Dec 14: Roundtable – Running a business with free online tools

There is a lot to running a business. Marketing your brand, quoting work, finding clients, TAXES. Solving these issues is an incredibly hard burden to bare on your own.

Let’s pool our collective knowledge together, share some of the lessons we’ve learned, and try to make the burden of running your own business a little less heavy.

Join us as we share our experiences as freelancers and business owners. We’ll meet at the downtown Legends American Grill on December 14th, at 6:30pm.

If you’ll join us, we’d love for you to RSVP on Facebook.

Follow-Up: Tools Discussed

• Codeship – Continuous integration and test running
• Trello – List/board project management
• Asana – List/board project management
• BitBucket – Code hosting/collaboration (free unlimited private repositories)
• Github – Code hosting/collaboration (free for open source)
• CloudNine – Development environment in the cloud
• Dexy – Styleguide generation
• Responsive Design Workflow by Stephen Hay
• Canvas – Online course platform
• Wave Apps – Online accounting software
• Slack – Online chat/communication
• Google Apps – Online office suite
• MailChimp – Email marketing service
• Sendgrid – Transactional email marketing service
• Dropbox – Online file sharing
• Zoho / CRM – Online office suite & CRM
• Heroku – Application deployment
• OpenShift – Application deployment
• Hamachi – Free VPN
• Evernote – Note taking
• Skitch – Note taking with shapes/drawing
• Imgur – Online image sharing
• Google Hangouts – Online meetings
• Zoom – Online video conferencing
• join.me – Online video conferencing
• appear.in – Online video conferencing
• Kindle Publishing Tool – Publish books to Kindle
• Grammarly – Checks your grammar in real time
• Hemingway Editor – Checks the simplicity and reading level of your writing