This page will be updated with more resources over time. The best way to be informed is through my email list here.
Email Marketing
Mailgun – First 10,000 emails free each month
SendGrid – Free 12,000 per month transactional, and marketing email
Sendinblue – Free and paid. Free for up to 9,000 emails per month, no limit on subscribers
Multitrack – Email tracking. Track when emails are opened. 5 emails per domain
Hunter – Find anyone’s email. Free for 1,500 returned emails
Canned Emails – Use pre written email replies you can quickly copy and use
The Magic Email – Get an unresponsive person to reply to your newsletter or email
Social Media Tools
Pablo – Design engaging social media post in seconds. Select images, add text, save and post
Later – Plan and schedule Instagram posts
SharedCount - Track shares, likes, tweets, and more for any URL
How Many Shares - Count how many shares a URL has across most social networks
Free photos, video, music for your projects
Unsplash - Free high resolution images.
Pexels - Free stock images with no attribution required. Searchable by color!
Pixabay – Attribution free photos. I used this site often
JeShoots – unique photos by Jan Vašek
Gratisography – Get some out of the norm photos here
Coverr.co – Beautiful free video snippets for download.
Pexels Video – Searchable collection of stock videos you can use without restriction
Videvo - Free HD stock footage and motion graphics for any project, attribution required
Videezy – Free HD and 4K video footage
Incompetech.com – Creative Commons with Attribution music from Kevin MacLeod. Licensed works also available
Image, graphics, video tools
Avidemux - a free software that allows you to trim a video with re-encoding. Tutorial.
Audacity - free software to improve audio recording so they sound more professional. Course
Canva – Simple tool for non designers to get great design
Pixlr – Free online image editor
Handbrake - Software to convert and compress your video files
Shotcut - Free, non limited video editor. I like this so much, I created a course for it.
Color scheme selector - select suitable color combination for your website, marketing materials etc
Productivity
Feedly – Keep up to date with your favorite websites or blog in in app
Google Calendar Tips – Tips to maximize Google Calendar
Presentations
Ease.ly - Create your infographic with this tool
Slideshare - world’s largest community for sharing presentations.
H5P - interactive content for the web
Writing, blogging, content creation
AnswerThePublic - Get ideas for keywords
CoShedule – Free analyzer to improve headlines
Hugo - static site generator. Read how I migrated from Wordpress to Hugo.
Medium – blogging, writing platform with huge audience and network effect
Misc
Digital Ocean - VPS, or virtual private server for hosting your website. Better, cheaper than many shared hosting. Get $10, or 2 months off via my link here.
GoDaddy - Register your domain name. See my guide how to get a domain for around $1 here if you are a first time user..
NameSilo.com - could be a better bet than Name.com since privacy is included in the price. I haven’t used them but will probably test a few domains once renewal comes up
Piwik – Don’t want to give you data to Google and want an alternative to Google Analytics, then us this instead.
Updates
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