For this blog, I wanted to share with you resources I refer to my clients. I’ve compiled these over the past decade. These resources allow me to spend less time on reinventing the wheel and more time on being creative and strategic for our clients.
Resources
- Writing
- AP Stylebook https://www.apstylebook.com/
- Grammar Guide by Smart Blogger https://smartblogger.com/english-grammar/
- Diversity Style Guide http://www.diversitystyleguide.com/
- Writing Sounds http://www.writtensound.com/index.php?term=a_f
- Answer the Public | SEO questions for Q&A pages https://answerthepublic.com/
- Designrr | ebooks from blog posts https://www.designrr.io/
- iMentor4Success articles
- Race Related Writing https://imentor4success.com/2019/11/24/race-related-writing/
- Equal Folks https://imentor4success.com/2019/11/23/equal/
- Communicate Better https://imentor4success.com/2019/11/04/communicate-better/
- Let’s Discuss This https://imentor4success.com/2018/09/10/lets-discuss-this-online/
- Content Marketing
- Guide https://content-guide.18f.gov/
- Content Marketing Institute https://contentmarketinginstitute.com/#
- Usaility.gov Strategy https://www.usability.gov/what-and-why/content-strategy.html
- Sales and Marketing
- Inbound Marketing = Attract, Convert, Close
- eBiz MBA http://www.ebizmba.com/
- HubSpot https://www.hubspot.com/
- Small Business Administration https://www.sba.gov/federal-contracting
- Harvard Business Review www.hbr.org article example https://hbr.org/2018/05/marketing-in-the-age-of-alexa
- iMentor4Success Articles
- A 10 channel marketing mix https://imentor4success.com/2019/11/04/marketing-mix/
- No marketing? No problem. https://imentor4success.com/2019/05/14/marketing/
- Loyal Customers Wanted https://imentor4success.com/2019/04/26/loyal-customers-wanted/
- How to prepare for government contracting Certification https://imentor4success.com/2018/07/07/preparing-for-government-contracts/
- Government Open Sources
- Developing websites https://www.hhs.gov/web/building-and-managing-websites/development-process-and-milestones/website-requirements-checklist/index.html
- Style Guide on github https://github.com/18F/web-design-standards#reuse-of-open-source-style-guides
- Usability.gov Reference https://www.usability.gov/
- Plain Language Writing guide https://plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/
- Art, stock footage and photos | Some are free
- Public Domain Vector Art https://publicdomainvectors.org/
- UnSplash https://unsplash.com/
- Pexels
- Flaticon https://www.flaticon.com/
- Free Music Archive http://freemusicarchive.org/
- Internet Archive | Web, Text, Video, Audio, Images, Software https://archive.org/
- Flickr Commons https://archive.org/details/flickrcommons
- Movies https://archive.org/details/moviesandfilms
- Phone photo apps for editing that use AI – artificial intelligence
- After Focus
- Blur.FX
- Camera+ 2
- PRISMA
My friend, Marya O’Malley, uses some of these resources. You can find her photos on Pexels at https://www.pexels.com/@marya-omalley-417651. The sunflower photo is also from Marya. Thank you, Marya, for sharing. You learn more about Marya on her website at https://www.maryaomalley.com/.
Take care and enjoy, Jan
P.S. If you have resources you use and want to share, send to us at iMentor4Success@gmail.com. Thank you in advance for the share. We will credit you if you like. Again, thanks. Jan
