This is our Google+ for Business How to get started with Google Plus Pages for Business Quick Start guide.

Here is a quick start guide for Google+ for Business Pages.  This is a quick start guide. Here is comprehensive guide on How to Setup  your Google+ Business Page

Get Started!

A comprehensive guide on How to Setup  your Google+ Business Page

Once you launch the “Start Creating your Page” button, you will navigate through setting up your Google+ Business Pages.

Create a Business Profile:
You will need a personal profile for Google+ first.  Then log into your Google Account to start creating your page

Create a Business Page
Google+ can really help out businesses to promote themselves with the +1 button.  You may have special sales, promos, or even an event that may bring in thousands of people to your website(or Google Plus Business Page)

Get your Google+ Circles off the Ground:
Google Plus Circles are the easiest way to help your business idea to flourish.  Google Plus Circles will help with your networking.  Add people to your circles and they will add you back creating a great circle of friends, acquaintances and colleagues in today’s business world.

Sharing!

Start conversing with people!  Share and share alike

Let’s take a fast look at how to share on Google+
Google+ Business Pages help you build better and more resourceful relationships with customers by allowing them to share ideas, photos, images, posts, and sales  with the right people at the right times. Want to offer a behind-the-scenes look at your product team in action? Highlight a unique sale? Get live, face-to-face feedback by holding multi-person video chats with customers all over the world? With Google+ Pages, you can share what matters in a way that matters most to your business.

Publish Posts:
Publishing Posts on Google+ is very important.  Let’s say you have already have 30 potential customers on your page, how can you convert them into buying customers?   Use your stream to post exciting content related to your business.  Make your posts public so that others, who don’t have you in their circle, can read your post.  Ask probing questions about the business.

Utilize Hangouts:
Google+ hangouts can be very helpful with the promotion of sales, events, and even conversing with customers and colleugues alike. Google+ Hangouts are high quality video and can be a lot of fun.  Just ask the Dalai Lama 

 Switch to Managing your Circles:
Different people are interested in different parts of your business. Whether it’s breaking news, updates, promotions, links, photos – even talking face-to-face with groups via easy-to-use video chat – Google+ lets you easily share the right things with the right customers.

Promote Your Business with Google+ For Business Pages!

Get your Google+ badge asap.
Get the word out and et people know you’re on Google Plus and want to promote your buiness.  Google+ badge to your site. The Google+ badge is a brand new way for the +1 button that connects your site to your page. This enhanced version of the +1 button contains the ability to +1, see personal annotations, and add your page to a circle, directly from your site. Or, just install the Google+ icon. Whenever someone who likes your site clicks the icon, they will be taken to your Google+ page where they can add your page to their circles, and be able to follow your posts from then on

Direct Connect and Google+
Direct Connect is a fast and easy way to include your Google Plus Business Page into the Google Search.  The amount of searches done on Google daily is crazy!  Many of them are looking for Businesses and will be able to locate your page by simply typing a + in the beginning or the end of the search. Google Direct Connect makes it simple to locate them.  As more and more pages are indexed and added to the Google+ index, they will show up more and more.

Utilize the +1 button! 
The plus 1 button will allow you to recommend a page. When the +1 button is clicked, you are saying that you publicly recommending this page that you are on to your certain Google +

The +1 Connection:
Help people see their friends’ recommendations, wherever they find you on the web by connecting +1s for your website, with +1s on your Google+ page and ads.

Google will allow +1 sharing on it’s Search Page:
When the +1 button is clicked, it’s a recommendation.  When the +1 button is clicked on a search page, the result ends up being right on the search page.  The more people click your +1 from the search pages, the more they will stay on your page.  +1s will also start to show up on display ads as well.