Greetings everyone I have been a blogger for 5 years and I have recently had clients opt to create a presence in Google+ instead of starting a blog. I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts on this. Is one better than the other etc?

@beckyflansburg

Your clients are making a huge mistake. You own your blog, it’s your central hub. You have no control over Google +.

@beckyflansburg With the way Google eventually shuts down their products, definitely a bad move.  If your client has a blog on their own website, they don’t have to worry about anyone closing down their content.  If Google were to shut down Google+ (not likely, but always a possibility) then they would lose all of the content they had built there.  

If they’re not worried about that, then they should be worried about the fact that it’s almost impossible to organize their archives in a way that people visiting their profile could see just their posts on a particular topic. That’s something that is really simple when you have a blog.  

@beckyflansburg  I’m going to do this myself. I just signed up to be a Mary Kay rep (I know, I know, but the health insurance is great and inexpensive!) Mary Kay doesn’t allow their Independent Beauty Consultants to have a personal blog that talks solely about Mary Kay. So I’m opting to use my G+ page as my blog. This will be a great experiment!

I think that I will be found just as much as if I had a regular blog …. I just don’t have the flexibility with images and links that I’d like. But we’ll see where it takes me.

Depends on their objectives and needs, Becky. Blogging (gasp) isn’t for everyone.

Agree @biznetworkguy, there’s more than enough room for both. Their uses are slightly different, and if you don’t like writing much blogging probably won’t work over the long haul – which it is. Great discussion, guys.