Google+ for brands and companies launched

If you’ve been waiting to use Google+ for your business then the wait is over. Google+ has finally launched the feature which allows brands and businesses to have a presence on this social network.

If you’re already using G+ on a personal level you will notice that the new G+ brand Pages look similar to G+ Profiles. The set up and page customisation, for the moment, is very straight forward and quick, if you want to give it a try just click here.
G+ is nowhere close to Facebook in terms of users, I’ve read G+ has somewhere close to 45 millions, but your brand could be doing well on G+ if aimed at men since about 75% of its users are males.
To help people 'googling' companies transform their queries into meaningful connections another service has also just been launched; Google+ Direct Connect, which lets you quickly navigate to a G+ Page (and even add that page to your circles) when using Google Search. 
This video below explains it all.


Of course I had to set up a page for Oman Collective Intelligence, and this will be my first post on it. Will you set up yours?

3 comments:

  1. 800 million users on Facebook, and I'm told that almost all (99%+) of "Google+" users also have active Facebook accounts and are experimenting with the new platform.

    I'm sure Google are hoping to do to Facebook what Facebook did to Myspace, Bebo, Hi5 and a dozen others. But it's a much bigger hill to climb...I'll leave it a year and see how the numbers are looking before bothering with Google+.

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  2. Pro: Way better than Facebook in terms of directing content to/from contacts - and Facebooks attempts to catch up are causing mayhem with newsfeeds. I believe most Facebook users would jump if they could be sure everyone else would.

    Con: Everything is linked to one Google account. So if you use a different name, profile pic in plus, it changes in your e-mail and everywhere else. Facebook users won't want to be first to jump.

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  3. @Lino; i also thought of giving it sometime but in the mean time I'll play with it and find out more. After all who could go after Facebook if not Google?
    @Mr Grumpy; agree with you, it has some advantages and disadvantages. I was hoping for G+ to come up with something better for Pages since they waited so long to introduce them. Let's give it sometime but i would not be surprised if it failed.

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