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Best Free Apps and Online Tools for Entrepreneurs

12/16/2021

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Free Project Management Tools
Manage your projects and your time better with these free tools, which will help your greatly with productivity. They also allow you to collaborate with your team members so there’s less chance of miscommunication.
  • Trello
  • Asana
  • Slack ​

Free Tools for Scheduling, Meetings, Conference Calls and Webinars
Manage all your client meetings and conferences, and organize your time with these handy (and free!) apps.
  • Calendly
  • Zoom
  • Google Hangouts
  • Skype

Free Platforms to Host Video Files
Host your video clips on free platforms like the ones below so you can easily access and use them whenever and wherever you are.
  • Vimeo
  • Youtube

Free Password Management Tool
Do you remember all your account names, emails and passwords? If you do, you’re a unicorn! Unless you’ve used just the one email and password for all of your accounts, which is a big no-no!

Keep your passwords strong, secure and easy to remember (because you no longer need to remember them!) with these free password management tools.
  • LastPass
  • Dashlane

​Free Graphic Design Platforms
Are you a great entrepreneur but a bit lacking on the creativity side like me?

You’re in luck because you can design stunning images for your logo, blog posts, social media posts and promotional content without prior graphic design experience.
Best of all, you won’t have to shell out a single cent on creating beautiful graphics for your online business by using these free graphic design tools.
  • Canva
  • Stencil

​Free Color Scheme Generators
Choose the best colors for your brand with these free color scheme generators.
  • Coolors – Color scheme generator for branding and hex codes
  • Colorrrs – Hex code to RGB code converter

Free Downloadable Fonts
If you’ve got a soft spot for calligraphy, but your handwriting screams chicken scratch, then free downloadable fonts are for you!
  • Google Fonts
  • 1001 Free Fonts

Free Stock Photos
Do you have a knack for taking photos? No?

Well, guess what? You can now get free stock images you can use for your business from the sites below. They are free to use for personal and commercial purposes under the Creative Commons License.

These are free tools for entrepreneurs you simply cannot pass up because of the high quality images you are getting for free!
  • Unsplash
  • Pexels
  • Rawpixel

Free Image Optimization Tools
After you upload your free photo to your blog, there is a good chance that your site will slow down due to the image’s file size.

The solution?

You need to reduce the size (not the resolution) of your image. And to do that, you need to use image optimizing tools like these ones.
  • Smush
  • ShortPixel

​Free Meme Generator
Want to inject fun into your social media feed? Look no further than the original Imgflip Meme Generator. Jump on to their site and you’ll be creating and sharing memes in no time!

​Free Cloud Storage
Now you can save your files in cloud storage so you can access them wherever you are and whatever device you’re on.
  • Google Drive – Free up to 15 Gigabyte of storage
  • OneDrive – Free up to 5 Gigabyte of storage
  • DropBox – Free up to 2 Gigabyte of storage

Free Form Builders
If you need forms for suggestions, surveys and questionnaires to send to your readers or potential clients, but think back-and-forth emails are too cumbersome, then free form builders like the ones below are for you.
  • Google Forms
  • Typeform

Free Online Presentation Software
Create stunning online presentations for personal and business use with these free online software for creating and showcasing presentations.
  • Google Slides
  • Canva
  • Powerpoint Online

Free Email Marketing Services (EMS)
Looking for a free email solution to reach out to and engage with your customers? Then it’s worth considering these options.
  • Mailerlite – Free for up to 1,000 subscribers, 12,000 emails a month
  • Benchmark – Free for up to 2,000 subscribers, 14,000 emails a month
  • Moosend – Free for up to 1,000 subscribers, unlimited emails a month

Free Domain Checkers
Do you have a great name idea for your business or blog and you want to check whether it’s taken or not? These free tools will help you do just that.
  • Name Cheap
  • Bluehost

​Free Site Analytics
One of the free tools all entrepreneurs need to have is analytics!

Analyze how your site is performing by linking Google Analytics to your site via MonsterInsights.

Why? Because you can’t improve what you can’t measure, right?

Free Proofreading Software
Correct mistakes as you type and improve your writing skills with these free proofreading and editing software.
  • Grammarly
  • Ginger

Free Digital Note Taking Apps
Note-taking on the go? Then you can get past these amazing tools that you can use on your desktop or on your phone.

And they’re freeee!
  • Evernote
  • DropBox Paper

Free Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Plugins
Do you want to know how your blog and your posts can rank high on Google as you type them? These free SEO plugins will guide you in optimizing your site and your posts to be as searchable as possible!
  • Yoast
  • Rankmath

Free Keyword Research Tools for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
These free tools will further help you with SEO by suggesting long-tail keywords that you can rank for. You can also check how your chosen keywords could potentially perform against other popular keywords people are searching for.
  • Keywords Everywhere
  • Ubersuggest
  • Answer the Public

Free Site Speed Checkers
Nobody likes a slow site. Worse, Google could punish a slow site by ranking it way low that you end up on the 100th page of the results!

You also want to offer amazing user-experience and a slow site won’t help you with that goal.

Here are free tools you can use to check your site speed and how to rectify what’s slowing down your site.
  • GTMetrix
  • Pingdom

Free E-Commerce Platforms
​Many e-commerce platforms will charge you a monthly fee or a list fee to sell your products. And that’s on top of the hosting and transaction fees you already have to pay!

Luckily, there are platforms that will not charge you anything to sell your products, except for the hosting (I recommend Bluehost) and the transaction fees that come with using payment gateways like Paypal, Stripe or credit card fees.

Here they are.
  • WooCommerce
  • Shoptly
  • Payhip

Free E-Learning Platforms aka Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Want to sell courses on a budget? No problem!

These LMS platforms will help you launch your course and only pay for the payment transaction fees. There is no need to pay an ongoing monthly fee for them to host your course on their platform.
  • Teachable
  • LearnPress

Free Payment Gateways
Receive online payments with ease with these free payment gateways you can use anywhere and anytime!

It’s absolutely free to sign up and all you need to worry about is the transaction fee you have to pay per sale.
  • Paypal
  • Stripe
  • Payoneer

Free Invoicing Software
Are you looking for a simple and budget-friendly solution to bill your clients? Good thing is you can do just that for free! Check out these free tools you can use for invoicing and collecting payments.
  • Slimvoice
  • Waveapp
  • Paypal
  • Stripe

Free Social Media Management Tools
Social Media is a great place for promoting your site but to do that, you have to be consistently present and engage with your audience.

But how would you do that if you already have a mounting pile of work you have to get to on top of promoting your blog?

Enter free social media schedulers!

Here are the free ones that are all approved and recommended by Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter.
  • Later
  • Planoly
  • Hootsuite
  • Buffer
  • Tweetdeck

Free Social Sharing Plugins
Would you like your site content to be easily shared to various social media platforms? Then you need to check out these free social sharing plugins, which would help your readers share your content in a snap!
  • Social Pug
  • Easy Social Sharing
  • Click to Tweet

Free Affiliate Link Managers
If you ever plan on recommending products on your site for a fee (aka affiliate marketing), then you’re best off cloaking your affiliate links and setting them to nofollow.

“Link cloaking” disguises your affiliate URL and makes it shorter and prettier.

As for the importance of setting your affiliate links to “nofollow”, Google can penalize you if they see way too many paid links on your site. The results? You end up at the end of the search results. You wouldn’t want that would you?
  • PrettyLinks
  • Thirsty Affiliates

Free Platforms to List Your Freelance Services
If you’re a freelancer and want to get paid for your skills, then you have to check out these platforms.

And if you’re a business owner who need to outsource work to someone, you can skip paying for an HR specialist and just do the hiring yourself.
  • Upwork
  • Fiverr

Free Courses on Entrepreneurship and Marketing
Forget the commerce and marketing degrees! If you want to succeed in today’s business climate, a university degree is no longer imperative. Just a positive attitude plus knowing where to look for information.
Check out these sites for super informative (and free!) courses on business and marketing.
  • Hubspot Academy
  • Digital Marketer
  • Lurn Nation
  • Coursera

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