Links

Following is a collection of links which Ron has found to be useful in his business and personal life. We hope that you too will find these links helpful.

 


 

Personal and Professional Development

PersonalDevelopment.com - an informative web portal offering various resources for personal development.

Nightingale Conant - the leader in personal and professional development audio programs. A lifelong personal education program is essential to becoming all you can be.

Success.com - This excellent site is packed with inspiring articles to help you realize your dreams.


Personal Health

US Dept of Health & Human Services - lots of resources to assist you in your search for optimal health.

Health Square - provides free access to high quality health and wellness information.

Wellness.com - one of the best online sites for health and wellness information.

WebMD Health - an excellent resource for general health related information.

Life Extension - a site focused on leading edge topics such as aging research, etc.

Your Healthy Self - a useful site with lots of helpful reference information on personal health.

Simple Living - a site with lots of information and resources to help you simplify your life.



Financial Reference and Investing Information

American Association of Individual Investors - an excellent site with lots of reference information. Consider joining this service as the price is an outstanding bargain.

Interest.com - This is an excellent site to help you stay on top of rate changes in the market.

Yahoo! Finance - Lots of resources for the individual investor.

Suze Orman - Check out the Resources tab for useful information.

Kiplinger - Eighty years of financial advice now online.

Equity Trust Company - one of the few financial custodians that offers high yield, non-traditional investment options through your retirement accounts.



Real Estate Investing

Flipping Homes - Steve Cook's website offers a great deal of down to earth, realistic information on real estate investing.

Creative Real Estate Online - one of the largest sites dedicated to the real estate investor.

Deal Maker's Cafe - a robust site offering a lot of resources for the real estate investor.

REI Club - another great site for online communication and learning in real estate investing.



General Business Reference

SBA - The United States Small Business Administration, an excellent resource for the entrepreneur.

IRS - The Internal Revenue Service. Tons of reference publications on very important matters for the business owner.



Technology Reference

TechWeb - Business Technology Network. Lots of reference info on the technology that is shaping our future.



Recommended Software

OpenOffice - a free office productivity software suite similar to MS Office.

Mozilla FireFox - a free alternative browser. Excellent alternative to MS Internet Explorer.

Kompozer - website development and management software.

FileZilla - free FTP client, very useful for managing website files.

Microsoft Windows - desktop and laptop operating system.

QuickBooks - one of the best financial management packages for the small and medium sized business. Enterprise versions are also available as well as online versions.

Mint -Easy to use web based personal financial management software from the makers of Quicken.

Adobe Reader - a very useful free application essential for reading PDF documents.

Zone Alarm - a free personal firewall to protect your computer from outside intruders. Also available in corporate versions.

Norton AntiVirus - important antivirus software to protect your computer from viruses.