Empire Avenue can become time consuming if you aren’t careful. Maintaining a decent portfolio and engaging with shareholders becomes increasingly difficult as your network grows. I’ve been on Empire Avenue ((e)PenguinSpark) a few months and too make my time on EAv more efficient I’ve developed several tricks and added several tools to my routine. Here are 5 of them:

1. Short links

I’ve noticed I type the address to my Empire Avenue stock a lot more these days. I found out through #SocialEmpire there’s a way to create a shortened version of the link. The standard way to link to your profile is simply adding your ticker to the end of the domain like so http://EmpireAvenue.com/PenguinSpark. However, there is a way to shorten this by replacing EmpireAvenue.com with e-av.me to create http://e-av.me/PenguinSpark. Go ahead and try it in the comments and I’ll click through and buy some shares.

2. Reply with tabs

If you’re at all active on Empire Avenue you are all too familiar with the flood of notifications. I personally like to reply to every shout out and it was getting very frustrating. You have to reload a page for every reply, then back to notifications wait for it to load, scroll down, click on shout, etc. etc. etc. All the loading takes forever. Solution:

1. Go to notifications (the actual page, not the popup window).
2. Sort by shout outs.
3. Right click shout, open in new tab. Don’t go to the page.
4. Repeat this process for every single shout in your list.
5. Go to each tab, reply to shout out, then close tab.

This reduce the amount of time it takes to reply to shout outs considerably. It’s also a good way to sort out and see which mentions or shout outs were in the same threads so you don’t waste time clicking back and forth to a thread with several of the notification comments in it.

3. Pod101′s Grease Monkey Script

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way webpages look and function. – Greasespot.net

This is a script titled “EmpireAvenue Daily Dividend ROI” is developed by Paul Houstion (e)Pod101. I love it because it shows the div% in the list view. It makes going through your portfolio a lot easier. You have to use the old style portfolio to use it however. To use the old style portfolio go to settings. On the bottom right you will see a section titled “Portfolio settings.” Set it to old style and go to your portfolio to check out the awesomeness. It works on Firefox and Chrome, I’m not sure about other browsers.

4. TeamZen.org

Team Zen was started by Frédéric Dénommé, aka (e)Zen. Zen’s goal was to reach the top 10 wealth, which he has accomplished, and he started Team Zen to share his knowledge and help other people amass wealth. It quickly became one of the fastest growing and most engaged communities on Empire Avenue. I highly encourage you to check out their Facebook group or Empire Avenue community for hot stock tips as well as tips for increasing your returns. The latest element to the group: TeamZen.org. This simple website merely analyzes (e)Zen’s portfolio and ranks influencer investments according to his scale. If you want an easy way to find good investments quickly, this is it.

(e)Zen has written the code under open source. If you’re interested in working with the script contact him.

5. P3 Pirillow Power Pack

A lot of people are already aware of the P3 Empire Avenue extension, and a lot are not. It is an extension for the Google Chrome browser. There a few extensions out there but this is the most well rounded one. When you view a stock it tells you what your return is based on price, dividends, or both. It will also turn any ticker name on Twitter into an EAv link to their portfolio. This EAv extension is spear headed by Chris Pirillow and developed by members of his community. They are receptive to feedback and every update helps polish the extension.

The major downside to this extension is it requires your name and password for Empire Avenue to function. Currently EAv doesn’t offer o’auth. O’auth is basically what lets you log into a website with your Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other 3rd party accounts.

There are other tips and apps out there that I’m not aware of. I always like to learn about new ways to do things. If you have a suggestion please leave it. Drop your EAv ticker in and I’ll pick up some shares too.