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Personal Branders - Good Tools #5

50+ zero-cost tools to make your personal brand shine, visible and appreciated.

Robin Good
Apr 16, 2023
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Hello, and welcome to issue n.5 of Good Tools.

In this issue you will find tools, apps and browser extensions that are uniquely useful to indie entrepreneurs, bootstrapped startups, authors and small publishers alike.

For this specific edition, I have gone after personal branding tools and apps.

These are free apps that help you build and support the growth of your personal brand, in the following categories:

  • Personal Profile Pages

  • Personal Portfolios

  • CV and Resumes

  • One-Page Websites

  • Personal Logos

  • Professional Email Signature

  • Avatar Picture

  • Personal Brand Monitoring

  • Online Publishing

  • more…

 

The filtering criteria I use for the tools I select are:

  • 100% free (or have very generous free plan)

  • Not popular, not well-known

  • Tested and verified by me (Robin Good)

If you find tools that are truly useful for you inside this issue, please consider supporting this work with a paid subscription.

That’s the best way to reward and encourage my work and to make sure I keep on doing it.

Robin Good

 
 
  

Personal Branding Tools


1) Personal Profile Pages

  • Bento.me
    100% free
    example

  • Muralapp.io
    Free version
    example

  • Peerlist.io
    100% free

    example

  • Solo.to

    Free version - up to 25 links
    example

  • Nano.site
    100% free for personal use

  • Google About Me
    100% free
    little-known but quite important

  

2) Personal Portfolios

  • Google Sites

    100% free - unlimited pages and images

  • Flickr
    100% free version - up to 1000 photos/videos

  • xTiles
    100% free version - max 1000 items
    Web, desktop, iOS and Android
    examples

  • Adobe Portfolio
    100% free for subscribers of Adobe Creative Cloud

  • Journo Portfolio
    100% free version - max 10 items
    examples

  • Readymag
    Free version - allows one portfolio with unlimited content items
    examples

  • Clippings.me
    Free version - allows clipping up to 10 articles

 
 

3) One-Page Websites

  • Canva Website Builder
    100% free plan - up to 5GB of uploadable content
    1M free photos - 250K templates

  • Limey
    Free plan - up to 3 pages

  • Tilda.cc
    Free plan - 1 website

  • Mobirise
    100% free website builder software for Mac and PC
    Hostable (freeì on mobirise sub-domain) - Exportable

  • IMCreator
    100% free plan for artists and non-profits

  • Strikingly
    100% free plan - Unlimited sites on Strikingly.com domain

    5GB Bandwidth / 500 MB total storage per site

    up to 5 pages per site

 
 

4) Profile Picture Generators

  • Picsart Profile Picture Maker
    100% free - top tool - fully featured

  • ProfilePicture.AI

    100% free - automatically eliminates background
    (pricing says you need to pay, but it works also without)
    tens of variants ready to be downloaded in .PNG

  • PFP Maker
    100% free - automatically eliminates background

  • TinyWow Profile Photo Maker

    100% free - automatically eliminates background

  • Pixlr PhotoMash
    100% free - automatically eliminates background

  • NewProfilePIC
    100% free - automatically eliminates background
    *little watermark at the bottom

  • Personas
    100% free - for those who prefer to remain a bit in the shadow
    generates customizable profile avatars without needing a photo

   

5) Pro-Looking eMail Signatures

  • Hubspot eMail Signature Generator
    100% free - multiple templates
    No registration required

  • SignatureHound
    100% free - fully featured

  • Reply.io Email Signature Generator
    100% free - 5 alternative layouts - unlimited signatures

  • Email Signature Generator
    100% free - one style only - photo/avatar supported

  • HTMLsig

    Free version - one style only - photo/avatar supported

  • Mailbum
    100% free - basic styles

  • Signature
    100% free - edit for 30 days

  • MySigMail
    Free version - one sig + unlimited exports
    *small link to original brand

  • WiseStamp
    Free plan - PRO design and features
    *small link to original brand

  • SignatureLab
    100% free version - one signature - forever editable
    *small link to original brand

 
 

6) Logo Makers

  • Adobe Free Logo Maker
    100% free - fully featured
    large library of icons, symbols and images
    download resolution 500x500p

  • Shopify Logo Maker

    100% free - fully featured
    download in full resolution - favicon and social media logo variants included

  • Printful Logo Maker
    100% free - fully featured
    download in full resolution

  • Logo.com
    100% free - high-res downloads - unlimited edits

  • NameCheap Logo Maker
    100% free - requires registration
    Download full resolution logo in .PNG

  • Fotor Logo Maker
    free - lots of editable logo templates - requires registration
    Download full resolution logo in .PNG / PDF

  • Free Logos
    100% free
    for open-source projects and NGOs

 

7) CV Builders

  • FlowCV
    100% free for one resume - all features available
    unlimited downloads

  • INeedaResume
    100% free - 4 basic designs
    unlimited PDF downloads and edits

  • GoodProfile.me
    100% free while in Beta
    free plan available afterwards
    web-based CV

  • CVLogin
    100% free - requires registration
    multiple templates - fully featured
    unlimited PDF downloads and edits

    import from LinkedIN and FB

  • ResumePro
    100% free - requires registration
    multiple templates
    unlimited PDF, HTML, PNG downloads, prints and edits

  • CakeResume
    Free version - one resume max
    PDF download

  • SwiftCV
    Free version - unlimited items and projects
    PDF download
    *watermark + small link to original brand

 

8) Personal Brand Monitoring

  • Google Alerts
    100% free - provides email alerts and RSS feeds
    sources: Web, news, video, blogs, books

 
 

9) Personal Publishing

  • Medium
    100% free - publish short & long content
    create publications, lists, collections, newsletters

  • Substack
    100% free - publish short & long content
    create newsletters, publications, podcasts
    social media network

 

10) Merchandise

  • Printful
    100% free - add your brand to physical products and sell them online
    pay a commission when you sell to your clients
    fulfilment and distribution included

 

11) Personal Branding Resources (100% free)

  • New Personal Branding Canvas
    (2023) (PDF)

  • Personal Branding Canvas
    (2022) (PDF)

  • Original Personal Branding Canvas
    (2014) (PDF)
    ideal tool for defining your personal branding strategy.

  • Personal Brand Workbook
    (PDF) 42 pages

  • LinkedIN Personal Branding Checklist
    (PDF) 3 pages

 
 

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From me to you

Thank you for being a reader and sticking around.

My name is Robin and I love supporting indie entrepreneurs looking for alternative money-saving alternatives.

It takes a lot of time (nearly 12 hours) and work to identify these tools, try them out and organize them in ways that can provide immediate value to you.

But this is what I truly love. I have been searching, testing and sharing great rare-to-find tools for indie entrepreneurs since March 2000 when I started to publish my first newsletter Mastermind Explorer.

I do this because I get a kick out of searching and finding hard-to-find gems and useful resources.

I also feel it is my mission not to keep these just for me but to share them with anyone who may need them.

I am part of a growing number of people who have in their genetic code the drive to organize the vast amount of information and resources that are already available online, but are impossible to find via Google search.

If you feel that what I do is useful for you and for others please do support this newsletter with a paid subscription so that I, and others, can continue to fulfill our mission of sharing the best of what we find with you.

 

from sunny Holbox island,

Robin Good

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