40 free Online-Marketing tools

Here are 40 free Online-Marketing tools that will save you a lot of time and probably a billion dollar within your Online-Marketing budget.

When working in Online-Marketing you have to screen all your campaigns, success and trends.
This is my collection of ad-ons, tools and little helpers that will organize your camapains and will safe you a lot of time!

After a few years working in Online-Marketing I added a lot of tools to my daily work. I want to share that list with you and hope you will enjoy it as much as I do!

Search engine optimization (SEO) tools

1. SEOquake - SEO ad-on for your browser that will help you to monitor your competitors and your own websites
2. SiteMetrics - Another SEO ad-on for your browser that will help you to monitor your competitors and your own websites
3. Woorank - SEO ad-on and web-analyse for any website that will help you to understand your on-page optimization. That tool crawls all your content and will give you insights of your keyword density, crawling problems andpafe rank
4. ibusinesspromoter - A SEO tool that will help you to improve your SERP position
   
   
   

   SEO Analytic tools

   
   
5. Google Webmaster Tools - This is the basis for all the other alnalytic tools. It helps you to create structured search snippets, focus on the important sitelinks, to index your website and will show you crawling problems.
6. Google Analytics - The mother of all analytic tools. Like AdWords this is a hole univers itself but it help you to understand your visitors and which content they are interested in.
7. FlashCounter - If Google Analytics is way to much for you you should use this easy to use tool. It will help you to show you the most important data about your website visitors.
   
   

   SEA Keyword Planner tools

    

8. Google AdWords Keyword Planner - That tool will help you to find the right keywords for your SEA campaigns
9. Google AdWords Traffic Estimator - In addition to the Keyword Planner that Online-Marketing tool will help you to see if you stand a chance next to your competitors.
10. Google Isights - That tool will help you to spot new trends to lead with great interesting content.
    
    

    Social Media tools

     

11. Quintly - That is a great tool to track your social media campaigns. It's free up to three social media accounts.
12. Klout - Klout will help you to see new trends in the internet and suggest new content to share.
13. socialblade - This is a YouTube analysing tool that monitors the most importand videos and trends.
14. topsy - What socialblade is for YouTube is topsy for twitter.
15. technorati - If you are looking for special blogs have a look at this website!
16. Google Alert -  Keep updated to the most important topics and keywords.
17. feedly - feedly is Googles RSS-feed reader. Easy to use and perfect addition to your Google Alerts
    
    

    Coding tools

     

18. filezilla - In my opinion the best FTP client tool
19. codecademy - Get the basic or pro knowlege of coding. This tool is amazing and help you to learn nearly every important coding languages
20. themeforest - Okay this is not really a tool and neither free - but if you just can't code you can shoose from a wide range of wordpress themes.
21. osticket - Can't handle your IT-support requests any longer? That tool will definetly help you!
    
    
    

    Graphic Design tools

     

22. Kuler - A great platform to find the right colour scheme.
23. Gimp - The free alternative for Photoshop
24. Paint - Another tool for digital photo editing
25. Inkscape - This is the alternative for Illustrator to adit your vector graphics.
26. Eye Dropper - A great ad-on for Chrome to pick a colour from every website.
27. piktochart - Create great infographics with that grad-and-drop tool
28. infogr.am - Another easy-to-use infographic tool
29. fontello - What a great tool. This is an icon fonts generator.
    
    
    

    E-Mail Marketing tools

     

30. MailChimp - In my opnion the best E-Mail Marketing platform for great newsletter-campaigns.
31. mxtoolbox - Find out if your Mail Server is blacklisted or not.
    
    
    

    Other Online-Marketing tools

     

32. Inprint Generator - Impressum Generator for the german market.
33. bubble.us - A great mind-map tool to sort your thoughts.
34. x-mind - Another great mind-map tool to sort your thoughts.
35. LastPass -  Organize your passwords is easy with that tool.
36. Tom's Planner - Write your scedules and campaign plans online!
37. OpenProj - A big organizing tool with a lot of opportunities.
38. Awesome Screenshots -  That little ad-on is great for screenshots of hole websites.
39. prezi - What a fun way to create and share presentations. Zoom in and out.
40. slideshare - Share your Power Points and scroll through other great presentations

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3D printing

Is 3D printing the next billion dollar idea?

You might know 3D printing from all those "I build a gun with my 3D printer" articles but there is much more than that. Companies started to use 3D printer to build prototypes, individual tools or the product itself.

It seems that the possibilities are countless. Let's have a look at the most interesting ideas in the industry:

1. 3D printed pasta - barilla is working on a pasta printer for every pasta shape 
2. 3D print yourself - ever wanted a status quo of yourself? Print yourself every other year and have a great memory of every decade (what a weird way to show your grandkids how it was to live in the 21th century. 
3. 3D print at home - read this article if you think about getting your own 3D-printer 
4. 3D print you own home - it is possible to print a hole house within a day, what a possibility for rescue camps! 

Here are my ideas how to dip in your foot in that (new) rising industry:

• create an easy to use 3D software
• research in materials that can be used in 3D printing
• create 3D models and products (from iphone cases to chairs to your own dream house) 

What an interesting topic. There are so many opportunities. And think about of all the pros, there is literally no trash, if you have a printer at home there is no delivery necessary and you can nearly print ANYTHING! So be crative an become a 3D printing billionaire!

Live hacks

Live hacks are not a billion dollar idea but it could save you a lot of bucks.

Hacks can help you to take short-cuts in all live situations. Here is a list of my favorite hacks:

learn how to really hack: codecademy http://www.codecademy.com/
learn a new language: babbel http://babbel.com/
share and learn skills: skillshare http://www.skillshare.com/
best list of real live hacks: twistedsifter http://twistedsifter.com

Hope you enjoy that list!

green / organic festival supplies

Are green (organic, fairtrade etc.) festival supplies the next billion dollar idea?

As a regular guest at a lot of festivals I recognise a new trend rising. Green camping, foodsharing, fair trade festival supplies, no trash areas even organic toilets. Festivals become more and more politic when it comes to the environment.

People who invest in a festival ticket, camping gear, organic food and alcohol supplies are willing to spend more money on more luxery. Especially if that luxury is camouflaged with the oraganic flag. So you can provide solar based tents with power supply, vegan organic BBQ food, organic confetti or anything else that are mean to help the world but basically just yourself.

Open your organic festival supply store on etsy and dawanda and become a billionaire.

I combined two billion dollar ideas: I upcycled a unicorn into a perfect festival toy. It's perfect to smuggle some shots into the festival ground)

Write me a message if you want one youself ;)

nursing robots

Are nurse robots the next billion dollar idea?

There are a lot countries which demography is changing fast. There are two directions. One is that the citizens getting younger and younger or that the society is getting older. Today we have a look at the second direction. 

Especially in Japan it appears that the society is getting older. That means that there is a growing need for elderly care. But what to do when the younger ones work in different fields and when there are not enough young people to care for the elderly? The answer is: nursing robots.

Either to help elderly at home ore in nursing homes robots are getting more and more involved.
The challenge is to create robots who have a friendly appearence and don't scare the elderly.

By know the elderly prefer human helpers. 

So that is your chance to jump in the robot business and create the perfect nursing robot and become a billionaire.

card board recycling

Is card board recycling the next billion dollar idea?

Just think of it. There are thousands of card board packages delivered every day. I know I know you are more interested in whats inside, but today we are thinking outside of the box (ha ha!). 

Just think about how much potential lays in all that unused card board boxes. The material is easy to work with. It's light and you can combine it easily with other materials. There already are some interesting ideas up how to use card board.

Here are my favorits:

1. furniture: http://kartongroup.com.au/
2. home accessoires:http://www.avocadostore.de/products/4273-bucky-deer-trophy-cardboard-safari
3. jewelry: http://www.greendiary.com/carton-jewelry-for-greener-fashion.html

Vintage / Boho Second Hand

Are second hand vintage and boho shops the next billion dollar idea?

Thanks to the hipster the word "idividual" got a new meaning. But before I drift of in that typical hipster bashing I keep it short: a lot of people craving for vintage cloth and accessoires.

So use this information to start your own online-shop, flea market both or vintage store. Well you need some goodies and stuff to sell? Browse e-bay, yard-sales and your grandparents closet. Then you need an ironic slogan, hipster like design (just use some triangles and mustaches) and choose Helvetica as your corporate font.

Hipsters have money and they will throw it at you if you have some vintage stuff.

Can't image how thats gonna look like? Here is an example build with stuff from my closet and paint (yes, paint).