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9 Web Resources To Help You Accomplish Your Goals Faster

Friday, August 5, 2011 12:32

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by Yaro Starak, creator of Entrepreneurs-Journey.com

In this post I will share with you some of my favorite resources on the web that I keep in my bookmark. They range from inspiration to graphics, content to money. As an online entrepreneur, I am constantly working on web projects. I am not just delegating but working in the trenches, honing the design, optimizing conversion, testing usability and adding functionality. Great projects need great tools. Today, I am sharing with you a few tools I use very frequently to help me accomplish my goals faster. Let’s check them out:

1. IconFinder.com: Icon Search Engine

What?

You can use Iconfinder.com to search for all kinds of icons. From social media to custom graphics. Simply type in a search term and download the icons for free. Iconfinder.com has a simple and user-freindly interface just like Google.com.

Why?

As Bloggers or Internet Entrepreneurs, we constantly are building web properties or creating content. Good icons can make our end result look more elegant and professional. I love this website and return to it constantly. I am sure you will love this as well.

2. WebDesignerWall.com: Blog for Web Designers

What?

Design, usability, code and trends blog for web designers.

Why?

If you are into web design, and minor development, you will absolutely love this blog. I have seen Nick La, founder of webdesignerwall.com, go from one website to five successful website launches in multiple but related niche markets. Nick posts blogs related to photoshop, illustrator, css, html, inspirational websites and web trends. I have been following his blog for four years now.

3. Themeforest.com: Website Theme Shop

What?

Shop for Site Templates, WordPress themes, forum themes, and much more.

Why?

Why reinvent the wheel, if you even earn minimum wages ($8/hour), you cannot crank up a WordPress theme or any theme for that matter in five hours ($8/5 hrs = $40/theme). No matter how experienced and fast you are. I think $40/theme is a steal. Themeforest.com has over 4000 custom themes that hundreds of developers make and provide here. It shows all features and you can even see demos to reassure you only pay for the theme that fits your needs.

4. TextLinkAds.com: Web Ad Marketplace

What?

Buy and Sell Banner Ads.

Why?

As a content owner/website publisher, you want your content to be monetized – duh. Finding advertisers and maximizing revenue can become hard work at times. TextLinkAds is a marketplace where advertisers look for publishers that are related to their products/services. Advertisers also buy ads for back-linking purposes here. So that’s kinda nice as well.

5. MyBlogGuest.com: Community Of Guest Bloggers

What?

Guest Bloggers can distribute content for free. Publisers/Blog Owners can get content for free. Nice deal

Why?

Guest Bloggers in need of new audience, broader reach, backlinks, and traffic can post their blogs here. The Publisher will review your content, make you an offer and on your acceptance publish your content on their websites. You have total control over the content and where it gets published. For the Publisher this is great, since they get to pick and choose only the content that they link. Free and Quality content for them. Amazing.

6. NameCheck.com: Check Username Availability w/ 1 Click

What?

Check username availability for Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Myspace, Wikipedia, and many other platforms with one simple click.

Why?

This is a great tool for startups when they are brainstorming product/company/service name ideas. This tool also shows you domain name and trademark availabilities.

7. Pixlr.com/editor: Free Photo Editing – Photoshop Style

What?

Free Photo Editing Online.

Why?

No need to download anything or pay $699.00 to Adobe to download Photoshop. Pixlr is an amazing tool that has many of the options Photoshop has including filter, layers, image adjustments, and you can even use all your Fonts stored in your computer. It’s super fast, uses up minimal computer resources, and super sleek. Although I will still stick with my Photoshop, I love this tool and often use it. The site loads up quicker than my Photoshop on my computer.

8. W3Schools.com: Dictionary for Web Programers

What?

A complete resource of several web programming technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL…

Why?

At times you want to look up the code for bolding, underlining, styling or running a query. If you wish you could look up the code as easily as looking up a meaning of a word in a dictionary, now this is possible with W3Schools.com. Every command attribute and possibilities are mentioned in this website. It’s amazingly intuitive to browse, and gives accurate information. A good website to Bookmark.

9. GratitudeLog.com: Gratitude Posting Twitter Style

What?

Post your gratitude as a status update.

Why?

It’s an amazing concept. One of the best pieces of advice my Dad gave me was to always live in a state of genuine gratitude. He emphasised the importance of “genuine gratitude” as apposed to “verbal gratitude”. At GratitudeLog.com, you can connect with regular to popular people who live in a state of gratitude and are sharing this feeling with the world.

I hope that you like all these resources mentioned above and enjoy them as much as I do. Although I have many other tools in my arsenal, I wanted to share with you only the ones that were simple, handy, easy to use, web-based, and those which could benefit the most amount of Online Entrepreneurs.

Wow! “Simple“, “Handy“, “Easy-to-use“, “Benefit the most amount of people” – Aren’t these traits of a great product, that simply spread virally after some initial kickstart? I am always looking for patterns and opportunities believing that it is one of the key traits to becoming and maintaining a thought leader status in any industry.

Next Week

I am re-listening to a book on billionaires, and noticing many patterns within these mega successful people. I am in the process of writing an article on that which is coming up next. Honestly, I am fascinated by mega successes, and enjoy looking for patterns and replicating them to achieve similar results. I have been successful in many cases, and working on others. In my entrepreneur’s journey, I want to take you with me and share all of my findings.

Aziz signing off