Links

Here are some great resources for you to check out for marketing, small business administration, motivation, productivity, etc…

  • Essentially Smooth – my skin care business that I run with my fiancee. We sell Sugar Scrubs (bath exfoliators) that promise to give the user the smoothest skin they have ever felt.
  • Matthew Montaruli – my personal blog (yeah, Matt Thomas is my pen name).
  • Start Breaking Free – A great blog run by Brian Armstrong on start-ups and running your own business.
  • GetYourBizSavvy – Another entrepreneurial blog dedicated to motivation and inspiration. This site offers some wonderful interviews that can help you to stay driven.
  • Delightful Work – Tom Volkar, who runs this blog does an excellent job at coaching would-be entrepreneurs towards self employment, and espouses the value of authenticity in everything that you do.
  • Entrepreneurs Dream Financial Plan – A very useful blog about financial planning for entrepreneurs.
  • Young Entrepreneur Forums – an outstanding forum for entrepreneurs to connect, discuss and ask questions about running a business.
  • StartupNation – this site has a ton of resources for both current and aspiring entrepreneurs. It also has a wonderfully helpful and enthusiastic community.
  • Entrepreneur.com – this site is great for all things entrepreneur. It  contains a wealth of information for marketing, start-ups, business ideas, home business, management, finances and a ton of other helpful articles.
  • 4 Hour Workweek Blog – this is the blog of Tim Ferriss, author of the 4 Hour Workweek, an all around best seller and probably the best book I have read in years. This blog covers entrepreneurship, travel and mobility. It has some great articles and and useful forum posts.
  • Ask Howie – this is the blog of Howie Jacobson, author of AdWords for Dummies. Howie wrote an extremely informative book on how to market on Google using Pay Per Click. Anyone who is interested in advertising using this medium should pick up this book and check his articles for useful information.
  • Zen Habits – an extremely popular blog on productivity, organization and goal achievement. Very useful for any entrepreneur looking for motivation and simplicity.
  • Lifehacker – another well known site. Lifehacker details useful productivity hacks, many of which are tech related, as well general lifehacks.
  • Problogger – probably one of the best how-to sites out there for blogging tips, starting a blog, making money from a blog, publicizing your blog, etc…
  • Entrepreneurs-Journey – this is blogging king, Yaro Starak’s blog. Yaro has some great articles on entrepreneurship and tips for blogging.
  • StevePavlina.com – I have quoted Steve several times. Steve has extremely informative and content heavy articles on personal development and growth.