Free Comprehensive SEO Tool
Neil Patel’s Ubersuggest shows you how to vastly improve your SEO.
It features keyword rank tracking and suggestions, insights into the strategies and types of content that are getting the most social shares and backlinks in your industry, regular site audits and extensive competitive analysis.
That’s a lot of great features. You can choose either their Free plan or Pro plan which is $10 a month and includes additional functionality.
Free Scheduled Social Media Posts
Buffer has a Free plan where you can make up to 10 scheduled social media posts ahead of time for up to three of any combination of social media accounts of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.
So you can choose any combination, such as 3 Facebook accounts if you only use Facebook, or you can select 1 Instagram, 1 Facebook and 1 Twitter if you have a more widespread social media presence.
To access the Free plan, we checked with Buffer and they currently don’t have a direct way to start with the Free plan.
Instead the workaround solution is to visit here and then click on the “Start a free 14-day trial” blue button under the Pro plan. Follow the setup process and then enjoy the trial period. You can do this without needing to enter your credit-card details. Then when the free trial ends you have the choice to either downgrade to the free plan or you can upgrade to the Pro plan by entering your card details.
Free Collaboration Hub
Slack is a popular productivity tool that effectively replaces email inside your business. Instead of having an overstuffed Inbox, conversations in Slack happen in dedicated spaces called channels which makes it simple to follow conversations or quickly find out information.
The Free plan provides access to 10,000 of your team’s most recent messages and has 10 integrations with other tools and services that you already use such as Google Drive and Office365.
Free Accounting Software
Wave provides free accounting, invoicing and receipt scanning software that has no set-up fees, no hidden charges and no monthly fee.
The only possible cost is if you want your invoiced customers to be able to directly pay online via the invoice or if you use their payroll functionality. Both of these options are entirely optional.
Free Customer Service Software
Hubspot’s Service Hub is customer service software that brings organization and efficiency to your customer service team.
The Free plan includes ticketing, live chat, email templates, team email, calling, reporting, email and chat to ticket, ticket creation bots and meeting scheduling.
Free Project Management Tool
Trello is an excellent project management tool that help you to organize and prioritize your projects in a fun and flexible way.
Features include built-in workflow automation, intuitive user interface and the ease at which users can quickly review projects.
They have a Forever free plan which includes unlimited personal boards, cards and lists, 10 team boards and 10mb per file attachment.
Free Office Software
Microsoft Office Online is an online office software suite that provides slightly watered-down versions of most of Microsoft’s standard office software.
It includes browser-based versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and OneNote and has built-in real-time collaboration features.
The only downsides are that it always requires an internet connection and that some advanced features such as pivot tables are not included.
Free Live Analytics
Used by over 29 million websites, Google Analytics is the best free tool for comprehensive live tracking and reporting of your website traffic.
A lesser known fact is that Google also provide a great range of free training courses here which you can use to maximise the benefits you get from Google Analytics.
Free Business Plans
Bplans provide more than 500 free downloadable sample business plans in a wide variety of industries. You can find a plan in a business that is similar to yours and then tailor it to your own situation by adding your sales forecasts and other business information.
All of their business plans are in the SBA approved format that’s proven to increase your chances of raising money from lenders and investors.
There are also clear and simple instructions for each section of the business plan making it easier for you to complete.
Each plan is available in Word format so you can start editing your business plan right away.
Free Analysis of Your Website
Website.Grader.com is a free tool that analyses your website’s performance in terms of mobile responsive design, page size and page upload speed, and also SEO factors such as meta description, page titles and sitemap.
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