1. Google+ Pages Google+ For Businesses & Brands

2. Maria Nasioti UX Designer & Front End Developer at BugSense.com Co-Organizer at GTUG Greece

3. What is Google+?

4. What is Google+? "If Facebook and Twitter had a baby, they'd call it Google+" - Olaf Wempe

5. What is Google+? "If Facebook and Twitter had a baby, they'd call it Google+" - Olaf Wempe Public Private

7. JUNE 28th Google launched Google+ to a small group of testers

8. Google+ was the fastest social network to reach 10 million users at 16 days . (Facebook took 852 days to reach that mark and Twitter did it in 780 days )

9. 4 Weeks 88 DAYS ~ 50M Users 2354 days ~ Linkedin 1325 days ~ Facebook 1096 days ~ Twitter

10. Occupations & Companies

12. What does it offer?

13. Circles Easily organize people into groups of the same interest.

15. Hangouts Video chat and instant message with a group of people.

17. Search Receive up to date info on topics of interest.

18. Sparks Online sharing engine. The main thing is staying up to date with my interests .

20. Huddle Have a group texting conversations rather than a bunch of individual texts.

21. Google+ Pages Pages is basically the Google Plus version of Facebook Fan Pages, and gives businesses a chance to claim a profile on the social network so they can interact with and engage their customers and fans.

25. Why Companies Should Invest in Google+ Brand Pages With the recent announcement of Google+ brand pages, many people may be saying “My business is already active on Facebook and Twitter, why should I bother with yet another social media channel?

27. Unique Functionality Future Integration With Other Google Offerings Google+ is ripe for deeper integration with services such as Google Places, Offers and Maps , Web and Image Search, and YouTube. Google has already begun this process in several ways. One of the most recent is the addition of Google +1s into Image Search.

28. How To Create Google Plus Business Pages

31. Can I make someone else an admin of my page? Not yet!!! Can I share content between myself and my page? Create a circle called “Me” or something creative. Add only yourself and your pages to this circle. Now you can simply share your information between your pages and yourself by sharing only with that “Me” circle. Do I really have to use that silly long numeric user name? Nah. You can use a URL shortener to get you a nice tidy URL to share with your friends.

32. Share 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. http://www.google.com/+/business/share.html

33. Spread the word There are lots of ways to promote your site and your Google+ page, from promoting it yourself with Google+ Direct Connect and the Google+ badge, to helping others recommend you with the +1 button.

34. Google+ badge Grow your audience by making it easy for people to find and recommend your page. Place the Google+ badge or a small code snippet on your site. many total people have given positive reviews at this.

35. Connect your website The Google badge icons claims of people who recently chose "+1" for the site, suggesting it to friends. Additionally the badges give the option to add a site to your cycles, and to see how many total people have given positive reviews at this.

36. Direct Connect Now Google+ Direct Connect leverages the “+” symbol for those looking to go directly to a Google+ page in search. Instead of typing in “YouTube Google Plus” Direct connect will allow you to type “+youtube” to be escorted directly to the Google+ page, no results required.

37. Help others promote you +1 recommendations The +1 button combines the power of personal recommendations with the reach of Google, making it easy to start conversations and offer timely recommendations to your social circles across the web Connect your +1's 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.

38. SEO Google +1 The +1 button has already spread across many sites, allowing site owners to amplify their content. If Google uses+1 as a core ranking factor in search,most developers would instantly add to ensure their ranking is maintained.

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