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15 Free Business Tools To Grow Your Business by girlfromafrica: 1:49pm On Sep 08, 2018
Starting a business looks all glamourous, but as insiders who have run both successful and unsuccessful businesses we can authoritatively tell you that it’s not always as good as it appears. Especially for a startup or a small business. With the instability of the economy, business owners need all the help they can get to grow. So, here are 15 free business tools to grow your business.

Canva
Not every business can afford to pay a graphics designer every time a design is needed for a social media or blog post. As long as the design is not something complex you can get it done with Canva. Not only will it look professional, it can also be done in no time at all.

Buffer
As useful as social media is, it can also be time consuming, crafting content for all the platforms. Well that’s where Buffer comes in. First it gets all your social media in one place, and then from there you can post to all your platforms at once, using whether text or pictures, it also has a scheduling feature.

Smallseotools
If you create content, it is very easy to fall into the ever waiting arms of plagiarism, we wouldn’t want that now, would we? Smallseotools can help check for plagiarism, spelling errors and also has a plugin for WordPress. This website also has a plethora of SEO tools to improve your web rank. If you run a blog, you’ll love this tool.

Trello
Everyone who manages projects or heads a team will find this app very useful. With this you can easily organize your team with a virtual whiteboard, where everyone can see what’s to be done, who’s to do what and the stage of the project. It can work for both small teams and large teams.

Wordpress
Wordpress is the most popular (CRM) on the web. It is an open source tool for creating websites and blogs. It is also completely free, so if you’re looking to start a website, Wordpress might just be the first place for you to look.

CoSchedule
Any business that uses a lot of bloggers and is always producing blog content will need this tool. With this, blog posts can be planned months ahead, everyone is aware of what post to write and the team can work together sharing documents, editing and what have you. It is free for 14days.

Hubspot CRM
CRM stands for Customer relationship management, Hubspot happens to be a very good CRM. With it you can store client details, track interaction other employees have with the customers and also keep records of your tasks and email logs.

Google Keyword Planner
If you want your business to have good online presence and invariably good offline presence, then you’ll need your SEO game to be tight. This tool helps you narrow down the right keywords to use, the amount of completion using it and the population searching for the keyword.

TaskQue
Here’s another organizing tool. If you have a lot of tasks or projects going on at the same time, TaskQue can help a business track all of them. Know the stage they are in and also track how resource are utilized.

GrowthBot
No one likes bot followers on social media, yeah? However, bots are not always bad things. Growthbot can help simplify your business, it is an automated chatbox which can help you answer customer questions intelligently. It is easily synchronisable with business tools like Hubspot etc.

Doodle
Business people have a lot of do, so it is not always easy getting all of them in the same room for a meeting. With Doodle you can actually schedule you meeting, proposing many time slots to your partners or team members so that a convenient time for everyone can be selected.

Evernote
With Evernote, business people can write down their ideas either into their mobiles or on desktop. Articles, clips and pictures can also be stored for future use on the app.

Piktochart
What to create professional infographics in a short while and for free, then use piktochart. It comes with templates and is also very easy to use.

Boomerang
Every wanted to send an email but just knew it was the wrong time and would have loved to have scheduled it for a later time but didn’t have the right tools, or you even forgot. Well, here’s Boomerang to the rescue. It is free for every first 10 scheduling of the month, after that you’d be charge a fee. It also comes with follow up reminders and it a Gmail ad-on.

Semilimes
Semilimes is an all-round business solution software that offers robust, cloud based business solutions. It’s equipped with a great ERP module. With this ERP comes the necessary tools you’ll need to take your business to the next level, irrespective of the size of your business. Semilimes comes with free website builder, CRM, finance and accounting tools, task scheduling and management tools and also communication. It takes the best tools you’ll need to improve your business and conglomerates them on one platform and it is absolutely free to use.

Discover more free tools to grow your business on semilimes @ https://semilimes.com/

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Re: 15 Free Business Tools To Grow Your Business by girlfromafrica: 3:08pm On Sep 08, 2018
Feel free to recommend other free business tools that have helped you grow your business!
Re: 15 Free Business Tools To Grow Your Business by heldworld: 3:16pm On Sep 08, 2018
girlfromafrica:
Feel free to recommend other free business tools that have helped you grow your business!
You've tried. Thanks

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Re: 15 Free Business Tools To Grow Your Business by girlfromafrica: 11:55am On Sep 10, 2018
Someone might need these today!
Re: 15 Free Business Tools To Grow Your Business by ziziangel(m): 1:47pm On Sep 10, 2018
Thanks for the info

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Re: 15 Free Business Tools To Grow Your Business by girlfromafrica: 2:19pm On Sep 14, 2018
Don't forget to add other free business tools you've discovered to help other entrepreneurs.
Re: 15 Free Business Tools To Grow Your Business by rathorehitendra(m): 12:26pm On Oct 04, 2018
Really awesome list of tools. I appreciate your efforts to make this list. Here I would like to mention that often Small business owner forget to consider a perfect billing and invoicing software. and after they once they feel the requirement for that software, they rush and adopt bad resource. I would recommend a perfect billing software for small business that we can download for free. Here https://www.hyperdrivesolutions.com/hdpos-smart/billing-software, we can download that software. Small business always limited to their budget and need to guide for the best resources in fewer prices.
Re: 15 Free Business Tools To Grow Your Business by OliviaNell: 5:34pm On Jun 03, 2021
The main task of the entire process of document automation is to replace the outdated and unprofitable exchange of paper with the transfer of information in digital form through electronic document exchange services, in other words, through airslate

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