How to change your Banner Image on your GMB page

This tutorial shows you How to change your Banner Picture on your GMB page

Your banner picture is the large cover photo featured at the top of your profile and can be used to showcase your business or add your own touch of personality to your Business identity across Google.

You're free to change the image itself can be changed at any time.Remember 1st impressions last!!

1 Go to your Google My Business page.

2 Hover over the bottom right of the existing banner picture and click change change cover.

3 Select your cover photo by either of the following:

1. Select a photo from the Google's own gallery.
2. Upload an image from your computer
3. Select from a G + album that you have create
4. Choose from your previously used cover photos.

Note: The smallest photo that you can choose is 480 x 270 pixels, and the largest photo that you can choose is 2,120 x 1,192 pixels


Tip: We recommend choosing a photo that's 1,080 x 608 pixels. 

4 Click select cover photo.

5 Cut and crop the image to resize and position correctly resize the image.

6 Click Select cover photo.

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How to change your profile picture on Google Plus.

This tutorial shows you how to change your profile picture from your PC

1 Go to your Google My Business page.

2 Hover over the existing profile picture and click change profile picture.

3 Select a photo by either of the following:

1. Select a photo to upload a picture from your computer.
2. Select from a G + album that you have created on G+
3. Select a photo from existing photos that have been tagged as you, already uploaded to Google plus.
4. Take a pic from your Web cam
5. You can also drag and drop an image from your desktop

Tips:

• Bigger photos look better. The smallest size that you can use is 250 x 250 pixels.

• Any new profile photo that you upload from your computer will also be saved in your public "Profile photos" album and can be seen

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Share your circles to your Google My business page

Share your Circle to your GMB page

Google have created a way in which you can share an entire circle from your personal profile to a recipient.


So if you have organized your contact into Business related circles, these circles or groups of people now need to be shared to your GMB page.


By doing so you can then communicate directly to a specific group with a special offer, am evening invite, an event or a product launch.....

This is also useful to be able to share company contacts, friends and family members, or just interesting people in a field that you care about.

Now that your contacts have been imported and you have categorised your lists of contacts into circles or groups, you can then share particular circles to your GMB page.




To share one of your circles:



1 . Hover over the ‘Home’ icon on the left-hand side of your screen (while in Google+)

2 Click on the ‘People’ link 

3 Click ‘Your Circles’ at the top of the screen 

4 Click on the circle you want to share 

5  After everyone appears, the icon you clicked on should turn black

6 Hovering over the icon will show options to Edit, Share or Delete the Circle.

7 Click on the swoosh 

8 In the 'TO:' field type in YOUR OWN  GMB page name / business name

***ENSURE THAT ALL OTHER NAMES ARE REMOVED FROM THIS FIELD AS YOU COULD SHARING  A GROUP OF CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS CONTACTS****

Click Share!!

9 Your circle has now been shared to your GMB profile. You will receive a notification when accessing your GMB page.

10 Access your Google My Business page profile

11 Click on the 'new notifications' indicator (top right corner)

12 Click on View post...

13 Click on Add People..

14 Type in the name that you want to call your new circle and then click the blue button to create the circle

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Your imported circle will now be held within the your circles within our Google My Business page. 

You can now communicate from your Business, as your Business,  to the contacts held within the circle only!

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Creating circles - Organising your imported contacts in Google +

Now the contacts that you have imported can be categorised into Circles.


1 Login to your Google account and access your Google + profile.


2 Click on people from the navigation bar.

3 Select the recently imported group of contacts

4 From the list select who you you want to add to a circle. 

Click add:- 

5 Then click create new circle

6 Name the circle. Note that the name of the circle is not disclosed.




7 Repeat the process for all the contacts that you want to have held within specific circles.

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Importing contacts to Google Plus

The advantage that Google + has over other networks is that you can very simply target your posts and communicate with 'closed' group or circle of people.


Your interaction with them will be visible only to those individuals or group of people that you chose to be held within that particular circle.


Your circles may consist of High value clients, ex-customers, business acquaintances or work colleagues, the choice is yours on how you group your contacts and what name you give to the circle.


Its your choice which circle to place your contacts in and how you communicate to them.


Firstly, However you need to import your contacts from your other email accounts to your PERSONAL PROFILE and then organise them into circles.

• If you have a Yahoo or Hotmail account please login to these account, using a separate tab on your browser.
• For Outlook or Thunderbird you will need to export your contacts to a CSV file first. save your exported contacts CSV file on your desktop

Note: If your mail account is Outlook or Thunderbird you will need to export your contacts to a CSV file first. save your exported contacts CSV file on your desktop. (for outlook follow this tutorial http://goo.gl/5LCjuv)

1 Log into your Google account and click on '+your name' in the top right corner.

2 Hover you cursor over 'home in the top left hand corner of the page and select 'people'from the drop down.

3 Select and click on connect services from the drop down list and selct the profile / file that you want to import the contcats from.

4 When the contacts have been imported to your profile you will now see an extended categorised list when you select people that can now be used to communicate and interact with.

5 Now the contacts that you have imported cam be organised into Circles.

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