Only fools don’t use tools
August 20th, 2007 | by ScottIt appears that you're new here, if you like what you read, please subscribe to the news feed or sign up for the Leap eTips news and updates email list. Thank you for visiting :)
I love tools and widgets! They exist to make life, tasks and work easier for us, so as the saying goes, you should “smoke ‘em if you got ‘em”.
Since I spend the bulk of my work hours viewing either my email program or my web browser, it only makes sense that I use add-on tools for these applications that assist me in what I need to do each day, and greatly improve my productivity.
Here’s a quick list of a few free add-ons for the FireFox web browser (if you aren’t using FireFox you should be!) that I’d suggest anyone doing any kind of online marketing or business have:
Blue Dot - Blue Dot is a social bookmarking site that can drive large volumes of traffic to your pages if you provide quality content, having this add-on allows you to submit any web page you’re viewing to Blue Dot at any time
StumbleUpon - Another social bookmarking site that can drive high traffic to your pages, works like the Blue Dot add-on above
Google Toolbar for FireFox - I’m always having to lookup stuff, this lets me do it from any web page rather than having to visit Google.com first
Google Notebook - store information and notes for anything, anywhere (great for when visiting a new site that sparks an idea for you)
ReminderFox - expands your browser to also be an appointment book / alarm clock
SearchStatus - will provide you with lots of traffic and page information for your site (or your competitor’s sites)
SEO For FireFox - another tool for gathering information about web pages for analysis
AdSense Notifier - okay, this one doesn’t really improve my productivity but it’s fun to watch my earnings from adsense rise through-out the day
I believe I’ve downloaded and installed all of these right from Mozilla’s site, so you should be able to find them (and more) here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
If you can’t find one of them on Mozilla, just do a quick Google search using “Add_On_NAME firefox add-on” and you should be good to go.
Seriously, I use every one of these over and over again, every day, all day long and they save me hours of time by having them all available right on the browser.
Stumble It!
