First off Facebook is the king. If you want to promote online Facebook is far more accepted into folks lives than Twitter but I would just like to offer a tip to those small business owners that are using twitter either personally or to promote their business.
I use twitter and like twitter but I fully recognize the power of Facebook. Google plus is just not seeing very much traction other than the folks who are signing up to check it out but very few are actually using it like they use Facebook. If Google Plus came out at the same time as Facebook it would have eaten their lunch but so many folks are heavily invested in their Facebook network and aren’t about to abandon it any time soon for a network where there’s barely any activity.
If you only tweet promotions and never respond or add anything funny or interesting other than trying to pimp your product or service I’m highly likely to either unfollow you or skip right over your tweets figuring that it’s just another in a long list of pitches.
That may sound curt and it’s not to say that you shouldn’t promote your business occasionally but to just hammer away with sales pitch after sales pitch or 3-7 posts in a row, If people are like me they scroll right over your tweet.
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“Google plus is just not seeing very much traction other than the folks who are signing up to check it out but very few are actually using it like they use Facebook.”
Not seeing traction? 50 million people have signed up and it has been public only two weeks is not traction?And yes, people are not using it like Facebook because thank god it is not facebook. Facebook is for kids and your aunt and most kids I know got tired of it a year ago.
Granted, 50 million is not the 950 million using Facebook. If you want to sell a cheeseburger to tweeners or get in touch with that girl from high school who still can’t remember you, stick with Facebook.
G+ is still closed to company profiles and closed to anyone under 18. Barely started.
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They are signing up but not using it due to the large number of folks that use google. if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it does it make a noise. There could be 50 million trees that don’t post and just because people are signing up it doesn’t mean that they are using it.
Believe me I love the interface but am very frustrated by it’s lack of adoption (use wise)
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People see that in a person’s profile there are no posts and come to the conclusion that the person isn’t using Google Plus. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most people, and very much so, the new 30 million people who signed up this past week, do not post publicly.
It is all behind the scenes. To see the stream you must follow. To have anyone see you then you need to be followed.
Example, me: I’m a blabbermouth and I like to read stuff from new people so I found and followed 2,000 people in Google Plus. Got an active G+ stream going. Then I publicly posted some science. Next thing I knew I was identified as a scientist who blabbed about science and was put in a shared circle called the Academy. My followers numbered about 150 a week ago. That number is now 1,200 and rising.
Facebook I would never write about science. There is a cutoff in length (I don’t even know what it is but far too short for a blabbermouth). My Twitter posts are usually just a link or “I’m at ABRF meeting and Fred just embarrassed himself by …” cut off at 144.
I needed something between the professional LinkedIn level and the cute kitten gifs of Facebook and the quick upchuck of Twitter. It’s Google Plus. It doesn’t need to get bigger. It’s all about quality not quantity. (There are kitten gifs galore in G+ but only if you want them. I can turn that part of the stream off in a moment using an extension called “G+ Plus Minus”.
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Good to know.
Great you guys aren’t shy about your responses, lol.
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