195 Free Tools For Marketers and Entrepreneurs

Bookmark this page people, this is a treasure chest of “set your brain on fire” tools to help you get crap done.  Everything from copywriting hacks, growth hacks to content generators.  It’s all here. Enjoy – Josh

FREE WEBSITE, LOGO, HOSTING & INVOICING  

• Withoomph: Beautiful logos designed instantly.

• Clickfunnels Free Trial – Create any marketing or sales funnels, fast.

• Hipster Logo Generator: It’s Hip, It’s Current, It’s Stylish, It’s Hipster.

• Squarespace Free Logo: You can download free low-res version for free.

• Hive: First free unlimited cloud service in the world.

• HTML5 UP: Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 site templates.

• Bootswatch: Free themes for Bootstrap.

• Templated: A collection of 845 free CSS & HTML5 site templates.

• WordPress.org | WordPress.com: Create your new website for free.

• Strikingly.com Domain: One free website for strikingly.com domains.

• Invoice to me: Free Invoice Generator.

• Free Invoice Generator: Alternative free invoice generator.

• Slimvoice: Insanely simple invoices.

STARTUP LISTINGS THAT DON’T SUCK

• Product Hunt: Curation of the best new products, every day.

• Angellist: Where the world meets startups.

• Beta List: Discover and get early access to tomorrow’s startups.

• StartupLi.st: Find. Follow. Recommend startups.

• Startups List: Collections of the best startups in different places.

• Erli Bird: Where great new products are born.

FREE BUSINESS NAME GENERATORS

• Hipster Business Name: Hipster business name generator.

• Impossibility: The best domain name generator ever.

• Lean Domain Search: Find a domain name for your website in seconds.

• Domainr: Fast, free, domain name search, short URLs.

• The Name App: Find an available name for your brilliant idea.

• Naminum: Discover a perfect company name.

• Short Domain Search: Find short, available single-word domain names.

• Wordoid: Pick a short and catchy name for your business.

COPYWRITING/CREATIVE BLOG TOOLS

• Hemingway: Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.

• Grammarly: Finds & corrects mistakes of your writing.

• Medium: Everyone’s stories and ideas.

• ZenPen: The minimal writing tool of web.

• Liberio: Simple eBook creation and publishing right from Google Drive.

• Editorial Calendar: See all your posts, drag & drop to manage your blog.

• Story Wars: Writing stories together.

• Headline Analyzer: Emotional marketing value headline analyzer.

• WP Hide Post: Control the visibility of items on your blog.

• Social Locker: Ask visitors “to pay” for your content with a tweet, etc.

• Egg Timer: Set a time and bookmark it for repeated use.

CONTENT GENERATOR IDEA THINGIES

• Portent: Content idea generator.

• Google Trends: A new way of displaying trending searches.

• Buzzsumo: Analyze what content performs best for any topic or competitor.

• Hubspot Blog Topic Generator: Custom blog ideas.

• Swayy: Discover the most engaging content. Free for 1 dashboard user.

• Others: Google+ What’s Hot | Twitter Trending | Quora | Reddi

FREE WEBSITE ANALYZERS & SEO STUFF

• Quick Sprout: Complete analysis of your website.

• Shopify E-commerce Report: Get your free Ecommerce report.

• XML Sitemaps: Sitemap generator that creates XML & HTML variants.

• W3C validator: Easy-to-use markup validation service.

• GTMetrics: Analyze your page’s speed performance.

• Moz Local: Check your local listings on Google, Bing, and others.

• Pingdom Website Speed Test: Test & the load time of a site.

• Google Pagespeed Insights: Check the performance of your site.

• Copyscape: Search for copies of your page on the web.

• Woorank: Website review and SEO tool.

• Browseo: How search engines see your website.

• Broken Links: Find broken links, redirects & more.

• Open Site Explorer: A comprehensive tool for link analysis.

• Nibbler: Test any website.

• Ahrefs: Site explorer & backlink checker

• SEO Site Checkup: Check your website’s SEO problems for free.

• Hubspot Marketing Grader: Grade your marketing.

• SimilarWeb: Analyze website statistics for any domain.

• Alexa Ranking: Analytical insights to analyze any site’s rank.

• SERPs Rank Checker: Free keyword rank & SERP checker.

• OpenLinkProfiler: The freshest backlinks, for free.

• Keywordtool.io: Free alternative to Google Keyword Planner.

• Google: Analytics | Keyword Planner | Webmaster Tools | Trends

• WordPress SEO by Yoast: Have a fully optimized WordPress site.

A/B TESTS & GROWTH HACKING

• Petit Hacks: Acquisition, retention, & revenue hacks used by companies.

• Optimizely: One optimization platform for websites and mobile apps.

• Hello Bar: Tool for A/B testing different CTAs & power words.

• GrowthHackers: Unlocking growth. Together.

COLLECT & SEND EMAILS FOR FREE

• Contact form 7: Famous WordPress plugin to collect email addresses.

• Mailchimp: Send 12,000 emails to 2,000 subscribers for free.

• ManyContactsBar: Free contact form sits on top of your website.

• Hello Bar: Get more email subscribers.

• Sumome List Builder: Collect email addresses with light box popover.

• Scroll Triggered Box: Boost your conversion rates — WordPress only.

• Sumome Scroll Box: Capture more email addresses, politely.

FREE IMAGE OPTIMIZERS

• TinyJPG | TinyPNG Compress images.

• Compressor.io: Optimize and compress your images online.

• Kraken: Optimize your images & accelerate your websites.

• ImageOptimizer: Resize, compress and optimize your image files.

• ImageOptim: Makes images take up less disk space & load faster.

• Smush.it: Image optimizer WordPress plugin.

FREE IMAGE EDITORS

• Canva: Amazingly simple graphic design for bloggers. They also have pre-built Invoice Templates here.

• Pixlr: Pixlr Editor is a robust browser photo editor.

• Skitch: Get your point across with fewer words.

• Easel.ly: Empowers anyone to create & share powerful visuals.

• Social Image Resizer Tool: Create optimized images for social media.

• Placeit: Free product mockups & templates.

• Recite: Turn a quote into a visual masterpiece.

• Meme Generator: The first online meme generator.

FREE SOCIAL MEDIA + COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT + SURVEYS

• Snip.ly – Redirect any social media traffic back to your site:)

• SocialRank: Identify, organize, and manage your followers on Twitter.

• Klout: Social media influence score on browser extension.

• WriteRack: The easiest way to blog/tweetstorm on twitter.

• Spruce: Make Twitter ready images in seconds.

• Click To Tweet: Get more shares on your content.

• MyTweetLinks: Increases Twitter traffic.

• Latergram: Easily plan & schedule your Instagram posts.

• WordPress Pin it Button for Images: Add a “Pin It” button.

• SharedCount: Track URL shares, likes, tweets, and more.

• Justunfollow: Follow / unfollow people on Twitter & Instagram.

• Ritetag: Instant hashtag analysis.

• Social Analytics: Interactions for a URL on most social platforms.

• Riffle: Full profile and info on any Twitter user.

• Buffer Free Plan: Schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google+.

• Bitly: Create, share, and track shortened links.

• Flament: A free beautiful and customizable sharing bar.

• Addthis: Get more shares, follows and conversions.

• Sumome Share: Auto-optimizes your share buttons for max traffic.

• Digg Digg: Your all in one share buttons plugin.

• Disqus: Build a community of active readers & commenters.

• Typeform: Free beautiful online survey & form builder.

• Tally: Create polls in no time.

ORGANIZE AND WORK TOGETHER

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• Wetransfer: Free transfer up to 2GB.

• Drp.io: Free, fast, private and easy image and file hosting.

• Pocket: View later, put it in Pocket.

• Mailtoself: An iOS extension to mail notes to yourself from any app.

• List.ly: Discover and create great lists.

• Markticle: Mark your reading progress in articles for later.

• Trello: Keeps track of everything.

• Evernote: The workspace for your life’s work.

• Dropbox: Free space up to 2GB.

• Yanado: Tasks management inside Gmail.

VIRTUAL WORKING STUFF

• Nomad Jobs: The best remote jobs at the best startups.

• What’s It Like: Helping travelers figure out WHEN to go.

• Nomadlist: The best cities to live and work remotely.

• Where Nomads at: Find digital nomads & travelers all around the world.

GOOD LEARNIN’

• Skillshare: Unlock your creativity with free online classes & projects.

• Khan Academy: Free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

• Coursera: Free online classes from 80+ top universities & organizations.

• Codecademy: Learn to code interactively, for free.

• How to start a startup: As an Audio Podcast or As Online Course

• Startup Notes: Startup School invites amazing founders to tell their story.

• The How: Learn from entrepreneurs.

• Launch This Year: Guide to help you launch your online business.

• Closed Club: Browse shut-down start-ups & learn why they closed down.

• Startup Talks: A curated collection of startup related videos.

• Rocketship.fm: Learn from successful entrepreneurs each week.

• reSRC.io: All free programming learning resources.

FREE ICON GALAXY

• Endless Icons: Free flat icons and creative stuff.

• Ico Moon: 4000+ free vector icons, icon generator.

• The Noun Project: Thousands of glyph icons from different artists.

• Perfect Icons: A social icon creation tool.

• Material Design Icons: 750 Free open-source glyphs by Google.

• Icon Finder: Free icon section of the website.

• Free Round Icons: Doodle Set | Flat Set | Vector Line Set

• Icon Sweets: 60 free vector Photoshop icons.

• Fontello: Icon fonts generator.

• Flat Icon: A search engine for 16000+ glyph vector icons.

• Material Design Icons: 750 Free open-source glyphs by Google.

• Font Awesome: The iconic font and CSS toolkit.

• Glyphsearch: Search for icons from other icon databases.

• MakeAppIcon: Generate App Icons of all sizes with a click.

STOCK PHOTOS FOR GRABS

• Stock Up: Best free stock photo websites in one place.

• Pexels: Best free photos in one place.

• All The Free Stock: Free stock images, icons, and videos.

• Unsplash: Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.

• Splashbase: Search & discover free, hi res photos & videos.

• Startup Stock Photos: Go. Make something.

• Jay Mantri: Free pics. do anything (CC0). Make magic.

• Moveast: This is a journey of a portuguese guy moving east.

• Travel Coffee Book: Sharing beautiful travel moments.

• Designers Pics: Free photographs for your personal & commercial use.

• Death to the Stock Photo: Free photos sent to you every month.

• Foodie’s Feed: Free food pictures in hi-res.

• Mazwai: Free creative commons HD video clips & footages.

• Jéshoots: New modern free photos.

• Super Famous: Photos by Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter.

• Picography: Free hi-resolution photos.

• Pixabay: Free high quality images.

• Magdeleine: A free high-resolution photo every day.

• Snapographic: Free stock photos for personal & commercial use.

• Little Visuals: 7 hi-res images in your inbox every 7 days.

• Splitshire: Delicious free stock photos.

• New Old Stock: Vintage photos from the public archives.

• Picjumbo: Totally free photos.

• Life of Pix: Free high-resolution photos.

• Gratisography: Free high-resolution photos.

• Getrefe: Free photos.

• IM Free: A curated collection of free resources.

• Cupcake: A photographer’s treat by Jonas Nilsson Lee.

• The Pattern Library: Free patterns for your projects.

• Public Domain Archive: New 100% free stock photos.

• ISO Republic: High-quality, free photos for creatives.

• Stokpic: Totally free photos.

• Kaboompics: The best way to get free photos.

• Function: Free photo packs.

• MMT: Free stock photos by Jeffrey Betts.

• Paul Jarvis: Free high-resolution photos.

• Lock & Stock Photos: Free stock photos for you.

• Raumrot: Free high-resolution picture.

• Bucketlistly: A free creative common collection of travel photos.