So you’d have to be living under a rock not to be under seige from all of the coverage and buzz surrounding Google + right now. It seems as though all the SEO & Social Media Digerati/pundits have clamped on to this puppy at lightning speed, and my personal opinion is that a whole lot of people in the biz were feeling that Facebook has become their dad’s AOL and they can’t run away from it fast enough. But among the 2000 link bait posts out there talking about “The Top 10 Tips To Get The Most Out of Google +”, there was one tidbit I found that is really worth reading.
Mashable’s Ben Parr recently asked his public circles: “What’s the name of your favorite Google+ circle?” Here is my ranking of the top 10 best replies:
- Inbreds
- People I Call When I’m Dying or Arrested
- Ppl I’ve Kissed
- Ppl I Want to Kiss
- People I NEVER want to Kiss
- Guys Who Pissed Me Off in High School
- Purgatory
- More Bacon Than the Pan Can Handle
- Tila Tequila Wanna-bes
- Muggles
I’ve been working in marketing and advertising since 1985, online marketing since 1992, and had my first experience with the revolution that is search working with the pioneering AltaVista search engine in 1996. I’ve run $100 million TV campaigns for Fortune 500 companies and lived the wonderful, reliable era of mass advertising and long client lunches by the Four Seasons LA pool. And what I can tell you having done this for a while is the safe and predictable orbit of your marketing universe has ended. If you are a marketer, advertiser or just a business trying to get a few customers, disruption is here. All that you need to do to get done what you need to get done, is changing very quickly. Social Media, Content Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Paid Search, Analytics and Mobile Marketing are revolutionizing the way you get people to buy whatever it is you’re selling. And you either need to get on the bus and starting tooting the horn, or at the very least figure out how not to get run over. This blog is here to help you do that.