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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Gaining Reviews on Your Google Business Page

Did you know that customers can leave reviews on your Google business page? These reviews and star ratings will be visible to people visiting your business page or viewing your business' details in search results.

With this in mind, it’s important that you promote your business page to your customers and encourage them to leave you a review when they’ve had a positive experience.  There are a few different paths that customers can follow to leave a review.

In this blog we’ll show you two of the simplest ways to leave a review so that you can share the knowledge with your customers.

First, make sure you’re logged in to Google.  Now search for the business that you’d like to review on Google

If the business that you’re searching for has a Google My Business page then you should see their business information in search results. On the right you will see information about the business’ Google My Business page, this is called the knowledge card. You should be able to see a link asking you to leave a review on the knowledge card.  

Simply click the link to bring up the review window.  Then give the business a star rating out of five and add any comments that you wish about the service that you received before hitting the ‘publish’ button. Encourage your customers to talk about your products and services in their review.

From your Google My Business page 

Once you're on your business page click the pencil icon under the business logo to bring up the review window.

You could always email a direct link to your page to your customers to make the process as easy as possible for them.

Gaining positive customer reviews online is very important as they give your business more credibility.  Positive customer reviews could mean the difference between customers choosing you or your competitor, so don’t forget to ask customers to review your business online!

We’ll cover responding to reviews at a later date.

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