Social Media: Changing the way we do business

A massive list of free resources you should know!

BUSINESS + MARKETING

A. FREE WEBSITE + LOGO + HOSTING + INVOICING

·         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.

·         Withoomph: Beautiful logos designed instantly.

·         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.

·         Invoice to me: Free Invoice Generator.

·         Free Invoice Generator: Alternative free invoice generator.

·         Slimvoice: Insanely simple invoices.

B. FREE BUSINESS / PROJECT NAME GENERATORS

·         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.

·         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.

C. WRITING / BLOGGING

·         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.

D. FIND (TRENDING) CONTENT (IDEAS)

·         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 | Reddit

E. FREE SEO + WEBSITE ANALYZERS

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

·         Ahrefs: Site explorer & backlink checker.

·         Quick Sprout: Complete analysis of your website.

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

·         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

·         Nibbler: Test any website.

·         Browseo: How search engines see your website.

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

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

·         Woorank: Website review and SEO tool.

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

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

·         GTMetrics: Analyze your page’s speed performance.

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

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

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

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

F. 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.

G. FREE IMAGE EDITORS

·         Canva: Amazingly simple graphic design for bloggers.

·         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.

H. 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.

I. FREE SOCIAL MEDIA + COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT + SURVEYS

·         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.

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

·         Klout: Social media influence score on browser extension.

·         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.

J. 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.

DESIGN + CODE

A. FREE DESIGN RESOURCES

·         Freebbble: High-quality design freebies from Dribbble.

·         Dribbble: Dribbble search results for “freebie”. An absolute freebie treasure.

·         Graphic Burger: Tasty design resources made with care for each pixel.

·         Pixel Buddha: Free and premium resources for professional community.

·         Material Design UI Kit: Based on Google’s new guidelines & baseline grid.

·         Premium Pixels: Free Stuff for Creative Folk.

·         Fribbble: Free PSD resources by Dribbblers curated by Gilbert Pellegrom.

·         Freebiesbug: Latest free PSDs & other resources for designers.

·         365 Psd: Download a free psd every day.

·         Dbf: Dribbble & Behance best design freebies.

·         Marvel: Free resources from designers we love.

·         UI Space: High quality hand-crafted Freebies for awesome people.

·         Free Section of Pixeden: Free design resources.

·         Free Section of Creative Market: Freebies coming out every monday.

·         Teehan+Lax: DiOS 8 GUI PSD (iPhone 6).

·         Teehan+Lax: iPad GUI PSD.

·         Freepik: iFree graphic resources for everyone.

·         Tech&All: PSD, Tech News, and other resources for free.

·         Tethr: The most beautiful IOS design KIT ever.

B. COLOR PICKERS

·         Material Palette: Generate & export your Material Design color palette.

·         New Flat UI Color Picker: Best flat colors for UI design.

·         Flat UI Colors: Beautiful flat colors.

·         Coolors: Super fast color schemes generator for cool designers.

·         Skala Color: An extraordinary color picker for designers and developers.

·         Couleurs: Simple app for grabbing & tweaking colors you see on screen.

·         Material UI Colors: Material ui color palette for Android, Web & iOS.

·         Colorful Gradients: Gradients automatically created by a computer.

·         Adaptive Backgrounds: Extract dominant colours from images.

·         Brand Colors: Colors used by famous brands.

·         Paletton: The color scheme designer.

·         0 to 255: A simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color.

·         Colour Lovers: Create & share colors, palettes, and patterns.

·         Adobe Color CC: Color combinations from the Kuler community.

·         Bootflat: Perfect colors for flat designs.

·         Hex Colorrrs: Hex to RGB converter.

·         Get UI Colors: Get awesome UI colors.

·         Coleure: Smart color picker.

·         Colllor: Color palette generator.

·         Palette for Chrome: Creates a color palette from any image.

C. INSPIRATION

·         MaterialUp: Daily material design inspiration.

·         FLTDSGN: Daily showcase of the best flat UI design websites and apps.

·         Site Inspire: Web design inspiration.

·         UI Cloud: The largest user interface design database in the world.

·         Moodboard: Build a beautiful moodboard and share the result.

·         Crayon: The most comprehensive collection of marketing designs.

·         Land-Book: Product landing pages gallery.

·         Ocean: A community of designers sharing feedback.

·         Dribbble: Show and tell for designers.

·         Behance: Showcase & discover creative work.

·         Pttrns: Mobile user interface patterns.

·         Flat UI Design: Useful board I discovered thanks to Erik.

·         Awwwards: The awards for design, creativity and innovation.

·         The Starter Kit: Curated resources for developers and designers.

·         One Page Love: Resource for one page website inspiration.

·         UI Parade: User interface design tools and design inspiration.

·         The Best Designs: The best of web design.

·         Agile Designers: Best resources for designers & developers.

·         Niice: A search engine with taste.

D. FREE STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY

·         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.

·         Some more websites: Free Digital Photos |Morguefile | Public Domain Pictures | Stockvault | ImageFree | Rgbstock |Dreamstime | Free Images| Free Range Stock | Free Photos Bank.

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E. FREE TYPOGRAPHY

·         TypeGenius: Find the perfect font combo for your next project.

·         Font Squirrel: 100% free commercial fonts.

·         FontFaceNinja: Browser extension to find the web fonts a site uses.

·         Google Fonts: Free, open-source fonts optimized for the web.

·         Beautiful Web Type: Best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.

·         DaFont: Archive of freely downloadable fonts.

·         1001 Free Fonts: A huge selection of free fonts.

·         FontPark: The web’s largest archive of free fonts.

·         Font-to-width: Fit pieces of text snugly within their containers.

F. FREE 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.

·         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.

G. USEFUL STUFF

·         UI Names: Generate random names for use in designs and mockups.

·         UI Faces: Find and generate sample avatars for user interfaces.

·         UI Blurbs: Quick user bios for your mockups.

·         Copy Paste Character: Click to copy.

·         Window Resizer: See how it looks on various screen resolutions.

WORK & PRODUCTIVITY

A. BACKGROUND SOUND TO FOCUS

·         Noisli: Background noise & color generator.

·         Noizio: Ambient sound equalizer for relax or productivity.

·         Defonic: Combine the sounds of the world into a melody.

·         Designers.mx: Curated playlists by designers, for designers.

·         Coffitivity: Stream the sounds of a coffee shop at work.

B. AVOID DISTRACTION

·         Self Control: Mac: free application to help you avoid distracting websites.

·         Cold Turkey: Windows: temporarily block yourself off of distracting websites.

C. ORGANIZE & COLLABORATE

·         Trello: Keeps track of everything.

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

·         Dropbox: Free space up to 2GB.

·         Yanado: Tasks management inside Gmail.

·         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.

D. DIGITAL NOMADS & REMOTE WORKING

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

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

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

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

DISCOVER & LEARN

A. DISCOVER TOOLS & STARTUPS

·         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.

B. BUILD TOGETHER

·         Assembly: Co-create new ideas no matter where they are.

·         CoFoundersLab: Find a co-founder in any city, any industry.

·         Founder2be: Find a co-founder for your startup.

C. LEARN

·         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.

D. NEWSLETTERS THAT DON’T SUCK

·         Email1K: A free 30 day course to double your email list.

·         Design for Hackers: 12 weeks of design learning, right in your inbox.

·         Startup Digest: Personalized newsletter for all things startup in your area.

·         Mattermark Daily: Curated newsletter from investors & founders.

·         ChargeWhatYou’reWorth: Free course on charging what you’re worth.

·         Product Psychology: Lessons on User Behavior.

·         UX Newsletter: Tales of researching, designing, and building.

·         UX Design Weekly: Best user experience design links every week.

E. USEFUL

·         Foundrs: Co-founder equity calculator.

·         Ad Spend Calculator: Should my startup pay to advertise?

·         HowMuchToMakeAnApp: Calculate the cost of a mobile application.

·         App vs. Website: Should you build an app or website?

·         Pitcherific: Pitcherific helps you create, train, and improve your pitch.

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