Social Media On A Budget – The Best Free Tools
It never ceases to amaze me how many free tools are available to market your business online. Whether it’s Social Media, Website Traffic, Blogging, Graphics……you name it, there are free tools available to help you. And the paid tools usually offer a free trial so you can “try before you buy” (or if you’re super organised, get all your jobs done during the free trial).
Here are my favourite tools and resources. I use (or have used) all of them to build my business (and in the interests of full disclosure some of the links are affiliate links so I get a small commission, but don’t worry, it doesn’t cost you anything!)
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GRAPHICS
WordSwag (this is an iphone app)
Jing from TechSmith
Irfanview (image resizing)
PowerPoint
IMAGES
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Facebook Creator Studio (for Facebook and Instagram scheduling)
POSTPLANNER Easy way to increase engagement with the most viral posts and images
SHORTSTACK – Custom apps and lead generation tools within Facebook
MAILING LISTS
TWITTER TOOLS
Commun.it
TweetDeck
SproutSocial
ONLINE MARKETING TOOLS
Unbounce
ClickFunnels
Thinkific (for Membership Sites)
GETTING ORGANISED
Google Apps (email and services for your whole team, managed through one email and dashboard)
Asana (this runs my whole business and team!)
Trello
Basecamp
ActiveCampaign (has CRM as well as email marketing and automations)
Capsule CRM
SCHEDULING AND TIME SAVING TOOLS
Facebook Creator Studio (FB and Insta)
Grum (for Instagram)
Planoly (Instagram)
Google Docs (for building your content library)
HASHTAGS
BUILD & MANAGE YOUR OWN WEBSITE
HOSTING
KEYWORD RESEARCH
Google Keyword Planner
Market Samurai
VIDEOS
Camtasia (PC)
Screenflow (for Mac)
Vimeo (video hosting)
YouTube (of course!)
VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION
ANIMATIONS AND GIFS
WEBINARS
OUTSOURCING
Fiverr.com (for small, one-off jobs)
COACHING, BIZ GROWTH AND SELF-DEVELOPMENT
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