and get you back on track if you get stuck somewhere.
This course is a complete bundle providing all you need to become an efficient Android developer: video training to ease the learning curve, concrete examples with demo apps, expert PDF chapters for advanced topics, and a companion book to be used as a reference for your future endeavours.
You will learn about how to setup your development environment, how to build a Hello World application, how projects are structured, how to use buttons, toast messaging, radio buttons, checkboxes, lists, longclicks dialog boxes, intents, options and context menus, layout, how to localize, how to store data, how to build background processes, how to deal with security and permissions, how to build graphics, how to integrate maps, how to debug, how to make sure your application is performing well, how to publish an application…
Support is provided on the content of the training by email of though Udemy’s conversation system.
by JOHN BURA – Price $497
Have you ever tried to code an iPhone app from scratch? Have you spent lots of time learning how to code in multiple different languages only to have your project not compile at the last second? Do you just want your app to be on the app store without the hassle of programming? Have developers quoted you a price tag of several thousand dollars just to make your app.
With this course you can learn how to make an iPhone/iPad app from scratch with absolutely no programming. It sounds too good to be true but yes, you can learn how to make iPhone apps without any programming knowledge.
In this course you will learn how to prototype, design and release apps onto the app store. The best part is that the process is so streamlined you can build a prototype or an app in less than an hour. You will learn then entire process from idea creation to production to release. Along the way you hear creative and technical commentary that is designed to help you avoid the pitfalls of production. While every project has pitfalls, this course will show you how to over come them and release your app.
This is a course that is aimed at beginners who want to make an app for themselves or for somebody else. This course isn’t a technical development course. The course mainly focuses on how to get a workable app on the app store.
by DREW FALKMAN – Price $39
This course will teach you everything you need to know to develop applications for iOS (iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch), Google Android and even Blackberry’s Tablet OS all using Adobe’s Flex and Flash Builder toolset. Whether or not you’ve used Flex or Flash before, you can build your own apps in just 14 days by spending only an hour a day. If built right, a single codebase can deploy to all of these devices.
Drew Falkman is an Adobe certified instructor and developer who has taught Flex at Fortune 500s across the US since version 1.5. This course is for aspiring application developer who has no experience using Flex or Flash OR existing Flex or Flash developers looking to use the new mobile application development features.
Drew Falkman has been developing web applications since it was standard practice to test for Mosaic and Netscape. He rode the dot-com wave through growing a startup and achieving venture funding, and he is now happy to consult and train through his own company, Falkon Productions. Over the years, he has architected and worked on sites for customers from startup cattle auctions to Fortune 500 companies using a host of technologies including Java, ColdFusion, JavaScript, Adobe Flex/Flash, PHP, and WordPress. Also a writer, Drew has authored two books on Java for Adobe Press and done technical editing for Que Publishing and Wiley. He has been published in developers’ journals and online, including on Adobe.com. He is an Adobe Certified Instructor and Developer and has spoken at conferences around the U.S. He currently resides in Santa Monica, CA.
Office eCourses
by INFINITE SKILLS – Price $99
In this Microsoft Excel 2010 video course, InfiniteSkills introduces you to the latest version of Microsoft’s standard spreadsheet application.
In this Excel training course, you will learn by watching the author actually perform the operation he is instructing on, as he explains step by step how to preform these functions. The training explains Microsoft Excel 2010 starting with the absolute basics of creating your very first worksheet. He slowly works you up through learning the various capabilities of this very powerful program, and covers topics such basic to advanced formula and functions. A chapter on how to connect to Microsoft Web Apps is also covered. The course also shows how to use your own SkyDrive to store and share your Microsoft Excel Projects. As part of this course, you can also download the working files that allow you to work alongside the author as he teaches you how to use Microsoft Excel 2010.
By the completion of this online training course, you will be fully versed, and capable of working with Microsoft Excel 2010 in a commercial Environment.
by AUTHOR – Price $99
This Excel 2010 advanced training course, follows up from the Beginners Excel 2010 course by delving even deeper into the features and functions of this powerful spreadsheet software.
Microsoft Excel 2010 is much more than a quick way to add up numbers. In this online course, you will learn advanced features such as nesting IF statements, how to calculate the Mean of a group of numbers using AVERAGEIF, SUMIF and more. You will learn about performing lookups with HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP. This tutorial also covers Sparklines, and goes in-depth with Pivot Tables and Charts. Finally, you will learn how to create and record your own Macros.
This advanced video course is not for beginners. You should have a firm grasp of the basics before taking this Advanced Excel training course. By the conclusion of this advanced computer software tutorial for Microsoft Excel 2010, you will have mastered the advanced features and functions of this software. Working files are included to allow you to follow along with the same files the author trains you with.
Recruitment eCourses
by JHANA EDUCATION (AND 2 OTHERS) – Price $99
“By far the best online hiring course. Highly recommended to anyone hiring.” -Pat Schoof, Former VP of HR at salesforce.com
Jhana Education Inc. is a San Francisco-based learning company that creates online business courses for busy professionals who want both immediate solutions to their daily workplace challenges as well as long-term skill development. ”We founded the company because we love learning – Jhana originates from a Sanskrit word for knowledge – and want to make it easier for professionals to succeed.”
Why Take This Course?
- You Are Hiring, but lack hiring experience
- Rave Reviews, see testimonials
- Expert Content, created by McKinsey consultants
- No Risk, with a 30-day, 100% money-back guarantee
Entrepreneurial eCourses
by STARTUP UNIVERSITY – Price $19
Startup University is an effort to provide anyone in the world with access to the leading experts in the startup community. The top entrepreneurs and investors from Silicon Valley speak on the record about how they built their businesses. Each series has a specific topic – such as “Raising Capital” or “Social Marketing” and experts on those topics deliver clear, actionable education on the subject. Series are split into multiple lectures so every course by Startup University has between 3-8 parts.
The 7 chapters of this course are:
- Naval Ravikant – Before you Raise Money
- Gagan Biyani – Meeting Angels and VCs
- Dave McClure – The Investor’s Perspective
- Jay Jamison – Constructing a Killer Pitchdeck
- Yokum Taku – Legal Aspects of Fundraising
- Jude Gomila – Nailing the Pitch Meeting
- Adeo Ressi – Closing the Funding Round
by ERIC RIES – Price $150
Lean Startup is a new, field-tested philosophy that provides you with a toolset to minimize failure and increase your chances of success. Learn why hundreds of companies, from financial services companies like Wealthfront to social companies like IMVU to large corporations such as Intuit, are using this revolutionary technique.
But what is Lean Startup, or more importantly, how do I implement Lean principles into my own company? Well, to answer that question, we’ve brought in the Godfather of Lean Startup himself, Eric Ries. Not only has he written the book on “The Lean Startup,” but he has also now created THE course on Lean Startup.
Eric brought in all of the leaders in the movement to talk to you about what lean startup is and how to implement it into your company. This course is the real deal – it’s the most content you’ll ever get on the Lean Startup in one place. More importantly, it is curated – Eric has personally taken the most important aspects of Lean Startup and condensed it into a single course. And then he added a few dozen case studies of it by including bonus material from the definitive conferences on the subject.
by TIM BERRY – Price $129
Tim Berry is the founder of Palo Alto Software, makers of the top selling business plan software in the world. He is also the founder of Bplans.com, co-founder of Borland International, author of several best-selling books on business planning, and has a Stanford MBA.
Tim has spent his entire career focused on entrepreneurship and business planning. As a consultant Tim has helped businesses such as Apple, Autodesk, and McDonalds with their business planning.
Take this course if you are…
- An entrepreneur
- Thinking about starting a business
- In the process of starting a business
- Writing a business plan
- Growing your business
- Marketing your business
- Need help understanding the financials of your business
- Pitching your business to a bank or investors
by BILL BISHOP – Price $750
This course teaches you how to develop a BIG Idea—something new, better and different—to stand out from your competition. We start by showing you how to choose the right target market. Then, working from a customer-centric perspective, we explain how to uncover the true benefits your customers want, and how to discover new ways to make more money by delivering those benefits. Then we show you how to develop a packaged brand name for your BIG Idea and how to craft an elevator speech that will get more prospects asking you questions about your business. Finally, we show you how to use your newly package BIG Idea to make the transition from selling low-profit commodities to selling high-profit BIG Ideas.
Bill Bishop is the CEO of Bishop Communications Inc., the founder of The Bishop School of Entrepreneur Marketing, and the creator of The BIG Idea Adventure™, an advanced coaching program that helps entrepreneurs grow their business by creating, packaging, and promoting new high-value BIG Ideas.
He is a coach, keynote speaker and workshop leader, and is the author of many best-selling books, including How To Sell A Lobster (now sold in 25 countries in 12 languages), The Problem With Penguins, and his latest book Beyond Basketballs.
Other Miscellaneous eCourses
by ALEXA FISCHER – Price $99
This program will transform the way you experience public speaking and the way audiences experience you – just 10 minutes at a time. Together we will turn hesitation into excitement; fear into confidence; conversations into results. These 10-minute videos & training exercises provide actionable steps to help you cultivate a winning mindset for public speaking, an engaging and dynamic voice, and a comfortable, poised, and relaxed presence. Are you ready to take the next step towards your most dazzling self?
There’s nothing like a 1,000 watt presence to make you realize you either have the “it” factor…or you don’t. Fortunately, you don’t have to be born with star qualities, you can actually buy them.
Actress Alexa Fischer has turned normal civilians into major public speakers, and wallflowers into power-brokers. Your presence speaks before you do and Alexa knows how to turn up the volume easily and painlessly and uses her wealth of knowledge as a seasoned performer to bring mere mortals into the limelight. The results? Less Fear. More gigs. And maybe some fame if you’re a really dedicated student!
She is a graduate of Northwestern University, B.S. in Speech, and The Yale School of Drama, M.F.A. in Acting.
