The Resources

This is the one stop shop for tools, courses, and other resources specifically for you, the "Enlightened Entrepreneur". We’ll add to it as we learn more, but you’ll notice that we refer to this page quite often. We recommend bookmarking it for your reference and convenience. Don't see a resource you love? Email us and we'll add it.

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Diego's Most Recommended

These are the tools and courses that I use and recommend every day to keep building Siam Tek Web design Group and they’ll be super important for you as you build up your online presence.

WordPress Content Management

Used by big name brands such as the Huffington Post, TechCruch, New Yorker, and BBC America -- WordPress is one of the most popular and most modular Content Management Systems (CMS) on the planet Earth. Not only is is relatively easy for our clients to add custom content, it's by far the most flexible for integration with the most popular third party softwares. Oh yeah, and it's FREE.

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ZipBooks Invoicing

ZipBooks is by far the easiest and most affordable invoicing and burgeoning cloud accounting software on the planet. They even have an app that makes it super easy to track expenses, mileage, and create and edit invoices via your phone. On top of that, their Free Forever plan is BY FAR the best value in the invoicing and accounting space. Here at Siam Tek Web Design Group, we use the Sophisticated plan to meet our needs.

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Siteground Web Hosting

‘Hosting’ is a web term that basically means ‘providing a home for your website’. As your web presence and website grows (e.g. you start selling stuff), you’ll need to upgrade to your own hosting with Siteground. Siteground is the FASTEST, most stable, affordable, and reliable home I’ve found for all my clients starter websites. If you need hosting for your website, feel free to use the link below to receive 60% off the full price of hosting.

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Drip Email Marketing

Automating your website shouldn’t be hard (and it shouldn’t cost a fortune). When it comes to making money on the web, it’s ESSENTIAL that you have an email marketing program that can FULLY automate your messaging, track your visitors, and even trigger specialized messaging when someone makes a certain action within your sales funnel pages. Not only does Drip do this, it’s super simple to use and to integrate into your website. Start with their Free Forever Plan, or jump into scale with plans starting at $41/mo.

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Google G-Suite (Formerly Google Apps)

As an Enlightened Entrepreneur with a credible business, you need branded email and cloud storage. Google does this with some great, reliable business email, cloud storage, and even several INVALUABLE cloud-based apps (they operate within a browser), like an online calendar, editors for spreadsheets, documents, slides, and even a video chat app for collaborating across the web. Free trial for 14 days and then pricing starts at $5/mo. (BTW, using this link gets you 20% off your first year of service)

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Microsoft Office 365 for Business

If you’re like a lot of other Enlightened Entrepreneurs, you have a lot of experience with Outlook, and prefer to stick with Microsoft when managing your email and document suites. This resource is for you. In addition to keeping your Office software 100% up to date with the latest features and services, you also get cloud storage, so you can share documents with your clients and your coworkers alike. I personally like to use Office 365 Business Premium ($12.50/user/mo).

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Acuity Scheduling App

As the leads start to roll in, it’s necessary to start automating more parts of your online business. Send a prospect/client to a page on your website, and have them choose a time ON YOUR calendar that works best for them! While your customer is doing that, you can even track your conversions through your Google Adwords and Facebook Pixel software. Talk about a time saver and money maker! 30-day Free Trial, then plans start at $10/mo.

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WP Speed Secrets Online Course

One of the most important factors behind an effective SEO campaign is a little discussed and executed strategy called Pagespeed Optimization. Google's latest algorithm changes make it so that if your website loads fast, you get some preference in Search Results over your slower, clunkier competitor websites. For an extremely affordable $49/year, this WP Speed Secrets course will show you how to optimize your WordPress website for the traffic that you are anticipating with your current SEO campaign.

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Book Recommendations

These are some of the greatest books that an Enlightened Entrepreneur would need to expand, scale and accelerate their business and their personal influence.

Marketing / Psychology

Contagious: Why Things Catch On, by Jonah Berger - With the advent of the internet, the ubiquity of smart devices, social media, and the ease of entering the marketplace, it's essential to understand how to make your message stand out amongst the noise. This fascinating book dives into -- and even codifies -- what it takes to "Go Viral" in today's marketplace.

The 10X Rule, by Grant Cardone - While most people take minimal action to meet goals, Grant Cardone creates a solid case for increasing both our goals and our requisite efforts by at least 10X to accomplish all of those things that we never thought possible.

Social Entrepreneurship

Bridges out of Poverty, by Ruby K Payne, Philip E. DeVol, and Terie Dreussi Smith - Unlike most other books that will be recommended on this page, Bridges out of Poverty is actually written with the sole purpose of reducing and possibly even eliminating poverty from the earth. Based on many years of peer-reviewed scientific studies, this easy to read book helps Enlightened Entrepreneurs to identify and understand the real BARRIERS to overcoming poverty, as well as the BRIDGES that we can build to create lasting change. A MUST READ.

Economic Theory (Business Friendly)

Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt - Foreword written by Steve Forbes, this PRIMER in Laissez Faire economic theory is at once, easy to read, easy to understand, easy to teach, and hard-hitting and eye-opening. In order to build change as an Enlightened Entrepreneur, it's important to understand the economic effects of rules and regulations on innovation, revenue, and the economy.