Course Agenda

We cover the basics of the service and then use the computers to gain hands on practical use of Google Plus for both Personal but mainly Business use, which the student can continue to use after the course. This is a very intensive course on the world's fastest growing social network from Google. Computer access is restricted to 12 people so places are limited in this course. 

Morning session on LinkedIn for Business is filling up fast (computer based, limited places)

Afternoon Session  

Google Plus reached 49 million members (Dec 2011) in only a few months! And more interestingly, Google Plus is set to reach 400 million members during 2012. Facebook has around 800 million members - why not spend an afternoon learning about Google Plus?

• Why not grab your Google Plus Business Page before someone else does! Perhaps you have a Facebook Page? What is the difference between the Facebook Business Page and a Google Business Page? Set up a Google Plus Business Page.
• Investigate security and privacy, Circles and distribution of information. Many features on Google Plus are similar to Facebook. But the privacy and circles of distribution are different enough for marketers and business people to ask: how can I reach and engage with my audience on Google in an effective way? Set up Circles and Sparks
• Use Google Plus for identifying Leads and using analytics. Perhaps the biggest threat and opportunity with Google Plus is how it will change search online. If you have invested in SEO or know that your customers find you by searching for you on the internet, Google Plus is rapidly & completely changing Search and change the way we find things online. Forever! Investigate Hangouts. 
• What can be added to Google Plus to integrate it with Facebook and Twitter and your website? What about creating and updating content to gain and retain customers - are the status updates, videos  and pictures getting to the right people? Will Google Plus replace email and enewsletters and blogs and wikis? Add plugins to Google Plus
• Where is it all going? What does the future hold? Will Google dominate social media by integrating all Google services into Plus. What does that mean for your business? See how it integrates Docs, Gmail, YouTube, etc. 

Please bring your email/password to logon to email during the course. If you have a gmail or google account (including YouTube) please bring that logon too. 

Your lecturer, Laurel Papworth, was a beta tester of Google Plus and has several thousand connections already, and can help you set up and walk away with some great tools to build your business in 2012.