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My Top 25 Chrome Extensions For Entrepreneurs
Before we begin I just want to thank everyone at /r/entrepreneurs and Reddit for everything I have learned from you and you guys! Everything I am today I owe to you guys! So thank you so much. I wanted to return the love some way so I wrote this post for this subreddit in the hopes it helps others as much as they help me!
For this post, I wanted to provide other readers with a list post of 25 top extensions for Chrome that I use and that have helped me in both my professional life and my personal life. Some are for getting more work done while others keep men on track. Others take entire photos of my entire screen while others save things for me so that I can read them later. There are a large variety of extensions on this post and I want to share with you, my top 25 list. It may not be your top 25 and you may not like the majority of this list. That’s not what it’s about. It’s about me expressing my opinion because I can, and you reading it because you want to. If you like my advice go home or over to the extension store and download them. If you do not like it and thinks its shit then fuck off and go read something else. It’ the same to me.
Alright, so let's get on with the main attraction shall we? Let's get to the list of 25 extensions and go explain each one, one by one. I ma sure you already know the majority of these anyways but for those that may live under rocks and not know I’ll provide a description of each one and links to both their site (link over their name) and the link to the extension install link in parenthesis beside it if it isn’t obvious enough by now.
1. Sidekick by Hubspot (Extension Link) – Sidekick is free for up to 200 notifications. Basically, it alerts you to as to who opens your emails after they are sent out and then who they get sent to from there, giving you the freedom to track your emails along. It shows you who opens them and when they are opened. The application is free for up to a certain limit which is basically free for up to email 200 notifications which seem pretty reasonable until you start sending out a bunch of emails and each one is tracked (I go over how it works on my own blog, www.thelegitblog.com). Those notifications start adding up quick and eventually your free trial has run out giving you the option of waiting until the following month to restart your quota or paying up to use the paid version. Personally, I would buy it for the ability and information it provides. Think about its uses and importance.
One scenario I link to bring up is one where you are a sales consultant for a software company and have been reaching out to this client for weeks. You see that he opens your emails at the same time every day but never hear back or get a final yes from him. You see that he forwards it's over to the decision maker, his boss, and they both open it together. At this time, knowing that I am on both their minds I would pick up the phone and call the decision maker directly and make him and offer right then and then, maybe save him some money and offer him a better price for choosing sooner rather than later. This would most likely work and they would think it coincidence or a sign from god that you called as they were looking at your email and make a decision in your favor. That is just one example of how useful Sidekick can be.
2. Streak For Gmail (Extension Link) — Basically it’s a Client Relationship Manager for your email inbox. An amazing CRM for your inbox at that. Obviously, Streak For Gmail was made for Gmail and has a lot of features that are Gmail friendly. They offer a free plan with some limits and as well as offering a few other plans and levels of usage depending on the company you have, the size of your company and what you plan to use it for. Their software uses a sophisticated pipeline template, which can be customized for use as sales pipeline or maybe even a product development pipeline. The uses are endless. I think this is one of the most robust extensions I have seen personally on Chrome myself and would use it as my framework if I had the opportunity and need for my company.
[3. Rapportive (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1WXAfA6) — Rapportive puts Gmail and LinkedIn into one. It provides information about certain users and places that information for you on your Gmail account on the right side beside the email of the person so that you now more about whom you are dealing with. The information it gets, it gets from LinkedIn so it unites the two and uses the email to try and connect the two so there maybe some mess-ups a few times but for the majority of the time, it works perfectly. I love it because it allows me to see into people’s background and learn things about them that otherwise I may not have found out. Let’s say I am about to do a large deal with someone for auto parts and realize that he has a history of stealing automobiles or has a crime past, this software would have saved me the trouble of getting in trouble with the law and purchasing possibly stolen goods or goods that are of no value so the value of the software is there. I personally see this extension having HUGE advantage in the sales department of companies
[4. Hangouts (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1THnvcM) — This is an extension of Google Hangouts, the video conferencing software, which allows you to chat by video and sound online. Google Hangouts is definitely the best free online video conferencing software and the plugin makes it's even easier to use.
[5. Awesome Screenshot (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1WXArzn) – This amazing plugin is great because it takes a photo of the ENTIRE web paged including the parts that may be above or below the viewable areas so that if you are a graphic or web design and want to show off a site you made you don’t have to splice together a bunch of different photos. I used to take pictures of my sample portfolio sites I built and it would take forever to take 4 photos of the site and then go into Photoshop and put them together to make a full composite but this plugin saved my life so many times. This saved my life so many times and makes my life SOO much easier
[6. Momentum (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1THo8Dd) — Momentum replaces your home page when you log into your browser (Chrome, Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera, anything browser your use) and replaces it with a continued random group of photos that changes every day that is all very beautiful and stunning. For example, today’s image is about Palestine and the amazing buildings there. It also allows you to customize it just so that it has the photo to calm you down or has customizations to include many other areas such as a To-do list. A reminder of what your day’s task is. A weather app to the top right. A location of the photo on the bottom left and the time in the middle. There are other customizable options for the free version and is definitely recommended.
[7. Adblock (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1WXAsTX) — One of the most popular and widely known Chrome extensions. I know they also sell an Adblock Plus or Premium now so glad they are making money off of it finally. Obviously, AdBlock blocks advertisements on Google Ads. Anything from photos, banners, and even video advertisements on Youtube and other videos when possible. To me it’s amazing, though, I do turn it off on sites that I try to support financially since I know ads at the way most sites make money so please do the same if you use Ad block on your own computer. I recommend you do the same on sites you want to support financially because Adblock does block the income of many sites since many sites make money from advertisements.
[8. LastPass (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1THnKnZ) — Lastpass is a program that saves ALL your passwords into one program. Yes, I know what you are thinking, if someone were to hack into this program than you would be fucked and all your things would be compromised and yes that is a possibility but Last Pass has multiple level encryption plus extreme security and rated as one of the most saucer sites by many important websites so I am not worried about it. This is more of a website than an extension since you have to go to lastpass.com and create an account to save passwords. After you log in to ANY site it will ask if you wish to save the password and username under the certain section you create and such. The last pass has enough security and protection that I trust it with all my accounts.
[9. SellHack (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1WXAn2l) — I found SellHack on my own after doing some research on how to find emails for certain people by having just their company or name and came to find SellHack. It turned out to be a pretty accurate program and you can find the email not ONLY of LinkedIn profiles but of ANYONE with required information which is: Their Name and Their Company. I won’t get into how it works on here but if you want to learn more go to www.thelegitblog.com to learn more but it works about 75% of the time so don’t expect it to hit the target every time. I definitely recommend it.
[10. HoneyBadger (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1THobP8) – HoneyBadger does research on the site that you are currently on. It digs up company statistics/information such as the rank of the site Alexa and other global rank sites, visits, engagements (such as time on site, etc.) and from where visitors are coming from such as countries. HoneyBadger also provides referral traffic, social media information and similar sites, organic search volume and information and ads being run by the company, if any.
[11. Alexa Extension (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1WXAg6Z) – This extension comes from Alexa and provides a rank on the global scale as well as a scale of specific countries that you are interested in being ranked in. It shows how many sites are linking to the site, even though this number may be completely inaccurate with actually incoming sites but it’s a start.
[12. BuiltWith (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1THo1HA) — BuiltWith basically shows you a list of what software ANY website you are currently on is running on or was built with. We are talking SSL Certificate ownership, site ownership (through WHOIS) if not private or protected, hosting, domain provider, Content Management System, Analytics, Frameworks, advertising, CSS & Javascript frameworks that the site is using which can be damaging to some companies. I am sure there is a way to protect against this sort of attack
13. [Grammarly (Extension Link](http://ift.tt/1WXA6wt) – Grammarly is a plugin that is used to check grammar, spelling and other such things when writing. Whenever it finds something wrong it makes it with a red underscore which you scan scroll over and it explains the error and shows you how to fix it. If you click accept or on the green text provided it will make the change automatically for you. For long form writing there is a way where Grammarly takes covers the screen and just goes over the errors with you so you fix ever grammar/spelling mistake in the entire article before uploading or submitting it. I love it because I blog and write a lot both for blogs and on my marketing job so it helps keep everything written in perfect form. It is my FAVORITE Chrome Extension by far and the one I recommend the most!
914. Toky (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1THnLZa)– Toky provides a link that you give out to people so that they can call you directly from their laptop to your phone. Not sure if I would use it but I registered anyway and will put the link on my email signature in case anyone wants to use it. It seems weird at first but I guess with the way the Internet is going there are weirder things out there.
[15. Fontface Ninja (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1WXA8o8) — This extension is pretty straightforward. You are browsing the Internet and you see a font that you like. This extension allows you to automatically take that font and find the name of the font. If it’s free you can download it then. Pretty simple and straight forward.
[16. Klout (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1THnwgM) — Klout is like the popularity contest o the Internet. It gives you a number based on what IT thinks your popularity, is based on how many friends you have on certain social networks, and other algorithm secret things. I installed Klout to see if it would work but I do keep track of my Klout score, which I won’t even lie, I try to increase. It’s actually starting to matter to me know my Klout score. I guess it’s the ego and pride in all of us that makes Klout work. Eventually, everyone wants to be popular online or offline. You get used to giving a damn about your Klout score or others Klout score and then we all end up having to do things to try to increase our score which is the point of their business so I congratulate them, they succeeded at that.
[17. Postman (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1WXAfQC) — I heard of Postman before as a program that allowed me to make API calls to endpoints in various different languages so I figured this had something to do with that. I was right it’s a HTTP client that allows you to make API calls or any calls to certain endpoints and I guess to test the response/result to make sure it works. After doing some research I found out that the same people who made the Postman Application for my Mac make it and it is one of the MOST AMAZING applications for making API calls using many different languages and types of languages. Without it, I wouldn’t have been able to solve some serious software issues that we were having at the time so I HIGHLY RECOMMEND POSTMAN NO MATTER WHAT JUST BECAUSE OF THAT! Plus it’s free!
[18. aHrefs Search Volume (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1THnrtw) — AHREFS is already a pretty awesome site for marketing geeks like me but an extension for chrome. Definitely had to get it. I haven’t tried it yet but I am sure it provides such information on sites you are visiting such as backlink count, keyword ranking ability or traffic levels.
[19. SEOQuake (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1WXAqeL) — This is a plugin that I use regularly. While you search Google it provides a bar underneath every search result with stats such as backlink count, domain age, Trust rank, citation flow, etc. and other marketing interesting stats that may interest some. It also provides other useful tools that many SEO and marketing experts find necessary and I agree. I wouldn’t go a day without SEOQuake.
[20. Instapaper (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1THoaej) — Instapaper helps you read more. Most pocket users end up going back to Instapaper for some reason, it must be better or something I guess, but I am not here to decide that. Here is a quote from a user:
“Instapaper is built with the experience of reading in mind rather >than the mere technological feat of being able to save articles on >any platform. Some articles don’t even look that good in >Instapaper. But the environment that the app creates and the >sense of reading that it transmits are, for me, far superior to any >fancy interface, third-party integration, or iCloud-only perk that I >may get with other services. There are many great read-later apps, >but Instapaper is what feels best for me.” — Unknown User from http://ift.tt/1IWqw00
[21. Pocket (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1CM7qJX) — A plugin that lets you mark certain pages or articles as read for later. It’s great if you find an article or blog post or even page that you like but just don’t have the time to go through it at that moment so it put it’s in the “pocket” for you so that when you do have time you just go back to your pocket and pick one out to ready.
[22. Readability (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1THnLZ5) — According to MacWorld “Readability provides convenience for mobile reading.” Is this true or not? Let’s find out. Its workflow is beyond minimalistic and actually pretty simple. Their website is in the same design flow. Their free iOS application is both eye-pleasing and easy to use, something rarely found working together. It not only saves the saved content but it turns it into a minimalistic format for you while you wait to read it. The eye-pleasantness and minimalist deign of the application/extension itself make it a must have for me in my opinion. If you want to learn more about it go to www.thelegitblog.com to learn more!
[23. Feedly (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1WXAP0J) — Feedly is a news aggregator application for various web browsers as well as mobile devices on both Android and iOS. It is even available on a cloud-based service, Feedly is in the future already, seeing the writing on the wall and moving into a cloud-based infrastructure. Feedly provides me with the new stories that I are about when I want to read them and it provides them at the right time and that is why I stand behind that extension.'
[24. Any.Do (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1THnzcl) — Called the “Most Popular To-Do List Manager” By LifeHacker. Considered the best to-do list app for you is a personal choice at the end of the day depending on which features you think are most important but at first glance some stand out immediately and Any.Do was one of them. It provides the basics of to-do applications, and is available on the IPhone, Android, Chrome, the Web and any Desktop. It syncs between any of those devices so you are always focused on the task at hand. It sends reminders on what matters to you so you never forget to that task that needs to get done. It includes a Daily Planner, Share and Delegate tasks with your team, Upload files, Sync Files as discussed, includes notes along the way and even accomplish subtasks within tasks themselves.
[25. StayFocused (Extension Link)](http://ift.tt/1WXAniR) — Stay focused an extension for blocking certain sites so that the user can focus on getting work done. Let’s go through some of the pros of such software. Number 1, its highly customizable with the settings for blocking time-wasting sites. It can create time specific limits, color-coded icons can show blocked or allowed and neutral sites. Countdown clocks pause when you the leave the active tab. Best of all, it is a free extension/app. Of course, there are some cons, as with any app, although not many whatsoever, firstly, currently its only or Chrome and you can’t customize different time limits for different blocked sites which should be a big feature in the future if StayFocused is looking to expand.
Written By: Alving J Garcia Marcano (Owner & Blogger @ The Legit $ociety) http//www.thelegitblog.com
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