"This is a topic I have discussed many times, but unfortunately cost is all too often the deciding…"
Google+ Local: New Marketing Opportunity?
As you may have heard, Google+ (Google's equivalent to Facebook) recently merged with Google Places (it's local search product). This represents a significant change in the world of online marketing, as local search and social media are coming much closer together. For some good background and analysis, check out http://www.energycircle.com/blog/2012/06/20/what-home-performance-b....
What I'm curious about is how everyone is adjusting? What has been your experience in making the switch? Challenges? New marketing opportunities? Are home energy pros even using Google+? Although not as widely used as Facebook, Google + still has over 90 million users, so there's got to be some value there!
Tags: Google, Google+, Local, Marketing, Media, Online, Places, Social
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Permalink Reply by Patrick Michaelyan on -
Just created a listing for my company. We'll see where this takes us...
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Permalink Reply by Diane Chojnowski on -
Home Energy Saver has a Google+ page and two Facebook pages (One for consumers and one for home professionals.) We've nurtured the Facebook page quite a bit over the last two years and now have over 3200 members on the consumer side and 631 on the pro side. We see a lot of business to business connections on Google+ which is good for spreading the word about energy efficiency. But, it's slower going on that platform...
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Permalink Reply by Johnny Ritzo on -
For anyone who is interested, we put up a recorded webinar on Google + Local two weeks ago. You can check it out at http://www.energycircle.com/pro. Enjoy!
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