Janet Fouts

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Custom Short URLs for Google+ At Last!

Janet Fouts

Tired of explaining why you have a long string of numbers as the URL for your Google+ page? Then you’ll be as excited as I am to hear Google+ is finally rolling out custom URLs for both personal profiles and pages. In the meantime you could use the Google URL shortener GPlus.to

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Creating Google Plus Business Pages

Janet Fouts

Everybody’s been arguing over the value of Google Plus lately. Well, Google just changed the conversation in a big way and just in time. The announcement of Google pages for business came just in time to turn the whole argument on it’s head. Select one and you are now using Google plus as your page.

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Are Google+ Business Pages Replacing Facebook Pages?

Janet Fouts

I speak a lot about Google+ as a tool for business. In fact I’ve just written a book called “ Google+ for Business Tweet ” and I’m presenting a second Focus.com Roundtable in February. A “vanity URL so you can direct customers to your page in print material or verbally. Here’s the thing.

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Google+ Communities Yay or Wait and See?

Janet Fouts

I don’t know about you but I’ve gotten more than a dozen invitations to Google+ communities in the last couple of days. In case you’re not aware of what that means, Google+ launched a new feature, Google+ Communities on Dec 6. Add to that the very important fact that anyone can create a Google+ Community.

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Naming your Facebook page

Janet Fouts

Naming your page isn’t so important when you set it up.You want it to be evocative of the mission of the page, sure, but you’re probably going to change it anyway, and until you get that precious 25 followers the url is going to look something like this: [link]. Google likes hyphens. I suggest you immediately create a bit.ly

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14 step bare-bones guide to influencer outreach

Janet Fouts

Take the list and search their names, their blog title, URLs to find out how many mentions there are online. Gather links for their Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Linkedin profiles at a minimum. If the influencer is blogging, look up the page rank of their blog on Google to get an idea of how popular the site is.

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What’s the best social media marketing tool for scheduling your updates?

Janet Fouts

It works with most major social networks, namely: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Instagram, and YouTube; in terms of scheduling, thought, with all but YouTube. It works with all the big networks, namely, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, and Instagram.

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