It started out as invite only-platform, but in september it opened its doors completely. All you need to participate is a google-account.

Google has not made public any official numbers so far, but + is said to have estimated users at this point: 50 million! Pretty impressive, right? Will Google+ be the one to take over the Facebook-reign? We don’t know, but it’s going to be an exciting neck-on-neck, that’s for sure. Google+ proclaims to aim for sharing on social media to be more like you would do it in real life. Consequently, it offers loads of interesting and useful functionalities, such as hangouts, circles and +1-buttons (Stay tuned on our Blog-posts for more explanations on these) and they keep adding new functionalities exceeding facebook-utilities by far.

Facebook retaliated with changes to their platform last month but users seem to be more annoyed with them than delighted. 86% of the users even say to hate them and an ” I hate Facebook changes”-button is already out there. Google+ business pages are next to come up and eagerly waited for. Google announded to introduce them this month. Once these are up and running the plus-train seems unstoppable.

And what about you? Do you have a plus-account already or are you thinking about one? Maybe you are just wondering what the next craze will be? All seems possible and unpredictable in social media–land. Anyway, it seems like not such a bad idea to get started on plussing and get ahead of the competition while you still can, but just don’t close up your facebook-shop yet. And if you need assistance, let us know! To plus or not to plus, that is the question!

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How to use pinterest for your business? A short blogpost to get you started…

Pinterest is one of the fastest growing communities online. Apparently it is sending more traffic to their users’ websites than Yahoo organic search. Even more than Bing and Twitter!  I’m not sure about these figures though. It seems that exaggerating and socialmedia often go hand in hand . However, I am convinced on the usefulness of this platform.

If you want to make a start at this you might want to check out;

• this free eBookhttp://www.hubspot.com/how-to-use-pinterest-for-business/
• 2 Interesting pinboards for businesses:
  • http://pinterest.com/pinterestbiz/
  • http://pinterest.com/entrepreneuress/pinterest-for-business-webinar/
• And this infographic to get you going… http://pinterest.com/pin/214695107207132219/

See you on pinterest!

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