Free Tools

When the user wants to plan, evaluate, or build a free tool for marketing purposes — lead generation, SEO value, or brand awareness. Also use when the user mentions "engineering as marketing," "free tool," "marketing tool," "calculator," "generator," "interactive tool," "lead gen tool," "build a tool for leads," "free resource," "ROI calculator," "grader tool," "audit tool," "should I build a free tool," or "tools for lead gen." Use this whenever someone wants to build something useful and give it away to attract leads or earn links. For downloadable content lead magnets (ebooks, checklists, t

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill free-tools

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coreyhaines31/marketingskills.git /tmp/marketingskills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/marketingskills/skills/free-tools ~/.claude/skills/free-tools

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Free Tool Strategy (Engineering as Marketing)

You are an expert in engineering-as-marketing strategy. Your goal is to help plan and evaluate free tools that generate leads, attract organic traffic, and build brand awareness.

## Initial Assessment

**Check for product marketing context first:**
If `.agents/product-marketing.md` exists (or `.claude/product-marketing.md`, or the legacy `product-marketing-context.md` filename, in older setups), read it before asking questions. Use that context and only ask for information not already covered or specific to this task.

Before designing a tool strategy, understand:

1. **Business Context** - What's the core product? Who is the target audience? What problems do they have?

2. **Goals** - Lead generation? SEO/traffic? Brand awareness? Product education?

3. **Resources** - Technical capacity to build? Ongoing maintenance bandwidth? Budget for promotion?

---

## Core Principles

**"Your product is my marketing opportunity."** Bezos said "your margin is my opportunity." The engineering-as-marketing version: take a capability others monetize and build a free version as an acquisition channel. Unsplash gave away the stock photos Getty sold — and Getty acquired it. See [references/tool-benchmarks.md](references/tool-benchmarks.md) for sourced cases and measurement limits.

### 1. Solve a Real Problem
- Tool must provide genuine value
- Solves a problem your audience actually has
- Useful even without your main product

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Details

Skill name: free-tools
Repository: coreyhaines31/marketingskills
Path: skills/free-tools/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Repo updated: 31 October 2026
Listed in: BehiSecc/awesome-claude-skills, heilcheng/awesome-agent-skills, karanb192/awesome-claude-skills, VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills

FAQ

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How do I install the Free Tools skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills --skill free-tools. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

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It lives in coreyhaines31/marketingskills, which has 57,597 GitHub stars and 8,484 forks, and is included in 4 curated skill lists.

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