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Get one-page business plans for a small consulting business, a boutique clothing company and a nonprofit organization.
Business plan template for a startup business, with instructions and worksheets.
The largest online collection of free sample business plans. Also provides helpful tools and guides to help you better
manage your business.
Secure file sharing, storage, and collaboration.
File transfer service. Free plan gives you unlimited spaces with a 250MB file limit.
Cloud storage and file backup for photos, docs, and more - plus real-time document and spreadsheet sharing and editing.
File management tool that lets you store files securely, share with friends, and sync across all your devices.
Collaboration app with chat and inbox for teams. One place to talk and stay up-to-date.
A work communication tool that helps you get your message across through instantly shareable videos.
Online whiteboard that helps you organize your team's work in a simple and visual way.
Consolidate travel plans into a single, master itinerary that can be accessed any time and on any device, regardless of the websit
Continually monitors your availability and works with your recipient to find a commonly available time.
Eliminate email and phone tag by allowing anyone to schedule a meeting by picking an available time in your calendar.
The stress-free conference call with features like screen sharing and "know who's talking."
App used to assign tasks, upload documents and file attachments, schedule due dates and visualize overall workflow.
Real world, straight talk, and realistic ideas from Customer Experience Leaders around the world.
A community of IT pros, plus an app with network monitoring, help desk, active directory, and more.
Free messaging app that lets you monitor and chat with visitors on your website.
Beautiful form creator so you can more easily collect registrations, onboard new clients or survey your visitors.
Pinterest made exclusively for designers—a resource to help you discover, share, and save your favorite
designs from around the web.
$80 worth of free Photoshop and Sketch templates for creating beautiful iOS designs.
Simple free tool with 1000's of templates & graphics for making professional presentations and infographics
Chrome extension that lets you identify any color's hex code on any website.
Browser extension to help you discover what fonts were used on a website.
Generates a classical type hierarchy from a body text/base font with ability to scale up and down.
Massive database of free fonts, sortable by style, popularity, and featured fonts.
Library of 500+ web fonts made possible by contributions from Adobe, Google, and designers around the world.
Amazingly simple graphic design software that helps even non-designers create stunning layouts and graphics.
A free UI design plugin designed to speed up your workflow with Sketch and Photoshop.
Create a handwritten digital signature. Great for signing documents, contracts, emails, and blog posts.
Online wireframe tool and design cloud for software and websites.
Private moodboards where you can gather, share, and discuss ideas with your team.
Place your app or website directly into one of these free iPhone, iPad, iMac, and Macbook mockups (no Photoshop
required!). They offer thousands of photo and video templates.
Free web-based tool to remove image background.
A collection of the best non-stocky stock photo websites, curated in one place.
10 new free photos added every 10 days, available online or via email subscription.
Over 1.4 million royalty free stock photos and videos shared by a generous community.
Improve your user-experience and get quick feedback on designs with this free usability testing software.
Simple video creation software using photos, videos, music, and text.
Free tool will analyze your headline to determine the Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) score.
Create PDF documents from any Windows program including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Summarizes any text in just a few seconds, then sends you the summary via email.
Create and publish books for iPad and Mac. Features drag-and-drop templates and support for movies, audio, and
widgets— making it a great option for a multi-sensory and interactive experience.
The perfect cure for writer's block—this web-based tool will delete your progress if you stop typing for more than
five seconds.
Enter any keyword and get a catchy blog post headline (plus the resources on SEO, PPC and Content Marketing) to
help turn that headline into a killer content strategy.
Get our 7-day free writing class: How to Write Words That Sell (And Sound Like You)
Plagiarism checker that searches for duplicates of your content.
Empower your daily journal writing with inspiring prompts and profound quotes.
Exclusive, free marketing content and tools including insightful tips, tricks and industry statistics.
Uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find your writing errors and offer
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Get feedback on your writing by checking your text against databases of correct language usage.
Grammar and plagiarism checker.
Instantly fixes over 250 types of errors in your copy, most of which Microsoft Word can't find.
Analyzes your writing and produces reports on overused words, writing style, sentence length, grammar, and
repeated words and phrases.
Web-based app that makes your writing bold and clear. Enter any text to see where you can simplify your prose.
Send emails and track results. Offers the most integrations with other programs.
Powerful and simple web-based email marketing tools to send, track, and manage newsletters, surveys, and online polls.
Create a virtual email waiting list by collecting beta sign ups and encouraging referrals.
The ultimate list of free landing page templates from LeadPages (one of the most popular paid landing page platforms
out there). You'll need to code them yourself or hire a developer, otherwise you can sign up for LeadPages and
not touch a line of code.
How effective is your landing page? This free tool will tell you where and how to improve so it performs better.
Navigation bar that appears at the top of your site to collect email subscribers.
Give your visitors a custom intro or offer based on where they came from.
Suite of marketing apps that help you run competitions, capture emails, and showcase user-generated content.
Create viral polls, quizzes, and surveys to dramatically increase time spent on your website.
A lightbox that helps convert visitors right before they're about to leave your website.
Organize all your visual content seamlessly publish it to major social media networks.
All-in-one publishing tool that makes it easy to share multimedia content across multiple social platforms at once.
Boost your social media productivity by scheduling updates, finding new people to follow, and tracking your activity.
Manage up to three social media profiles and get basic analytics, content scheduling, lead capture campaigns,
RSS feed integrations, and free social media courses.
Create, share, and track shortened or custom links.
Web-based tool to create Instagram Stories.
In-depth tutorials, studies, and resources on how to make the most of your social media presence.
Enter any URL and get a total count of how many social media shares it's received.
Get the best times to tweet based on your and your follower's activity.
High-quality tools for hosting, sharing, and streaming videos in gorgeous HD and 4K with no ads.
Professional video hosting with viewer analytics, HD video delivery, and marketing tools so you can understand your visitors.
Writing collaboration tool with version control, editing assistance, and cloud syncing.
The best social media platform for professionals. Make connections, send messages, join groups, and publish content.
Online networking site that helps you organize or attend local groups that get together for face-to-face events.
Generates custom QR codes for your website, virtual business cards, and social media.
Gmail tool that shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox.
aText accelerates your typing by replacing abbreviations with frequently used phrases you define
Recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better.
Focus your attention by dimming the background so only the application you're working on is illuminated.
When you open a new tab in Chrome, this pretty personal dashboard pop-up to help you minimize distractions
and increase focus.
Plays different sounds to calm your nerves and inspire you to write. Comes with a minimalist text editor so you can
write while you listen.
Free Mac app that lets you block access to distracting websites for a set period of time.
Instantly see a list of all your subscription emails. Unsubscribe easily from whatever you don't want.
Password manager
Password manager
Web-based notetaking tool that lets you type text on a single webpage, then remembers it for later (until you clear
your cache!).
Capture, nurture, and share your ideas across any device.
Quickly capture what's on your mind and get a reminder later at the right place or time. Speak a voice memo on the go
and have it automatically transcribed.
Put articles and videos (or pretty much anything) into Pocket. Save directly from your browser or apps like Twitter,
Flipboard, and Pulse.
Bookmark and tag web pages, or highlight any part of a site and attach sticky notes.
Simple time tracking via mobile app or Chrome extension. Just hit a button and start tracking.
Time tracking for teams. Takes regular screenshots to measure activity levels and manage your remote team. You can even pay y
Software that runs in the background of your computer and provides data to help you understand your daily habits
so you can focus and be more productive.
Time tracking software for teams and freelancers.
A personal assistant in your pocket. Unites your calendar and tasks and uses artificial intelligence to tell you what to
do and how to do it.
Tasks and to do lists synced across all devices.
Create chains of simple conditional statements (called "recipes") which are triggered based on changes to other web
services like Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
A simple, flexible email address that can be used with any email system on any device to send your reminders to you when you n
Automate tasks between web apps (i.e. create Trello cards out of emails or PayPal payments into to do lists).
The beloved author of Eat, Pray, Love digs deep into her own creative process and shares wisdom and a unique
perspective about the nature of inspiration and creativity.
Implement the one-page tool from Business Model You to create a game-changing business model for your life
and career.
An incredible resource that will help you take action and successfully ship projects out the door.
Can 3 words change your life? Whether you want to leave a dead-end job, learn to code, grow a business, or solve world hunger
We can't avoid suffering, but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning, and move forward with renewed purpose.
Comes with a companion online test that helps you discover your talents and turn them into your greatest strengths.
Don't know what to do with your life? Drawn to so many things that you can't choose just one? Best-selling author
Barbara Sher has the answer―do EVERYTHING!
Succeed in business better, faster and easier than you were taught. Know why plans are actually harmful, why you
don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the competition.
A case for turning capitalism upside down and shift our values from profit to caring for people, communities, and
the planet.
Shows that the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way—
and it's the opposite of what everyone else is doing.
Dispels the myths around starting a business and shows how common assumptions can get in the way of running
a business.
A succinct, engaging, and practical guide for succeeding in any creative sphere.
An impassioned plea for the need to redefine what it means to be successful in today's world.
Tribes will make you think about the opportunities in leading your fellow employees, customers, investors, believers,
hobbyists or readers.
National program designed to educate, engage, and connect entrepreneurs. Developed by the Kauffman Foundation,
1MC is based on the idea that entrepreneurs network over a million cups of coffee.
Webby Award-winning blog with insights on productivity, organization, and leadership to help creatives push
ideas forward.
Daily deals for entrepreneurs.
Website awards that recognize the best web designers, developers, and agencies.
The latest email news, trends, and new ways to improve your subscriber's experience.
A blog, podcast and YouTube show chock full of ideas, tools, and resources that will help you create anything.
Multi-platform media and entertainment site that covers the latest in technology, social media, gadgets, and more.
Online publishing platform with content spanning entrepreneurship, creativity, productivity, and personal growth.
Free daily newsletter that teaches you something new every day. (Did you know Abraham Lincoln created the
secret service – on the day he was shot?)
Over 53,000 free ebooks that were previously published by legitimate publishers. The project digitizes and proofreads
them with the help of thousands of volunteers.
A look at some of the best marketing emails from top businesses
Blog featuring daily short posts with riffs on marketing, respect, and how ideas spread.
Global learning community for social change leaders with nearly 20 free online courses.
Free online courses from Harvard University.
Lectures aimed at giving entrepreneurs the skills and tools to build their ideas into something big.
Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance,
history, and more.
Online courses featuring nearly all MIT course content.
Free app featuring bite-sized marketing lessons you can take wherever and whenever you have 5 minutes.
Online courses from top universities.
Online courses and nanodegree tech programs, including communication, app development, design and more.
News for entrepreneur covering how to start, run and grow your business.
Inspiration for the most innovative and creative thought leaders who are reinventing the future of business.
Original articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing.
Explores the culture of work and how all of us might make work happier and more human.
A series of videos lectures featuring some of the world's experts on starting a business.
Our award-winning weekly show designed to help you create a business and a life you love.
Godin guides 30 entrepreneurs through building and running their dream business.
Aspiring entrepreneur-contestants make business presentations to a panel of "shark" investors, who then choose
whether or not to invest.
Around 2,000 free podcasts and videos covering marketing, sales, finance, leadership and social entrepreneurship.
The podcast about what it's really like to start a business.
Influential videos from expert speakers covering a range of topics, from parenting to technology to procrastination.
Entrepreneur and bestselling author Gary Vaynerchuk answers questions about marketing, social media, and
entrepreneurship.
A podcast where early-stage startups pitch their company and three investors give real feedback.
How long should you run your A/B test? Input your campaign's details and this tool will calculate and recommended
the total number of days you should run your test.
Are your test results significant? This tool calculates your results with a simple "yes" or "no" answer.
A community of over 150,000 members who share tips and articles on growth hacking, marketing, user acquisition, engagement
Free email newsletter that breaks down the tricks other websites use to get more clicks, money, time, and attention.
The world's only free domain provider with a mission to bring people online and help countries develop their
digital economy.
Build a free online store, sell in-person and run your creative business from one platform.
Customizable eCommerce platform for building your online business. Integrates seamlessly with WordPress.
Sell your handmade or vintage products on Etsy and reach millions of buyers around the world.
A fast, safe way to send and receive money, make online payments, and set up a merchant account.
Sell online via Square's website, your own site or with third party e-commerce sites. All options come with next day
deposits, accepts all major credit cards, and integrates your reporting and inventory with your offline sales.
MarketGoo scans your website and evaluates any technical errors as well as your website marketing and social media presence.
Crawls through your site to identify broken links for you to fix.
Set up alerts to track search terms like your name, business, products, etc.
Web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic, giving your valuable insights on your readers
and customers.
Search and analyze keyword ideas for your Google ad campaigns, or just use to help you brainstorm and optimize
your content for search.
Speed up your website by entering your URL for a free report, plus suggestions for improvement.
Website speed test that measures your site's load time and provides suggestions for improvement.
Simple WordPress plugin that helps you improve your SEO, write better content, and fully optimized your
entire WordPress site.
All-in-one website analytics and feedback tool that shows you heatmaps, recordings, conversion funnels,
and form analysis.
Comprehensive search engine optimization tools for your site, plus a free diagnostic test.
User testing that lets you watch and listen to a 5-minute video of a real person using your website.
Developer-friendly APIs that make it easy to collect, explore, and visualize data.
Discover your competitors' website traffic statistics, sources, and even their online marketing strategies.
Website testing and free report that scores your site based on accessibility, SEO, social media, and technology.
Keyword tool that generates up to 750+ free long tail keyword suggestions.
Test different variations of your website and then tailor it to deliver a personalized experience that works best for each custome
Free software that can allow anyone to connect to a spreadsheet or file and create interactive data visualizations for the web
A global learning community. Take one of thousands of online classes or teach one yourself.
Build a beautiful course website and control your branding, student data, and pricing in one place.
An online learning platform with a focus on community, connectedness, and student engagement.
Everything you need to easily create, market, and sell your own online courses.
One of the most popular front-end frameworks and open source projects in the world, designed to make
front-end web development faster and easier.
Create a free website with responsive templates, 500MB of storage, unlimited bandwidth. Free plan comes with a
Jimdo subdomain.
Customize the style and layout of your site so it reflects your brand without having to understand HTML or CSS.
Builder with unlimited pages, 500MB storage, secure hosting, drag and drop editor, and mobile site.
Free website plan gives you up to 3 pages, 1GB storage and a Yola subdomain.
WordPress is free and powers 27% of the web. You will need to buy your own domain name and pay for hosting—the latter can
Find out what servers, widgets and platforms were used to build any website. Individual site lookups are free forever.
A free library of HTML, CSS and JS resources. Includes the free course, Learn HTML and CSS: An introduction to
front-end design.
Checks the health and configuration of DNS and mail servers.
Brainstorm and explore unique domain names with this free domain name generator.
Agile tools, Git, and continuous integration for any language and any OS.
Emulate different screen sizes and resolutions to test your website layout.
Free load testing service that lets you stress test your apps and APIs.
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Can 3 words change your life? Whether you want to leave a dead-end job, learn to code, grow a business,
or solve world hunger, the three words you need are: Everything is Figureoutable. That phrase changed my
life and it’s the title of my book, which will change yours.
Time tracking and invoicing.
Live video streaming that's great for webinars, especially within Facebook groups.
Web analytics.
Cloud storage and file backup for photos, docs and more, plus real-time document and spreadsheet sharing and editing.
High-quality tools for hosting, sharing, and streaming videos in gorgeous HD and 4K with no ads.
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Terms Definition
A/B TESTING The act of comparing two versions of a web page or advertisement to see which one performs b
BRANDED SUBDOMAIN
When you have your website platform's brand name within your URL, i.e. www.janescompany.w
website buildling platform.
LEAD MAGNET A piece of content you can download in exchange for your contact information. Used by busine
OPEN SOURCE Software code that's freely available and can be redistributed or modified.
PHOTO COMPRESSION Minimizing the size of an image file without degrading the quality. Smaller image files keep your
TRANSACTION FEES Every time you process a sale through a DIY marketplace like Esty or Teachable, you're charged
USABILITY TESTING
A way to observe how real people use your website or app. Users are asked to complete a task
being observed or recorded. A great way to see where new visitors may feel confused.
WEB FONTS Fonts not pre-installed on your computer or operating system. These fonts are downloaded by
WIREFRAME An outline that showcases the elements of a website or landing page. Used by designers, copyw
rmation. Used by businessess (and you should too!) to grow their email list.
ed.
er image files keep your website from loading too slowly (and frustrating visitors!).
eachable, you're charged a flat fee plus a percentage of the total transaction.
sked to complete a task (downloading a guide, requesting a service, buying a product) while
feel confused.
nts are downloaded by your browser while loading a website.
sed by designers, copywriters, developers (or anyone!) while planning a new website.