Best Browser Extensions for Social Media Marketing

We all find ourselves in the same routine day after day, clicking the same buttons, visiting the same URLs, going through all the same motions. If you’re like me, you’ve gotten pretty good at it. But sometimes turning on autopilot setting sets us up for failure when we’re not engaging our brain to do any thinking. We’re less creative, we’re less productive, and we’re bored.

Using browser extensions to automate some of those mundane tasks can help get you back on track. It saves things for you, so you don’t have to remember them, it streamlines your day, and it frees up your time to focus on the creativity that makes you good at what you do.

Buffer

Buffer allows you to connect social media profiles and then share directly from any website. If you do a lot of research for your campaigns and you find yourself saving these articles to share later, Buffer can help you organize them, so you don’t have to create a separate task list or schedule for sharing.

Highlight meaningful text within the article or right click on an image to share the picture directly. Twitter and Facebook connections come with built-in buttons for adding to your queues and scheduling future posts.

Giphy

Twitter and Pinterest now support GIFs, and many other social media sites and messaging services allow you to engage with your contacts using these hilarious online personality enhancements. It’s a lot easier to relate to your audience and convey how you feel through images rather than text.

Using the Giphy extension, you can search for GIFs and copy a shortened URL of any GIF you choose. Communicate with your target market quickly without worrying about copy all of the time.

Instagram for Chrome

If you find yourself always reaching for your phone to scroll through your Instagram feed, interact with your followers, or post a new picture, the Instagram for Chrome browser extension makes it easy to integrate Instagram into your day by keeping it visible while you’re working on other tasks. You don’t have to keep your phone handy and move away from the computer at all. You can even share images saved on your computer instead of having to transfer it to your phone to share it.

Riffle

Bring relevant insights to your Twitter stream with Riffle. When you click on the Riffle icon or Twitter username of a follower, lead, or influencer, the extension opens a display of user data including social media accounts, statistics, popular hashtags, mentions, URLs, and more. With visible, in-depth data, you can target your marketing to the appropriate audience at all times.

Klout

If you’ve ever wondered how your interactions and popularity measure up across social media platforms, Klout rescues you from calculating it yourself. Klout integrates the score right into your Twitter feed and other channels so that you can see an influence score right next to someone’s username. You can also use Klout to share directly from any website.

Ritetag

I may have saved my favorite for last. Sometimes I feel the effects of hashtag overload. Which hashtags are trending, which ones are people looking at, and which ones are so overused they have people rolling their eyes?

Ritetag analyzes your hashtag use and color codes them by popularity and strength. At a glance, you can see which of your hashtags has proved most useful in your campaigns and then build future campaigns around what works for you.

Take the guesswork out of your social media marketing campaigns by implementing some of the most useful browser extensions into your workflow. You can efficiently manage on-the-go platforms while you’re not going, making it simpler for you to balance your time and get things done. Check out my done-for-you system for more ideas.