15 of the Best Chrome Extensions for Social Media Marketers
Chrome extensions helps us social marketers do things faster, better, while having more fun—from staying focused to staying organized.
Chrome extensions helps us social marketers do things faster, better, while having more fun—from staying focused to staying organized.
Need more of the best Chrome apps for your social media marketing?
Chrome extensions helps us social marketers do things faster, better, while having more fun. Heck yeah.
I’m sure you have some favorites.
I’m also sure you’ll add some new ones after scanning this list.
Let’s get right to it.
Your day is going to be busy. Like always, right?
Posts to write, images to create, hashtags to monitor, followers to reply to. All that and (much) more for your busy social marketing day.
But first…
Open a new tab in your browser. Momentum will show you something beautiful. It’s a soothing way to start your day. And to plan just the right amount.
Now… go do your busy work. With a focus. And see this each time you open a new, blank Chrome tab.
Muzli is another way to be inspired every time you open a new Chrome tab. It’s centered around design.
I bet you’re always looking for new, visual inspiration for your social media posts.
Muzli presents you with a visual feed of the latest, hippest, most excellent designs of the day.
And don’t keep what you see to yourself. I use Muzli to show and share great designs with others, too.
But, you can only use one ‘new tab’ extension at a time. Which one will you choose?
Work can become a blur when you’re doing your social media thing, right? From left-to-right brain tasks all day long. While viewing inspiring, interesting and useful things in between.
Then being baffled by… where to put this?
Got it.
And so does Evernote. With their web clipper to save web pages, links, comments, screen shots, ideas, and anything else you see in your digital view.
…Then find it later.
Out of site, out of mind, but not out of reach. No need to change your brain gears every time you see something worth capturing or sharing.
Spelling and grammar errors happen (just ask my Hootsuite editor).
But stop this you must, because your social fans and followers will frown. And so will your boss, as your personal and brand credibility suffers.
But don’t cry. It’s an easy fix with Grammarly.
This extension catches spelling and grammar errors galore.
Polish before you publish.
A handy tool if you work with people around the globe. Because it’s not easy keeping track of different time zones.
In your brain, it goes something like this…
“It’s 3:30 here, minus (or is it plus) 8 hours there (I think)… equals… Wait, is it daylight savings here? And over there?”
Ouch.
Figure It Out to rescue.
Use this extension to make scheduling posts or meetings around the globe super (duper) easy.
I told you it was easy.
However…
Like Momentum and Muzli, this extension shows up as your new tab screen. Now what?
Fine. Use their online, instant web page.
Do you ever want to share access to an account? Say for a social network, SEO tool, or Google Analytics? But without having to share the password for that account?
I’m sure you do, like many social media marketers. LastPass will help.
Use LastPass to remember only one master password, while sharing accounts with your colleagues.
The extension will store everything else and autofill fields when you arrive on a login page. You can also add and remove users, auto generate strong passwords, and save everything in a secure, searchable vault.
Sleep well knowing you’ve got a secure handle on all your social accounts and users.
You spend loads of time scouring the web for great content. And arranging each tab, ‘just right’, right? For blog posts, news articles, videos, and other pieces of inspiration for your upcoming posts or campaign.
Then, a call or email comes in, or your boss walks over and you have to switch gears to work on something completely different. Opening up even more browser tabs. Five, 10, 15 tabs now open, scrambled all over your screen.
Now what?
Here’s what. Using the Session Buddy extension I…
Later, to resume…
Think of this as Session Buddy lite.
You’re zooming around the web, filling up browsers tabs and instances with pages along your digital flight path.
Then, you’re either filled up, tired, bored, or distracted.
You want to keep the urls for those pages you collected. But get those browsers windows out of your face right now.
That’s what this extension is for.
That’s it. Really. All URLs, across all browser tabs, across all browser instances are copied to your clipboard.
Okay, one more step—to copy those links somewhere to check out later.
Session Buddy is my favorite, but this might be yours.
Sometimes it takes brute force to stop the things worth stopping. Because we lack the will to do so on our own.
Sure, it’s your job to be on the sites other people waste time on—while they procrastinate.
But not you. Not with the StayFocused extension.
StayFocused limits you on time-wasting websites (the ones you visit instead of doing work).
Because it’s time to get back to your ‘day’ (vs dream) job.
You’re busy combing the web, seeking ideas and doing research for your next marketing campaign, post, or strategy.
You see an eye-catching visual on a web page you’re perusing. It’s interesting to you. But you don’t have time to stare at it now.
Got it.
Click the Save button to save the page to Pinterest. Then, keep moving onward.
The Pinterest extension won’t slow you down.
Done, that web page is saved, ready for you to look at later. It doesn’t get much simpler than that.
Are you guessing at which hashtags to use for your story or event? Not sure which ones will add value to your message?
Introducing the RiteTag extension.
Use this to generate hashtags for images and text on your screen.
Learn more about using hashtags to grow your social media following here.
Sometimes, the social media marketer in you wants some motion in your message. To make things more memorable. And exciting.
People often click more of your posts and shares, too, when they see a cute little girl dancing. Or a kitty sniffing. Or a rhinoceros flying.
No need to leave your browser to search for and attach humorous animations that make people snicker.
Silly made easy. Which may (or may not) be just right for your brand.
Is SEO a part of your digital marketing strategy? (It could be even if you focus solely on social.)
The MozBar extension makes it simple for people new to SEO. Get insights about different websites without leaving your web browser.
With one click, you can find search ranking and link coding information about all the search results on a results page.
SEO made easy.
Social marketers read and scan a lot of web pages.
Maybe you don’t need to capture a whole page—just the highlights. Or perhaps you want to share some important parts of a page, say for an upcoming campaign.
It’s pretty darn simple with the Yellow Highlighter extension.
Just…
Sharing made easy.
When browsing pages does a font ever attract your eyes and attention? And you want to know what it is? Because you want to use it for your next social media image?
You need WhatFont.
The WhatFont extension tells all:
I love fonts. WhatFont tells more about what I love. So I can swipe and add it to the text on my visuals. You can, too.
Bonus: Here’s more tools and resources for creating beautiful social media visuals.
And there you have it. A list of some of the best Chrome extensions for social media marketers, like you. I know there’s loads you must be using, too. Tell us about them, please. Maybe my editor will hire me to do a follow up post on this. Ha.
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