When I started my Weekend Takeaways it was with the idea that I wanted to share the best stuff I could find for you for free.
Why free?
For, two main reasons…
I, like most people, started out with little more than a wing, a prayer and a few pennies to pay for the essentials like domain names and hosting.
So I wanted to help everyone starting out in a similar position as well as those further down the entrepreneurial road because who doesn’t like getting stuff for nada?
And the other reason?
There’s such a lot about the online world that is scammy and scummy. I want to counteract that with great resources, suggestions, trainings and anything else I can find that counterbalances that.
So let’s get on with this week’s great finds and I’m focusing on tools that you can use in place of, or alongside/until you can afford, some paid for options.
In no particular order…
For video hosting specifically designed for marketers, Wistia has a great no cost option:
Then, as with most suggestions here, you can upgrade if you love it.
For content ideas, the Blog Topic Generator is one of my long time faves and will save you tons of time:
http://www.hubspot.com/blog-topic-generator
There’s also the Content Idea Generator here:
http://www.portent.com/tools/title-maker/
And the headline analyzer here to make sure the most important part of your content is powerful enough to grab those all-important eyeballs:
https://coschedule.com/headline-analyzer
When it comes to writing that content, you can’t beat Grammarly for ensuring it’s clear, impactful and correct:
Moving on to your images, there are great alternatives to PhotoShop including Gimp:
And Venngage for your infographics:
Need SEO tools for nada? Go here:
https://moz.com/free-seo-tools
There’s also Screaming Frog’s SEO tool here:
Your TED talk this week is brilliant – how to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed. Over 17M people have watched it so far:
