Running an online business can get hectic sometimes and it’s totally common and normal. From keeping up with the competitors to maintaining an email list, there is so much that needs to be done. So, do you want to make things easier and want an extra boost to your online business at the same time? Well, stick around as we present to you the five top Chrome Extensions for online businesses and entrepreneurs that can really make a difference. These can really speed up your workflow, create a shortcut way for many tasks, and can minimize some of the mundane tasks.
1. Font Face Ninja
This can really help you to uplift the visual appeal of your website, Instagram post, or YouTube thumbnails for free. If you ever stumble upon someone’s website or Instagram profile and find an adorable font that you wish to use on your own, this extension will help you with exactly that.
How does it work? You turn on the extension in your Google Chrome. Once it is turned on, you can go back to the website or any other platform that you found that font on. When you hover over that text with your mouse, Font Face Ninja will show you the Font type that is being used. This extension works for any website and any platform that you open in your browser. You can now easily play around with fonts and make your content look more attractive.
2. Group Leads
This extension is rocking the world currently and is becoming popular with each passing day. Although it is a paid extension, it is worth every penny that you pay for it. If you have a Facebook group for your business and you manually record the data in a spreadsheet whenever people ask questions or request to join in, you are wasting your time and energy. You can definitely automate this process using Group Leads.
Group Leads allow you to automate a lot of the data from your Facebook group. It also helps you to build an email list which is like a very important asset for any online business.
When you approve people in your Facebook Group, and once you click the extension, you can choose the group to group to attach to the plugin and click ‘View data’. You will see that this will automatically fill in the data in the spreadsheet for all the people you allow in your Facebook group.
This is a great tool to create an email list, carry out market research, and to automate an otherwise tedious task of collecting all the data.
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3. Loom
The loom is an excellent platform to record screen shares and to share it with other people. This is very easy to use indeed and that’s what makes it a game-changer when it comes to communicating better. It is extremely helpful in case of filming tutorials and with similar purposes. And the best part is that it is free to use!
When you click on the extension, you are able to record whatever you want on your desktop screen. You can choose whether you want to have just the screen or both screen and yourself. For the latter, you can see yourself at the bottom-left corner of the screen. Once you start recording, you can show whatever you like to whoever you want to send this video. Once done, you can end the recording and it will generate a link which you can then copy and share with anyone.
4. Full Page Screen Capture
This is an awesome and free Google Chrome that allows you to screenshot the entire page on your screen. This is very helpful when you screenshot sales pages, the entire website, email threads. You can even use it to screenshot your email receipts and invoices and save them in the pdf format so that you don’t have to preserve all the receipts and invoices in the paper form.
If you really like someone’s website, you can screenshot the entire website at the same time and use it as an inspiration for yourself. You no longer have to take multiple screenshots.
5. TubeBuddy + vidIQ
These are two different extensions but these are better together, according to many social media experts and business coaches like Vanessa Lau. If you are a YouTuber, then you must have these two extensions even if you are just a beginner. These have paid versions as well but the free versions are also very robust.
When you use the free versions of both these extensions, you get a lot more data when it comes to looking at your own videos and other people’s videos as well. You can even see the tags along with their ranking that any other YouTubers use in their videos. You can optimize your videos better using vidIQ in particular. Both of these will assist you in your keyword search for content ideas as well. You can even look at the like to dislike ratio for any video to know about how the popular any particular content idea or topic is.
Conclusion
Some of the extensions mentioned above serve big purposes while others help you to minimize mundane tasks. Even if they seem basic, they will help you to step-up your business in many ways by saving your time and by making some tasks easier. These can really help online businesses and entrepreneurs to ‘hack’ their way through a better workflow and better success path.
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Written By - Neha Kundu
Edited By- Kashish Chadha
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