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Index of Free Online Courses

By Susan Ward, About.com

Why Sign Up For A Free Online Course?

The willingness to learn new things is one of the hallmarks of successful business and professional people. These free online courses can be a great way to help you acquire new information and hone your skills because they're designed with your busy life in mind - all four of these free online courses are available through email.

When you sign up for one of these free online courses, you receive a lesson by email each week. (The day you receive the lesson will depend on when you signed up for the course.) And while you receive an email lesson each week, you can take as long as you need to complete each lesson (as they don't expire) and even move ahead to another lesson or return to a lesson you want to review at any time by using the special "Lost Lessons" URL at the bottom of each email, which allows you to "order" any lesson in the series, and have it delivered immediately.

Presently, there are four free online courses available, with others in the works, so bookmark this page.

Free Online Courses

Here's an outline of each of the free online courses I offer through the About Small Business: Canada site. In each case, the hyperlink will take you to the sign up page for that particular free online course.

Business Success Course (Weekly Delivery)

  • Lesson 1 - Tracking Daily Activities
  • Lesson 2 - Setting Specific Goals
  • Lesson 3 - Decide To Delegate
  • Lesson 4 - Daily Business Planning
  • Lesson 5 - Get Ready To Sell
  • Lesson 6 - Using A Promotion Kit
  • Lesson 7 - The Benefits of Being A Joiner
  • Lesson 8 - Make Stress Work For You
  • Lesson 9 - The Power of Self-Promotion
  • Lesson 10 - Make Success A Habit

Organize Your Small or Home Office Course (Weekly Delivery)

  • Lesson 1 - Setting Up An Office
  • Lesson 2 - Setting Up and Using A Filing System
  • Lesson 3 - Tips For Organizing Paper
  • Lesson 4 - Doing The Books
  • Lesson 5 - Tips For Working More Efficiently
  • Lesson 6 - Managing Your Time
  • Lesson 7 - Keeping Your Home Office Safe & Secure

The Speak For Success Course (Weekly Delivery)

  • Speech Lesson 1 - Stop Dropping Your G's; Enunciation Matters
  • Speech Lesson 2 - Axe Those Fillers
  • Speech Lesson 3 - Enthusiasm and Monotones Don’t Mix
  • Speech Lesson 4 - Motormouths Don’t Make Sales
  • Speech Lesson 5 - Buzzwords and Slang Bury Your Message
  • Speech Lesson 6 - Active Listening Is The Most Important Thing You Say
  • Speech Lesson 7 - Evaluating Your Speech Skills

Starting A Small Business in Canada Course (Weekly Delivery)

  • Lesson 1 - What Do You Need To Start A Business?
  • Lesson 2 - Are You Ready To Be An Entrepreneur?
  • Lesson 3 - Is Your Business Idea Feasible?
  • Lesson 4 - Continuing With Your Business Plan
  • Lesson 5 - Forms of Business and Registration
  • Lesson 6 - The Business Number, GST & PST
  • Lesson 7 - Your Management Plan
  • Lesson 8 - Records, Business Expenses & Taxes
  • Lesson 9 - Marketing And Promotion
  • Lesson 10 - Is It Time To Open Your Doors?

Don't like getting course lessons via email? With two of these free online courses, the Business Success Course and The Speak For Success Course, you can work through the entire course online by following the links from lesson to lesson. The starting page of the Business Success Course is Build Business Success Week By Week; the starting page of the Speak For Success Course is Speech Lesson 1.

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