Today Google plus went live and open to everyone. With 20 million people engaging in the first three months in its trail stage, the Google+ platform now hopes to capture the masses. While some writers like Robert over at BundlePost are betting against Google+ and predicating it to be the threat to Google, I am […]
Google AdWords: Call Metrics & Click to Call
Since Dec. 2010, Google has allowed placement of phone numbers in AdWords text body. Their rational was that most people seeing the ad know they are one click away from the advertiser’s site, where they can find all the information without bothering anyone. They thought people would be unlikely to call instead of clicking the […]
Google Plus (G+): Business Review
After months of rumors, speculations, analysis and fear, Google finally unveiled its social media platform Google +, now what has that meant for business? They’ve decided to roll it out slowly, by invitation only, and the response was overwhelming. So much so that they had to issue an apology for taking so long to register […]
Digital Brand Experience: Google shares it’s thoughts on Brand
Digital Brand Marketing is about taking traditional concepts and rethinking how those practices can be streamlined and transformed into digital practices. I have repeatedly published on how so many businesses have taken the extreme approach to digital and social marketing. This has resulted in lost opportunities and negative impact on their brand. If you do […]
Is Google Plus (G+) the key in the transition to Web 3.0
A Google account has become the most powerful tool that any entrepreneur or small business owner could ever hope for. While Google’s general public brand has been tied to Search, Google has been building a monopoly that can and will change the shape of business, politics, and education forever. In fact, Google is Web 3.0! […]
Google Plus: A short Intro to G+
Vic Gundotra of Google explained that, connection is a “basic human need”. The current online choices in social media did not have enough diversity inside each individual social tool. Who should be worried about Google+: GoToMeeting Flikr Skype Facebook Microsoft EVERYONE! Bradley Horowitz, VP Products helped build Google+ explained in an interview for Twit: Google+ […]
Google Throws Down the Gauntlet at Facebook in Social Network Struggle
Google’s last two shots at storming the social networks, Google Buzz and Google Wave, met an early, and not entirely unexpected, demise. However, +1 may contain a few vital elements that make it far less likely to go unnoticed. Custom Filtering Being able to filter your contacts into groups and determine who can and cannot […]
Google +1 Goes Live with Adwords
Google Experimental Labs has been testing its +1 feature, similar to a Facebook “Like” for a few months now. For those participating in the experiment, a +1 box at the end of each website’s title on a search engine query display allowed them to give their digital stamp of approval to sites they enjoy. So […]
The PR State of Facebook
In a few days in Silicon Valley there were some rather unusual ideas, stories, and news articles, pitched that insinuated that Google was invading their users’ privacy. PR agency Burson-Marsteller, even offered to assist a highly influential blogger write an Anti-Google op-ed, promising him it would be posted in places like The Huffington Post or […]
Google: Social, Cloud and more
It seems these days the biggest players in the computer world are raging wars against each other. And this war has the potential of changing the computing world as we know it. Google wants a share in social media platform and working very hard to create a model that will work. They’ve tried it unsuccessfully […]