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Free Tools for Small Business

Start-up business owners, or even those who have been open a short while often do not have a lot of money to spend on graphic designers, social media and other marketing tools.

There are free versions of software that can assist you in the early stages of your business if you do not have money available to engage professionals. 

Once your cash flow builds up you can look at paid professional services.

Some of the free tools you can make use of include:

Graphic Design/Social Media Graphics

  • CANVA 
  • VistaCreate 
  • Photoshop Express

 

Vector Editors

  • Gravit Designer 
  • Vectr 

 

Image Manipulation - Free Alternatives

  • GIMP 
  • Pixlr 
  • Paint.Net 
  • Photo Pos Pro - Windows only

 

Website

  • WIX Website Builder

 

CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

  • Insightly
  • Hubspot

 

Email Marketing

  • Mailchimp

 

Project Management

  • Proofhub
  • Trello
  • Asana

    

Social Media Scheduling

  • Hootsuite
  • Later

 

Connecting A Team

  • Connecteam

 

Data Visualisation 

  • Google Charts

 

Fonts

  • Google Fonts
  • 1001freefonts

 

Other

  • Google Docs
  • Google Analytics