Six Super FREE Tools That Belong in Your Business Toolkit

Who Doesn't Love Free?

When it comes to managing your business expenses keeping your overhead low is essential. And when it comes to keeping your overhead low, what’s better than having valuable FREE tools at your disposal?

So, because it’s March and “Money Matters,” the following are six amazing FUH-REE tools that you can use to manage and grow your business more effectively.

6 FUH-REE Business Tools

1. QuickBooks Online – Free accounting software for business. Yep, you read that right! QuickBooks has a free online version that allows you to create invoices, pay bills, track expenses and more. Keeping your financial house in order with respect to your business is very important. It will make tax time much easier, and it will allow you to assess whether or not your marketing investments are paying off. When you know your numbers you can easily assess the lifetime value of a customer and how close you are to meeting your revenue goals. If you are not tracking the numbers in your business, then you’re pressing forward blindly. If you want to be able to devise better strategies and obtain better results, you have got to know your numbers.

2. Mailchimp – Mailchimp is an email marketing service that is totally free for lists below 2,000 subscribers. Rumor has it that email marketing is dead. Good thing it’s just a rumor. Email marketing is a fantastic way to establish relationships with prospective customers and is essential to building a list. If you plan to ever sell anything you need a list and this means you need an email marketing service in place. Mailchimp offers an excellent service with high deliverability and tons of great looking html email templates to get you started. And, if you’re unfamiliar with the importance of building a list you should check out this post for more insight.

3. Skype – Free web calling, video calling, and conference calling to other Skype users. Skype has been around for quite some time now, and you are probably already familiar with the program. The question is, are you using it? Skype is an incredible tool that allows you to communicate with other Skype users completely FREE. If you conduct consultations, coaching sessions, or have a virtual team with whom you need to meet, Skype is an excellent tool to help you do that without having to invest a single penny. Plus, Skype is compatible with many add-on applications that allow you to do things like record calls, record video, call land lines, and more. If you don’t use Skype it’s time to learn something new.

4. Vistaprint – Get 250 full-color business cards FREE. Business cards are an essential marketing tool for every business. Whether you have a blog, a brick-and-mortar business, or full-scale online retail store, you need to have a business card that represents you well. Vistaprint offers very well-designed templates that you can use in lieu of spending lots of cash on fancy business cards. You only have to pay for shipping, processing, and any product upgrades that you make to the business cards. If you do it right, you can get out with sweet business cards for under $20 easy!

5. Go-Pro-Screencast – Screencast-O-Matic is an online screen recorder that provides one-click recording from your browser on Windows, Mac, or Linux with no install for FREE for up to 15 minutes! Do you ever watch those how-to tutorials and wish you could do the same to provide added value to your clients? Well, now you can without spending a dime! Screen cast O-Matic provides high-quality screen recording that will make tutorial creation a snap, and it even has an automatic upload to YouTube feature. It doesn’t get any easier or cheaper than that.

6. Freebinar – A Free (hence the name) Webinar platform that enables you to compete with the big boys and conduct webinars that allow for data collection, screen-sharing, and survey follow-up…all for fuh-reee!! Webinars are all the rage when it comes to online marketing today. There is a something about attending an event, whether it’s virtual or in real life, that adds a sense of importance to the topics being covered. If you feel locked out of the opportunity to conduct webinars because of your budgetary limitations, let FREEdom ring with Freebinar!

So there you have it. Six awesome and FREE tools that you can start using right now to help grow and manage your business. Obviously, this list is far from comprehensive. The number of free online tools available is mind-boggling, but this is a great place to start. If you use free tools that help you grow and manage your business, feel “free” to let us know about them in the comments below. Because who doesn’t love free (and valuable)?!