51 Free Resources For Small Businesses

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Website Grader – Website analysis tool from Hubspot.
Blog Grader – Blog analysis tool from Hubspot.
WooRank – Website analysis and SEO rank checker tool (similar to Website Grader).
Pear Analytics – Website analysis and SEO rank checker tool (similar to Website Grader).
Google Webmaster Tools – Provides you with detailed reports about your pages’ visibility on Google.
Google Analytics – Analytics to monitor your website traffic.
List of free SEO rank checker tools

Wufoo – HTML form builder for creating contact forms, web surveys, and invitations so you can collect data, registrations and online payments without writing a single line of code.
Unbounce – Create optimized landing pages for your marketing campaigns.
Stock.XCHNG – Free stock images for your blog.
Microsoft Office Image Site – Free stock images for your blog.
Flickr – Images for your website/blog.

Markup – Share ideas with co-workers by drawing on any webpage with a variety of tools. Lets you express your thoughts, make a point, or simply edit.
Dropbox – Document sharing and storage/backup.
Skype – Video calling and online phone.
Google Voice – Provides free PC-to-PC voice and video calling worldwide, and free PC-to-phone calls into North America.
Google Apps – Lots of business collaboration tools including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, and more.

SurveyMonkey – Create surveys to conduct, manage, and analyze research.
FreshBooks – Financial record keeping with invoicing and time tracking capability.
UserVoice – Customer support and feedback tool. (similar to Get Satisfaction)
Get Satisfaction – Customer support and feedback tool. (similar to UserVoice)
Evernote – Data capturing service that makes it easy to remember things using your computer, phone, and the web.
Ta-da List – Web based to-do list maker.
MailChimp – For managing email newsletters.
Thunderbird – Email client from Mozilla.

Alexa – Monitor website traffic metrics, search analytics, demographics, and more. (similar to Compete)
Compete – Monitor website traffic metrics, search analytics, demographics, and more. (similar to Alexa)
Google Alerts – Monitor topics of interest on the web, including mentions of your competitors and your own business.

Zoho – A suite of more than 20 different online business applications for collaboration, productivity, and other business tasks.
Highrise – Dead simple web-based CRM software.
vtiger – Open Source CRM software.

Screenr – Web based screen recorder to create and share your screencasts around the web.
CamStudio – Open Source software for creating screencasts.
Jing – Create screencasts.

WordPress – Easy to use web software you can use to create a website or blog.
WordPress plugins – Use plugins to customize your WordPress website to do just about anything you can think of.
WordPress Themes – Official repository of free WordPress themes.
Drupal – An open source content management platform for building websites and applications. Like with WordPress, Drupal has thousands of add-on modules and designs to customize your site. Drupal is more powerful than WordPress, however, it requires more technical knowledge.
Joomla – Open source content management system (CMS) that enables you to build websites and online applications.

Hubspot Grader Tools – A suite of tools to help you measure and analyze your marketing efforts. Includes Twitter Grader, Facebook Grader, Press Release Grader, and more.
HubSpot Internet Marketing Webinars – Huge archive of internet marketing webinars.

Microsoft BizSpark Program – Becoming a BizSpark member entitles you to free access to most of Microsoft’s tools and software. Only software based companies are eligible.
Microsoft WebsiteSpark Program – Provides web development and design companies access to Microsoft Web design and development software and solutions, support, training & marketing visibility.
Subversion – Software version control for software based companies.
Trac – Ticket tracking/wiki with subversion integration for software based companies.

Here’s a massive list of free and open source software packages on Wikipedia.

Do you know of any other great free resources for small businesses?

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