This is the deck of a small presentation I gave on July 28th, 2011 at a Hubbard Interactive social media training session. This presentation is meant to give a little insight as to why Google+ might be important to businesses' digital marketing efforts.

1. What is And Why Should I Give a Hooey?

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3. When you look at the numbers, facebook is the Social Media Behemoth 750 Billion Users

4. But you’re looking at the wrong numbers. # of years Google’s been collecting data: 13 # of percentiles of search traffic G controls: 67 # of Google searches per day: 1,000,000,000 # of dollars G reported in revenue Q2: 9 billion # of days since the launch of G+: 30 # of current users of Google+: 20 million (rough numbers)

5. It’s All About the Benjamins Google:$200 billionFacebook: $50 billion, maybe

6. Google+ is not Social Media.It’s an integrated approach to the Internet.

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9. Let’s Talk Turkey Let’s Talk Turkey

10. CIRCLES Because your connection with Lady GaGa is different than your connection with Grandma

11. FACEBOOK FRIENDS ARE SYNCHRONOUS

12. TWITTER IS ASYNCHRONIS

13. Inspirational Competition GOOGLE+ CIRCLES ARE ASYNCHRONIS TOO Family Famous Troublemaker

14. CIRCLES AREN’T FOOLPROOF

15. You Want Search? Remember this: {google:baseURL}search?q=site:plus.google.cominurl:posts/* %s Or this: site:plus.google.com Joe Robb

16. Remember: Google+ is still in its infancy

17. To Close: I am Joe Robb You can find me here: http://twitter.com/joelrobb http://linkedin.com/in/joerobb http://profiles.google.com/robb.joe http://blog.gbs-inc.com Today, you should go here: http://www.scoop.it/t/followup-to-google-seminar/