Tools to get your business up and running
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Project Management
These tools help with managing your projects and team.
Communication & Collaboration
Communication and collaboration is crucial in any business. These tools makes it easier to communicate and collaborate with your team.
Micro: Whiteboarding and mapping tool.
Slack: Team communication tool.
Typetalk: Another team communication tool.
Microsoft Teams: Communication tool by Microsoft.
Accounting & Finance
Manage your invoices, receipts and finance with these tools.
Flowlu: Accounting, CRM, Project Management and more in a single platform.
Chartmogul: Billing platform for SaaS companies.
Invoiceto: Free invoice maker.
Invoicely: Invoicing platform.
Freshbooks: Invoicing software that saves you time.
Waveapp: Financial software designed for entrepreneurs.
Calendar & Appointment Setting
Schedule appointments easier with these tools.
Appointlet: Schedule your next meeting without the email ping pong.
Calendly: Similar to Appointlet.
Hubspot Meeting Tool: Another alternative appointment setting tool.
Freebusy: Automate meeting scheduling.
Productivity
General tools to help you be more productive.
CRM & Marketing Automation
CRM and marketing automation tools will help you save a ton of time in your sales and marketing.
AgileCRM: Marketing automation, telephony, everything you need to grow.
Flowlu: Accounting, CRM, Project Management and more in a single platform.
Hubspot CRM: One of the more popular CRM platforms.
Zoho CRM: Self-proclaimed world’s favorite customer relationship management software, there’s a free edition for you to use.
Engagebay: All-in-one Marketing, Sales, Support CRM.
MailChimp: Marketing automation platform. Send up to 10,000 emails per month free.
Crowdfire: Schedule content and manage all your social media in one place.
Zapier: Workflow automation tool.
Contentcal: Social media publishing and scheduling tool.
Website
From web hosting to website optimisation, we’ve got a list of useful tools for you here.
Hellobar: Capture the email of your website visitors with Hellobar’s popup form.
Landbot: Add a chatbot to your website with this no-code chatbot builder.
Google Analytics: The most common website analytics tools. You can’t go wrong with Google Analytics.
Google Optimize: Did you know that Google has a tool that lets you run AB test on your website?
Note: Web hosting providers aren’t free, but we’ve decided to include them in this list as we feel that
Namecheap: One of the more reliable web hosting provider.
Weebly: For ecommerce businesses, Weebly provides a simple way to start your website.
Ultra Web Hosting: Dubbed as faster than the competition, Ultra Web Hosting is cheaper compared to popular web hosting.
Design
Save on Adobe with these free alternatives.
Sales Enablement
Prospect faster and better, close more deals with these sales enablement tools.
Dux-Soup: Automate Linkedin prospecting.
Leadmine: Find your target customer and their email address. Claims to have 95% accuracy.
Findthatlead: Get all the emails you want.
Rocketreach: Another email prospecting tool.
Cloud Storage
It can get frustrating when your storage runs out of space, here’s a list of cloud storage providers so that your business will never run out of space .
Legal Documents
Legal documents can get really messy really fast, these tools and templates will help avoid that.
Signature Maker: Make your own e-signature free.
Docracy: Open source library of templates for all sorts of documents.
KISS: Debt and equity funding document templates.
Analytics & Cloud Computing
Drive your business with business analytics tools and develop solutions with cloud computing.
Powerbi: Business analytics tool.
Chart Studio by Plotly: Publish charts online.
Aws: The most popular cloud computing platform globally. Use their free tier services.
Human Resource
Simplify your human resource processes with these tools.
Freshteams: HR software by the Fresh team, free version available.
WebHR: Super affordable, modular HR software. Starting from just $2 per employee.