Additional Resources

Here’s more useful crowdfunding resources for creators in Australia

What the Australian Government has to say?

Crowd Sourced Equity Funding – from treasury.gov.au
Crowdfunding – from moneysmart.gov.au
Taxation – GST and crowdfunding

Social Media Tools

MyTweetLinks: Increases Twitter traffic.
WriteRack: The easiest way to blog/tweetstorm on twitter.
Spruce: Make Twitter ready images in seconds.
Click To Tweet: Get more shares on your content.
MyTweetLinks: Increases Twitter traffic.
Latergram: Easily plan & schedule your Instagram posts.
Justunfollow: Follow / unfollow people on Twitter & Instagram.
SocialRank: Identify, organize, and manage your followers on Twitter.
Ritetag: Instant hashtag analysis.
Riffle: Full profile and info on any Twitter user.
Buffer Free Plan: Schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google+.
Bitly: Create, share, and track shortened links.
Disqus: Build a community of active readers & commenters.

Email Management

Campaign Monitor
Mailchimp: Send 12,000 emails to 2,000 subscribers for free

Image Optimizers

TinyJPG | TinyPNG Compress images.
Compressor.io: Optimize and compress your images online.
ImageOptimizer: Resize, compress and optimize your image files.
ImageOptim: Makes images take up less disk space & load faster.

Image Editors

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.
Meme Generator: The first online meme generator.
Recite: Turn a quote into a visual masterpiece.
Visme: Content creator, including infographics and banners.

Color Pickers

New Flat UI Color Picker: Best flat colors for UI design.
Flat UI Colors: Beautiful flat colors.
Coolors: Super fast color schemes generator for cool designers.
Couleurs: Simple app for grabbing & tweaking colors you see on screen.
Colorful Gradients: Gradients automatically created by a computer.
Adaptive Backgrounds: Extract dominant colours from images.
Brand Colors: Colors used by famous brands.
Paletton: The color scheme designer.
Colour Lovers: Create & share colors, palettes, and patterns.
Adobe Color CC: Color combinations from the Kuler community.
Bootflat: Perfect colors for flat designs.
Hex Colorrrs: Hex to RGB converter.
Coleure: Smart color picker.
Colllor: Color palette generator.
Palette for Chrome: Creates a color palette from any image.

Stock Photography Paid

Istockphoto.com: Stock photography, video, illustration
Bigstockphoto.com: Stock photography, video, illustration
Shutterbug: Stock photography, video, illustration
Getty: Premium stock photography, video, illustration

Free

Stock Up: Best free stock photo websites in one place.
Pexels: Best free photos in one place.
All The Free Stock: Free stock images, icons, and videos.
Unsplash: Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.
Splashbase: Search & discover free, hi res photos & videos.
Startup Stock Photos: Go. Make something.
Designers Pics: Free photographs for your personal & commercial use.
Foodie’s Feed: Free food pictures in hi-res.
Mazwai: Free creative commons HD video clips & footages.
Jéshoots: New modern free photos.
Picography: Free hi-resolution photos.
Pixabay: Free high quality images.
Snapographic: Free stock photos for personal & commercial use.
Splitshire: Delicious free stock photos.
New Old Stock: Vintage photos from the public archives.
Picjumbo: Totally free photos.
Life of Pix: Free high-resolution photos.

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