Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 22, 2011

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve written a few times about Google+, but what I haven’t done is told you why your local business should be using Google+ for social networking, marketing, and branding. You can easily share videos through Google+ with your YouTube account. There is actually more than one reason.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 11, 2011

Foursquare – The local networking website. YouTube – The video sharing monolith owned by Google. In all, Klout is now measuring your influence across ten different social networks. It will soon add Google+, Facebook pages, Yelp, Posterous, WordPress.com, and Quora as networks that it tracks for its users.

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Twist Image

JANUARY 17, 2012

Back in July, I Blogged about Google 's foray into online social networking, Google+ (more here: Co-dependency In The Age of Facebook ). This new social integration means a whole lot for businesses. It's time to pay attention to Google+. The idea behind Search plus Your World is both simple and elegant.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 23, 2012

Find photos from Flickr or Picasa — be sure to use Creative Commons photos — or buy royalty-free stock photography, and put them in your blog posts for added impact. Put these on YouTube and/or Vimeo, embed them in your blog posts, and share them on your social networks as well.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

percent of all searches conducted, while Google Orkut has a dominant position in social networking (96.0 percent of time spent) and Google-owned YouTube in the multimedia category (91.6 percent of all searches conducted, and had commanding share of time spent in social networking with Orkut (68.2 percent).

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Mindjumpers

JUNE 28, 2010

You can choose and customize between different layouts can be incorporated with other Google services like Feedburner, Picasa etc. It doesn’t require your own hosting and domain name and you can log in by using your Google account. Yet, it is easy to use and you are allowed to change the html for free.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 3, 2011

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. Google Buzz.

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