When it comes to running a restaurant, brand or business, social media marketing is just one piece of the marketing puzzle — and marketing is only one part of your entire operation. It is crucial to maximize efficiency and productivity when brainstorming, creating and scheduling content by taking advantage of existing tools. We’ve put together a list of our favorite Google Chrome extensions to save marketers and business owners time along the way.
Check out our list and let us know if we missed any in the comments below!
Grammarly – Assists users in writing their best content. With Grammarly, avoid pesky spelling and grammar mistakes as well as fine-tune your language to match your desired tone and level of formality. Be clear, concise and creative when drafting fresh posts, tweets and more!
Bitly – Gives users the ability to shorten, measure and optimize their links. Saving and sharing links using the extension saves all link data to your Bitly account as well. This comes in handy when cleaning up your copy ahead of scheduling or posting. Who likes lengthy links? Not us!
BuzzSumo – Pulls real-time data from webpages to allow users to analyze the performance of content. This allows users to find out what content is being engaged with at a high level. In turn, marketers and business owners can repurpose their high-performing content or share relevant industry news and updates.
RiteTag – Enables users to generate hashtag ideas for posts they are working on. Using color-coded tags, RiteTag also indicates the potential performance strength of all suggestions. RiteTag works great with Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter as well as scheduling tools like Hootsuite and Buffer.
GIPHY – Allows users to bring the magic of GIFs directly to whatever they’re doing! This extension enables you to search GIPHY’s extensive database to find the perfect GIF for whatever you’re working on.
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