Most, perhaps the vast majority of the independent talent out there is mining Google Plus in one way or another. The value of an account is essentially limitless. Google + turns cross-functional and cross-cultural teams of hand-picked best-of-breed resources into finely tuned engines of commerce.
Our solutions design process builds on free services. If needed we look at paying fees, we always aim for minimal expense. So,we've had a policy -- begin with Google Hosted services. If for some reason clients can identify a legitimate reason the enterprise tools can't work, or be extended... we'll start looking at self-hosted or other…
No surprise. We all know Google is driving it's products to evolve so that search results are more and more confined to content that we actually want to see. Getting rid of the "noise" and clutter is critical to the relevance of their product and advertising models. Read $. This article at Social Strategies blog…
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