Marketing
Basics of Marketing for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs
Competitive Landscape Analysis - Launching a successful marketing campaign should include a competitive landscape analysis.
Content Marketing Stack - A curated directory of content marketing resources & tutorials.
Entrepreneurial Marketing PowerPoint
Marketing’s Four P’s: First Steps for New Entrepreneurs - Marketing your business is about how you position it to satisfy your market’s needs. There are four critical elements in marketing your products and business.
Marketing Research for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Managers
Real World Education for Modern Marketing - MarketingProfs is the one source that individual marketers, marketing teams, and some of the world's largest organizations turn to for modern marketing tools, training, strategies, articles, online seminars, discussion forums, and much more.
eSigns - Create premium banners and custom signs cheap! Upload a design or edit signs online.
Foam Core Print - Foamcoreprint.com is a print and graphic media production company that provides "Grand Format" design and printing, both nationally and internationally.
Makerbook - A hand-picked directory of the best free resources for creatives.
Printmoz - Printmoz.com has the highest quality printing online. Design your Banner, Signs, Posters online today.
PsPrint - Whether you are printing brochures for your nonprofit organizations, business cards for your business, postcards for your startup or invitations for your wedding, PsPrint wants to help you shine and empower you to do what you do best — build a community, grow your business, make meaningful connections or save the world — and make a lasting impression.
Signature Maker - Signature Maker is a free web based tool, that helps you create your handwritten digital signature, within few seconds. It's simple and easy to use.
Squarespace Logo - Logos made simple.
4imprint - Ordering promotional items is easy with 4imprint. Free samples, free art, and personal service. Find the perfect product with more than 30000 available!
Anewstip - Build relationships with journalists around the world. Find journalists by what they tweet.
Express Update - Express Update makes it easier for customers to find and reach your business on the Internet—and it's all FREE!
FourSquare - Over a million businesses already use Foursquare. Sign up in order to manage your listing and attract more customers. Start by searching for your business – your customers have probably listed it already!
Local Pages - With the complexity and growing number of product service companies and businesses advertising online, it is easy to get lost in all of the clutter. But what if there was a way to stand out from the crowd? Local Pages is your turn-key solution for one of today's most affordable and effective internet advertising opportunities, allowing you to target customers at the most important stage of the Search Buying Cycle.
Merchant Circle - Join MerchantCircle to get in front of millions of visitors per month.
PRgeek - Tips, tricks & tools to get better at PR tech.
Submit.co - Where to get press coverage for your startup. Add a publication Get Updates Powered by BetaList.
Superpages - Superpages is the local expert, and a top online resource for finding information and insights on businesses and retailers. Every month we help millions of consumers find valuable local business information from driving directions and hours of operation to Web links and customer reviews.
Tooliers - Marketplace with minimum-cost solutions to maximize your profits.
Yellow Pages - YP is a leading local marketing solutions provider in the US dedicated to helping local businesses and communities grow.
Yellow USA - With the ability to provide incredibly relevant business information, YellowUSA.com has become one of the most powerful resources for both consumers and advertising business owners interested in connecting online.
Yelp - Yelp was founded in 2004 to help people find great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists and mechanics.
Public Realtions for Entrepreneurs - Article on the essentials of public relations for new businesses and their products/services.
5 PR Tips for Entrepreneurs - Huffington Post Article.
Pitch Letters
Sample Media Pitch Letter: Hihglighting Your Product - A guideline to writing a pitch letter in order to get coverage of your product, service, or business.
Press Releases
How to Write a Press Release - A guideline to writing a press release, including a free press release template.
Press Release Sample and Template - Sample press release detailing the flow and information necessary to putting together a press release.
Media Advisory
Sample Press Advisory - Sample media advisory by The Balance that outlines all the necessary information on a media advisory to gain coverage from press.
Media Kits
DIY Media Kit - A do it yourself media kit for entrepreneurs.
Writer Tool Kit
Draft - You don't need writing software; you need someone's feedback on your writing. You don't need version control software; you need to find all the things you've written without fear. You don't need distraction free text editors; you need to find ways to write more concisely, more clearly. You don't need real time collaboration software; you need a bigger audience for your writing. I'm working on Draft to provide what you need. What I need. We need to be better writers.
Daily Page - Create a daily writing routine with our daily writing prompts.
Grammarly - Your writing, at its best. Grammarly makes sure everything you type is easy to read, effective, and mistake-free.
Hemingway Editor - Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.
Social Tools
Buffer - Buffer is the best way to drive traffic, increase fan engagement and save time on social media.
Hootsuite - Hootsuite is one of the most utilized tools to help businesses manage multiple social media platforms and track performance in order to grow.
Notify - Free Social Media monitoring, Whenever your brand, or any other topic you are interested in gets mentioned.
Simply Measured - Simply Measured is the most powerful social analytics solution in the world, giving marketers insight from a dozen social networks, and helping them make a greater impact on their overall business goals.
Social Media Examiner - The world’s largest social media marketing resource, Social Media Examiner® helps millions of businesses discover how to best use social media to connect with customers, drive traffic, generate awareness and increase sales.
Curated - Grow your audience by collecting and sharing truly engaging content.
Goodbits - The best way to send email updates to your existing customers.
Mailer Lite - At MailerLite we know that Small Businesses need affordable Email Marketing Software. Ok, it doesn't take a genius to work that one out! But we really ‘get it’... Our simple but powerful Email Marketing Software allows your business to save time and money.
Moosend - Moosend is a powerful email marketing platform with world class features and one the simplest user interfaces in the market that doesn't break the bank. From listed companies to high tech startups, thousands of businesses use Moosend to design and send their email campaigns, manage and grow their mailing lists and collect statistics.
Mailchimp - More than 15 million people and businesses around the world use MailChimp. Our features and integrations allow you to send marketing emails, automated messages, and targeted campaigns. And our detailed reports help you keep improving over time.
Google URL Shortener - Shorten your URL so it’s ready to be shared everywhere.
Bitly - The link knows all. So can you. Measure your links with Bitly, the world's leading link management platform.
Design
Canva - The best curated collection of high-quality design templates for all your graphic needs.
Easel.ly - Empowers anyone to create & share powerful visuals.
Google Photos - One home for all your photos—organized and easy to find.
IconStore - Free Icons by First-Class Designers.
LibreStock - Search the best 47 free stock photo websites in one place.
Pexels - Best free stock photos in one place.
Polarr - Photo editor design for everyone.
Ptrrns - The mother of all design resources.
Startups, This is How Design Works - A tutorial guide for non-designers.
Stockpic - Free stock photos for commercial use.
UI Cloud - UICloud collects the best UI element designs from the internet all over the world and provides a search engine for you to find the best UI element that you need. We are aiming to create the biggest platform for designers to showcase their top user interface designs and for developer to get the best UI elements for their project easily and quickly.
UX Archive - We want to help people create the best user experiences possible for their apps. In the creative process of shaping such an experience you need to explore what others have done to define what works, what doesn’t and to observe patterns that you should or shouldn’t integrate in your app.
Word Swag - Add awesome text to your photo in seconds.
Presentations
LinkedIn SlideShare - Founded in 2006 with the goal of making knowledge sharing easy, Slideshare joined the LinkedIn family in 2012 and has since grown into a top destination for professional content. With over 18 million uploads in 40 content categories, it is today one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world.
Prezi - Present like your business depends on it. Become a more effective and engaging presenter with Prezi.
Slide Carnival - Free Powerpoint templates and Google Slides themes for your presentations.
Product Demo
Dissolve - Extraordinary stock footage and photography.
Dunnk - We generate beautiful product mockups. Upload your design and we'll give you a high resolution mockup in return.
Place It - Sometimes you want to showcase more than a screenshot of your app. Lets say your team just added a new feature to it and you want to show your users how it works. App demo videos allow you to share a video in which a real person will be interacting with the app in a real life scenario.
Startup Videos - Showcasing The Best Startup Videos.
Sales
GrowSumo - Turn customers, affiliates, and resellers into a powerful marketing team and grow faster.
Sales - Sales PowerPoint Slides include topics such as: analyzing your product/service, 6 value added techniques, gaining the competitive advantage, 6 ways for overcoming objections, how to sell features-benefits-solutions, reading your customer's signals, handling indecisive clients, closing the sale, how-to's and more.
Sales PowerPoint Themes, Presentation PowerPoint Themes & PPT Examples - Our sales Powerpoint templates are perfect for a variety of Business Plan presentations. Any Business Presentation includes Sales and Marketing Strategy plan for it to depict business growth.
Shop
Big Cartel - Since 2005, Big Cartel has been a company built by and for artists. And like the artists we work for, we are independent. We are self-funded. We are selling a handmade product. We are doing it the hard way. And we love it.
Tictail - Tictail is a social marketplace home to independent brands from over 140 countries around the world. On Tictail, shoppers can explore and connect with our global community of brands—and be the first to discover the next big thing in fashion, art, and home decor.
Charlie - Make a killer impression on whoever you're meeting. Charlie combs through 100s of sources and automatically sends you a one‐pager on everyone you’re going to meet with, before you see them.
ClickDesk - ClickDesk helps you interact with your website visitors in multiple ways. Live Chat, Helpdesk, Voice and Social.
Keeping - Keeping™ is a ticketing system that integrates with Gmail. It lets your team collaborate and save time while helping you deliver better customer support. No need to use a traditional help desk. Instead add customer support functionalities directly to your mailbox.
Full Contact - Your Gmail. On steroids. Know everything about your Gmail contacts, right from your inbox.
Launchrock - Entrepreneurs create over 6 million new businesses each year in the United States, but millions more sit as ideas in a sketchbook or notes from a meeting that and never see the light of day. We've set out to change that by creating a platform that enables people to get over the hump and start. Beyond that, we help them get on the path to early success.
Streak - Streak was born out of the frustration of constantly switching between our inbox (where we do our work) and external systems. Our goal is to make it simple to manage your everyday processes so you can close more deals, resolve more support tickets, and get things done.
Squaresend - Make your site listen better. Squaresend turns your mailto links into delightful feedback forms.
Taboola - Grow your traffic & customer base. Reach potential customers across the world’s most popular websites.Engage target audiences naturally, while they’re reading interesting content.
Codersclan - Code Outsourcing That Actually Works. No interviews, no hiring, just code.
Publicate - Finally, a tool to create Email Newsletters & Weekly Web Roundups that doesn't suck.
Really Good Emails - Really Good Emails is a website where hundreds of thousands of emailers come to get inspired to be better.
Revue - Revue is based in The Netherlands and focuses on content curation. We see ourselves as a platform that you can use to create your email digest effortlessly. We do this in a simple and convenient way. But we also pay special attention to aesthetics so you can send out the best looking newsletters!
Toptal - Toptal was created by engineers. We are entrepreneurs, all passionate about working with top tech talent and exciting companies from all over the world.
Upwork - On Upwork you’ll find a range of top talent, from programmers to designers, writers, customer support reps, and more.
Vimeo - Vimeo is video + you. We put your videos first and give you the best ways to share, discover, and be inspired.
7 Tips for Event Email Marketing Success - To sell out your event, and sell out early, you’re going to need a good email marketing strategy. Not only is email a direct line to potential attendees, 91% of people check their email every day — making it an optimal channel to build your audience.