Setting up a Google+ page.
I am Checking out the new brand page on Google+ and setup a page for my company which does web design, cloud backups, and performs other computer services for our customers.
Not much to setting up the page. Enter the country, enter the phone number and Google tries to locate your business, then your prompted for an image to upload, and finally you arrive at your new page and are presented with the following options.
Start the conversation:
People want to hear from you! Start sharing photos, videos, links and other interesting content publicly
Connect your website:
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.
Tell the world:
This is a link to your page. Distribute it everywhere you communicate online to encourage people to add your page to their circles so your posts will appear in their stream.
Build your circles:
Once people have added your page to their circles, you can add them back. Use your circles to get the right message to the right people.
So as you can see it is really easy to setup your “brand” on Google+ but my problem is will it be worth the effort as Google+ is just not gaining traction against the big three social networking sites; linkedin.com, twitter, and of course facebook.
So let me know what you think. Is Google+ a must or bust?
Matthew Davidson