When someone brings up a ‘hot tools for marketing’ topic, we all have a great deal to share. The market is overcrowded with tools, platforms, and services of all kinds.
Premium, freemium, tools to get you started, tools to help you advance your business, and so on.
There are various lists and reviews on the internet to help you pick the best solution.
But sometimes, all we need is a tiny, yet handy tool to help us manage our everyday routine. And this is where Google Chrome apps and extensions come in.
Great Chrome Apps And Extensions For Marketers
As the most popular browser worldwide, Google Chrome expectedly offers a rich collection of paid and free apps and extensions.
You can browse the Chrome Store to check out everything that’s available. But make sure not to get over-enthusiastic. Too many of these will make your browser heavier and may conflict with each other or certain websites.
So, be reasonable.
Content Marketing Apps And Extensions
Grammarly is a rockstar extension for proofreading content.
It has been praised and recommended here and elsewhere, by amateurs and top marketing experts alike.
Grammarly is a cloud-based proofreading service. You can upload your content to their website and get a detailed report for each text.
But the Grammarly Chrome extension can do more. It will check your tweets before your post them, correct your spelling in emails, find typos you made when writing a comment on a post, etc. You won’t need to copy and paste texts to proofread them. The extension will do it all on the go, and it’s really helpful.
Pricing: A free version and a paid, extended version ($29.95/month).
This Chrome app is designed by the Google team.
It saves content and links you find on the web. You can return to them later, or share them in one click.
Unlike other similar apps, it stores all saved links directly in your mailbox. This way, you’ll have one less tab to open. The app is free, but you’ll need a Gmail account to use it.
Pricing: Free.
Sometimes you just need to be more informal. This is when animated GIFs come in.
Why not respond with a funny GIF to relax the atmosphere or cheer up your co-worker?
Giphy is a GIF search engine. You can search GIFs and add them to your messages, Twitter posts, Facebook posts, or emails. It works really fast and really well.
And the list of supported websites is constantly updated.
Pricing: Free.
Check My Links is a must-have tool for savvy content marketers.
Whenever you edit a long piece of content, this tool will scan your text and reveal all broken links.
This tool is helpful when you want to edit or refurbish your old content. It will highlight working links with green and mark broken ones with red.
Pricing: Free.
Email Marketing Apps And Extensions
This extension tracks all emails you send and notifies you when they are viewed.
You also get a report for every message. Email Tracker will tell you who opened the message, how many times it was viewed, and how much time your recipients spent on the message.
Pricing: A free version and a paid, extended version ($48/year).
6. Email Hunter
Email Hunter is another powerful extension for effective email marketing campaigns.
This tool can pull email addresses from any website. It scans pages to find all available contact details and returns a list of names and email addresses.
Using Email Hunter, you won’t need to waste your time looking for contacts. The extension scrapes the website as you are browsing it!
Pricing: Free – 150 request/month. Paid – starts $39/month (1,000 requests).
7. Boomerang
Boomerang offers several powerful features for savvy marketers.
First, you can hide a message in your mailbox and select when you want to bring it back to your inbox.
You can also schedule your emails to be sent out whenever you need. For example, when you’re away from your computer and not online but need to send an email at a certain time, you can just schedule it.
The extension also allows for tracking of emails and sends an alert directly into your mailbox when someone reads them.
It has some extra features for paid users like sending recurring messages.
Pricing: A free version and a paid, extended version (starts at $4.99/month).
Just Not Sorry is a Gmail plugin that warns you whenever you use words that undermine your message and diminish your voice.
The extension will underline all words and phrases like ‘sorry’, ‘I think’, and ‘just’ that may shrink your power.
As a result, your written voice will be stronger and clearer.
Pricing: Free.
SEO Apps And Extensions
9. Topvisor
Topvisor numbers the search listings and displays the rank next to each.
It quickly gives you an idea of what position your website or blog has for a particular search query.
The Topvisor Chrome extension visualizes search results. It lets you know where you stand in relation to your competitor.
You can send screenshots to your clients and work on getting a better number!
Pricing: Free.
The Google PageSpeed Insights extension will analyze the performance of your web pages and give you a “PageSpeed Insights score”.
It will also provide you with the link of the Insights Developer Console if you want to get more stats and see recommendations. As a result, you’ll be able to make necessary changes to increase your web development speed.
Pricing: Free.
This extension scans web pages and provides you with details of page strength based on the backlink data.
Majestic has its own scores to check pages: Trust Flow™ and Citation Flow™.
The extension delivers scores directly to the toolbar. You can get the number of URLs linking in to any page.
Pricing: A free version and a paid, extended version (starts at $49.99/quarterly).
Social Media Marketing Apps And Extensions
12. Buffer
This is a popular Chrome app and extension designed by the Buffer social media management platform. It allows you to share the web content you like to multiple social media accounts at once.
It’s free, but you’ll need to set up your Buffer account.
Pricing: A free version and a paid, extended version (starts at $10/month).
13. Sniply
Sniply allows you to create call-to-actions with text related to your brand.
You can embed these into your content pages and links you share on social networks. As a result, you’ll promote yourself while sharing other’s content.
Pricing: A free version and a paid, extended version (starts at $29/month).
14. RiteTag
This is a powerful extension that shows you which hashtags will work best on Twitter. The app uses 4 color indicators to help you pick the right hashtag:
Pricing: A free version and a paid, extended version ($49/year).
Influencer Marketing Apps And Extensions
15. Conspire
Conspire is a powerful tool for those wanting to master influencer marketing.
It shows the best path to connect with a person- be it on Linkedin, Gmail, or Angellist.
This extension will reveal if you have common friends or acquaintances in your circle. This way, you’ll be able to use them as a connecting link.
Pricing: Free.
Productivity Apps And Extensions
16. OneTab
OneTab allows you to clear up your browser window whenever you have too many tabs opened.
This tool will collapse all active tabs and save them into a list on a single tab. You can restore them later when needed.
Pricing: Free.
17. Bookmark Manager
Bookmark Manager is an extension created by Google to help manage and organize all of your saved pages.
It rules out the bookmark chaos by providing a lot of ways to sort, edit, and work with your bookmarks.
Save your bookmarks in one click, search them, change their names, create and manage folders, and so on, all on a single page.
Pricing: Free.
18. Todoist
Todosit is one of the most popular productivity apps available.
It allows you to create and manage eye-catching task lists.
You can break your list into categories and set deadlines for your tasks. The tool also offers to set up alerts and apply tags to list items, but these features are available only for premium users.
19. StayFocusd
The name speaks for itself.
This extension is intended to help you stay focused on work.
You can either block all websites that keep you distracted (like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc.) or allow to spend a preset amount of time browsing them. If you decide to change the settings later, you’ll have to complete a challenge first.
Pricing: Free.
20. Noisli
Noisli is a great productivity extension intended to create a perfect working environment.
This extension allows blocking out annoying noises to create the right atmosphere for working or relaxing.
When you’re in an environment that’s too loud or too quiet, you can have trouble focusing on what you do. Noisli creates the right amount of background sounds to help you concentrate on your tasks.
Pricing: Free.
BONUS: Extension Manager
You might decide to install every single extension mentioned here in this article.
And what if you installed even more?
Then you’d need an extension manager to help you manage and organize all of these Chrome extensions.
Extension Manager displays all of them in a popup window. You can enable, disable, and uninstall extensions all with ease.
Pricing: Free.
The Best Google Chrome Apps And Extensions For Internet Marketers
This is a list of Chrome apps and extensions that I use every day. They are small and extremely helpful, but they get the job done.
Using these, I’m able to be more productive, more efficient, and more focused.
What Chrome apps and extensions do you use on a regular basis? What else should be added to this list? Let me know in the comments below!
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