Free Business and Life Resources

Free Business and Life Resources

FREE WEBSITE

FREE INVOICE

  • Kiss: Free legal docs for startup founders and investor.
  • Docracy: An open collection of free legal documents.
  • Shake: Create, sign and send legally binding agreements in seconds. Free for personal use.

FREE IDEA MANAGEMENT

FREE BUSINESS / PROJECT NAME GENERATORS

MARKETING

FREE WRITING / BLOGGING

  • Hemingway: Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear.
  • Morning Brew
  • Grammarly: Finds & corrects mistakes of your writing.
  • Medium: Everyone’s stories and ideas.
  • ZenPen: The minimal writing tool of web.
  • Liberio: Simple eBook creation and publishing right from Google Drive.
  • Editorial Calendar: See all your posts, drag & drop to manage your blog.
  • Story Wars: Writing stories together.
  • WP Hide Post: Control the visibility of items on your blog.
  • Social Locker: Ask visitors “to pay” for your content with a tweet, etc.
  • Egg Timer: Set a time and bookmark it for repeated use.
  • BlankPage: Writing made simple.
  • Wattpad: The world’s largest community for readers and writers.
  • Known: A single site for the content you create.
  • Wattpad: The world’s largest community for readers and writers.
  • Dbook: Structured and collaborative writing for large documents.
  • CoSchedule: Blog post headline analyzer.
  • A5.gg: When you return your text will still be here.
  • Free Summarizer: Summarize any text online in just a few seconds.

FREE SEO + WEBSITE ANALYZERS

FREE IMAGE OPTIMIZERS

FREE IMAGE EDITORS

  • Canva: Amazingly simple graphic design for bloggers.
  • Pixlr: Pixlr Editor is a robust browser photo editor.
  • Skitch: Get your point across with fewer words.
  • Easel.ly: Empowers anyone to create & share powerful visuals.
  • Social Image Resizer Tool: Create optimized images for social media.
  • Placeit: Free product mockups & templates.
  • Recite: Turn a quote into a visual masterpiece.
  • Meme Generator: The first online meme generator.
  • Pablo: Design engaging images for your social media posts in under 30 seconds.

FREE EMAIL MANAGEMENT

FREE GUIDES & COURSES

FREE SOCIAL MEDIA + COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT

FREE CUSTOMER SERVICE & SURVEYS

  • Typeform: Free beautiful online survey & form builder.
  • Tally: Create polls in no time.
  • Free Survey Creator: Create a survey. Get user feedback for free.
  • Batch: The first-ever 100% free engagement platform for mobile apps.
  • Helprace: Customer service tool. Free for up to 3 agents for small support teams.

A/B TESTS & GROWTH HACKING

  • Petit Hacks: Acquisition, retention, & revenue hacks used by companies.
  • Optimizely: One optimization platform for websites and mobile apps.
  • Hello Bar: Tool for A/B testing different CTAs & power words.
  • GrowthHackers: Unlocking growth. Together.

-> DESIGN & CODE <-

FREE DESIGN RESOURCES

COLOR PICKERS

INSPIRATION

FREE STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY

FREE TYPOGRAPHY

FREE ICONS

FREE USEFUL STUFF

  • UI Names: Generate random names for use in designs and mockups.
  • UI Faces: Find and generate sample avatars for user interfaces.
  • Copy Paste Character: Click to copy.
  • Window Resizer: See how it looks on various screen resolutions.
  • Sonics: Free packs of UI sounds and sound effects delivered to your inbox every month.

FREE DEVELOP / CODE THINGS

  • Hive: First free unlimited cloud service in the world.
  • GitHub: Build software better, together.
  • BitBucket: Git and Mercurial code management for teams
  • Chisel: Chisel offers an unlimited number of fossil repositories.
  • Visual Studio: Comprehensive collection of developer tools and services.
  • Landscape: Landscape is an early warning system for your Python codebase.
  • Swiftype: Add great search to any website. Free with limitations.
  • Keen.io: Gather all the data you want & start getting the answers you need.
  • Coveralls: Test coverage history and statistics.
  • LingoHub: Free for Small Teams, Open Source usage and Educational projects.
  • Codacy: Continuous Static Analysis designed to complement your unit tests.
  • Searchcode: Search over 20 billion lines of code.
  • TinyCert: Free SSL certificates for your startup.
  • StartSSL: Free SSL certificates.
  • Opbeat: The first ops platform for developers. Free for small teams.
  • Pingdom: Website monitoring. Free for one website.
  • Rollbar: Full-stack error monitoring for all apps in any language.
  • Loggly: Simplify Log Management Forever. Free for one user.
  • Devport: Get your developer portfolio.
  • Getting Real: The smarter way to build web apps. A free book by 37signals.
  • Peek: Get a free, 5-minute video of someone using your site.
  • Creator: Build better Ionic apps, faster.
  • DevFreeCasts: A huge collection of free screencasts for developers.
  • Cody: A free library of HTML, CSS, JS nuggets.

-> PRODUCTIVITY <-

BACKGROUND SOUND TO FOCUS

  • Noisli: Background noise & color generator.
  • Noizio: Ambient sound equalizer for relax or productivity.
  • Defonic: Combine the sounds of the world into a melody.
  • Designers.mx: Curated playlists by designers, for designers.
  • Coffitivity: Stream the sounds of a coffee shop at work.
  • Octave: A free library of UI sounds, handmade for iOS.
  • Free Sound: Huge database of free audio snippets, samples, + recordings.
  • Sonics: Free packs of UI sounds and sound effects delivered to your inbox every month.
  • Deep Focus: Spotify’s famous playlist to focus.

AVOID DISTRACTION

  • Self Control: Mac: free application to help you avoid distracting websites.
  • Cold Turkey: Windows: temporarily block yourself off of distracting websites.

ORGANIZE & COLLABORATE

  • Trello: Keeps track of everything.
  • Evernote: The workspace for your life’s work.
  • Dropbox: Free space up to 2GB.
  • Yanado: Tasks management inside Gmail.
  • Wetransfer: Free transfer up to 2GB.
  • Drp.io: Free, fast, private and easy image and file hosting.
  • Pocket: View later, put it in Pocket.
  • Raindrop: Mac app for bookmarking and reading it later.
  • Flowdock: Free for teams of five and non-profits.
  • Typetalk: Share and discuss ideas with your team through instant messaging.
  • Slack: Free for unlimited users with few limited features.
  • HipChat: Free for unlimited users with few limited features.
  • Google Hangouts: Bring conversations to life with photos, emoji and group video calls.
  • Voveet: Simple, free 3D conference calls. Experience the difference.
  • FreeBusy: Eliminate coordination headaches when you need to schedule a meeting.
  • RealTimeBoard: Your regular whiteboard, re-thought for the best online experience.
  • Witkit: Witkit is the secure platform for teams. 50GB of free encrypted data storage.
  • Any.do: Get things done with your team.
  • Asana: Teamwork without email.
  • GoToMeeting: Online meetings without the hassle.

DIGITAL NOMADS & REMOTE WORKING

-> LEARN <-

DISCOVER TOOLS & STARTUPS

BUILD TOGETHER

LEARN

NEWSLETTERS THAT WE DIG

USEFUL

Logos for your Business

Logos for your Business

Branding solutions including a one-of-a-kind corporate identity.

We’ll design an awesome Logo for your business

Hero-header images, typography compositions, any print projects, branding presentations, compositions, any print projects, branding presentations.

Logo Design Packages & content marketing 

We provide the best-in-class branding and corporate identity. From new to refreshment and design. our Unique vector logo is unlimited resolution and unlimited size.

If you’re interested in making your company truly distinctive, let’s work together to create a truly awesome Logo!

You can also check out our portfolio on Behance!

Appalachian Trends Grows Its Catalog of Reviews with Another 5-Star Rating

Appalachian Trends Grows Its Catalog of Reviews with Another 5-Star Rating

Appalachian Trends Grows Its Catalog of Reviews with Another 5-Star Rating

Your digital presence serves as the driving force that attracts potential customers to your business in the online space. By having an engaging and enticing brand presence, more and more people will take interest in what you have to offer. In 2021, there are a plethora of things at your disposal to improve your online presence substantially.

Appalachian Trends is a dedicated digital solutions provider that leads its partners toward improved online marketing. We provide full-scale digital marketing services to enhance, engage, and attract your audience. From strategizing to content creation, Appalachian Trends is a reliable partner to many in their efforts to bolster their digital presence.

For us, building relationships is one of the most important facets of our work. Our solutions are rooted in your brand identity. Through your vision, we create a tailored digital marketing strategy that will benefit you for the years to come. That’s why we’re always thrilled whenever we receive 5-star reviews on Clutch!

If you haven’t heard of it, Clutch is a hugely respected agency within the B2B space for connecting small, mid-market, and enterprise businesses with service providers that fit their needs.

Clutch carefully curates lists of the absolute best agencies and organizations by industry and location, simultaneously enabling companies to establish credibility and buyers to find the right services. 

The latest addition to our catalog of feedback talks about our ongoing partnership with Dennis Construction. In February 2021, the client engaged Appalachian Trends for the development of their website on top of a cohesive digital marketing strategy. Here’s what the owner thinks about our work so far:

“We brought in Appalachian Trends to help us scale up and establish our web presence.

It’s staggering how much has been accomplished in the short period of our engagement. We now appear on the top list of contractors in search engine results for Fayette County thanks to the amount of web traffic generated through social media and Google positioning — that’s extremely impressive.”

You can check out more of this and our other projects on Clutch. You can also find us on Top Design Firms as one of the best design teams for hire in 2021. Top Design Firms curates lists of only the highest-performing companies anywhere in the world.

We can improve your digital marketing. Get in touch with Appalachian Trends today!

Clutch Names Appalachian Trends as Top Consulting Firm

Clutch Names Appalachian Trends as Top Consulting Firm

Clutch Names Appalachian Trends as Top Consulting Firm

Clutch Names Appalachian Trends as Top Consulting Firm

Consulting is an integral part of businesses. In essence, having an expert analyze and give you objective feedback can be game-changing for your company. Think of consultants as professional troubleshooters that can help you solve your needs and create tailored solutions.

Appalachian Trends is a world-class consulting firm from Pennsylvania. Since being founded in 2018, our team has helped enhance, engage, and attract more audiences to our clients’ businesses. We pride our ability to create marketing material, stand-out services, and unique marketing solutions for the Pittsburgh region.

It is with great honor that we announce that we recently won a Clutch 2021 award for Pennsylvania’s best consulting services firm.

For context, Clutch is a reputable B2B reviews platform that helps firms around the world connect with the solution providers that they need in order to improve effectiveness and increase productivity. The platform is respected within the B2B space for its data-driven content and in-depth market research.

“Appalachian Trends is proud to be an independent, marketing, and media agency in Pennsylvania. Bringing together technology, creativity for business.”

— Appalachian Trends Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Clutch for this recognition. We can’t wait to see what opportunities this award will bring. We know that we are inspired by this milestone; we want to continue proving our ability to deliver and our integrity as a service provider.

We owe this success to our clients’ support and trust. We would not have received this award without their superb reviews on our Clutch profile.

Want to work with a top-notch consulting firm? Drop us a message and let’s talk about how we can work to help your business.

Social Media Management $599


SMM Premium
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This is the choice for you if you want to grow and build your community online by
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