Ann Premazon » Resources http://www.annpremazon.com Ann Premazon | Helping People Succeed in Life, Fun, and Business Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:16:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 For the True DIY Entrepreneur http://www.annpremazon.com/for-the-true-diy-entrepreneur/ http://www.annpremazon.com/for-the-true-diy-entrepreneur/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:15:25 +0000 Ann Premazon http://www.annpremazon.com/?p=61

One of the greatest things about being an entrepreneur is that you have a certain type of freedom to really do whatever you want.

It’s great and can sometimes be really scary to have this freedom, but in the end , this is the environment I thrive in. However I want to point something out. It’s so much easier to be self sufficient today because of the resources available to us. With the World Wide Web placing information at our fingertips, if you need to do something new, the tools and resources to learn about this new task are instantly available.

I’ve always preferred to be a “Jack of All Trades” as opposed to a master of one. And I’ve found that the more open I am to learning, the more success I have. Now let me get to the point. With all this information available to us, it’s hard to figure out who has the real goods and who is just talking nonsense. Well I recently had to good fortune to talk to a buddy of my nephew’s and he was telling me about a great learning resource.

I want to let you know the difference between Business Web Basics and a site like this is that Business Web Basics teaches someone the very first steps of how to start a web business, in addition, how to hire vendors and personnel. The resource link that I’m giving you below if for an individual who wants to build from scratch their own website in a program like Joomla.

Lynda.com Learning Resource

Check out Lynda.com

Lynda.com is virtually a one stop learning center for anyone trying to utilize leading technology or software. My nephew’s buddy is actually a Joomla programmer who’s components I’ve used for quite a while.

Lynda.com has full video courses that are well organized in everything from leading software like Adobe Photoshop to coding PHP. They provide course material used in the training so you can get your hands dirty and follow along, which is great for someone like me who learns while doing. For someone self sufficient like myself, having a resource of knowledge like this is very valuable. And their membership plans are well worth the cost.

Check out Lynda.com and leave some comments and let me know what you’ve worked on using their courses. I’d love to see what you’re up to.

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So I had to good fortune to hear from a friend of mine named Dean Hunt, and he informed me of this great tool that would allow me to brand my twitter updates. Tweet Brand let’s you take back your tweets. Have you ever noticed when you tweet from many of the cool twitter tools out there they add a link to their tool at the bottom of your tweet!

–> MarketMeTweet <--

Those are my tweets and that link should be mine. Well with this great free tool – Tweet Brand – You can take those links back and link to yourself. Here is an interview with Tweet Brand and Market Me Tweet co-creator Tammy Fennell.

And here is a link to pick up this great tool absolutely free. It only took me 5 min to set up!

–> MarketMeTweet <--

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So I get asked questions time to time. What Vendors I use and some of the services I use to conduct my various businesses online.

Most Recently, I had someone ask me how I set up a merchant account online.

I want to be crystal clear that a merchant account is not a shopping cart.

I use iPowerPay and I chose them for several reasons.

  1. Easy to set up
  2. They take all credit cards
  3. Their rates beat my local business bank
  4. Included in the price, they set up my account with a gateway (for those of you who do not understand what a gateway is in this context, every merchant account online must have a payment processor called a gateway, and iPowerPay works with Authorize.net).
  5. They understand selling services and products online
  6. They have great customer service
  7. They work seamlessly with any shopping cart solution you choose

In choosing a merchant account online, I find these points to be imperative because if you ever have a product launch you want to be able to pick the phone up, talk to a live person, and tell them what’s about to happen so you can never have money held in an account that you cannot access. I’ve heard of this happening to many large internet marketers, and they now use iPowerPay. I’m lucky that it has never happened to me.

If you’re looking for a merchant account, I suggest you check out iPowerPay

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