When I started my first business, a short-lived service business way back in 2013, I created a sort of "swipe file" Google doc where I'd save any tools or articles that I found useful.
Well, the damn thing kept growing and growing until I ended up with over 1000 different resources for entrepreneurs.
I shared the doc privately with some friends of mine, and earlier this year I finally managed to convert it into the most comprehensive list of tools for entrepreneurs on the internet.
It took me over 40 hours to bring the damn thing to life, but my pain is now your pleasure. My complete list of kick-ass resources for entrepreneurs is finally ready for public consumption.
No matter what stage of your business you are at, there is something for you in this.
So grab a coffee, bookmark this page, and get ready to journey down the entrepreneurial rabbit hole.
To make it easy for you to browse, I've divided it into 6 sections:
Stage one: Get inspired
It all starts with an idea. And then work. Lots and lots of work.
Below we've listed out resources for those entrepreneurs and creatives in need of inspiration..
..Maybe you need that first stroke of inspiration to finally start building your app (Uber for ground squirrels)..
..Or maybe you've already been grinding, have hit the dip, and need a little pick me up.
Wherever you are at, you should find at least one damn inspiring idea below.
4 Inspiring Entrepreneurs (+ a Cool Tool!)
Tim Ferriss: Test, Teach, Scale
Tim Ferriss needs no introduction. He’s the author of the bestselling book 4 Hour Work Week, which became the bible for lifestyle entrepreneurs the world over. Because of his stature, Ferriss is able to land guests on his podcast that others aren’t.
Pat Flynn: Smart Passive (And Ethical) Income
Patt Flynn is an online guru who will show you how to monetize your business website by adding tons of value to your potential customers.
There’s always something to learn from Pat and what I like about him most is that he comes off as a genuine human being, not a huckster.
Tony Robbins: Totally is your Guru
Everybody knows Tony. If you want to get a peek at what happens in his programs, watch his special on Netflix titled “I am Not Your Guru.” It’s incredible.
James Altucher: More than just “The Bitcoin Guy”
James Altucher interviews world-class guests who are extremely successful and bright on his podcast, where he plays the role of an inquisitive student.
You can argue that he did a lot of damage to his brand by morphing into “The Bitcoin Guy” last year, but the value of his podcast still speaks volumes.
Clarity.fm
Interested in world class advice on how to start a business, or scale one to 8 figures and beyond?
If you are, then visit Clarity.fm now. The concept is amazing – you browse through the website, choose the expert you want to get advice from, and then pay per minute on a call with them.
Design Inspiration
Site Inspire
Get inspiration for your next web design. I’ll tell you right now though, comic sans is a bad idea.
Crayon
Get over a thousand of collections of marketing designs in almost every market, including yours.
FLTDSGN
Check out the best flat graphic design sites and apps every day.
It’s 2018, skeuomorphic is out and flat is in!
UI Cloud
The world’s biggest UI design database.
Land-Book
Get inspiration for your next landing page. Search, find, and get inspiration for your offer page.
Niice
A search engine for designs.
Dribbble
Discover and showcase your designs with others.
Ocean
Get feedbacks about your graphic design from a community of designers.
UI Parade
Get plenty of design inspiration and UI design tools for your next project.
MaterialUp
Get daily material graphic designs for inspiration.
One Page Love
Get plenty of design inspiration for a One Page website.
Pttrns
Get design inspirations and patterns for mobile devices.
Agile Designers
The world’s best free resources for web designers and developers.
Stage two: Learn
As you may already know, doing is WAY more important than knowing for entrepreneurs.
Everyone has a million dollar idea, but few people execute it.
That said, the most successful entrepreneurs I know are action-oriented, but they are insatiably curious.
Below are more than enough resources to satiate that curiosity.
MOOCS (Massively Open Online Courses)
Coursera
Build a career in computer science, business, data science, and more at Coursera. No application is required. There are over 2000+ courses from universities like Yale and Stanford.
Khan Academy
Learn anything about any subject in any level. Find content and resources created by the experts. Always free.
Codeacademy
Learn to code interacting with other coders, for free.
Udemy
Udemy is jam-packed with strategical and inexpensive video-based courses that will teach you just about anything you want to learn.
Lynda
Lynda has plenty of courses (over 6,000) on technology, business, and creative skills.
You’ll have to subscribe to their monthly subscription model, while Udemy charges a fee for each course you take.
Other Education Resources
Go High Brow
Go High Brow sends a daily 5-minute lesson about business directly to your inbox.
Teachable
Teachable is an online course creation platform for business leaders and change makers who want to help their audience learn and grow.
It’s easy to plug a course right into your website, and they offer all kinds of actionable tips on how to launch and monetize your course.
Fit Small Business
Fit Small Business produces actionable, engaging, and highly relevant content for small business owners. Plus, their website is easy on the eyes and clean (unlike so many small business blogs out there).
Skillshare
Learn photography, design, development, business, and other subjects with online classes taught by the best practioners in their field.
The How
Learn about how to start a business from successful entreprenuers.
Closed Club
Learn more about shut-down startups and learn why they shut down.
Launch This Year
An online free guide to help you launch your business.
Startup Notes
Listen to interviews about entrepreneurial topics, insights, startup videos and podcast, and learn from their story.
Guides and Courses
FirstSiteGuide
Get free beginner guides and courses to successful blogging.
MailCharts
Become a better marketer with a free email course.
Build an online course
Learn how to build an online course for free.
KeepYourFriendsClose
A free, engaging eBook about maximizing Customer Lifetime Value.
Primer
Easy to read and jargon-free marketing courses (by Google).
Pricing Course
Know how much you should charge for your services with this free 9-day course.
Email Course for Sponsorships
Get sponsorships for anything.
Startup Sales Course
Scrappy startup just starting to make its mark in the world? Use this course to become better at closing deals with bigger, more profitable clients and customers.
Helpful Resources for Free
Foundrs
Co-founder equity calculator for your startup. Be VERY protective of equity.
Ad Spend Calculator
Paid ads can be a good idea, if they produce the right kind of results for you (signups, or sales) at the right price.
Use this handy tool to estimate your ad spend, and start generating more profits while keeping your spends at minimum.
HowMuchToMakeAnApp
Easily and quickly estimate the cost of making a mobile app. Find out how much it will cost to make an Android or iOS app.
App vs. Website!
If you’re not sure whether you should build a website or an app, use this simple tool to help you figure out instantly.
I’ll tell you right now though, 99% of people should just make a website.
Pitcherific
This online pitch creator helps you create, prepare, and improve your pitch – from elevator pitches to investor presentations, using their helpful examples.
Stage three: Get productive
You've got your idea, you've MVP'd it, and now it's time to grind. The tools below will help you to do just that.
Productivity
Trello
Trello is a virtual team management tool, and extremely easy to use and helps everyone on the team to get things done, fast. There’s no need to send email back and forth. All you have to do is login, get things done, and post updates, and you’re done.
Rev
Do you have lots of video and audio content on your website and want to convert them into text? Try Rev! It will help you instantly create written words out of your video and podcast so that you’ll get SEO value of written texts on your website or blog.
And it’s only $1 per minute, which is an incredible bargain, don’t you think?
Muse
If you’re always on the go, and can’t seem to relax when your business is hectic, you should try Muse. It monitors your brain waves and tells you when you are not relaxing. This personal meditation assistance allows you to take a break and meditate for only 3 minutes per day so that you can get back to business when the days are hectic.
Control Yourself, You Animal!
Self Control
For Mac users. Free app to help you avoid visiting distracting websites and improve your productivity.
Cold Turkey
For Windows users. Avoid going to distracting websites temporarily to boost your productivity.
Soothing Background Sounds
Noisli
Noisli generates a soothing background noise – rain, coffee shop, or white noise – and color so that you can relax and focus on your work.
Defonic
Defonic is a noise generator that allows you to create your own unique sound environment to use as background noise in the office or at home.
Designers.mx
DesignersMX is a one stop shop to fuel your creativity, and discover what motivates others. It is designed by designers, for designers, and you’ll find plenty of curated playlists.
Noizio
Noizio increases your productivity by drowning out the noise of the street and allowing you to focus on the work at hand.
Coffitivity
Coffitivity streams the sounds of a coffee shop to increase your productivity and creativity so that you can work better as you type away.
Free Sound
Get free audio samples, snippets and recordings from a huge collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for sound lovers and musicians.
Sonics
Get UI sounds and sound effects delivered directly to your inbox every month.
Deep Focus
Grab Spotify’s popular playlist to improve your concentration at work and improve productivity.
Octave
Get free UI sounds for iOS apps.
Idea Management
Skitch
If you have a business idea, Skitch helps you make it a reality, extremely fast.
Germ.io
Germ.io gives you a step-by-step execution plan of action for your business idea so that you can stay on track and get the most out of your investment.
Experiment Board
Experiment Board will help you quickly and easily test your startup idea properly, and thus, save both time and money for you.
Organize and Collaborate
Evernote
With Evernote on your PC and mobile devices, your work will always be organized and clutter-free, and your notes will always be with you and in sync.
Dropbox
Cloud-based service for file sharing and storage. Get 2GB of free space for free.
Yonado
Keeps your attention on your work. Don’t waste time going back and forth between Gmail and your project management tools.
With Yanado, you can manage your project right inside your Gmail account.
Drp.io
Upload and share images and files. Your upload file size can be up 50 MB. Your upload will stay online for 24 hours. It’s fast, private, and free.
Wetransfer
Simplest way to share your files with others – free for up to 2GB.
Raindrop
An iOS app for bookmarking interesting stories and articles, and reading it later.
Flowdock
Bring all of your work items, conversations, and tools into one plac. Solve problems, prioritize work, search and organize your teams and locations. It’s free for non-profits use and for teams of five.
Typetalk
Insanely powerful chat and messaging app for team discussions. It’s available for both desktop and mobile devices. Improve productivity, efficiency, and teamwork.
It’s free to sign up!
Google Hangouts
Bring conversations and chats to life with emoji, photos, and group video calls. Connect with your friends and team members across computers, iOS, and Android devices.
Voveet
Say goodbye to bad (low quality) conference calls, and say hi to free high quality audio conference calling across all your devices – Windows, Mac, iPhone, and Android.
Slack
Make work experience better with Slack. Amazing features – search, real time messaging, archiving, and more – free for unlimited users with a few specific limitations.
Whenever you spot anything you want to view later, simply put it Pocket.
FreeBusy
FreeBusy quickly looks at everyone’s calandar and finds common free time and eliminates coordination headaches when setting up a meeting. It’s super easy to use and free.
RealTimeBoard
Use RealTimeBoard to create amazing products and services.
Witkit
Witkit offers everything for you to get your work done from one place. It is a secure platform for teams so that you can store confidential files – 50GB of free encrypted data storage – without a worry.
Get Office Space
Get Digsy
If you want to get a perfect office that matches your personal needs, then use Get Digsy. You can describe your office – for both retail and industrial spaces – and Digsy will dig out available spaces that match your needs.
Digsy also keeps your contact details private.
42Floors
If you want to find commercial real estate listings all in one place- use 42Floors. It quickly scours the internet and finds you the freshest top listings.
Once you find a space that matches your requirements, they’ll also hook you up with a certified broker so that you don’t have to go through the struggle.
Breather
Breather is the leading provider of space-as-a-service, with its growing network of workspaces built for productivity.
Breather gives businesses access to a variety of private space solutions on the most flexible terms – by the hour, day or month with hundreds of spaces available across 10 cities including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London.
Powered by its proprietary technology, Breather makes it easy to find space for quick meetings and full-day offsites, or longer-term solutions for your entire office.
Lease Ref
If you want to get online commercial leasing tips without having to hire an expensive real estate broker or a lawyer, then you’ll love Lease Ref. Simply upload your lease and within seconds you’ll get a “score card” on it, as well as useful tips on what to do next.
Remote Working for Digital Nomads
Nomad House
Discover all the houses around the world where nomads live and work together.
Workfrom
WiFi, coffee and good vibes.
What’s It Like
Find out WHEN to go to your next travel destination.
Founded X Startup Stats
Get the latest stats on the best country to start your business.
Nomadlist
Find the best cities to live and work remotely.
Free, Useful Stuff
Copy Paste Character
Simply click to copy or press ALT for multiple ones.
UI Names
Generate random fake names for designs and mock-ups. (Over 48 regions are supported with over 1.2 million possible combination. 100% open-source)
UI Faces
Find and generate avatars for graphic designs and user interfaces.
Window Resizer
Resize the browser window to see how it looks on various screen resolutions.
Sonics
Get free UI sounds and sound effects delivered directly to your inbox every month.
Outsourcing
Upwork
Upwork is the number one online job marketplace for freelancers around the globe. Freelancers have detailed profiles and their desired dollar amount per hour posted.
You can find great bargains here with people who are looking to build a good track record and are willing to do underpriced work.
Virtual Staff Finder
Virtual Staff Finder is a respected and well-known company owned by Chris Ducker. Currently, he lives in the Phillipines, and offers Filipino virtual assistants (VAs) for all kinds of business tasks.
You’ll have to pay around $500, but they’ll do all the legwork and introduce you to three candidates. Then, you interview them on Skype and choose who you want to work with.
There’s also another website, https://www.onlinejobs.ph/, that allows you to post your own job for $50 and do all the screenings.
Toptal
Toptal is the grandest version of Upwork.
Did you know that only 3% of people who join Toptal get accepted (although anyone can join on Upwork and Fiverr)?
So, there’s no doubt you’ll be getting highly talented workforce (and, of course, you’ll be paying higher fees).
Fiverr
Fiverr has plenty of freelancers who will complete your business tasks for as little as $5 per task. These freelancers are talented people who live in countries where living costs are low and can produce really quality work.
Remember, not all freelancers are amazing, so you’ll have to do your research, try out different people and choose the ones you like.
You only pay $5 to test the quality of each candidate and it’s worth the effort.
Stage four: Design
Are you ready for the truly masochistic pursuit of learning how to design?
Don't worry, I've got you covered.
Turns out, good design is way more than "making it pop". It involves an OCD attention to detail in things like margins, padding, and font kerning (don't get me started...).
Indulge your inner madman (or madwoman) and journey down the design rabbit hole below. Just don't say that I didn't warn you.
Logo and Branding
Hipster Logo Generator
It’s stylish, it’s hip, and it’s trendy. It’s Hipster Logo Generator!
Logaster
If you are like me and don’t know how to use Photoshop or other image editing software, but want to create a professional looking logo that’ll help your brand stand out from the crowd, you’ll love trying Logaster – a professional online logo generator and logo maker.
Try it: it’s free!
Squarespace Free Logo
If you’re not motivated to create a logo for your business, or don’t want to hire an expensive graphic designer to create a business logo for you, then why not grab a logo for free?
At Squarespace Free Logo, you can download plenty of free (lower resolution version) logos for free and use the one that matches your website design theme.
Signature Maker
Signature Maker lets your create your digital handwritten signature – which you can insert in your emails, PDF documents, eBooks, and other digital file formats.
It’s a web-based tool so that you can use from anywhere, anytime. Also, it’s free!
Beautiful Free Icons
MakeAppIcon
Icon creator that quickly and easily generates iOS icons and Android icons of all sizes.
Glyphsearch
Discover beautiful icons from Foundation, Font Awesome, IcoMoon, Glyphicons, Ionicons, Material Design, and Octicons.
Ico Moon
Discover over 4000 free vector icons, and make custom icon fonts with a free HTML5 app.
Endless Icons
It was built by Min Kim, the famous business owner who also runs App Monstr, Email-Gallery, and Endless Photos.
Get an endless number of beautiful flat icons for your creative projects.
Perfect Icons
Easily and quickly generate resolution-independent social icons of any shape, size, and color.
The Noun Project
Get over 1000s of glyph icons from different artists.
Icon Sweets
Unleash over 1000s of custom designed icons, and 60 free vector PSD icons. With IconSweets 2, you can create beautiful custom icons for your iPhone, Android, and iPad apps.
Make Appicon
Simple and easy to use icon creator that allows you to create custom-sized icons for iOS and Android apps.
Icon Finder
High-quality, flat, and beautiful icons for millions of graphic designers and developers. Icon Finder offers world’s largest archives of free and premium icons.
SmartIcons
Get over 1450 premium free icons, 448 smart icons, and free vector icons in PNG, SVG, EPS format.
Ego Icons
Get 3600 radical geometric icons and 100 free vector icons – perfect for making your web interfaces, UI designs, and apps stand out in the crowd.
App Icon Template
Free app icon creator for iOS, Android, and OS X.
To(icon)
Get pixel-perfect free vector icons with character. Free to use.
FlatIcons
Royalty free flat icon creator and customizer. Get over 565000+ free vector icons in PNG, EPS, PSD, and EPS format.
Typography
Google Fonts
Find open-source fonts that’ll make your website look more beautiful, open, and fast through awesome typography.
Font Squirrel
Get 1000s of free, high quality, and completely legal fonts.
FontFaceNinja
Fontface Ninja is a browser extension that allows you to analyze, try, bookmark and even buy any fonts you see on any website.
Typekit
Get thousands of beautiful fonts for designs from the world’s leading type foundries.
Beautiful Web Type
Discover the best typefaces right from the Google web fonts directory. Over 600+ typefaces.
DaFont
The world’s biggest archive of beautiful downloadable fonts.
TypeGenius
Discover nearly perfect font combinations for your next website design.
1001 Free Fonts
Download over 36,000 fonts in over 19000 font families. (Download fonts for Windows and Macintosh.)
Fontello
Fontello displays archives with fonts, docs, and CSS files.
Flat Icon
Discover over 565000+ free vector icons in SVG, PNG, PSD, and EPS formats or as ICON FONT.
Font Awesome
Free fonts for icons, and CSS toolkit.
Adobe Edge Fonts
A free service from Adobe that offers you access to thousands of fonts for your site.
Stock Photography
Pexels
Get breathtaking, high quality, and best photos – gathered in one place.
Stock Up
Get free stock photos for your website.
Splashbase
Search, uncover, and use high quality images for your website within seconds.
Unsplash
Get free (high-resolution) photos and videos for your site. Do whatever you want with it.
Jay Mantri
Make magic with free high-resolution pictures. Unleash your creativity and reach its full potential.
Moveast
Be a part of the journey of the Portuguese guy heading east.
All The Free Stock
Get hundreds of thousands of free icons, images, and videos that you can use in your personal or commercial projects.
Designers Pics
Get high resolution photographs for personal and commercial use, for free.
Travel Coffee Book
Share your travel memories with others.
Mazwai
Search, find, and get HD-quality free video clips and footages.
Startup Stock Photos
Get off the couch, set the timer, and go make something.
Death to the Stock Photo
Get a free subscription and they’ll send free photos to your inbox on a monthly basis.
Foodie’s Feed
Get HD-quality food pictures for free.
Super Famous
Get free photos from the world’s super famous interaction designer- Folkert Gorter.
Pixabay
Get more HD-quality images for free.
Little Visuals
Get 7 high quality imagesdelivered to your inbox, 7 days a week.
Jéshoots
Get fresh, modern, and beautiful photos for free.
IM Free
Get curated content and free resources for your project.
Kaboompics
The easiest, fastest, and best way to discover breathtaking photos that’ll help your site stand out from the crowd.
Color Pickers
Skala Color
Simple and easy-to-use, yet a powerful color picker in the market for graphic designers and web developers.
Brand Colors
Get the colors used by popular brands – like Nike, MacDonalds, Virgins, and more.
Adaptive Backgrounds
Grab colors from your images.
Colorful Gradients
Automatically create gradients using just your computer.
Flat UI Colors
Create beautiful flat colors in no time.
Paletton
Simple and easy to use the color scheme designer for your site.
0 to 255
Use it to find variations of any color.
Adobe Color CC
Get free color combinations from the Kuler.
Coleure
Simple, smart, and easy-to-use color picker on the Internet.
Palette for Chrome
Generate a color palette from any image you choose.
New Flat UI Color Picker
Find best flat colors for graphic design.
Coolors
Super fast color palette generator for super cool web designers.
Colllar
Free color scheme generator.
Bootflat
Get a wide range of color schemes for flat designs.
Hex Colorrrs
Easily convert Hex to RGB.
PLTTS
Easy to use, simple, and free color picker.
Material UI Colors
Generate material UI color palette for iOS, Android, and Web.
Get UI Colors
Get breathtaking UI colors for your designs.
Material Palette
Generate and export Material Design color palette.
Design Resources
Freebbble
Get high quality graphic designs from Dribbble, all for free.
Graphic Burger
Beautiful design resources made with extreme care for each pixel.
Pixel Buddha
Get all free and premium design resources for professional use.
365 PSD
Get a free PSD everyday.
Fribbble
Get gorgeous PSD resources for your site, curated by Gilbert Pellegrom.
Premium Pixels
Unleash your creative juices with free stuff from Premium Pixels.
Dribbble
Type the word “freebie” in the Dribbble search box and discover freebie treasure.
Marvel
Get free design resources from top designers in the industry.
UI Space
Get beautiful handcrafted web resources for free.
Freepik
Get iFree graphics for free.
Placeit Freebies
Discover and chose freebies and get them delivered directly to your Dropbox account.
Dbf
Get best design freebies from Dribbble and Behance.
Tethr
The number one design KIT for iOS users.
Tech&All
Get tech news, PSDs, and other vital resources for your site for free.
SketchAppResources
Discover and use more graphical resources for your site.
Web3Canvas
Discover free tutorials, graphic resources, PSDs, and HTML snippets.
Freebiesbug
Get latest PSDs and other design resources for free.
Free Section of Pixeden
If you’re a graphic designer, consider yourself lucky: get thousands of free design resources for your site.
Free Section of Creative Market
Get free design resources every Monday.
Image Editors
Canva
Create amazing graphic designs – blog graphics, Facebook covers, posters, flyers, presentations, invitations, and more – all for your site.
Skitch
Skitch helps turn your ideas into reality faster. You can get your most brilliant ideas across with few words using shapes, annotation, and sketches. It works on Mac, iPad, and Windows PCs.
Pixlr
Forget Photoshop. Use Pixlr. It’s a simple and free browser-based photo editor that is developed to meet all your editing needs.
You can have 100% control over your photos, including effects and layers.
Easel.ly
A simple web-based image creation tool that allows you to create and share breathtaking visuals (flyers, posters, blog images, infographics, etc.).
No graphic design experience is needed.
Social Image Resizer Tool
Create, crop, and resize custom-sized, optimized images for social media- for free.
Placeit
Generate beautiful product (app or site) mock-ups and templates for free and insert them into the iPhone and iPad mock-ups templates.
It’s faster and more efficient than a PSD mockup.
Recite
Grab a quote and turn it into a visual masterpiece. You can also download and share it on your social media.
Meme Generator
The world’s first web-based (free) meme generating tool allows you to easily and quickly find new viral memes on the web.
Or, you can create your own and caption your favorite character.
Pablo
Create optimized (proper size and format) images for all your social media profiles in less than 30 seconds.
Stage five: Write
Even if you aren't an aspiring Hemmingway, if you are selling anything online, then writing is an integral part of that process.
You might talk good 'n stuff, but unless you can put pen to paper and convey your ideas with ease, selling online is going to be tough.
The resources below aren't going to turn you into James Joyce, but they'll get you started.
Writing and Blogging
Hemingway App
Hemingway App allows you to write bold and clear by highlighting long, complex sentences, and removing common errors.
Medium
You can learn interesting ideas from the best people who know what they are doing.
Topics range from politics to technology and creativity – whatever interest you may have, this website covers it in detail.
Grammarly
Grammarly is a digital writing assistant that helps you say what you mean with clarity, effectiveness, and confidence wherever you type. And yes, it’s free to use! Grammarly Premium includes our plagiarism checker along with additional grammar, spelling, and punctuation checks and writing enhancement suggestions.
Story Wars
Do you have an amazing story to share or an excellent idea to pitch? If yes, then Story Wars is the place to be – a place where creative writers from all over the globe come together to share their amazing ideas through their thoughts.
At Story Wars, everyone is welcome to create a story and pitch an idea.
ZenPen
ZenPen is a simple, clutter free text editor that allows you to focus on your writing.
Liberio
If you wish to create an eBook and become the next best-selling author on any subject, then Liberio is the tool you must have in your entrepreneurs handbag.
This simple eBook creation tool helps you create eBooks and publish them right from the comfort of your Google Drive.
BlankPage
Can’t seem to finish your novel? Try BlankPage. It’s a simple writing service that is developed to help aspiring novelist stay inspired and finish their works in progress.
WP Hide Post
WP Hide Post is a free WordPress Plugin that helps you with SEO optimization. It lets you create tons of content on your blog without making you change its meaning.
Egg Timer
Tired of being in front of the computer screen typing all day long? Not a clue how time flew by without feeling productive? Try E.ggtimer.com – or egg timer – is a simple countdown timer that allows you to set a time and start writing and feeling productive.
The best part is that you can also set a countdown to a specific date.
Free Summarizer
You can use Free Summarizer to quickly and easily summarize any long piece of writing in just a few clicks. And, of course, it’s absolutely free to use.
CoSchedule
CoSchedule is the number one marketing tool available for you to organize everything you need. With CoSchedule, you can manage your entire marketing strategy under one roof.
SocialLocker
If you have valuable content on your website or blog, and you want to boost its likes, shares, +1s or tweets, then use the SocialLocker tool. This free WordPress plugin locks your most valuable content behind a set of social buttons – Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, etc. – so that visitors have to like, share, +1s or tweet them to unlock. It also helps improve your SEO rankings.
Wattpad
You can visit Wattpad to find interesting stories to read and share. It’s a gobal community where people from all over the world come to share and read stories. You’ll definitely find some stories to keep you hooked.
Known
Known allows you to publish your blog posts, pictures, and media on your website as well as syndicate them to your social media profiles, while keeping everything on your own website.
Editorial Calendar
Do you often forget to write a post for the next week? How about the week after that?
You see, WordPress doesn’t make it easy for you to see when your posts are scheduled. That’s when Editorial Calendar comes to your rescue. This free WordPress plugin gives you an overview of your blog and shows you when each post is scheduled to be published.
You can even use the drag and drop feature to move your posts, edit your posts right in the calendar, and basically, manage your entire blog.
DBook
DBook is an online solution that lets you write large and complicated texts in a collaborative, structured, and secure way. And, of course, it is free to use.
A5.gg
A5.gg is a small note taking tool that helps you jot down important things you need to remember. It saves your text automatically so that when you return, it is still there.
Newsletters That Rock!
Email1K
The best email marketing tool available for website owners and marketers. They also offer a free 30-day course to help you double (or triple) your email list.
Just imagine where your business will be if you just doubled your subscribers (a 7-figure business!).
Design for Hackers
Take a web design course online. Courses are delivered right to your inbox.
Also, grab a copy of David Kadvy’s best-selling “Design for Hackers.”
Mattermark Daily
A curated daily digest of timely, must-read posts by investors and operators, the Mattermark Daily provides content from thought leaders in venture capitalism, startups, technology innovations, and related enterprises. More than 100,000 entrepreneurs and business professionals read the newsletter for best practices on how to pitch investors, raise financing, hire talent, manage a board, and much more.
ChargeWhatYou’reWorth
Not sure how much you should charge for your work? Don’t panic! This free online course will help you charge exactly what you’re worth.
No more underpricing your work, and no more bad clients who slave you around for a meager wage.
Startup Digest
Sign up for Startup Digest and start attending lots of events. Startup Digest is a personalized newsletter for everything concerning startup in Silicon Valley and surrounding areas.
UX Design Weekly
Get a healthy dose of best user experience design links every week.
UX Newsletter
Move gently from graphic design to UX design. It’s a quick roadmap for graphic designers to become UX designers. Join over 20,000 readers across the world.
Legal Documents (I can’t figure out a subheader to make these sound exciting, but they are good)
Shake
Shake lets you create, sign, and send legal documents within seconds. You can use it for personal use, absolutely for free.
Docracy
Docracy has a huge collection of free legal documents.
Kiss
If you are an investor or thinking about starting a new business, Kiss is the tool you can use to create free legal binding documents.
Stage six: Build
Business and Domain Name Generators
Domainr
Domainr lets you find short url domain names for your business. It’s free and within seconds it displays a row of domain name suggestions based on the keyword phrase you enter.
Impossibility
Impossibility is considered to be the best domain name generator out there by many. So, go ahead and pick the most suitable domain name for your project.
Wordoid
Short and catchy business names grab prospective client’s attention and Wordoid helps you discover one, quickly and easily.
Short Domain Search
Short Domain Search helps you find short, relevant and single-word names for your project.
The Name App
Have a brilliant idea for your next startup? The Name App helps you find catchy business names within seconds.
Naminum
Namium helps you find a perfect matching name for your business.
Lean Domain Search
Fast, free, and easy to use: the web-based domain name generator that discovers highly relevant domain names for your business.
Hipster Business Name
As the name implies, Hipster Business Name – a web-based business name generator – generates trendy and catchy business names for you so that you can stand out from a pool of competing businesses in your niche.
Development and Code Things
GitHub
Development platform for building a better software, together. You can host, review code, manage a project, and build.
Visual Studio
Visual Studio is a comprehensive collection of development tools and services that allows you to create apps easily, in any language and for any platform.
You can also try their MAC and Windows code editor, VSTS, or IDE for free.
Swiftype
Make a fantastic search engine free of charge (with some limitations). Swittype is a cloud-based search platform that offers all the tools you need.
Hive
Hive is a productive tool for teams. Give your team members an insanely powerful dashboard with all their files, actions, and messages.
It’s first free unlimited cloud service.
Coveralls
Make sure all your new code is fully covered and see coverage trends emerge. Free for open-source codes.
LingoHub
LingoHub is a powerful translation tool. It helps you connect with other leading translators. With LingoHub, you can easily optimize and automate your translation workflow.
It’s free for educational projects, small teams, and open-source usage.
Keen.io
Stream, compute, and visualize data from all the sources connected to the internet, and get all the answers you need.
Codacy
Codec automatically reviews your code and keeps track of code quality over time.
Searchcode
Find over 20 billion lines of code snippets, API documentations, open source (free software) resources at Searchcode – a free source code and documentation search engine. You can run searchcode yourself if you have private repositories you want to index. Searchcode server allows this and is linked from searchcode.com at https://searchcodeserver.com/
TinyCert
Generate free SSL certificates quickly and easily in minutes for your business.
Pingdom
Monitor your website. Free for one website.
Loggly
A log management tool you can use forever. Free to use for one user.
Peek
Get a 5-minute video of someone using your site, for free.
StartSSL
Get SSL certificates for free.
Build Together
Founder2be
Looking for a co-founder for a partnership? Use Founder2be to find people who are looking to collaborate for a startup.
CoFoundersLab
No matter which city or which industry you’re in, you’ll definitely find a co-founder at CoFoundersLab. Why? Simply because it is considered the world’s largest network of entreprenuers.
Hence, finding a co-founder for your startup will never get easier than this.
Assembly
Sit down with your co-founder and team members, collaborate with them, and co-create new ideas no matter where you (and they) are.
Tools and Startups
Product Hunt
Product Hunt is the place to discover the latest in tech, a global community of makers launching, sharing, and discussing the latest apps and products. More recently, the team introduced Ship, a suite of tools to help makers build better products with their users, and Sip, an app curating the best tech news stories of the day.
Angellist
Invest in a startup, find an awesome startup job, or raise money for charity.
Beta List
BetaList provides an overview of upcoming internet startups. Discover and get early access to the future.
Startup List
Get a comprehensive list of the best startups near your place. You can also check out other startup listings like StartupGenome and CrunchBase.
Erli Bird
Erlibird is a beta testing service for websites, hardware, iOS and Android apps.
You can easily and quickly run real-world beta tests on your websites and apps and get quality feedback to improve its performance.
Website Resources
Click Funnels
If you lack programming skills and don’t know how to design a website, ClickFunnels will enable you to build web pages inside of a sales funnel so that you can convert visitors into customers.
There are only three simple steps involved.
First, you choose the sales funnel type that is designed to sell YOUR product… so that you just have to send traffic to your offers and watch the sales explode.
Secondly, you choose the page design so that your website looks just as good as the ones designed by PRO designers- who’ll charge you an arm and a leg to design for you.
Lastly, you modify your page and with a click of a button: the whole sales funnel is ready to roll.
You can also change your headlines, insert your own images and videos, and insert clocks and more in order to customize your website and get the most from it.
You can simply drag and drop features on your web page and move them around until you’re 100% satisfied. Within 10 seconds, you can set the funnel to go live.
With ClickFunnels, you can get everything – you are able to market, sell, and deliver your offers online from one convenient place.
Lead Pages
Lead Pages are similar to Click Funnels, but they have fewer features and a much lower price tag. If you’re someone who is just getting into designing landing pages for boosting conversions, then Lead Pages are the best option out there for you. They have been in the market for a very long time and many experts consider them to be the #1 player on landing pages.
Make A Gif
Make A Gif allows you to make your own gifs with personal pictures.
Insider tip: If you want to boost sales, you have to drive your website traffic to your landing page, not your website page where visitors can easily get distracted.
Mouseflow
Don’t have a clue where your people are clicking on your web pages, or where they are leaving? With MouseFlow, you’ll stop guessing and know exactly where and how your website traffic is leaving your site.
Look at the heat map in the screenshot below. It seems a little bit creepy, but the point is that you’ll know exactly where users are moving their mouse on your website.
Flippa
If your article is for promoting existing websites and domains with traffic, it works well. That said, Their bread and butter is more on selling online businesses, such as Amazon FBA, eCommerce businesses, websites, mobile apps, and more. In 2018 alone, They’ve already sold over $3 million in businesses and just recently launched our first eBay store for sale.
Elegant Themes
Elegant Themes has one of the largest collections of WordPress themes (more than 400,000 clients already). These WordPress themes are designed to be SEO-friendly, are easy to use, and you don’t need any programming knowledge. In less than 30 minutes, you can build a professional looking beautiful website so that you don’t have to hire expensive web designers and developers to build one for you.
I also recommend checking out their blog entries, which are jam-packed with detailed tutorials, tips, and tactics to help you build a beautiful and customized site within minutes. And yes, their blogs are easy to comprehend as they’re not technical.
Expired Domains
Expired Domains are similar to Flippa, but they do one extra thing for you: they keep track of domains that are about to expire and the ones that are up for sale in the domain auction.
Tiny PNG
You can use Tiny PNG to squeeze the size of your images on your website, which will help your website load faster and boost Google rankings.
Way Back Machine
Is your website not ranking well in Google? Was it used for something shady in the past? How would you know this stuff?
Use Way Back Machine, a handy tool that lets you figure out whether your web address was used for something spammy in the past. Simply enter your website address and it will instantly display you screenshots of what the site was like in the past.
Wix
Wix is a free website building platform, which lets you build a beautiful and professional looking website easily and quickly.
Brazen
Brazen is chat communication and candidate engagement software for talent acquisition teams looking to increase career page conversions.
OptinMonster
OptinMonster uses “exit technology” to increase conversions on your website. When a person’s mouse leaves your website, a pop-up window is displayed, in which you can offer a free resource (a free e-book – for instance) to your visitors.
LinkMiner
LinkMiner is an awesome extension for the Chrome browser. It’s located on the tool bar of your Chrome browser. When you click on the icon, it displays all the broken links on your web page.
It is also an incredible business development tool.
It can quickly check broken links on your prospects’ websites and send messages such as: “Hi, I just found these broken links on your website.”
Works only on Chrome browser though.
Usabilia
Usabilia helps you get live feedback from a real person about your website so that you can improve its performance.
Free Website Templates
HTML5 UP
At HTML5 UP, you can discover beautiful, professional-looking, and responsive HTML5 and CSS3 website templates. And all of that free of charge.
Templated
You can find an additional collection of 845 gorgeous looking free HTML5 and CSS3 website templates.
Booswatch
They have free themes for Bootstrap.
WordPress.com or WordPress.org
Both WordPress.com and WordPress.org are number one content management systems (CMS) which allow you to build your own website for free.
You don’t need to have coding experience and the user interface is extremely easy to use. You can have a brand new website within minutes, not hours.
Layers
Layers is a WordPress website builder. If you have trouble building a WordPress website, try using Layers, and within minutes, you’ll have your own brand new website. Like most resources here in this list, Layers is absolutely free to use.
Landing Harbor
With Landing Harbor, you can promote your app using their free landing page.
Strikingly
At Strikingly, you’ll get unlimited free mobile optimized site templates particularly designed for Strikingly domains.
Stage seven: sell
You’ve found the stroke of inspiration, built your wireframes, and brought your product to life.
Now it’s time to channel your inner Glengarry Glen Ross and start selling!
Marketing
AppInstitute
Do you have an idea for a mobile app, but don’t know a thing about coding? Here’s good news: App Institute lets you build small business apps without any code. Talk about convenience!
Moo
Moo offers premium flyers. All you have to do is upload your design, or choose one from their collection of templates.
We developed our business card from Moo, and ever since, we have been receiving positive feedback on how cool our new business cards are.
Networking
Allconferences
is a website directory in which you can find conferences you might be interested in.
Fireside Conference
on the other hand, is just like a camp for adults where everyone meets up over a campfire rather than in a conference room. Fireside Conference attracts investors, startups, and entrepreneurs.
Eventbrite
Eventbrite is the place where you’ll find your next experience.
Meetup
Meetup helps you do two things- first, it helps you find networking events and second, it helps you get nice (free) backlinks to your website, which ultimately improves your SEO.
Shapr
Did you know there’s Tinder for business, too? No-one’s heard of it yet, so let me be the first to tell you about Shapr – a handy tool that works just like Tinder for small business.
Ten Thousand Coffees
It’s a network-building platform where like-minded people get together and connect, one coffee at a time.
Customer Service and Surveys
Typeform
Build beautiful online forms and surveys for free.
Tally
Create polls within seconds.
Free Survey Creator
Create a survey and get user feedback. Try it for free.
Helprace
Easy to use and simple customer support tool, best for small support teams (free up to 3 agents).
Social Media and Community Management
Spruce
Spruce allows you to create Twitter-ready images within seconds.
Click To Tweet
Boost shares your content.
MyTweetLinks
Get more traffic from Twitter.
SharedCount
Keep track of web page shares, tweets, likes, and more.
How Many Shares
Keep track of shares a web page has across all popular social media networks, all from one place.
Latergram
Lets you plan and schedule your Instagram posts.
WordPress Pin it Button for Images
Easily insert a “Pin It” button on your site.
Justunfollow
Easily follow (or unfollow) people on Instagram and Twitter.
Klout
A free browser externsion that allows you to find the social media influence on your web pages.
Ritetag
Discover and analyze hashtag easily. Ritetag gets hashtag suggestions for images and text, for Instagram and beyond. The hashtags for image solution also works with all web to Instagram direct publishing and scheduling solutions, including Socialflow, Hootsuite, Tailwind, Falcon.io, Sendible – and all the others, too!
WriteRack
The fastest, easiest, and best way to tweetstorm.
Buffer Free Plan
Quickly and easily schedule your posts to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn.
Bitly
Create, track, and share very short URL links.
SocialRank
Discover, manage, and organize your Twitter followers.
Sumome Share
Optimize your share buttons automatically to get even more traffic.
Digg Digg
Get the share buttons you need for your site for maximum traffic – all in one share buttons plugin.
Addthis
Boost shares, follows, and conversions on your site.
Filament
Create a beautiful and custom sharing bar on your site, for free.
Free Survey Creator
Easily create surveys on your website to get user feedback. Try it, it’s free.
Disqus
Allow people to comment on your posts easily and build a two-way dialogue with your readers.
Presskit Generator
Create a Press Kit (for free) for your iOS app.
App Review Monitor
Get App reviews direct to your inbox or Slack.
Drumup
DrumUp discovers and helps you share great content to your social media accounts
so you can start meaningful conversations with your followers. 40,000 happy customers and growing.
Find Trendy Content Ideas
Google Trends
Google Trends gives you all the data and visualizations from Google so that you can see what’s trending near you so that you can be at the top of things in your market.
Buzzsumo
Buzzsumo is a must-have tool for your content marketing and SEO strategy. It easily helps you discover what content generates the most shares, likes, and comments – all from one hub.
Hubspot Blog Topic Generator
With Hubspot’s Blog Topic Generator at your fingertips, you’ll never run out of blog ideas (a huge problem for bloggers).
No matter how thin your market is, Hubspot Blog Topic Generator easily generates killer blog ideas so that you keep on giving relevant (and interesting) content for your readers.
Answer The Public
If you are running out of content ideas for your website or blog (a lot of us go through this situation), then try using Answer the Public. Simply enter a topic in your market and this cool tool will generate all types of questions that people ask related to that topic.
With these questions, you can easily create content for your blog by simply answering them, and hopefully, rank better in Google when people search for them.
Insider Tip: Make sure to switch your country to UK while browsing this website as the default country is set to UK.
Swayy
Swayy helps you identify the most engaging blog content ideas. You can discover and curate content online, and it’s free for one dashboard user.
Ruzzit
Ruzzit is just like Buzzsumo, helping you discover the most shared content (viral videos, news stories, and images) on the web from various sources, including the most popular websites and social media sites.
Others
Invoice Generators
Slimvoice
Slimvoice allows you to create really simple invoices for your business.
Invoice to me
Another free invoice generator.
Invoice to
Invoice to is a free, simple invoice for your business.
Wave
Wave is easy to use and lets you create free invoicing, accounting, and more.
Free Invoice Generator
One more alternative invoice generator for your business.
Business Operations
Survey Monkey
Survey Monkey quickly helps you get feedback about what you should next on your website.
Survey Anyplace
Survey Anyplace helps engage your visitors and get valuable information from them by creating mobile, fun, and interactive surveys and quizzes.
Bplans
Bplans helps you create a killer business plan for your business. If you’re just starting out, this is a great place to brainstorm about it.
Free My PDF
Free My PDF helps you edit and integrate several PDF documents into one. It allows you to unlock PDF files so that you can easily insert pages and delete images.
17hats
Running a business isn’t an easy task. It is chaotic and overwhelming. 17hats allows you to handle all your business tasks by simplifying them, all from one place.
Zoom
Zoom lets you record and share your video conference calls simultaneously.
Calendly
Calendly easily syncs with your calendar so that you don’t have to go back and forth emailing everyone in your team to set up a meeting.
Start Up Bros
Do you want to learn how to sell on Amazon like the experts? Then we highly recommend that you take one of Start Up Bro’s webinars.
Wave Accounting
Wave Accounting takes care of invoicing, receipt scanning, accounting, and more for your small business – all for free.
Amolto
Amolto lets you call on Skype as well as record the calls. Pretty awesome, eh?
Infusionsoft
Infusionsoft helps take your email strategy to the next level. Are you up for it?
Grasshopper
Grasshopper lets you have your own business phone number for as little as $12 per month.
Fambiz
Fambiz provides expert advice on family businesses.
SheNegotiates
SheNegotiates provides excellent leadership training and strategic coaching that stand out from other courses on the web.
MindMeister
Running a business is a complicated endeavor and can easily become overwhelming without a good tool to plan, collaborate and manage knowledge.
MindMeister is a handy and easy-to-use online mind mapping app that allows all of your team members to work together in real-time and simplify complex business tasks.
Printfriendly
Printfriendly quickly and easily allows you to print a web page on your site without any stuff that you really don’t need: like sidebars, menus, and ads, for example.
Shakelaw
Shakelaw lets you create, sign, and send legal documents- within seconds. Enough said.
Tactlaw
Tactlaw lets you check contracts online.
Email Management Tools
Contact form 7
Easily grab your visitors’ email addresses on your WordPress site. It’s a free WordPress plugin.
Mailchimp
Send up to 12,000 emails to 2,000 subscribers without wasting a dime.
Hello Bar
Double (or even triple) your email subscribers almost overnight.
Sendgrid
Send 12k marketing emails per month, for free.
Mandrill
Deliver your emails faster. Send 12k emails every month for free.
Mailgun
Email service designed for developers. Send 10k emails every month for free.
Scroll Triggered Box
Double (or triple) conversion rates on your WordPress site.
Sumome Scroll Box
Grab more email addresses, politely.
Sendinblue
Send 9k emails for free every month.
Canned Emails
Find pre-written emails to save your time and double conversions.
Sumome List Builder
Build more subscribers with light box popover.
Beefree
Free email editor that allows you to build responsive email messages.
Mailtrack
The best (and free) email tracking service available on the Internet.
ManyContactsBar
Create a free contact form that stays on top of your site to boost conversions.
Stage eight: optimize
You've build, you've sold, and you are ready to scale. Learn how in the section below...
SEO + Keyword Research
Soovle
Soovle is an excellent – and free – keyword idea generator. It will instantly generate the most popular keyword phrases that you want to rank for, from Yahoo and Google. For instance, if you want to rank for the keyword “shoes,” then it will display keyword ideas like “Payless shoes” in Yahoo while it displays “shoes for crews” in Google.
Google Position Checker Tool
Have you ever wondered how well you rank for a particular keyword in the search engine. Try Google Position Checker tool to quickly find where you rank in the search engine ladder. Simply enter your domain name and the keyword phrase you want to check for the rankings, and it will tell you exactly where you rank for that particular keyword in Google.
Word Cloud
Word Cloud helps you discover a “cloud of words,” which are basically keyword phrases that are often searched by people in Google and Yahoo. This handy tool also helps you find keywords your competitors are using to rank their pages.
VarvA
If you’re not sure your website is following guidelines set by Google – very important if you want to avoid Google penalties – then try Varvy.
Simply enter your website URL and this simple and elegant tool will tell you how well it is following the guidelines set by Google.
Competitive Analysis
Backlingo
Backlingo is run and maintained by an SEO genius, Brian Dean – a one man army backlink generating expert on the web. He teaches people to use different backlink building tactics to outank a lot of their competition, no matter how big their market/ niche.
Periodically, throughout the year, he posts courses on his website. He is widely known in the digital marketing sphere for his post on 200 Google Ranking Factors and Skyscraper Technique to outrank any competition.
BuzzSumo
If your content isn’t getting any backlinks or shares – very important for better search engine rankings – then you probably don’t know how to get more shares and utilize the power of social media to make your content viral.
BuzzSumo is a powerful tool to help you create content that gets shared and backlinks.
This free tool will reveal you exactly how popular articles in any (your) industry gets shares, likes, and comments – and on which social media.
It will display you where a particular article is getting its backlinks and who have been sharing those articles. You can utilize these vital information to outrank your competitors without spending thousands of dollars on SEO marketing.
Spyfu
Spyfu can help you vital a lot of vital information about your competition. For example, it can tell you which keywords your competitors are ranking for, what Google Adwords they buy, and also reveal you how successful those ads are.
In addition, you can also generate a report on potential keywords you can rank for – both organically and via paid ads.
Similar web
Similar web allows you to be a detective and keep an eye on your competitor(s). You’ll quickly learn where all their traffic is coming from – from searches, referrals, or social media sites – and once you have this insider information, you can emulate their success and outrank your competitors.
SEO & Website Analyzers
Ahrefs
Ahrefs is mostly known for its enormous backlink data (you can link here ahrefs.com/big-data for some solid proof). Thanks to this data, Ahrefs helps you do the most detailed SEO competitor analysis. You can explore the backlink profiles of your competitors’ websites to learn their backlink sources and uncover SEO strategies in general. With this knowledge, you can run your own SEO (and link building) campaigns effectively and outrank your competition in Google search results.
Besides, Ahrefs will unveil keywords that bring organic traffic to your competitors and show you content that generates most search traffic on your competitors’ websites. That is a serous time-saver for your content marketing. It will even report your competitors’ PPC keywords and ads.
Ahrefs will also give you the maximum number of profitable keyword suggestions to make your keyword research extremely effective. With its precise metrics such as Search Volume, Keyword Difficulty and Clicks Per Search, you will be sure to only target the most profitable and traffic-worthy keywords.
Not so long ago they added a Site Audit module to their toolset, which can keep an eye on the “SEO health” of your website.
Open Site Explorer
Open Site Explorer is a comprehensive SEO tool for backlink analysis. You can easily analyze backlinks, discover top-performing pages, view their social activity, and discover more backlink building opportunities.
Quick Sprout
Quick Sprout helps you analyze your website so that you can find new – and better – ways to grow website traffic.
SEO Site Checkup
Check the SEO problems of your website for free. They also have a whole list of SEO tools for your website.
WordPress SEO by Yoast
WordPress SEO by Yoast is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to fully optimize your WordPress site.
It optimizes both your website and its content so that they have higher chances of being displayed in the search engine result pages.
Similar Web
Similar Web allows you to analyze your website statistics and understand your competitor’s strategy so that you can emulate their successes in order to grow your market share.
Hubspot Marketing Grader
Hubspot recently launched a free tool to help you assess the effectiveness of your entire marketing campaign so that you can improve it to grade your marketing.
Keywordtool.io
Keywordtool.io is the best free alternative to Google Keyword Planner tool for keyword research. You’ll get 100% relevant long-tail keywords – keyword phrases that are easy to rank and which bring targeted visitors to your site – directly from Google Suggest.
SERPs Rank Checker
You have been creating plenty of blog posts on your site but don’t have a clue how well they rank on Google and Yahoo? Try SERPs Rank Checker. It’s a free keyword rank and SERP checker that checks the rankings of your posts in the international and local keyword rankings.
Nibbler
Don’t know why one of your websites is not ranking as well as the others? Use Nibbler, a free tool that’ll tell you how good your website is, and what steps you can take to improve it. (You can check SEO, accessibility, social media, and more.)
Alexa Ranking
Alexa Rank Checker is the fastest and easiest way to analyze your site’s rank, and displays the status (incoming links, Alexa rankings, etc.) of multiple websites simultaneously.
OpenLinkProfiler
OpenLinkProfiler.org is a simple and free link research tool that allows you to check the backlink profile (number of backlinks) of any website. Simply enter a domain name in the search box and hit enter to see the backlinks of any of your (or your competitor’s) website.
Browseo
Browseo helps you see your website as search engines see it. It helps you discover issues (there could be plenty) with your website as well as your competitor’s website so that you can quickly fix it and improve it.
It’s free to use so that you can save your hard-earned money on marketing purposes.
Broken Links
Broken links can send your Google rankings down the drain if you don’t check and fix it.
Use Broken Links tool (absolutely free) to quickly and easily find broken links, redirects, and more on any site and fix it and improve your SEO.
Keyword Planner; Webmaster Tools; Analytics; Trends
Google Pagespeed Insights
If your website takes 30 seconds to load, or is not rising higher in rankings, then most likely you are not following web best practices.
With Google Pagespeed Insights, you can quickly check the performance of your site and figure out ways to optimize it to make your website faster and search engine friendly.
Copyscape
If you’re not sure whether your content is original or not, or if someone else may be using your original work, then you can use Copyscape and avoid being penalized by Google for using plagiarized work.
It’s a free plagiarism checker that searches for copies of your page on the web.
Pingdom
If you are running an online business, you need to make sure it is available almost 24/7 to your potential customers – to bring in maximum profits. But if you are not sure if that is the case, use Pingdom.
It’s a free tool that checks the availability and performance of your site, and lets you be the first one to know when it is down.
You don’t need to download and install this service.
GTMetrics
The profits you generate from your website depend on a number of factors – one of which is your webpage’s speed.
GTMetrics is a simple and easy to use – and free – tool that quickly checks your page’s speed performance and offers ways to improve it.
Moz Local
Moz Local allows you to check and improve your local SEO listings on Google, Bing, and others.
XML Sitemaps
XML Sitemaps helps you create an XML sitemap that can easily be submitted to Google, Bing, and other search engines to help them crawl through your website easily and faster.
You can also create a text sitemap to list all of your pages, or create an HTMl site map to let your website visitors easily navigate pages on your website.
W3C validator
W3C is a simple, easy to use, and free markup validation service, based on XML and SGML parsers.
A/B Tests and Growth Hacking
GrowthHackers
Unlock growth, together.
Hello Bar
Easy to use and simple tool for A/B testing. You can test different power words and CTAs.
Petit Hacks
Retention, acquisition, and revenue hacks utilized by hundreds of successful companies.
Optimizely
Optimize your website and apps – all from one place.
Image Optimizers
TinyJPG and TinyPNG
TinyJPG and Tiny PNG are the best JPEG and PNG optimizers (compresses your JPEG and PNG images by almost 40-60%) to make your website load faster and save bandwidth.
Compressor.io
Compressor.io is a free online image compression tool that allows you to optimize and compress your images without losing quality.
ImageOptimizer
ImageOptimizer is a free online image compression tool that allows you to resize, compress, and optimize your image files (JPEG and PNG files).
ImageOptim
ImageOptim compresses your images and makes them load faster. It saves disk space and bandwith. It compresses your images without compromising on their quality.
Smush.it
Smush.it is an award-winning image optimization plugin for WordPress sites.
Dunnnk
Dunnnk allows you to create beautiful product mock-ups. Simply submit your design and Dunnnk will give you a high quality mockup in return.
InstaMockup
Generates screenshots of your website and app instantly.
Video
Camstasia
If you want to create high quality videos without breaking your bank, then try Camtasia. It will cost you only $200, and there’s a comprehensive course on Udemy.com, which will help you become an expert in using it. It’s a 10-hour long course that will speed up your learning curve to produce some kick-ass videos on your own.
Tube Buddy
If you want to create videos for better search engine rankings, then check out Tube Buddy. It’s a simple SEO tool for YouTube that allows you to properly optimize your videos for search engines.
Wistia
Just like Vimeo and YouTube, Wistia is a super high-end video host. Not only does it look better, but it also provides better metrics on who is watching your videos.
You can try the free version, but it will be branded with Wistia logo. The premium version will cost you $100 per month. Moz uses Wistia for their WhiteBoard Fridays.
Udemy even has their free video course for those who want to speed up their learning process.
ScreenCast-o-Matic
ScreenCast-o-Matic is a free screen recording tool. The free version has a watermark, while the paid version is only $15 per month. The video quality is HD and most entrepreneurs use it every day. It’s easy to use and the customer support is excellent.