So I went to a local “Lunch n Learn” in Greenville, SC that was about the famous Google+. I got a lot of good information and I wanna pass it on you everyone.
Business now are asking the same thing about Google+ that they were asking about Facebook. What is so great about it? Why should I have one. In this article I am going to tell you why I think you need a Google+ accout for your business.
Before going to this meeting I really didn’t engage with customer and clients on Google+. But after going to the meeting The answer to both questions is YES!!! Every business should have a Google+ account for one reason and one reason alone. That reason is because it is GOOGLE!  It is still the number one visited website attracting over 1 billion visitors per month. When Google+ was launch about 2 year ago the social network has grown to over  100.8 million users. By the end of 2012 the social network has be estimated to grow to 400 million user.
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One the best this you can do once you join Google+ is to use the +1 button. This button is the best thing that Google+ has. Â Above is an example of it looks like. Using this button everywhere on your website. There are 3 main reason use google +1 button.
- Better social search rankings.
- It broadens your consumer appeal.
- Potential to upsell, cross sell and just sell.
If someone +1′s your your site,product, or blog post. Which will help your SEO. Unlike the Facebook Like button, the +1 button is not confined to just the social network. It is searchable by Google. Which give you an advantage over a competitor that is not o Google+.  You can do a couple of cool things if someone +1′d your website/product. Consider offering some a discount or even free shipping on there current purchase or next.
I will leave you with a couple of cool facts about Google+. (via NVAB [Updated Feb 2012
Google Plus (+) Growth Statistics & User Trends)
Google+’s has reached a monumental milestone of 25 million unique global visitors in just over a month.
- Google+ has become the fastest social networking service to reach 25 million unique visitors.
- This quick ascent outpaced MySpace, Twitter and Facebook.
- Google+ now has more than 62 million users, according to Paul Allen, Ancestry.com founder and unofficial traffic analyst for Google’s social network. That’s not 62 million active users, just the number of total users.
- Google has aggressively integrated Google+ into many other properties, including its top navigation bar and the OneBox and hence its expected to gain certain baseline amount of sign-ups from among the hundreds of millions of people using other Google products.
- As per comScore Google+ had grown to 67 million monthly unique visitors in November 2011, up 2 million from October 2011. The reason could be that the web measurement firm’s methodology includes sampling browsing habits from people who have monitoring software installed on their computers. It has been measuring traffic to plus.google.com, meaning it counts anyone who clicks through within a given month, but not G+ related traffic elsewhere. Thus, while it does show active usage, it is not measuring users, just visitors.
- More people are signing up now than in previous months, with nearly a quarter of the total user base in December alone, and around 625,000 new users per day at this point.
- Some of that acceleration is due to engagement (people using the service and inviting new friends to join, who then also start using it regularly. Coupled with comScore’s numbers and you can guess that the site is growing both in total size and engagement.
- Google Plus (+) could reach 400 million users by the end of 2012.
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Thanks to Forbes and NVAB for stats.
- Forbes- Three Reasons You Should Use Google+ In Your Business
- NVAB -Â Google Plus (+) Growth Statistics & User Trends
