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Firefox Extensions That Make Me A Better Marketer

While speaking at CommerceThink ’07 for Google this week, I spent the first day sitting next to Avinash Kaushik, who told me all about a Firefox extension called, DownThemAll!, that enables you to download everything off of a single Web page. This comes in handy after conferences when you’re given a link to an individual Web page that houses all of the presentations.

It got me thinking about how I’ve switched from Microsoft Internet Explorer exclusively to Firefox because of the extensions. It’s also the main reason why I have not had any interest in trying out Flock. It also got me thinking about the many extensions I use on a daily basis, and how they make me a much more efficient Marketer. I thought I would share them with you in the hopes that you would share some of the ones you use.

Here we go:

– Alexa Sparky – this one gives me some quick Alexa website rankings live on the page.

– del.icio.us – enables to save, tag and bookmark info on the fly.

– FireFTP – great little FTP app. This is how I get Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast from my laptop to your ears.

– Google Notebook – another great little extension that gives me my Google Notebook as I need it.

– Google Reader Notifier – one of my pet peeves about Google Reader is that it only tells you how many items you have up to 1000. This extension gives me the full number of items I need to read.

– Video Downloader – lets me grab videos from YouTube and other video sharing sites, so I can convert them later on for presentations.

– SEO For Firefox – there’s some SEO gold in this extension. From the good people at SEO Book.

Any Firefox extension gems that I am missing?

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.