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Friday, December 31, 2010
Work-at-Home: BlackBerry App Developer Job with Crossfire Consulting
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Work-at-Home: Skybridge Customer Service Seeking New Agents!
You must be able to work independently and have a quiet, secure workspace in your home. For more information on this telecommute job opportunity and to apply, see the job ad here. Good luck!
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5 Home Internet Business Link Building Strategies
The home internet business links get more effect, if the links come from a variety of the authority sites. A good link has a keyword in the hyperlink, the anchor text, and a long or short description about the benefits of the landing page.
When a potential site visitor will see the link on some site or blog, the first impression is important. The text must promise something to him and persuade him to click the link and visit the landing page. If the text manages to make him excited about the benefit, the better.
1. The Marketing Articles.
The idea of the articles is, that they sell the idea of the landing page in advance, but especially they have to make the reader to click the link in the bio box. Why I like articles so much is, that they are good sellers and will stay on the directories during a long period of time. When they are submitted to the authority directories, they build backlinks effectively, raise the search engine ranking and bring related visitors.
2. Blog Comments.
This is a simple concept. A marketer writes a comment to the authority blog with a high page rank and put his link with the anchor text into the end of the comment. This brings two benefits. The search engine ranking will raise, the site gets traffic and the writer becomes a respected marketer in that group.
When a potential site visitor will see the link on some site or blog, the first impression is important. The text must promise something to him and persuade him to click the link and visit the landing page. If the text manages to make him excited about the benefit, the better.
1. The Marketing Articles.
The idea of the articles is, that they sell the idea of the landing page in advance, but especially they have to make the reader to click the link in the bio box. Why I like articles so much is, that they are good sellers and will stay on the directories during a long period of time. When they are submitted to the authority directories, they build backlinks effectively, raise the search engine ranking and bring related visitors.
2. Blog Comments.
This is a simple concept. A marketer writes a comment to the authority blog with a high page rank and put his link with the anchor text into the end of the comment. This brings two benefits. The search engine ranking will raise, the site gets traffic and the writer becomes a respected marketer in that group.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Work-at-Home: Bayada Hiring On-Call Home Care Manager
"The hours are 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 a.m., Monday through Friday and 24 hours a day on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. The schedule can rotate one week on, one week off. Participation in monthly meetings and trainings is required. Additionally, you will attend in-office meetings on Mondays and Fridays, during which time you will review cases and scheduling challenges with the team."
You must have at least one year of professional experience, as well as a bachelors degree. For more information on this telecommute job opportunity and to apply, visit the job ad on Careerbuilder.
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5 Best Home Based Businesses Which I Know
It is quite stupid to tell others which home based businesses are the best ones, because much depends on the execution, on the personal style and promotion strategy. But I do it anyway, because it can happen that you will find your own profitable home based businesses from these ideas.
And one warning. I am sure you do not think that because the businesses are called the home based businesses, they are somehow easier to run. The home business opportunities operate exactly on the same market as do the bigger ventures.
1. The Affiliate Marketing.
The idea of the affiliate marketing is, that an affiliate promotes the merchants products earning commission every time there is a sale. The merchant prepares all the promotional material and customer service. The affiliate directs the customer to the merchant site, where the sales will happen. For a beginner this is easy especially because the beginner could not create the promotional material.
2. AdSense Ads.
Google offers a service called AdWords ads and when a marketer publish these ads on his site or blog, the ads are called AdSense ads. When your site will be keyword optimized Google can set the related ads on the page. Every time a visitor will click the ad, you will get paid. The ads are not equal, but some keywords offer big income per click while others smaller ones.
And one warning. I am sure you do not think that because the businesses are called the home based businesses, they are somehow easier to run. The home business opportunities operate exactly on the same market as do the bigger ventures.
1. The Affiliate Marketing.
The idea of the affiliate marketing is, that an affiliate promotes the merchants products earning commission every time there is a sale. The merchant prepares all the promotional material and customer service. The affiliate directs the customer to the merchant site, where the sales will happen. For a beginner this is easy especially because the beginner could not create the promotional material.
2. AdSense Ads.
Google offers a service called AdWords ads and when a marketer publish these ads on his site or blog, the ads are called AdSense ads. When your site will be keyword optimized Google can set the related ads on the page. Every time a visitor will click the ad, you will get paid. The ads are not equal, but some keywords offer big income per click while others smaller ones.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Work-at-Home: Customer Support Jobs with Frontline
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How To Sponsor Up To 25 Reps Per Month
So you recently joined a network marketing company. Congratulations. Have you sponsored your first 250 people yet? Is it going as you expected? Are you making lots of money? If you're reading this, the answer to most of those questions is probably a big fat no. Even if everything is going OK, there is always room for improvement! This article will explore a very simple yet proven way to immediately improve your business performance.
The most effective way to take your business to the next level is to begin using the method known as black belt recruiting. This particular strategy can solely help you personally sponsor over two hundred and fifty new reps. All you have to do is be willing to learn and implement the techniques accordingly to begin to see positive results.
The great thing about this method is it can be adapted to fit any network marketing business whether you are in Ardyss, Asea, or Enagic. This strategy will keep you busy with a long growing list of hot prospects. As you get deeper into the fundamentals of the method you will also learn everything you need to know to convert your list of qualified prospects into recruits.
The most effective way to take your business to the next level is to begin using the method known as black belt recruiting. This particular strategy can solely help you personally sponsor over two hundred and fifty new reps. All you have to do is be willing to learn and implement the techniques accordingly to begin to see positive results.
The great thing about this method is it can be adapted to fit any network marketing business whether you are in Ardyss, Asea, or Enagic. This strategy will keep you busy with a long growing list of hot prospects. As you get deeper into the fundamentals of the method you will also learn everything you need to know to convert your list of qualified prospects into recruits.
Finding The UK Wholesale Directory
It is not hard to find the UK wholesale directory as all you have to do is go online and take a look at the UK wholesalers & UK suppliers that will sell you items that can be sold for retail prices to your customers. Even if you already have a business where you are selling retail, you can take a look at the UK wholesale directory to make sure that you are getting the best prices on the products that you are selling your customers. In addition, you can also keep up with the trends in selling when you frequent the UK wholesale directory. This does not have to cost you any money and you will end up finding the best suppliers for your products.
When you have your own business, you should always be looking for ways to include new items that your customers may want as well as getting the best prices. Do not allow your business to grow stale as it will wither and die away when faced with competition. In the competitive market today, it is important that you get the best products to keep customers coming back as well as to procure new customers for your market. You can do this when you continue to take a look at the UK wholesalers & UK suppliers that are out there. The list in the UK wholesale directory is always changing and new products are frequently added. Some of these products may compliment the products that you are already selling. Those who are successful in business know that they need to continue to grow their businesses to make them more profitable.
When you have your own business, you should always be looking for ways to include new items that your customers may want as well as getting the best prices. Do not allow your business to grow stale as it will wither and die away when faced with competition. In the competitive market today, it is important that you get the best products to keep customers coming back as well as to procure new customers for your market. You can do this when you continue to take a look at the UK wholesalers & UK suppliers that are out there. The list in the UK wholesale directory is always changing and new products are frequently added. Some of these products may compliment the products that you are already selling. Those who are successful in business know that they need to continue to grow their businesses to make them more profitable.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Work-at-Home: Medical Transcription Jobs with Precyse Solutions
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Friday, December 24, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Work-at-Home: Rosetta Stone Seeking Online Language Tutors
Scheduling is flexible. Compensation is up to $20 per hour. For more information on this telecommute job opportunity, and to apply, visit the careers page at Rosetta Stone.
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Our favorite Docs things - 2010 Year in Review
[Cross-posted from the Google Docs Blog]
In addition to some of the most requested favorite features like mobile editing, OCR, advanced sorting rules and a more consistent look, here are more of our team’s favorite things from this last year:
- A new Google Docs built from the ground up for real-time collaboration
- The new Google drawings editor for making flowcharts, diagrams and more
- Upload and store your files in the cloud and stop worrying about losing files
- Simplified sharing with new features like “Private”
- New charts editor and chart types because pictures are worth 1000 words
- New revision history UI in documents and spreadsheets make it easier to see what has changed
- Horizontal navigation in Sites gives you more options when building your sites
- More fonts in documents provide you with more ways to express yourself
- Formula highlighting in spreadsheets makes it easier to understand your formulas
- Google Docs demo makes it easier for anyone to try Google Docs
On behalf of the entire the Google Docs and Google Sites teams, happy holidays! We’ll see you in the New Year!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Work-at-Home: Freelance Direct Mail Designer for Insurance Company
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Enhance your productivity with more applications for Google Apps
[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]
Last month we launched an improvement that makes more than 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. Since the launch, we’ve featured posts from product teams across Google to showcase how you can benefit from the new services.
Our colleagues working on Google Reader, Google Alerts, Google News, and Google Finance described how their products give you new ways to discover content on the web. The Blogger and YouTube teams shared how their services can be used to connect with your customers and communicate information about your products and brand. We also featured posts from the Google Analytics, Google Website Optimizer, Google Custom Search, and Google Translator Toolkit teams to highligh tools that help your company build and optimize your web property. Posts from Google AdWords and Google Places showed how you can make it easier for potential customers to discover your business when they are searching online, and a post from Google Checkout described how you can let visitors purchase products from your site once they arrive. And if your business isn’t built around an online transaction model, the Google AdSense and DoubleClick for Publishers teams outlined tools that you can use to efficiently monetize traffic to your website. We also featured posts on Picasa Web Albums and Google SketchUp & 3D Warehouse that highlighted use cases for sharing and editing photos and 3D images at your organization. Finally, posts from Google Voice and Google Chrome Sync featured products that leverage the power of the web to allow you to work seamlessly across multiple devices, so you’re not tied to your desk phone or desktop PC to be productive.
This series has highlighted a few ways that you can use these additional Google applications, and we’re confident that you will discover many new and interesting use cases that fit your business. You can explore even more exciting Google services now available with your Google Apps account at http://www.google.com/apps/more.
All of these new services can be enabled by your domain administrator from the Google Apps Control Panel at https://www.google.com/a/[your_domain.com] (replace [your_domain.com] with your actual domain name). Your domain administrator can grant different groups of users access to different sets of applications, so your company can get up and running today with more than 60 productivity-boosting applications matched to those users that will benefit from them most.
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Tips for creating a free business listing in Google Places: business types
Are you curious about what kind of businesses are eligible to appear in the free listings that appear on Google and Google Maps? In this second post in our blog series about how to create a clear and effective business listing via Google Places, we’ll help you to determine if Google Places is right for your business.
Business types and models that work with Google Places
Google Places is meant to facilitate customer interaction with brick-and-mortar businesses and service providers. Therefore, the business owner or employee who is officially authorized to represent their particular business location must have a physical address in order to comply with our quality guidelines.
Having a physical address means that your business has a specific location (typically including a street name and a street number), can be visited by potential customers or business partners, and has a specific phone number at that location where you can be reached during operating hours. Including your physical address in your free business listing helps customers figure out where they can find you.
Examples of business listings displayed on Google Maps
Businesses that aren’t right for Google Places
Here are a few examples of business types that are not currently eligible to use Google Places:
- Web shops that operate exclusively online and have no office for visitor traffic or direct client interaction
- Businesses without actual physical locations (your living room, the airfield where you offer paragliding lessons, nor the river where your rafting tours start do not qualify as business locations)
- Companies with non-permanent locations like a farmers market stall, a mobile hot dog vendor, or a one-time concert event at a local café
- Real estate companies that don’t have a central office and are trying to advertise individual apartments where no one can be reached in person or by phone
For operations like these, rather than appearing in Google and Google Maps search results associated with a physical location, other online tools might better fit your needs. One option is to advertise and generate awareness about your business activities through Google AdWords. This cost-effective program enables you to get the word out about your business, website or event via online ad campaigns, and does not require you to have a brick-and-mortar business address.
How to create a free listing if you’re eligible
If you’re a business with a physical office location that is open to customers and staffed both in person and via phone during regular business hours, we encourage you to create a free listing by signing in to Google Places here. For example, a real estate company with a corporate office can add the services it offers, the apartments it sells, and so on in the description field of the listing.
Be careful to create just one listing per physical location and to create listings only at places where your business is actually located. For example, if you run a DJ service and your office is at 41 Broadway in New York, you should only add that location in Google Places, even if you also DJ at 32 Main Street and at 14 Smith Street.
How to indicate service areas
For businesses that have one physical location but also offer their services elsewhere - such as the aforementioned businesses as well as locksmiths, translation services, delivery pizzerias, cleaning services and the like - you can use the Service Areas feature in your Google Places account. Marking a service area enables you to show your potential customers the range of places where you work.
Businesses that require travel to meet customers can define a radius around their main location or select specific areas they serve. If your main location is your home address and only used to receive business-related mail and phone calls, you can also hide that address and only show the service area in which you operate. This might be the case for babysitters, DJs, household services or IT repair services. Detailed instructions about how to set up this feature can be found in our help center.
Taxi and courier companies are particularly good examples for the use of the Service Areas feature. They offer a service that is location-independent and therefore shouldn't be associated with fixed locations on Google Maps. Even if you can find taxis often in front of train stations or airports, these are not locations owned by the business. The service area feature allows taxis to indicate the area in which they operate. If the taxis are coordinated over a dispatch centre, that can be listed as one physical location, otherwise the address should be hidden.
How to verify a listing
In order for your free business listing to appear on Google and Google Maps, you must verify your business via Google Places. This simple process includes providing a verification code by mail, automated call or text message. The phone number used for this process will be shown in your listing, so be sure that the number directs calls to your business.
We hope this information helps to explain our Google Places quality guidelines around setting up a free business listing. If you have any further questions about the types of businesses that are eligible for inclusion in Google Places, please visit our Google Places help forum.
Posted by Lina Paczensky, Local Search Quality
Monday, December 20, 2010
Display advertising helps one small business minimize India’s education gap
Dinesh Mehta and Rajat Verma had always been aware of inequities in India’s educational system. As the gap widened, Mehta and Verma wondered how they could use technology to provide higher quality education to more people. In 2006, they founded TopChalks.com to provide technology enabled educational and training solutions for a wider population.
TopChalks works with some of India’s best instructors to develop and produce educational content for digital platforms. ‘With TopChalks content, students have the option to study online, with CDs, through handheld devices or on digital broadcast platforms such as digital cable TV,’ says Director of Products and Engineering Vishal Chadhuary.
TopChalks ambassador Javgal Srinath (Indian Cricketer)
Since TopChalks seeks to democratize education largely via digital content, Chadhaury turned to the Google Display Network to market the educational experience. ‘Our products are very unique in nature,’ says Chadhuary. ‘Once we show potential customers what we are offering, they better understand our products. All our ads have a demo button which leads to an actual product demo.’
To ensure he’s seeing positive results from his display ads, Chadhuary pays close attention to the performance of the ads across the Display Network. ‘We keep a close eye on which sites to exclude or add as managed placements,’ says Chadhuary. ‘When we see a site with a stronger clickthrough rate, for example, we might add this site as a managed placement.’
Chadhuary also monitors the effectiveness of his display ads by testing multiple formats for each ad. He then tracks the clickthrough rate of each ad and either pauses the poorer performing ads or edits them to mimic the well performing ads.
TopChalks ambassador Javgal Srinath (Indian Cricketer)
Chadhuary’s diligence with the Google Display Network proves that small businesses can use display advertising to generate new business. ‘Now we get well over half of our leads from ads on the Google Display Network,’ says Chadhuary. ‘There are numerous education websites with great content and millions of users. Showing relevant ads there generates good quality leads for us.’
Mehta, Verma, and Chadhuary’s vision to impact India’s education is spreading with rapid success. With the help of display ads, they are able to clearly communicate and actually show customers what they can achieve with TopChalk’s help. ‘With India growing at a rate that it is, we believe that such growth cannot be sustained and will not be meaningful unless we think out of the box and educate the masses,’ says Chadhuary. ‘Every person in the company is driven by this vision.’
Posted by Julian Sonego, Marketing Manager, Google Display Network
Work-at-Home: Medical Coding Job with PHNS
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Work-at-Home: Yellowbook Hiring Customer Service Agents
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Now available with Google Apps: Google Chrome Sync
[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]
Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.
Welcome to Google Chrome Sync
These days, we spend more and more time working in a web browser, in fact, the number of hours the average American spends online has grown by over 120% in the last 5 years.* Much of the information we consume is delivered through the web, and tools like Google Apps make it easier than ever for workers to collaborate and create using nothing but the web. This shift of data and applications to the cloud makes us less dependent on the specific hardware device that we use to get our work done.
You may use a desktop or laptop PC or Linux box at your desk, then a netbook or maybe even a pilot program Chrome OS notebook when you’re on the go, and then perhaps work from a personal computer when you need to send a quick email from home. Traditionally, your experience has been different on each of these devices depending on how the browser is configured. Now, recently added integration with Google Apps lets you unify your browsing experience across the different devices you use to get your work done, just like millions of Chrome users already do with Google Chrome Sync.
Google Chrome is a modern web browser that was built with today’s web in mind, with a focus on speed, security, and simplicity, and it’s used by more than 120 million people worldwide. One of the features of Chrome that makes it so simple and easy to use is the ability to synchronize your bookmarks, extensions, apps, theme and browser preferences with a Google account, so they are always available in the browser, no matter where you are signed in. Google Apps users now have access to this functionality, allowing you to make these components of your browsing experience available across any device you use to access the Chrome browser.
With Chrome Sync, many of the inefficiencies that result when you switch from one device to another are eliminated. When you bookmark a news article relevant to your business on your desktop PC as you're running out the door to catch a flight, that bookmark will be there when you connect to WiFi as you’re waiting at the airport. The Google Mail Checker extension you discovered last week was synced to your laptop so you notice the email that comes in at the last minute before you close your laptop for take-off. And when the passenger in the seat next to you spills coffee on your keyboard in the middle of the flight, you’re secure in the knowledge that Chrome on your new laptop will have all of the personalization you added on your old one.
Now that Google Chrome is ready for business, Chrome and Chrome Sync combined with Google Apps make a powerful combination for workers leveraging the power of the cloud to be productive no matter where they are and what device they are using.
Learn more and get started
Google Chrome Sync can be enabled by your domain administrator from the Google Apps Control Panel at https://www.google.com/a/[your_domain.com] (replace [your_domain.com] with your actual domain name). If your organization isn’t using Google Apps yet, you can learn more and sign up today at http://www.google.com/apps/more.
You can find more information about using Chrome in your organization on our Chrome for Business webpage or take a look at a product overview.
Note: Google Chrome Sync may not be available in all areas.
* Forreseter Research, 2010
Work-at-Home: Freelance Financial Writer for KM Communications
You must be based in the U.S. If interested in this telecommute job opportunity, please send writing samples, links to your writing on the Web, your resume, and your per-word rate to: Kimberly at kmwritenow@gmail.com. This job is unresearched, so please do your own due diligence.
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Now available with Google Apps: Picasa Web Albums
[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]
Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.
Welcome to Picasa Web Albums
Sharing and collaboration are central to Google Apps with over 30 million users in businesses, schools, and government already using products such as Gmail, Google Docs and Google Sites to work together more efficiently. As part of the effort to enhance the tools available to our Apps users, we’re pleased to bring the the photo sharing capabilities of Picasa Web Albums to your Google Apps account.
Picasa Web Albums makes it easy to organize, share and edit your photos, and collaborate with others. You can create web albums to group your images, add tags for organization and searching, edit your photos using Picnik to ensure they look their best, add places to your photos with geotagging via Google Maps, and easily share your photos with colleagues.
Whether it’s photos from a recent corporate offsite or holiday party, or visuals for insertion in a document or blog post, Picasa Web Albums allows you to store your images in the cloud and access them from any browser on any device. Sharing with colleagues is easy as well using your Google Apps account with email address autocomplete linked to your existing Contacts list.
Uploading, storing and sharing your photos is just the beginning. Picasa Web Albums is also integrated with other Google products such as Google Docs, Google Sites and Blogger, which allows users to seamlessly insert images stored or shared with you in Picasa Web Albums into documents, sites or blog posts in just a few clicks. It’s never been easier to compose a multimedia document using nothing but the web.
Stop sending photos to colleagues as attachments and load them into the cloud instead. Just like Google Apps, Picasa Web Albums runs in your web browser so your photos are at your fingertips anywhere you have an Internet connection.
Learn more and get started
Picasa Web Albums can be enabled by your domain administrator from the Google Apps Control Panel at https://www.google.com/a/[your_domain.com] (replace [your_domain.com] with your actual domain name). If your organization isn’t using Google Apps yet, you can learn more and sign up today at http://www.google.com/apps/more.
You can learn more about Picasa Web Albums in our Help Center or you can stay up to date on product news as well as tips and tricks on our blog.
Note: Picasa Web Albums may not be available in all areas.
Work-at-Home: American Airlines Hiring Reservations Specialists
American Airlines is hiring work-at-home reservations specialists in the Tucson, AZ area. You must live within a 50-mile radius of their training center. These are full-time telecommute positions. Compensation starts at $9.53 per hour. After a six-month period of satisfactory work, your pay could rise to $10.00. Maximum pay for this position is $15 per hour. Limited benefits.
American Airlines Employee Travel Privileges do apply. For more info and to apply, see the job ad on Careerbuilder. Good luck!
Work-at-Home: BlueFly Seeking Email, Phone, and Chat Brand Ambassadors
They are currently seeking people to work Monday to Sunday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. or 4:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. ET. Hours will be 15 to 34 weekly. Weekend and holiday work is required. You must have a high school diploma or its equivalent and two or more years of customer service experience, one of these in consumer sales.
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Introducing the Big Small Business Plan
A few weeks ago we asked about your wishes for your business in 2011, and yesterday we shared what you said. Near the top of your list: growing your small business. As one of you put it, "I want to replace the word 'small' with 'biggest.'" At Google, we’re all for dreaming big. So today we’re introducing something we’re calling the Big Small Business Plan. If you haven’t yet tried AdWords, Google’s advertising program, just sign up by December 31 and spend $100 by February 15, 2011. When you do, we’ll match your $100 investment with a $100 investment of our own.
Need a little inspiration before getting started? Meet Shoes of Prey and Biztree, two small businesses that grew with the help of AdWords.
If you already use AdWords, the Big Small Business Plan works for you, too. Just install free AdWords Conversion Tracking and spend $100 by February 15, and we’ll give you the $100 credit. AdWords Conversion Tracking shows you which of your keywords and ads lead to sales (or whatever action you want customers to take on your site). This free tool will help you grow by making the most of your advertising investment. Get started by registering for this offer no later than December 31.
The Google Small Business team wishes you truly big success in 2011!
Posted by Gordon Zhu, Inside AdWords Crew
Sending your customers holiday cheer with Google Maps
I love walking around my neighborhood during the holiday season and seeing all of the winter and holiday decorations adorning the storefronts. The neighborhood bakery is looking even more festive than usual, and the local boutique’s storefront is full of gift boxes and holiday lights.
The holiday season is a great time for local businesses to connect with customers as they do their shopping or stop by for a family meal. So to help you tell your customers how much you appreciate their business, or to let them know about any holiday events or in-store activities, consider sending them online holiday cards featuring Google Maps.
In addition to selecting from ten holiday card covers, you can add a specific place from Google Maps on the inside of the card - whether it’s your business listing, a Street View image of your store location, or directions from downtown. Just add a personal message and email address, and we’ll send the card on your behalf.
You can also spread the holiday spirit by sending these cards to friends and family, suggesting a place to go ice skating, or just to share holiday greetings.
To start sending these cards, visit googlemapsholidays.appspot.com. Happy holidays!
Posted by Katie Mandel, Product Marketing Manager, Google Maps
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Work-at-Home: Nielsen Company Field Service Rep Needed
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Now available with Google Apps: Google News
[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]
Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.
Welcome to Google News
Staying up to date on all the day’s news is a challenge – even when that news might be absolutely critical to your business. Missing a story could mean missing an opportunity. That’s why we’re pleased to make Google News available with your Google Apps account.
Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together, and displays them according to your personalized interests. You can customize Google News with topics you are interested in, and even indicate which publications you’d like to prioritize in your personalized news stream.
Google News will surface stories relevant to the interests you indicate and will aggregate articles from multiple news sources covering that story. For example, if a story about changes in the funding environment for small businesses shows up in your news stream, you’ll be able to click through to coverage from a variety of news outlets in order to get a spectrum of views on the issue.
Now that Google News is integrated with Google Apps, sharing the articles that you discover with coworkers is easier than ever. You can email a link directly from the News interface with address autocomplete linked to your existing Contacts list.
And Google News even makes it easy to stay current on the latest developments in the news when you’re away from your desk. When you connect to Google News on your smartphone with your Google Apps account, you will find an experience optimized for viewing on your mobile device and get the same personalized stream of news you see in the full browser version.
Now you can make the most of those spare minutes between meetings or the transit time on your morning commute by reading the latest news, complied and organized just for you.
Learn more and get started
Google News can be enabled by your domain administrator from the Google Apps Control Panel at https://www.google.com/a/[your_domain.com] (replace [your_domain.com] with your actual domain name). If your organization isn’t using Google Apps yet, you can learn more and sign up today at http://www.google.com/apps/more.
For answers to specific questions you can visit our Help Center or you can follow the latest updates on our product blog.
Note: Google News may not be available in all areas.
We Asked. You Told Us Your Wishes for 2011
Two weeks ago, the Small Business Marketing team asked about your aspirations for the coming year. You told us the biggest wish for your business, and the wish for expanding your business’ online presence. Today, we’d like to share what we heard.
We combined your responses from our blog, Facebook and Twitter and organized them into three main themes and then sub-themes. Of course, not all wishes fell neatly into these themes, so we did create a Miscellaneous category.
Before the drum roll, thanks to everyone that took time to share and participate. Some wishes were big and audacious and others more practical, but all with an underlying tone of passion for what you do and a focus on delighting your customers. On with the results…
Theme 1: Move my business online
Not surprisingly, you’re passionate about the business products you’re using and made very specific feature requests. Rest assured if they were Google product related, we’ve shared your wishes with our product teams. Additionally, you said you want more online resources to help your business grow. Your comments acknowledged that referrals are now happening online through social media channels and, as such, you want to understand how to use these online tools. You also want more out of your websites. Ultimately, you said you want to do more online to run your business more efficiently and spend more time concentrating on your customers.
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Theme 2: Grow my business
We heard that you want to continue to grow your business with increased profits, more customers, or more people. Lots of wishes for more marketing tools to increase your business’ visibility – the range included the entire marketing mix. You want simple tools made specifically for you. There were wishes for funds to buy equipment, spend more on advertising, build e-commerce into your offering, and lease real estate – to name a few.
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Theme 3: Love my business
Many resounding wishes to continue fueling your passion because you love what you do. You’d love to learn more – from social media, AdWords and Places to creating marketing plans. You prefer support face-to-face with people and training at a relatively low cost. Many of you want more opportunities to network and support your fellow business owners. Whether it’s help getting the most out of applications and tools, or navigating a healthcare plan, you’d like some expertise to assist.
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We thank you again for telling us your wishes for the coming year. Stay tuned as we will use these wishes to build upon our plans to help small businesses succeed in 2011.
Posted by Leslie Hernandez, Product Marketing Manager, Google Small Business Team
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Work-at-Home: Convergys Hiring Again! Full-Time Customer Service Jobs
You must have a quiet home office, your own computer, and high-speed Internet. You must be an independent self-starter. For more information on this telecommute job opportunity and to apply, see the job ad on Careerbuilder. Good luck!
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Now available with Google Apps: DoubleClick for Publishers
[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]
Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.
Welcome to DoubleClick for Publishers
For millions of online publishers—from the smallest blogger to the largest entertainment, news, e-commerce and information sites—online advertising revenue is vital. When publishers can maximize their returns, everyone benefits from more vibrant online content and websites. A publisher's ability to manage this process can have a significant impact on how much money they make from their online content, which is why we’re happy to bring our Google Apps customers our next generation ad serving platform to solve these problems: DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) from Google.
Imagine you're a major online publisher with a popular global surfing website and an ad sales team. Every second of every day, you have difficult decisions about what ads to show and how to measure their relative performance. For example:
- In the same ad space, a surfboard wax advertiser wants to run a static image ad for your Australian readers, while an airline offering flights to Hawaii wants to run an expandable interactive ad for your American readers.
- A fast-food restaurant wants to run its burger ads before noon and its pizza ads in the afternoon.
- You've sold 10 different surfboard makers a million ad slots at slightly different prices; now you have to allocate them across your various webpages to fulfill all these orders over the next two weeks.
- One of your surfing tournament reviews is linked to by a popular news site and you have a surge in traffic. Your sales team couldn't predict this, so you’re left without any ads for thousands of readers. You want to fill this ad space by selling it via an ad network that has ads available.
These examples illustrate how complicated it can be to optimize ad serving on your website, and they only scratch the surface.
DFP comes in two flavors, tailored for different publishers' needs: DoubleClick for Publishers, for the largest online publishers, and DFP Small Business, a simple, free version designed for growing online publishers. As a Google Apps user, you now have access to both versions of DFP with your existing Apps account.
With advanced features such as streamlined ad trafficking, inventory management and forecasting, revenue optimization, granular reporting, and an open API, DFP offers a complete toolkit to easily sell ads on your site directly to advertisers while also working dynamically to help you get the most money from inventory you sell through partners like AdSense and ad networks.
Just like Google Apps, DFP runs in Google’s cloud so you get the same reliability, flexibility, and easy access without any software to install or hardware for IT to maintain. Also, DFP is fully supported by Google so you don't have to worry about manual system updates or downtime.
Learn more and get started
DoubleClick for Publishers can be enabled by your domain administrator from the Google Apps Control Panel at https://www.google.com/a/[your_domain.com] (replace [your_domain.com] with your actual domain name). If your organization isn’t using Google Apps yet, you can learn more and sign up today at http://www.google.com/apps/more.
To learn more about how DFP can help you manage and grow all of your online ad inventory, please visit our website or follow along with the latest news and release updates at the DoubleClick for Publishers blog.
Share your story
Have you already started using Google Custom Search at your organization, or plan to now that it’s available? Please share your story and your organization could be featured in the next Gone Google ad campaign!
Note: DoubleClick for Publishers may not be available in all areas.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Now available with Google Apps: Google AdSense
[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]
Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.
Welcome to Google AdSense
Do you have traffic to a web property that you would like to monetize? Whether you’ve invested time and energy in developing web content that brings in tons of traffic or would just like another income stream to support your business’s online presence, there is a solution for you that now works with your Google Apps account: Google AdSense.
Google AdSense enables millions of website owners of all sizes to display relevant ads alongside their online content. AdSense taps into Google’s vast network of local and international advertisers so there is great variety in ads, and Google technology selects ads specifically targeted for your website and visitors. By allowing advertisers to compete to display ads you can easily monetize traffic to your website and earn revenue.
Setting up an AdSense account is easy and free. As soon as you set up your account you can begin to place ads on your website. AdSense provides actionable data to help maximize your revenue, rich controls to protect your brand, and other helpful resources to improve your efficiency in managing and optimizing your revenue streams.
AdSense is simple to set up, you just have to add a few lines of code to the HTML of your site and you’re ready to start displaying ads. With AdSense, you stay in control of the user experience on your site by customizing the size, location, and types of ads that appear, and there is no commitment so you can turn the ads off at any time.
Before this improvement enabled access to additional applications, Google Apps users had to create a separate account to sign in to AdSense. Now, Apps users can access their cloud-based productivity applications, along with AdSense, using the same account. As an Apps user, you will now be able to seamlessly control your AdSense ads, as well as view a wide range of descriptive statistics and graphs about your ad performance using your existing Google Apps account.
Just like Google Apps, AdSense runs in Google’s cloud so you get easy access from anywhere without any software to install or hardware for IT to maintain.
Learn more and get started
Google AdSense can be enabled by your domain administrator from the Google Apps Control Panel at https://www.google.com/a/[your_domain.com] (replace [your_domain.com] with your actual domain name). If your organization isn’t using Google Apps yet, you can learn more and sign up today at http://www.google.com/apps/more.
You can learn more about Google AdSense in the Help Center or stay up-to-date on the latest launches on the Inside AdSense Blog.
Share your story
Have you already started using Google AdSense at your organization, or plan to now that it’s available? Please share your story and your organization could be featured in the next Gone Google ad campaign!
Note: Google AdSense may not be available in all areas.
Update: For those of you who already have a Google AdSense account, we're in the process of finalizing the infrastructure that will allow you to seamlessly transition your existing AdSense account and data over to your Google Apps account.
Work-at-Home: Medicare Billing and Follow-Up Job with ACS
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Friday, December 10, 2010
Work-at-Home: Hertz Hiring Home-Based Reservations Agents
You must have a high school diploma or its equivalent, be able to type 25 WPM, and have a quiet home office. Computer and equipment will be provided. Onsite training is required at the Reservations Center in Mobile, Alabama, therefore you must live within a reasonable distance. Compensation is $10.25 per hour. For more information on this telecommute job opportunity and to apply, visit the job description here. Good luck!
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Now available with Google Apps: Google Custom Search
[Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog]
Editor’s note: We recently launched an improvement that makes over 60 additional Google services available to Google Apps users. This series showcases what’s new and how your organization can benefit.
Welcome to Google Custom Search
These days, content is being created faster than ever. In fact, the data equivalent of 250,000 years of DVD-quality video is created every two days, which is more than the entire amount of digital information that was created from the birth of the world up to 2003. Users are faced with the challenge of wading through all of this data to find the information they are looking for, and businesses are faced with the challenge of making this easy to do for their customers and employees. Most businesses consolidate their information on a public-facing website, internal micro-sites, product blogs and customer portals to help visitors surface relevant content. But even with this type of organization and structure, information can still be difficult to locate. That’s why we are pleased to introduce Google Apps customers to a product that will make finding easy for their employees and for their customers: Google Custom Search.
Google Custom Search brings the power, speed and relevance of Google.com to any website through a hosted search bar.
Custom Search allows visitors to your site to scour your web pages in fractions of a second with the same speed and familiarity that they are used to when performing a search on Google.com. The technology behind Google Custom Search powers the built-in search capabilities of Google Sites and Blogger, so if you organize your web content using these tools then you’re already using it. For other websites you create, set-up takes only a few minutes and adding the search box is as easy as pasting a few lines of pre-generated code to the HTML of the page where you want the search box to appear. Just like Google Apps, with Google Custom Search there’s no hardware or software to maintain or upgrade - it gets better as Google gets better.
Google Custom Search will automatically display advertisements and allows you to monetize them using AdSense for search. If you prefer that ads not be displayed you can upgrade to Google Site Search.
Learn more and get started
Google Custom Search can be enabled by your domain administrator from the Google Apps Control Panel at https://www.google.com/a/[your_domain.com] (replace [your_domain.com] with your actual domain name). If your organization isn’t using Google Apps yet, you can learn more and sign up today at http://www.google.com/apps/more.
For more detailed information, you can take a look at our Help Center or follow the latest news and updates on the Google Custom Search blog.
Share your story
Have you already started using Google Custom Search at your organization, or plan to now that it’s available? Please share your story and your organization could be featured in the next Gone Google ad campaign!
Note: Google Custom Search may not be available in all areas.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Trailblazing in Portland
[Cross-posted from the Hotpot Community Blog]
When we announced the availability of Hotpot last month, we knew from the beginning we were going to take a different approach to marketing the product and engaging with our users, both businesses and consumers.
To that end, we’re excited today to start testing this new approach by launching our first local marketing campaign in Portland, Oregon. Portland is a tech savvy, forward-thinking city with a history of innovation and some of the best coffee houses, microbreweries and parks in the country. Whether you know it as The City of Roses, Stumptown, P-Town, Rip City or just PDX, Portland’s thriving local business community and strong heritage of being a trailblazer made it a great choice for us to try something new.
So starting today and over the course of the next few months, we’ll be out and about in Portland. Here’s a taste of what’s in store:
Business Kits and Window Decals
Every day millions of people search on Google.com to find local businesses, and we want to make it seamless for standout businesses to get discovered online. To achieve this, we’ll be working directly with some of Portland’s top businesses to educate them about Google Places for business and all its benefits. In addition, to help these businesses spread the word, we’re providing owners with special Google Places Business Kits. These kits are a multi-flavored sampler of marketing materials that can help businesses get even more exposure, get them rated and reviewed online, and get more customers through their door. We’re already distributing these to some of Portland’s top businesses, but any business in Portland who has claimed their Place page can request a box.
A central part of the kit is the bright red “Recommended on Google” window sticker. This is not your ordinary sticker. Unlike others, this is an interactive sticker that has Near Field Communications (NFC) technology built right in, allowing people with cutting edge phones like the Nexus S to simply touch their phones to the sticker to find out more information about the business. Suddenly stickers are cool again!
Community Events
Sure, Hotpot’s about sharing recommendations with friends online. But we thought it’d be fun to take things offline. To kick things off, we’re partnering with Portland’s beloved Voodoo Doughnut. Because we at Google are such big fans of their tasty treats, we wanted to spread the love — so if you like doughnuts and coffee, be sure to stop by both locations starting this Saturday at 10am for a special treat.
Hotpot Jackpot
We’re also launching our second Hotpot Jackpot competition to encourage Portlanders to start rating the places they know and share them with friends and family. Everyone over the age of 18 who lives within a 50-mile radius of Portland can participate, and the top five raters at the end of the competition will win dinner for 10 at any restaurant in Portland, courtesy of Google. To kick things off, all of the fans at tonight’s Trail Blazers vs. Magic game will receive t-shirts announcing the competition and supporting the Blazers.
This is just the beginning and we’ll be doing a lot more in the upcoming months. For the latest and greatest of what we’re up to in Portland (and elsewhere), keep an eye out by staying up to date via the Hotpot Blog, and by following us on Twitter and liking us on Facebook.
Posted by Bernardo Hernandez, Director of Emerging Marketing