Five Things Small Businesses Must Know about Google Plus

Google Plus can be very useful for small business owners if they can understand what Google Plus is and what they can do with it. So, now, I will tell about the main five things that small business owners must know.

1.    +1 feature

The +1 feature can be inserted into business owners’ blogs or webpages. It is somewhat similar to the Facebook “like” tool.

2.    Circles

    With help of this feature small business owners can divide their contacts into circles. These circles will allow determine which information show to which people. This always allows divide some of the contacts into circles surrounding the business and others into circles for the personal life.

3.    Google+ is very hot social network

 In a very short period Google+ has amassed more than 100, and its growth has not stopped. On January 19, 2012, it was reported that Google+ had surpassed a user base of 90 million. According to independent analysis of its growth in December 2011, the site was adding an estimated number of 625,000 new users a day, which may total 400 million members by the end of 2012. The site's popularity accelerated in December 2011, with almost a quarter of its total user base joining in December alone, said Paul B. Allen, the founder of Ancestry.com, who tracks the numbers as the "unofficial statistician" for Google+. Thus, it becomes a good place for small businesses around the world.

4.    Google+ is a social network which includes a collection of different social products. These include Stream (a newsfeed), Sparks (a recommendation engine), Hangouts (a video chat service), Games and Photos.

5.    Features for Google+ Mobile

Google Plus has improved SMS support so that users from all over the world can post to Google+, receive notifications, and respond to group messages via SMS. They have also made it easier to +mention someone from a mobile device. Users are edit their profile photos from a mobile device. Google has made it simple to organize Google+ notifications from a mobile device. This feature allows business owners to select which notifications are important to them and which are not so that their mobile devices are not inundated with superfluous notifications.

 However, every small business should use the full features of Google Plus. All the features that businesses can use at the moment are free. The slogan of the Google Plus is “real-life sharing rethought for the web. It is available in 40 languages. Google+ integrates social services such as Google Profiles and Google Buzz, and introduces new services identified as Circles, Hangouts and Sparks. Google+ is available as a website and on mobile devices. Google+ is considered the company's fourth foray into social networking, following Google Buzz, Google Friend Connect and orkut.