Google Plus for Business Pages or Google+ Business Pages, call it what you may. If you are here, you and/or your brand or business are interested in learning more about promoting your brands or businesses on the ever so popular Google+. Learn more:
- How to Setup your Google+ Business Page.
- How to Customize Your Google+ Page.
- How to Pimp your Google+ Page.
First of all, let’s go into why you may be interested in this idea. Let’s face it, Facebook is insanely popular isn’t is? With Facebook’s almost 1 billion members, getting your business word out to the masses is very important. Promoting your business online through the use of social media, whether small or large, is almost a necessity these days. Amongst the most important social media platforms to promote your business on would be Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace and now Google+. Before social media, we small business owners promoted our businesses online though use of custom built websites. As I stated above, promoting your business online through the use of social media is a MUST these days.
Google+ Business Pages can also help you deliver your great content to users in a way that’s easy to share with their friends. We did you a favor and wrote How to Setup your Google+ Business Page and How to Customize Your Google+ Page. We wrote about the +1 button as a way for your customers to recommend your business across the web – on Google search, in your ads, on sites across the web and on mobile devices. Now, your customers can +1 your Page, recommending your actual brand — not just an individual ad or a site — directly to their friends.
As of November 7, 2011, Google officially announced this great service for Google + Business pages or Google+ Pages for Brands. If anyone knows the importance of social media and businesses, Google does. Finally many businesses will be launching their Google+ for Business Brands page.
Your first step should be to integrate the +1 feature into your blog or website by updating your website with this code. When you’ve added this, members will be able +1 you if you they have a Google Plus profile and they are logged into their Google Accounts.
When we compare Facebook Fan Business Pages and Google+ Business pages they both show rich media, how many +1s(or likes in Facebook’s case), image ribbon, circles and fans. We finally know they will be called “Google+ Pages. Notice the “verified” at the top right as well of some business pages. This will ensure that people will know the difference between the real company and fakes.
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Create a Turkey on Google then Share it on Google+
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Google+ Promoting Connecting with your Communities
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Google+ Creative Kit Now Available
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