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Facebook vs google + (8 posts)

Albert Mora said
7 months ago:
From a marketing point of view, which one works better for your business?
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Kathy Bernard said
7 months ago:
I don’t find Facebook or Google + to be particularly valuable for my business (I have a career help web site and I offer career services). Facebook is so scattered in its diverse messaging, it’s hard to find a following there and Google+ just seems too new, too small, too random to be helpful.
By far, I find LinkedIn to be the most useful site to build my business. In fact, I came across this statistical information recently: LinkedIn generates the highest visitor-to-lead conversion rate at 2.60%, 4 times higher than Twitter (.67%) and 7 times better than Facebook (.39%), according to a study of 3,128 business customers of the marketing agency HubSpot.
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Claudia Poeckl said
6 months, 4 weeks ago:
At the moment, I find Facebook more valuable. But I’m confident, that Google+ will be the future.
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Lauren Topliffe said
6 months, 4 weeks ago:
I have been very focused on marketing through Facebook. I have not setup a Google+ page yet. I market for a mall in Buffalo, NY. I don’t want to be jumping all over the place with different social media platforms. I would rather focus my time on growing & improving Twitter & Facebook, which is what I have been doing!
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Albert Mora said
6 months, 4 weeks ago:
@claudiapoeckl
Given that Google owns almost owns 100% of the search engines market, that would not be a good thing.
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Courtney at RRI said
6 months, 4 weeks ago:
Google+ is worth the investment, if only for the SEO benefits it provides when people are searching for your brand and related entities. That being said, although the engagement rate is low, I know there are a lot of folks just quietly watching their Google+ feeds every few days. If your clientele would have been the type to use Google Reader (RIP best Google product ), they likely migrated to Google+.
It’s also useful if you’re a Google Analytics user, as everything is nicely integrated.
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Andrea Vahl said
6 months, 4 weeks ago:
I agree, @courtney_rriI think if you have connected with people on Google+ it can be a great place to stand out since there isn’t as much noise there. I like LinkedIn status updates for the same reason. I have people telling me I’m all over the place on LinkedIn but really I only post there a few times a week – it just is more visible. But Facebook is still where the most people are.
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Moin Shaikh said
6 months, 3 weeks ago:
@albertmora definitely, Facebook is the winner at the moment when it comes to community building and engagement but when it comes to search engine performance and finding visitors/customers through pure search on internet, i emphasize on Google+ and agree with your thoughts that since Google owns 100% of the search engine, it will surely have major impact on how businesses market themselves in near future @claudiapoeckl. I mean facebook can be seen as a customer relationship tool while google+ may be seem as a pure web marketing/traffic generation tool. I bet if marketers know how to use Google+, they can get more than their expectations. That’s what i recently wrote about in a blog at : http://www.intesols.com.au/cgblog/44/217/4-tips-on-using-Google-to-increase-your-Search-Engine-Rankings.html
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