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5 Free Tools Creators Need to Know

Most creators don’t even know all of these incredibly useful tools exist.

Tools will make or break your creator hustle.

Let me explain.

Imagine there are two painters. Both are of the same skill level, and they have a bunch of houses to paint. One painter has a paintbrush. The other has a paintbrush, roller, and a paint-spray gun.

Who do you think is going to paint more houses and produce better work?

Most content creators are the silly painter with just one brush — don’t let that be you.

Here are 5 invaluable free tools to level up your content creation game 🚀.

Easily create stunning product mockups

Say goodbye to sh**ty-looking product mockups.

Smart Mockups allows you to create beautiful product mockups for free.

They have anything and everything. From technology mockups like MacBooks and iPhones to cosmetics and supplements.

Smart Mockups’ free tier is super high quality, has everything you need, and it’s available for commercial use. However, if there’s something on their paid tier you want, it’s only $9/month, and if you cancel you can continue using what you’ve already exported. Not bad.

Gif of Smart Mockups | Created by author

The one link to rule them all

If you have 20-something links to share, you’re doing it wrong.

Around 2019 Linktree blew up and solved one of the creator economy’s biggest problems — too many links to share.

Linktree is a fantastic SaaS product. However, It comes with a decent price tag to use some of its most valuable features.

Bio Link is the free alternative that offers a bunch of features that you would have to pay for with Linktree. It has great themes, embeds for Twitter, Youtube, and other platforms, analytics, email collection, plus so many other features. It’s also nice and easy to use.

Why pay when you can have it for free.

On point branding in seconds

Personal branding is more important than ever.

Effective personal branding allows you to differentiate yourself from everyone else. It helps build trust within your audience and creates confidence by knowing what to expect from you.

BrandBird helps do all that in seconds — It’s super easy to use. Create beautiful branded images with a few clicks. Upload the image, apply your styling, and export — done.

Use that content across Medium, Twitter, LinkedIn, or wherever else you’re building.

By upping your visual content game with memorable branding you're going to boost your engagement and reach. More engagement and reach — more money in the bank.

Image of BrandBird interface | Created by author w/ Brandbird

Turn tweets into beautiful images

This one is for the creators utilizing Twitter. And if you’re not using Twitter, you should be.

Your content needs to be memorable. That includes your writing, videos, images, and any other content you’re creating. If it’s not memorable you will likely be forgotten in the sea of creators out there.

With regards to sharing your Twitter content, don’t just embed a tweet into another platform. Turn it into an attention-grabbing, memorable image and share it across your other platforms.

Thanks to Poet.so you can do just that in seconds. Literally. Copy and paste the tweet link, choose background color — voilà!

Image of Poet.so tweet | Created by author w/ Poet.so

Manage your content creation like a boss

What gets managed gets done.

If you want to be successful in the creator economy, then you will need to have good project management processes in place just as you would at any company or business endeavor.

Notion has taken the world by storm in recent years and is my go-to project management software. This tool will take your content creation to the next level.

The Notion team has done a fantastic job of building an incredibly powerful application whilst keeping the usability nice and simple.

Capture your thoughts and create an idea factory for each platform you’re building on. You can even build systems to take a piece of content from one medium to another; ie transform a medium article into a set of tweets. There are so many ways Notion can take your content to new heights.

Wrapping Up

Tools are invaluable.

They are the difference between successful content creators and evergrowing list creators who have crashed and burned.

We live in an era where there is a tool for just about everything. If you aren’t utilizing tools to enhance your content then you’re going to be beaten by competitors that do. Even if your content is actually better.

Remember, most content creators are the silly painter with just one brush — don’t let that be you.

If you enjoyed this article, give it some claps to encourage the algorithm to share it with more of the community.

Join Medium with my referral link - Chris Staudinger

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