Education

General Biz • Creative Biz • Websites Coding • Print • Packaging • Courses + Memberships •
Creative Skills • Marketing • Social Media

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ps. Resources with a “diamond” are ones we personally use and highly recommend!
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General Business


BIZLAUNCH

Running a Business

We teach business owners and entrepreneurs the steps they need to take to build a profitable business of their own. We regularly host webinars. seminars, training programs and workshops. Bizlaunch has been training, coaching, mentoring and advising small business owners since 2003.

CANADA STARTUPS 🇨🇦

Small Business Grants

Canadian Grants. There are hundreds of Canadian government grants available for small business owners and startup entrepreneurs. These funding programs are made to save you money, lower your startup costs and to help you grow your small business.

PRIMER

Business Basics (Free)

Google Primer is a free mobile app that offers, quick lessons to help business owners grow their skills and reach their goals.


TRADEMARK SEARCH 🇨🇦

How to Guide

Canadian Resource: What You Need to Know about Conducting Trademark Searches in Canada

TRADEMARK GUIDE 🇨🇦

Government of Canada

Canadian Resource: This guide explores what trademarks are, how they can benefit you and your organization, and why registration is important.

FIRST SITE GUIDE

How to Guides

Level up your online entrepreneurial
skills with our resources. Full list of easy-to-use how-to guides and resources for business owners such as: How to start a blog, make a website, and learn SEO.


MASTERCLASS

Online Learning & Courses (Subscription)

Immersive online experience, which gives everyone the opportunity to learn from the world's best practitioners. Every class was created by the instructor and includes extensive pre-recorded video content, a class workbook, interactive assignments, and community activities.

FOUNDR

Online Learning (Free)

Free training classes to help you start or grow your business. Classes from real-life founders sharing their tricks of the trade.

HOW TO GET ANYTHING

Audio Training (Free)

Created by Marie Forleo. Free audio training to learn three simple strategies that’ll give you the clarity and confidence to build your dreams, on your terms.


BUSINESS MADE SIMPLE

Online Business Course

On-Demand Courses and Live Coaching that Take the Mystery Out of Growing a Business. Includes a step-by-step plan to grow a business

STORYBRAND FRAMEWORK

Online Learning

Is your business suffering from unclear messaging? This online course to help you create a clear brand message that works. Developed from the awesome book “Building a Storybrand” by Donald Miller.

Get Productive with G Suite

Online Learning

STOP feeling scattered and frustrated with your workflows, and START tapping into the full potential of your favourite tools.


Pricing Psychology 🔹🔸

Online Guide

In this guide, you’ll learn how to improve the pricing of your product or service. 42 simple tactics that are easy to follow and start implementing today.

NuSchool How Much? 🔹🔸

Online Calculator

A potential client wants a proposal for a design project? Awesome. ... use this online tool to calculate an example of average rates. Use this as a guide to price for profit!

HoneyBook Pricing Strategy

Online Guide

If you don’t get your pricing strategy right, you could struggle to stay afloat or win new clients. Discover everything you need to know about setting a pricing strategy, including different pricing models you can explore and how to raise your prices.


Creative Business


BUSINESS OF CREATIVITY 🇨🇦🔹

Online Learning & Courses (Free & Subscription)

Canadian founder Aura McKay, delivers training, resources, and workshops to help you master the business of being creative. Browse through free resources, join in monthly discussions, and watch Youtube videos that cover a broad range of topics around running a creative business in Canada.

JILLY ACADEMY 🇨🇦

Branding, Content, Growth

Canadian Based: The Jilly Academy is an online platform curated for small business owners, entrepreneurs, aspiring influencers, and anyone who is wanting to learn the ins and outs of brand strategy, influencer marketing, content creation, photography, digital storytelling and so much more.

THE FUTUR 🔹

Online Learning & Courses (Free & Subscription)

Online education platform loaded with content, courses, and tools. Help build better design skills and a better creative business. Browse through free resources, join in monthly discussions, and watch Youtube videos that cover a broad range of topics


BIZ SENSE FOR CREATIVES

Online Course

Video and PDF bundle. Proven strategies for value-based pricing, effective processes and finding the right clients. Includes pricing FAQs, SEO cheat sheet, and a list of favourite vendors.

FREELANCE BLUEPRINT

Online Course (Free)

Free downloadable workbook that guides creatives through setting up a design business. Checklist to setting up your business legally, book keeping resources, proposal, contract and invoice resources, project management, process worksheet and marketing tools.

CLIENT FINDER

Online Course (Free)

Free 6-day course that walks you through the method of going freelance and how to find clients. Marketing plan template with real case studies and tips on how to attract more work.


ADOBE HELP 🔹🔸

Online Training & Tutorials (Free)

Adobe solutions for learning empower everyone to solve business problems, find new opportunities for growth, and be more successful in their careers. Engage with Adobe to ensure that you get the most out of our products.

I Love Creatives

Tools, Resources & Courses (Some Free)

A one-stop portal for creatives building community, confidence, and hard-​skills. Free tools & resources, courses, newsletter,

Design Business Mastery

Online Course & Coaching

Design Biz Mastery is for designers who are ready to scale! If you're tired of figuring things out on your own, feeling burned out, hearing " you are too out of my price range" this is for you.


The Brand Process 🔹

Online Course & Coaching

Group coaching program for designers. Get 1 years worth of lessons, templates and support on how to run a successful creative business from the ground up. Topics include sales calls, on-boarding, setting boundaries, pricing, strategy and more!

Designed to Thrive Collective

Online Course & Coaching

A community that is full of everything you need to confidently run a successful, supported design business. In addition to the core educational content, you get access to signature design templates, weekly calls, monthly guest expert trainings and community of like-minded designers. 

Jenni Maroney Mastermind

Photography Education Course

Turn your knowledge into income. 6 months to a lucrative education income stream that allows you to impact lives, make more money, & gain back the freedom you've been missing as a photographer. Pre-recorded lessons with access to a step by step method for launching your first $10k+ offer.


Meg Loeks

Online Courses

From photo editing, to exposure and finding inspiration. Meg Loeks walks you through her experience and processes as a photographer. Known for sharing beautifully crafted photos of her family and everyday life.

COLE’S CLASSROOM

Tutorials & Tools

A great way to improve your photography and editing. Over 200 high-quality free photography tutorials and Lightroom presets. Real life photographers, passionately dedicated to providing you with the very best photography tutorials, premium photo editing tools, training programs and customer support so you can start taking the photos of your dreams.

REAL CREATIVE LEADERSHIP 🔹

Live & Recorded Shows (Free)

Real Creative Leadership was born out of a passion to foster real leadership opportunities for people in creative fields. Now that creativity has a seat at the table, creatives need to show they have the skills to lead. Elevating the importance of creative work in your organization requires a calculated effort. The most effective creative leaders know how to generate the right environment for creative work. We’ll share practical insights and guidance on the day-to-day of building smart creative teams, as well as learning how to advocate for creativity as a means to grow your business.


RGD Creative Earners 2023 🇨🇦

Digital Download

Your value shouldn’t be a puzzle. Download the new 2022/2023 Creative Earners report. Over 3,300 Canadian professionals completed this survey.

 
 

Websites & Coding


EXPERTISE

Optimize your Website

If you want to grow your small to medium-size business, you need to rank well in online search results.

CHOOSING A DOMAIN NAME

Starting a Website

A domain name is more than a web address. It is your business and your overall online identity. That’s why your domain name must be you. Make it recognizable, easy to remember, and a proud representation of you and your brand.

HOW TO START A BLOG

Starting a Website

The Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Successful Blog. Having a relevant blog is one of the top things that increases your website’s SEO, so knowing what to write about is key.


EASY SEO

Online Learning

Easy SEO is designed to help you acquire a strong online presence without devoting hundreds of hours to learning web development, SEO, and coding! Learn how to bring organic traffic to your website. Modules include: SEO Audit, keyword search, and implementation.

Squarespace SEO Plus

Online Course

Are you feeling a little intimidated by SEO? You are not alone in this! The great news is that SEO is mostly the result of good habits. I’ve been on page #1 for years and in this easy-to-follow guide I share all my best-practice tips that will help you rank better. Includes the popular checklist that is used by many designers!

Amplify Shopify

Online Course

Amplify Shopify is an online course that will teach you how to design & launch Shopify websites quickly without custom coding and start working with bigger budget clients.


Square Design Guild

Online Learning

Professional Design Group for Graphic Designers, Brand Designers, Web Designers and Creatives alike. Courses, blogs, templates. Design and DIY home for creating strategic design, and business savvy for Squarespace dreamers.

CSS Dictionary & Mastermind 🔹🔸

Online Coding Resources & Course

You’ve known for years that learning CSS can make you look like more of an expert. You’ve just lacked the time and energy to dive into the depths of YouTube and learn. Using this #DesignersWhoCode Method, you’ll also be able to charge higher rates, take on less clients, and position yourself as an industry expert.

STANDOUT SQUARESPACE 🔹🔸

Online Coding Resources & Course

Fully understand the underlying structure of Squarespace and the fundamentals of coding to build websites the fastest & smartest way. Create the unexpected using CSS + Java, and start to charge for customized sites with confidence.


W3 Schools 🔹

Online Learning

Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, and more.

Treehouse

Online Learning

Best online coding classes for at-home learning. Learn to code, design, and more—all on your own time. Library of over 500 courses, workshops, on-demand videos, and interactive code challenges to level up your tech knowledge.

Code Academy

Online Learning

Whether you are about to start your journey as a web developer, can’t decide which language to learn first, or just want to increase your digital literacy, learning programming fundamentals will be beneficial to your career. 


SuperHi 🔹

Online Courses

We make online courses that help creative people stand out. Learn how to code, design, and manage projects among our global community!

Digital Garage

Google Courses

Whether you're growing your business, starting a career, or just want to try something new. Explore a range of courses + over 40 hours of learning. Topics include digital marketing, career development, data, and more.


Print & Packaging


Package Design Basics

Online Course

Master the art of tangible design with packaging expert Trina Bentley’s 55-minute first class on the basics. Perfect for intermediate graphic designers interested in products, it’s a crash course in the discipline’s history, target audiences, unique attributes, and fundamental goals

Packaging that Sells

Online Course

This is the most comprehensive course on the market and it will teach you not just the required creative skills, but also the business side of the packaging world.

Graphic Design Mastery

Online Course

Follows the FULL Graphic Design Process for A Company: Logo, Ad, Social Media, T-Shirt, Package, Website Design & More! This ambitious class aims to tackle the entire branding and design process. 


Package Design Basics

Online Course

Use Illustrator to create packaging dielines efficiently. Learn the terminology used in the packaging and printing industry to understand dielines, live, trim, bleed, knockout, overprint, folds, scores, and embossing. This tutorial will show you how to set up a grid structure, create all the panels and flaps, breeze through the measurements and produce a finished package ready for the industry.

Intro to Ecological Packaging

Online Course

In this course, learn how to merge creativity and sustainability to create attractive, ecological packaging. Get introduced to ecodesign, its materials, and discover Tati's creative process, from idea, to development, to production of a completed piece. Finally, learn how to validate each step of your project with your end consumers for guaranteed success.

Package Design Mockups

Online Course

Perhaps you just want to show off your work on social media or build up your portfolio, but you don’t have a print sample to take photos of - using mockups will allow you to show off every detail of your work, without the cost of printing or the time it takes to photograph your work in a studio.


Building Courses & Memberships


KAJABI 🔸

Online Course Platform (Subscription)

Build, market and sell your online course, membership site or coaching program with no coding, no hiring, no learning curve, no plugins and no broken integrations. Beautiful, professional knowledge business built with just a few clicks.

THINKIFIC

Online Course Platform (Free & Subscription)

One of the easiest to use hosted platforms with pre-made templates. Choose from pre-made templates: pre-sell, mini-course, flagship course, membership resource library, and webinar replay. Helpful cues and tips to build a valuable course. Add or remove content as you see fit, or follow the template as is.

TEACHABLE 🔹

Online Course Platform (Subscription)

Customize the look and feel of your course, upload lessons, videos, links and content. Build a website that reflects your brand, create sales pages for launching your course, and if you happen to know some code, use the Power Editor to tinker with it. If not, edit the templates available. Unlimited members, coupon support, drip content and more.


PODIA

Online Course Platform (Subscription)

Podia allows you to do everything you need to sell courses, webinars, downloads, and memberships all in one place. Never worry about getting a bunch of different tools to “talk to each other” again.

TEACHERY

Online Course Platfom (Free)

Easy to course platform to start your online course, webinar or membership based service.

HOW TO: BUILD AN ONLINE COURSE

Learn to build a course (free)

In this free course, you'll learn about: Writing your course outline, Finding your course sherpa, Building a lesson roadmap, The power of presentations, Software and equipment for videos.


STU MCLAREN 🇨🇦

Membership Expert & Resources

Canadian Stu McLaren is the co-founder of the world’s leading membership platform for WordPress, WishList Member. Now Stu helps experts & business owners transform their knowledge and influence into recurring revenue by launching, growing and scaling 7 and 8-figure membership sites.

TRIBE 🇨🇦

Membership Community Resources

Founded by Canadian Stu McLaren, Tribe is a tight-knit community of big-hearted, entrepreneurs dedicated to teaching others how to make a living doing what they love.


Creative Skills


CREATIVEBUG

Online Learning

Thousands of award-winning video classes taught by top designers and artists to help you experience the joy of making. Classes never expire, so you can start and stop projects at your own pace.

MAKE ART THAT SELLS

Online Learning

For Artist serious about careers in illustration, children’s books, editorial art, toys and home decor collections. Advanced online courses to support professional portfolio development & business skills. Understand the top ten most lucrative markets for art, and show you how to make your work more commercially appealing in each of those markets.

HAPPY MONEY

Online Course

E-course by Molly Jacques, renowned hand-lettering artist. Teaching you how to transform artistic passion into passive digital products.


SKILLSHARE 🔹🔸

Online Learning (membership)

If you are looking to learn a skill look no further. This is a full list of courses where you can learn or teach about anything you can imagine.

IF I MADE

Online Learning

A learning resource for creatives and entrepreneurs. Partner with experts from around the world to help creative ventures thrive.

FONTS.COM LEARNING

Online Resources (Free)

Fonts.com has a dedicated learning section, which provides useful and relevant information about the typographic arts, although it is no longer updated as regularly as it once was. Here, you can learn everything from the foundations of type and practical uses to numbers, signs and symbols and the fundamentals of type technology.


InDesign Field Guide

Online Course (Free)

How to Design a Printable Planner + Promo Graphic in Just 20 Minutes. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the process using Adobe InDesign, and learn how this not-so-scary program can actually help you work smarter and faster and get more done.

Illustrator Essentials

Online Course

Ai Essentials will empower you to countless hours in your design workflow while creating beautiful, versatile graphics for your brand and beyond using my favorite design software, Adobe Illustrator.

Surface Design Immersion

Online Course

8 week online training program for those who want to learn Adobe Illustrator, the art of surface pattern design, how to become a licensing artist and create a sustainable business as a creative entrepreneur.


CreativePro Network

Online Learning

CPN publishes high-quality, curated educational resources for creative professionals, produced by the world’s top experts in layout, illustration, retouching, UI/UX, production, presentation design, and publishing.

InDesign Secrets 🔹

Online Learning

Online library of tips & tricks related to InDesign. Read online, sign up for the newsletter and listen to the podcast.

Photography Tutorials

Online Learning

Online library of lessons, tips & tricks related to photography, image processing and retouching.


CreativeLive

Online Learning (membership)

An online creative community which is aimed at entrepreneurs and creative professionals. It offers 2,000+ curated classes that are taught by 700+ handpicked instructors. Its classes focus on improving your creative skills and knowledge hence its name.


Marketing


GROWTH HACKER

Learning Community (Free)

A community to learn and share about ethical online marketing techniques that drive effective, scalable, and sustainable growth. Discussions are often prompted through popular marketing articles and questions posted by the community.

PETIT HACKS

Growth Marketing Hacks (Free)

An extensive list of online marketing strategies and tips you can copy to get more clicks, money, time and attention from your audience.

LIST TO LAUNCH

Email Marketing (Freebie + Paid Course)

Jenna Kutchers course is all about building an email list and program. Designed for creative dreamers and entrepreneurs who want to see results and sales.


AMY PORTERFIELD

Online Marketing Course (Some Free)

Online course for business owners, educators, and entrepreneurs for building a highly engaged email list, creating online training courses, and using online marketing strategies to sell with ease.

MAILCHARTS

Email Marketing Basics (Free)

Email course to help you become a better marketer. Learn email marketing best practices and understand everything from traffic generation to email optimization.

B SCHOOL

Online Business Course

Hosted by Marie Forleo this 6-week, interactive video-based training program teaches smart, effective online marketing strategies to business owners who want more sales and more impact from their online presence.


The Lead Lab

Facebook Marketing

Costs to get your ads delivered are up. Fortunately people are still clicking on ads, but their behavior after the click has changed, especially in the B2B space. People who join your list from an ad are much less likely to convert quickly to customers or clients. Unless you’re the hottest copywriter on the scene, you’ll need to seriously nurture those leads in order to gain their trust. We analyze your signature offer. You put your new product on evergreen and the sales keep coming in. Time for ads! Drive new subscribers who buy your low-price product - you're getting paid to build your list!


Social Media


VIRAL REELS

Online Mini Course

The secret formula to create videos that are engaging & attention-grabbing, so you can double your growth on Instagram! Video-based lessons, tutorials, Canva templates, and e-Book.

Reel Talk 🇨🇦

Online Course

Quick start guide by Canadian Laura Bitoiu at B Squared Social on how to create Reels. Get the tools and knowledge to post successful Reels that have more impressions and engagement than any other type of Instagram content!

Instagram Hashtag Course

Online Course (Free)

Course by Flick Academy. The fastest way to start building a data-driven Instagram hashtag strategy. No spreadsheets. No questions left unturned. No more guessing.


The Ultimate Social Media & Influencer Guide

E-Book

Written for educational & practical purposes, 4 big and very comprehensive sections, used by brands, marketers (in-house or freelance), influencers, content creators and students — for all industries and niches. The total of the current material is equivalent to approx. 95 lecture hours or approx. 48 consulting sessions.

Reels 101 🇨🇦

Online Course

Jennifer Kolbuk, from Canadian company Mountain Top Consulting is offering training for how to make professional reels. Want to grow on Instagram? Take advantage of Instagram's newest video feature to grow your account and see more engagement with your audience.

Instagram Masterclass 🇨🇦

Alex Tooby (Free)

10 Instagram secrets every business owner must know! Improve your organic reach, boost your engagement and attract more clients. If marketing your business on Instagram has you stumped, or if you're not getting the results you want, you need  to attend this Masterclass!


Halcyon Hive Pinterest Challenge*

Pinterest Training (Free)

learn how to set up and optimize your pinterest account in 3 days. Free 3-Day E-Course that breaks it down into manageable, bite-sized actions each day.


Other Topics


Copy Hackers 🇨🇦

Online Courses (Some Free)

Copyhackers is the home of conversion copywriting located in Edmonton, AB. Increase conversions rates (leads, paid, referrals) using customer research / insights. If you want to make a great living as a copywriter, I’ll teach you how. You’ve arrived at the home of the world’s copywriters. Join tens of thousands of copywriters in building the skills to go freelance, grow as a freelancer and write copy clients absolutely luuuv.

Inkhouse

Online Courses

The Online Copywriting Course for Business Owners. Learn how to D-I-Y copy that brings you more clients and more money. So you can avoid spending thousands on hiring a copywriter.

Copy Posse 🇨🇦

Online Courses

Founded in 2019 by Alex Cattoni from Vancouver, BC, the Copy Posse is a global army of copywriters and entrepreneurs with a passion for creating community, credibility, and conversions with nothing but powerful and precise wording. Ignite your copywriting skills in just 8 weeks.

 
Kelly Davidson