resources galore
Explore our favs
Peruse our absolute fav tech tools, software, discounts & freebies that we love and use on the regular.
This page contains affiliate links. We only share products that we use and love, promise!
to Build your website
We love: Squarespace!
If you’re looking to build a website without all of the tech-stress, Squarespace is gonna be your bestie. Design your site with the simple drag and drop builder, implement your SEO and other scary tech things with a few simple clicks. Launch your site easily and quickly.
Use code BIGCATCREATIVE10 for 10% off your first year.
Plugins for Squarespace
SqspThemes
We love the Sidebar and Related Post plugins.
Sqsmods
We love the Magic Drop plugin.
Ghost Plugins
All of their plugins are great, and lots are free! Use code BIGCATCREATIVE for 10% off.
SquareWebsite Tools
The best plugin for duplicating pages and moving content between websites.
Education for Squarespace
Standout Squarespace
Want to take your Squarespace customization to the next level? Standout Squarespace by Squarestylist is the most comprehensive Squarespace coding course!
Paige Brunton
If you want to run a successful web design business, Paige Brunton’s Square Secrets Business Bundle is a great combo of Squarespace Design and how to build a thriving online biz.
For Designers
Creative Market
One of the best design marketplace’s to buy handmade fonts, stock photography, mockups, templates and other design goodies. By designers for designers.
Canva Pro
It’s for the DIYers AND professional designers. We especially love the built in stock photos + videos, and how easy it is to create GIFs for social media!
Unsplash
Looking for FREE photographs? We use photos from Unsplash in almost all of our template designs and throughout our social media + website.
free training!
DIY Your Dream Website
Want to learn the 5 key steps to setting yourself up for a successful DIY web design? Sign up to our free training where you’ll learn all about what it takes to DIY your site from the ground up.
More Free Education
Free Biz + Web Design Tips
Keep an eye on our blog where we post weekly squarespace, marketing and business tips to help your biz thrive!
Free Video Tutorials
Check out our Youtube channel where we breakdown all of our best biz tips and squarespace tutorials on video.
Email marketing + List Building
Interact
Want to grow your list with high quality leads? Try using a quiz and connecting it with your email marketing. See our Interact quiz here!
FloDesk
Our fav email marketing platform for creatives and small businesses. Beautiful, easy to use email templates within a simple, interface.
ConvertKit
Possibly the most robust email marketing platform out there — if you’re serious about advanced email marketing, this is your perfect match.
Biz + Team Management
Clickup
ClickUp is basically the brain of our business. We use it for task, team, project, file and everything else you can think of management.
Slack
Slack is a free team chat app. When managing a remote team, having an instant chat is so much easier than trying to communicate via email.
Loom
Creating videos to explain a task is often much easier for everyone than trying to write it out. We have a video for just about everything!
Contracts
Protect your business by using contracts wherever necessary. We love YourLegalBFF for easy to use, low cost contract templates.
Zapier
With all of the different platforms and tech tools we use in our business, Zapier is the one thing that connects it all together.
Podia
We host all of our Squarespace Template’s on Podia. We love the simple interface, amazing customer support and low price point!
Social Scheduling
Creator Studio
This scheduling software by Facebook is 100% free, and you can even schedule Instagram carousel posts and access analytics.
Business Manager
Download this app to your phone and you can schedule your Instagram + Facebook stories (which no other app offers!)
Tailwind
If you use Pinterest for your business, Tailwind is the ultimate app, full of Pinterest specific scheduling features.
Preview App
Preview has Instagram Reels scheduling for desktop, and it sends you a notification when your Reel is ready to publish!
Looking for design freebies?
If you’ve come from Pinterest and are looking for a specific freebie, never fear — the freebies are here! We haven’t created any new design freebies in a long time, and we also don’t update these freebies. But they are still circulating Pinterest, and you’ve come this far, so the least we can do is give ‘em to ya!
Click on the freebie you want and it will open in Dropbox, you can click download from there →