Web help for Isagenix Associates
“I’m on Google Plus – so now what?”
I get this question a lot, mostly because I’m always talking up how great G+ is. So I’m happy to answer that question here.
First, while Google Plus is different from Facebook in a lot of ways, it’s also different in one important way: The way people follow each other. If I “Friend” you on Facebook, we aren’t friends until you return the favor. However, on Google Plus, I can “Circle” anyone I want.
Since Google Plus (or G+ as we social media hipsters call it) came out, I’ve been crazy about their feature Hangouts. It’s a chat room that lets you invite friends and talk to them via your computer’s web cam. It’s like the future we were promised on, “The Jetsons,” where everyone calls each other up with video phones.
What was also great about it was the ability to share YouTube videos. Since Google owns YouTube, getting the two to work together was a no-brainer for them.
But Google recently made that integration work even better. Here’s a picture of a video on our own Isagenix YouTube Channel:
As you know, we’ve been keeping tabs on the newest social network, Google+. There has been a lot of news and activity surrounding this site: For one thing, webmasters have added the +1 button to their websites more often than they’ve added Twitter’s button. You might remember +1 from my last post on the site.
(Remember, Google+ is a couple of weeks old. Twitter is over four years old.)
Invites appear to be opening up slowly to everyone – so you should ask around to see if you know a member, and get them to invite you in.
The best news for Isagenix business owners, however, is that Google+ will soon have a business version of the site. Right now, any profile on G+ that isn’t a human being – that is, doesn’t have a real name, real birthday, is a company – can be banned from the site. They want to be sure everyone on the site is a person and not an “entity” that’s trying to sell to the other members.
With a business section, however, people will be able to build out a presence for their companies – just as Facebook created Fan Pages.
This is good for everyone:
Until that is created, though, you should definitely put together your Google profile and sign up for the site. The Hangout feature probably has the greatest potential for Isagenix Associates: You can create video chat rooms with multiple people, tell them about your business, and even show videos off of YouTube – which you can all watch while commenting to each other.
Google has definitely made a strong entry into social networks that’s worth checking out.
Yesterday Google finally unveiled their social site, Google+. Invites to the site were available for a few hours yesterday, but were then cut off – either because of technical issues or to generate buzz among the people who want to get in but can’t. (I’m guessing the latter. It’s a strategy that worked for Facebook, after all.)
Seeing as how this may or may not be something important to your online business in the near future, it seemed like a good idea to let you know what the site is all about.
