Free business webinars to improve your skills in 2020

Key quotes:

• "Fortunately there are plenty of online tools to make your life easier when you need to prepare and conduct workshops."
• "In fact, there are plenty of free tools you can use to become more productive when in the process of preparing or following up a facilitated session."
• "Set a meeting with your next client, replace all the missing pieces of sticky notes and wallpapers from your magical workshop kit, checking in with the catering about the planned breaks and lunch for your session tomorrow, prepare and send survey to participants for your next event… the list is endless when you juggle multiple meetings and workshops that you need to facilitate."
• "Having your trusted notebook with you is essential to register all the information you need in one place, but organizing, finding, and sharing your notes is easier when using digital tools."
• "Below you can find the most popular options with somewhat different strengths: Although they differ in the way they work, what they have in common is the most important advice for using any software for taking notes: you actually need to remember to use it."

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• "We’ve prepared a list of courses, readings, and videos that will help keep you productive."
• "😉 By the way, if you’re trying to find social media certifications and classes to improve your career, we recommend that you check out our previous blog post, where we recommend 9 courses that can advance your marketing career."
• "This includes courses about Google Analytics, Twitter and Facebook ad campaigns, and content marketing."
• "But remember, it’s also important to understand why events should be included as part of your marketing strategy."
• "We recommend checking this TED talk out if you want to create a loyal following over time and how the Internet can help you do that."
• "You’ll learn about: The course includes 10 tutorials and runs for 4 hours and 56 minutes."

Key quotes:

• "As a product designer (UX/UI) and college dropout, I’ve had to develop my own tools and resources in my pursuit to become a UX/UI design expert."
• "Now more then ever, with the right attitude, anyone can learn to become a product designer (UX/UI) using free online resources and practicing it religiously."
• "Check out these 16 free online resources I’ve discovered that have helped me along my journey to becoming a product designer (UX/UI)."
• "This product design course from Udacity is built to help you take your game-changing idea and transform it into a product that you can build a business around."
• "High Resolution is a video and podcast series includes interviews with 25 design industry masters."
• "The one and only Samuel Hulick has compiled a vast library of tools, tips, and tricks to help product designers (UX/UI) build and implement successful user onboarding strategies for their digital products."

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• "“We see our mission as investing in people,” said Meghan Murphy, senior manager, communities & local journalism initiatives at the Online News Association (ONA)."
• "“This is a newsroom and news organization leadership training initiative that’s based upon a tenet of change management that grew out of the Sulzberger program that Knight also supported,” Friedlich said."
• "Publishers decide revenue streams, businesses, what news you cover, so diversity in the publisher’s office and business side is critical.” Another great way to find training programs and support are the various journalism associations dedicated to people of color and LGBTQ journalists."

Key quotes:

• "PFL provides a suite of sales and marketing solutions that help you close more deals, revitalize stalled engagements, hyper-personalize email campaigns, and deliver stunning content designed to drive conversion and loyalty."
• "Revegy helps streamline, automate, scale and monitor account management processes to provide teams with valuable insight for harnessing the full value of customer relationships across all stages of the sales process."
• "This sales and marketing platform enables teams to grow pipelines, qualify leads, deploy email marketing campaigns, automate tedious tasks such as follow ups and invoicing, manage selling activities and centralize customer interactions."
• "This solution combines KPI information from your CRM, competency ratings, skills training, knowledge base, gamification and video-formatted observations to equip sales professionals with the right selling approaches, behavior, and messages as they engage customers in real time."
• "It is one of the fastest and easiest ways for sales teams and recruiters to build lists of verified contact data from the web and sync it into Salesforce, and many other CRMs."