Some offers you might want to check out during the shutdown – not intended to be comprehensive, just ideas that looked good to me:
Business
CreativeLive is offering all their wellness and fitness courses for free – Click here.
ebolt has put together some free and low-low-cost SEO trainings here.
Lacy Boggs’ training and resource library has completely free access. Grab content templates, idea sheets, and more. And if you want to go further, her book Make a Killing with Content is only $0.99 right now.
TechSmith is offering Snagit and VideoReview free until June for companies transitioning employees to work-from-home.
ConvertKit has put together CreatorFund to financially support entrepreneurs who are going through unstable times. You can apply here.
My kindle book – Grow Your Business One Story At A Time – has a price reduction to $3.99
Bonus – with a 90-Minute Consultation, get a free Website Review (can be used for sales letters, too), plus any course
Advice
Dorie Clark: How To Deal With Loneliness When You Work From Home
Leisure & Recreation
Music – This article has a list of classical music, ballet and other concerts streaming at the very end. Click here.
Philadelphia Orchestra online – https://www.philorch.org/performances/special-performances/virtual-philadelphia-orchestra/
Phila Chamber Music Society – https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/community/recommended-listening/
Movies: https://www.fastcompany.com/90482389/the-25-best-family-friendly-documentaries-you-can-stream-right-now
Smithsonian Zoo Webcam https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams
Yoga and Movement – Healing Arts Collective Philly – Click on the date for info and registration
Seattle Symphony
https://youtu.be/QGSD8EpthWM – Rites of Spring
If you haven’t discovered the MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – yet, this is a great time.
I love Coursera; there’s also edX, Udacity, and more. The Great Courses (formerly Teaching Company) have a subscription program that’s very reasonable, giving you access to all their courses, and CreativeLive has tons of business courses (quality varies – you can get a year subscription. Udemy has courses (I have some there, ask me about discounts and freebies) and Lynda is available through the Free Library.
Recently I discovered a course that’s particularly relevant to the time –
Understanding Medical Research: Your Facebook Friend Is Wrong
https://www.coursera.org/learn/medical-research
The instructor, F Perry Wilson, is fun to listen to, and there’s a nice discussion of basic statistics (which can be a review).
They try to get you to sign up for the paid program, but if you don’t want a certificate, it is free.
Also, if you’re into classical music, the Philadelphia Orchestra streams concerts. I used to live in Seattle, and the SeattleSymphony.org website also has streaming. If you listen live on some concerns the conductor adds notes to the chat.
Curtis Institute here also does streaming.
Workouts
https://www.thrillist.com/events/philadelphia/virtual-fitness-classes-philadelphia-home-workouts-live-streams
