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If your day is like mine, you access loads of web pages for each client:-
You've also got your internal pages and tools. I've got:-
I've never counted, but with say 20 and 30 clients we access hundreds or even thousands of web pages every week.
For example, checking a campaign in a client's Google Ads account. Before you can start work you have to:-
It takes 2 or 3 minutes of "commuting" before you can start work. And you lose another 3 minutes every time you change account or do some other kind of work. I'm told the average Google Ads manager will spend 7 years waiting for pages to load during their career.*
I'm guessing you've got some workarounds: - keep 100 tabs open, use tab groups or bookmarks on your browser, a spreadsheet with links and so on.
But workarounds are clunky. Too many tabs and you can't find what you're looking for, or they crash your machine. Browser bookmarks don't transfer between Chrome and Safari. And keeping the spreadsheet updated is a pain.
That’s where BookMarkPlus comes in...
Here's how I use BookMarkPlus to save hundreds of hours "commuting" to web pages in my PPC business.
When I onboard a new client I set up a group in BookMarkPlus to hold all the web pages for the client.
I start by creating BookMarkPlus links to my internal tools and folders. When I get access to their Google Ads account I'll copy the URL and set up a link in BookMarkPlus.
I'll do the same with every other page I need to get to for this client.
It takes 20 seconds to add a BookMarkPlus link. After that I never click-wait-click-wait-click-wait. I never hunt through my inbox and I never have to ask the client to resend a link.
Here's an screenshot of an example BookMarkPlus group.
BookMarkPlus costs less than a cup of coffee a month but it frees up hundreds of dollars of billable hours every year.
Go here to try it out. If it works for you, email me and I'll credit your account for the first year.
*This statistic is a lie. I made it up but it feels like it could be true.
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