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A practical workflow for producing short-form product videos at zero cost using CapCut free AI features: AI script, text-to-speech voiceover, auto-captions, templates, and short AI b-roll. Includes a free-versus-paid feature split and platform-specific tips.
GA4 tells you a product page has a high exit rate, but never why visitors leave. Microsoft Clarity is free forever with no traffic cap, and it fills the heatmap and session-replay gap. Pair the two and you get a $0 behavior stack that covers nearly everything a small store needs to find conversion leaks.
Instead of paying $20/month for one tool, route each marketing task to the free tier that does it best and never hit a single tool's cap. Here is the routing table and a full day's workflow.
You do not need a 99-dollar-a-month research suite to validate a product idea. This stack chains Google Trends, the free Google Keyword Planner, Bing Webmaster Tools, and marketplace best-seller pages into a workflow that costs nothing. Here is what each tool gives you, what it does not, and when paying finally makes sense.
Stack DeepL API Free's 500K characters with Google Translation's 500K to get nearly 1 million free characters a month. Covers getting both keys, a language-routing script, the privacy caveat, and when a polish pass is worth it.
The real value of the free tier is not the chat box. It is the no-cost API key. Wire it to a dozen-line script, throttle it to roughly ten calls a minute, leave it running overnight, and you wake up to thousands of draft listings at zero cost. This covers the plumbing, not the copy.
MailerLite cut its free tier to 2,500 emails per month and 250 subscribers on June 16, 2026, and Mailchimp reportedly trimmed its own free plan in January. This piece puts Brevo, Omnisend, MailerLite, and Mailchimp side by side, hands sellers a pick-by-list-size decision guide, and shares tactics to stretch a free tier as far as it goes.
Google AI Studio's web interface hands out a generous daily image quota through the Nano Banana model. For a lean DTC team that is enough to crank out white-background shots, lifestyle composites, and try-on variations at zero cost. Here is how to open it, prompt it, batch it, and what to do when the free quota runs dry.
Load competitor listings, customer reviews, spec sheets, supplier docs, and forum threads into one NotebookLM notebook, then ask the right questions to pull positioning, recurring complaints, selling points, and FAQs. Includes free-tier limits, a free-versus-paid table, example prompts, and when to upgrade.