tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62282494011573891572024-02-06T23:40:49.403-08:00Business Training Courseslinda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.comBlogger405125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-12299304256050852322017-08-24T10:00:00.000-07:002017-09-30T09:14:20.986-07:00Answer customer questions on Google<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning a visit to a local business can raise questions ranging from “Does this restaurant provide high-chairs?” to “What accessibility accommodations does this B&B offer?” When looking for answers, 82% of people turn to search engines, but they often have a hard time finding accurate, up-to-date information</span></span><span style="font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 6.6pt; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">That’s why Google is bringing Questions and Answers to local business listings. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-e111af23-f086-dbe8-3cf3-37767cfe6dd4" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a business owner, you have the most reliable answers to your customers’ questions and we want to make it easy for you to receive and respond to those questions. That’s just what Questions and Answers lets you do. To start using it, just search for your business on your mobile phone and go to the Questions and Answers feature on your Google business listing. </span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF-rnkrGeDVxYaTQGas75KxlDhd9OPJovAP3VxhaFZhfmzY56N1gq3YJILzwtHEnFOHjQ1_RFjwgRfirr67AqnDNxwpPYNtawudaNQCZeINJueeWugsJeHM_O1kg5RcUnSiCYDMS2G2Cw/s1600/gmb_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1511" data-original-width="1600" height="604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF-rnkrGeDVxYaTQGas75KxlDhd9OPJovAP3VxhaFZhfmzY56N1gq3YJILzwtHEnFOHjQ1_RFjwgRfirr67AqnDNxwpPYNtawudaNQCZeINJueeWugsJeHM_O1kg5RcUnSiCYDMS2G2Cw/s640/gmb_1.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Questions and Answers offers new ways for you to engage with your customers:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Add frequently asked questions</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to your listing</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> so that mobile users who find your business on Google Search and Google Maps can easily get the answers to your customers’ most common questions.</span></span></div></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Answer questions from potential customers</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on Google Search and Google Maps on your mobile phone. If you have Google Maps on Android, we‘ll also send you a push notification when a new question has been asked about your business so you can post an answer instantly.</span></span></div></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Highlight top responses.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Beyond FAQs and your own responses, customers are also able to answer each other’s questions. You can highlight the most helpful answers from your customer community by using the thumb to bump them up to the top of the list.</span></span></div></li></ul><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRpPajzC-cSdflUhVTTlM9L-ISecsGEsK8lF0zIptoJXlu-0_e9cKwWZoQKllDkjB-Z9zu05eTYMMqj-Jc3DkgtPGh6MYESVsGoCv55FpWmb8Nj23fUYbLu6mFYH-BvoUA3_FmjsYk6qc/s1600/gmb_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1508" data-original-width="1600" height="602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRpPajzC-cSdflUhVTTlM9L-ISecsGEsK8lF0zIptoJXlu-0_e9cKwWZoQKllDkjB-Z9zu05eTYMMqj-Jc3DkgtPGh6MYESVsGoCv55FpWmb8Nj23fUYbLu6mFYH-BvoUA3_FmjsYk6qc/s640/gmb_2.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you’re not using Google My Business yet, </span><a href="http://www.google.com/business/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sign up</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and start managing your free business listing on Google. Once you’ve verified your business, you’ll be ready to start posting and answering questions. To learn more, visit the Google Maps </span><a href="https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7421661" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Help Center</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Posted by Lisa Wang, Product Manager, Google Maps</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Google. </span></span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.consumerbarometer.com/en/graph-builder/?question=N41&filter=country*:united_states,austria,belgium,bulgaria,croatia,czech_republic,denmark,estonia,finland,france,germany,greece,hungary,ireland,italy,latvia,lithuania,netherlands,norway,poland,portugal,romania,russia,serbia,slovakia,slovenia,spain,sweden,switzerland,united_kingdom,ukraine" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Consumer Barometer</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></div><br /></div>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-47489832606212171372017-08-19T01:05:00.000-07:002017-09-30T06:58:59.069-07:00ACCA December 2017 Exams Course Timetable<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>ACCA DECEMBER 2017 EXAMS COURSE TIMETABLE</i></span></h2><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Course fees stated below timetable are applicable for classroom and J Pro online e-learning.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><br />Register now at <a href="http://www.jprotraining.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">www.jprotraining.com</a> OR<br />Call / Whats App 016 263 0649</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirMNa-xcbO08rtnFPhu05AyNlIt9ZcX3ohX0pQwr5zVAdUa162s7P5nrQ2h_KklJAXK9m9rk1nfymZwt_1zmmVt9WWiDdluI3Khas234QHwKYRxfynfTR3tcqklAyFFSNmifUwMMXfSyA/s1600/P1+Dec+17-1.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirMNa-xcbO08rtnFPhu05AyNlIt9ZcX3ohX0pQwr5zVAdUa162s7P5nrQ2h_KklJAXK9m9rk1nfymZwt_1zmmVt9WWiDdluI3Khas234QHwKYRxfynfTR3tcqklAyFFSNmifUwMMXfSyA/s640/P1+Dec+17-1.png" width="449" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj39Eme0jFiKKCY7qFsZsXM0xNT3HQ74qPoMAGeQ7EmjWLROf3oGFAht5mANdMvhbAbqNWG3DqfeNSrLsuSmK0W0FvJ96tj2O37jPzfeZvcgkr-3hbB8d0wH8Z5dLHZyr7titUWDa_McU4/s1600/P2+Dec+17-1.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj39Eme0jFiKKCY7qFsZsXM0xNT3HQ74qPoMAGeQ7EmjWLROf3oGFAht5mANdMvhbAbqNWG3DqfeNSrLsuSmK0W0FvJ96tj2O37jPzfeZvcgkr-3hbB8d0wH8Z5dLHZyr7titUWDa_McU4/s640/P2+Dec+17-1.png" width="451" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxzQvY2QVRzC64BIlXuLezJ-KApa7GmUfunoK_ZP7ukrY8il0xBnNQRAg_w4OioDIOIpi042BFVy6srugRYtcKstlW3Mw3UBbicG577rk1qOPIkEuvOjLupkBC8JMgT9hjgPUKRq868R0/s1600/P3+Dec+17-1.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxzQvY2QVRzC64BIlXuLezJ-KApa7GmUfunoK_ZP7ukrY8il0xBnNQRAg_w4OioDIOIpi042BFVy6srugRYtcKstlW3Mw3UBbicG577rk1qOPIkEuvOjLupkBC8JMgT9hjgPUKRq868R0/s640/P3+Dec+17-1.png" width="451" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4n9QEWi_oBeA4vGF2GAlWNYrtGJLSxWzAqiQVlM9xWn8MbXAPvTVQOwVr-9UfSMtpc210krFnNY0r4Bke_OVz4MplJSO1im1YwteMWcUbwC01M3z5gIfAyF_3FAE9zmODLnoXhXFB7Ts/s1600/P4+Dec+17-1.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4n9QEWi_oBeA4vGF2GAlWNYrtGJLSxWzAqiQVlM9xWn8MbXAPvTVQOwVr-9UfSMtpc210krFnNY0r4Bke_OVz4MplJSO1im1YwteMWcUbwC01M3z5gIfAyF_3FAE9zmODLnoXhXFB7Ts/s640/P4+Dec+17-1.png" width="451" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoa7UffelBDtZ60Dq23t4BJlvIj7SwIAQXTl31abjIez6PNzX1qm05akUSsCTozJjz5k-EnRS0zuGmyP66QAP35XCBoPdj0zqCm9_yuWlYFEhJURvhDulOk_Gk1TiMQ6Bgt1oJ3ecF1SM/s1600/P5+Dec+17-1.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoa7UffelBDtZ60Dq23t4BJlvIj7SwIAQXTl31abjIez6PNzX1qm05akUSsCTozJjz5k-EnRS0zuGmyP66QAP35XCBoPdj0zqCm9_yuWlYFEhJURvhDulOk_Gk1TiMQ6Bgt1oJ3ecF1SM/s640/P5+Dec+17-1.png" width="451" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV3dxFT4Hy3dSmV5t_D04HKh6PR2NEB28QbHd62dS-Phtm55HxfNnBV_qvYLq1yCQKAfbVc4ImvZvfyNmf8fJDUlgE78SNpLPFwLM26oVKWaXOyGSyyuEuGEVLaN6T5Oof7E87ouheumI/s1600/P6+Mys+Dec+17-1.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV3dxFT4Hy3dSmV5t_D04HKh6PR2NEB28QbHd62dS-Phtm55HxfNnBV_qvYLq1yCQKAfbVc4ImvZvfyNmf8fJDUlgE78SNpLPFwLM26oVKWaXOyGSyyuEuGEVLaN6T5Oof7E87ouheumI/s640/P6+Mys+Dec+17-1.png" width="451" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf8dvmCC2WU9QYAVvUilWn9Sfj8PUD_igCwIzYXWS5o-Ucxv6AVsUyRJRLVGJesDLLkZx46uQ6eJ-l8gVZVErWtCnQUn0vzlv6jGz6At8ZJ21eVPEYPYnb1R1I0JBFfObyfqPif3W052o/s1600/P7+Dec+17-1.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf8dvmCC2WU9QYAVvUilWn9Sfj8PUD_igCwIzYXWS5o-Ucxv6AVsUyRJRLVGJesDLLkZx46uQ6eJ-l8gVZVErWtCnQUn0vzlv6jGz6At8ZJ21eVPEYPYnb1R1I0JBFfObyfqPif3W052o/s640/P7+Dec+17-1.png" width="451" /></a><br /><br /></div></div></div>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-8961366157853619022017-08-01T10:58:00.000-07:002017-09-30T09:14:21.022-07:00AdWords Express delivers meaningful interactions with goals<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While AdWords Express has always aimed to make it easy to set up ads on Google, we’ve seen that it can still be challenging for small business owners to tell how well their ads are working to deliver real-world results. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e92-408b-dfde-ec8c43292a93"><span style="font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today, we’re changing that with the launch of </span><a href="https://support.google.com/adwords/express/answer/7178366?hl=en" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">goals</span></a><span style="font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in AdWords Express. You can now choose which business goal you want to achieve with your online ad. AdWords Express will then continuously optimize your ad with that goal in mind and show you how well your ad is meeting your goal.</span></span></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7d-4f19-5776-bd2b66fdb097" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are three goals you can choose from depending on what matters most to your business:</span></div><br /><ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Call your business:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Get more direct calls from potential customers who are ready to talk on the phone about your products or services.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visit your storefront:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Bring more customers to your physical store location.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Take an action on your website:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Get more people to take a specific action on your website, such as filling out a form or requesting a free quote.</span></div></li></ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "roboto";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivaAMMYhuv6s4GhRuDGdcq6IIIlWuuhpnu9-ptQHReu9tSkvKeRiT-kZtEeGf7-HuBtvhPL6RFqolVvqLgLMonHLJlVZa2yguXDsaG1bmYIM2Z2p0AlOvuri89D75ndhoJi3JgVo7aDCk/s800/NEXUS-white_v2_1055x2100_2+%25283%2529+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="150" height="60" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivaAMMYhuv6s4GhRuDGdcq6IIIlWuuhpnu9-ptQHReu9tSkvKeRiT-kZtEeGf7-HuBtvhPL6RFqolVvqLgLMonHLJlVZa2yguXDsaG1bmYIM2Z2p0AlOvuri89D75ndhoJi3JgVo7aDCk/s600/NEXUS-white_v2_1055x2100_2+%25283%2529+%25281%2529.png" width="100" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "roboto";"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Depending on which you select, AdWords Express then fine-tunes your ad to meet your goal. For example, selecting “Call your business” will prompt Google to show your phone number more prominently in your ad, making it easy for potential customers to call you at the exact moment they want to get in touch. Then you can check out your ad’s performance by reviewing goal-specific metrics, like how many calls your ad generated, or how often people saw your ad and then searched for your store on Google Maps.</span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2WlhtxiZL9bhpLjAEVz_7rXY3sKczISxfP10cIvB7K3R2hnkpNo8R9xftDAGv0adVajqw3troouFdqyOgXUIkMVRKeZV5bC9m_uWtGRwKRFdtoeQ2vjOhM0ZPn390m9pC0rSFsawtAZk/s800/NEXUS-white_v2_1055x2100_1+%25281%2529+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="150" height="60" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2WlhtxiZL9bhpLjAEVz_7rXY3sKczISxfP10cIvB7K3R2hnkpNo8R9xftDAGv0adVajqw3troouFdqyOgXUIkMVRKeZV5bC9m_uWtGRwKRFdtoeQ2vjOhM0ZPn390m9pC0rSFsawtAZk/s600/NEXUS-white_v2_1055x2100_1+%25281%2529+%25281%2529.png" width="100" /></a></div><div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The addition of goals is possible because of a series of changes we’ve made to AdWords Express over the past two years — including using Google Analytics to </span><a href="https://smallbusiness.googleblog.com/2016/05/track-what-matters-to-you-easily-in.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">track website actions</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and using Google Maps visits and Google forwarding numbers to </span><a href="https://smallbusiness.googleblog.com/2016/08/3-ways-to-get-more-from-adwords-express.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+gybblog+(Google+and+Your+Business)" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">track store visits and phone calls</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Together, these changes help you do what you really care about — connect with customers. </span></span></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"></span></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"><b id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e92-b9f4-4af0-3dbf2e912e92" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"></span></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"></span></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’re excited to continue working to help you get better, more meaningful interactions with customers, so stay tuned for coming updates. In the meantime, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to learn more about AdWords Express, </span><a href="https://www.google.com/adwords/express/?utm_source=awx&utm_medium=ot&utm_campaign=us-en-ot-awx-q413-awxdomain" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">head over to our website.</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"></span></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"><br /></span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"></span></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"></span></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"></span></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Posted by </span><span style="font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kavi Goel, Group Product Manager, AdWords Express</span></span></span></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e90-8331-e800-40b11b045beb"></span></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d542720-9e7e-2055-47b6-3a1d7c9168bb"></span>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-27915810980444379042017-07-17T09:00:00.000-07:002017-09-30T09:14:21.045-07:00Home Service ads help more professionals get quality leads online<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Home Service ads make it quick and easy to find local service professionals you can trust. When someone searches on Google for a local service professional like a plumber, electrician, or house cleaner, the Home Service unit may appear at the top of the results page. Being in the Home Service unit serves as a badge of trust for service professionals–only those meeting Google's strict qualifying criteria are featured there. </span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c37091b6-50e4-d027-a9b4-f80a53f3c25e" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Each professional has a unique profile where they can showcase their specific services, service areas, and hours of operation. Customers have the ability to browse through these profiles, see reviews from previous customers, and contact selected professionals who meet their specific needs with a phone call or an online request. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-c37091b6-50e5-24ce-50d2-6fd193ccd07d"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since its launch, Home Service ads has enabled a number of small service businesses to expand rapidly. Dan Travers, the owner of </span><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/FEoL83f7nv42" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1-800-ANYTYME Plumbing, Heating and Air</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, started using Home Services in order to reach new customers online. Dan has been impressed by the ability of Home Services to generate a high volume of quality leads for the business. “Our booking rates are up close to 70%,” he says. “I had to hire two more technicians to take on the additional volume. We are definitely seeing our return on investment." </span></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjULUdaK9Q_YnXB9I4dRsqIrBtsia5Yy1wenILDYplXpzKG0g13u59HO1Wp8N9ngFB_YiZFBB9k28-3mi6XdzUME4LlV9aTIa-CONNtC8KzsFLlJvoNw3aI5oXAgFMT64NNxW6bYWSx5Ds/s1600/ANYTIME+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1245" data-original-width="666" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjULUdaK9Q_YnXB9I4dRsqIrBtsia5Yy1wenILDYplXpzKG0g13u59HO1Wp8N9ngFB_YiZFBB9k28-3mi6XdzUME4LlV9aTIa-CONNtC8KzsFLlJvoNw3aI5oXAgFMT64NNxW6bYWSx5Ds/s400/ANYTIME+2.jpg" width="213" /></a></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To keep helping businesses like Dan’s, we’re continuing to expand Home Services ads. The product is now available in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Stockton, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. We’ve also made it available to other types of businesses, like painters, electricians, and towing providers. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’re growing quickly, so to be among the first to hear our updates, or to apply for Home Services if we’re already in your area, please fill out this</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.google.com/adwords/express/home-service-ads/contact/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">short form</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.79999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c37091b6-50e5-8412-403b-5cbbe8a5ee67"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Posted by Nataliya Broitman, Head of Small Business Marketing </span></span></div>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-42283609211339374322017-06-28T08:55:00.000-07:002017-09-30T09:14:21.068-07:00Fast mobile sites get more customers. Let's help get yours up to speed. <span id="docs-internal-guid-74910487-e595-015a-7c9d-f6a25bc70131"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-74910487-e595-015a-7c9d-f6a25bc70131"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How long does it take for your mobile site to load? Five seconds? Ten seconds? These few seconds could be the difference between keeping visitors on your site or losing them – because people aren’t willing to wait. In fact, most sites lose half their visitors while loading.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 6.6pt; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And 46% of people say that the most frustrating thing about browsing on their phone is waiting for slow pages to load.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 6.6pt; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-74910487-e595-015a-7c9d-f6a25bc70131"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-74910487-e595-015a-7c9d-f6a25bc70131"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With a little help, we believe every business can have a fast mobile site. That’s why we’re launching a new set of features to test your site’s speed on</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Test My Site</span></a><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which will show you:</span></span></span></div><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-74910487-e595-015a-7c9d-f6a25bc70131"></span></ul><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><ul><span style="font-family: inherit;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-74910487-e6d4-f4a2-5f42-47857ae54142"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your site’s mobile speed:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 50% of people expect a site to load in less than two seconds.</span><span style="font-size: 6.6pt; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">3</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Find out how fast your site loads.</span></span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-74910487-e6d4-15ae-2cee-5ac8800209d3" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">The number of visitors you may be losing:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> When it comes to mobile speed, every second matters – for each additional second it takes a mobile page to load, conversions can drop by up to 20%.</span><span style="font-size: 6.6pt; vertical-align: super;">4</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Learn how many people may be leaving your site during the time it takes to load.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How you compare to the competition: </span><span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See how your business stacks up against others in your industry. </span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-74910487-e6d2-8642-a6d3-b8816d4c5aa8" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">How to make your site faster: </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">We’ll email you a personalized assessment with specific recommendations on how to speed up your site. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></li></span></ul><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-74910487-e595-015a-7c9d-f6a25bc70131"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-74910487-e585-a9b2-4206-94fac0790d55"><span style="font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/1QUCizXSA8My0FT2hajCStoFPsoJxL9PnqFBiD-xYt-JBhAfnx5qOwWL69ayBnM23s2iVm7ZUQNtzwIFtwDzoJY6eDZJb2e0VSL998UDVssqpAqvXEnByWdzsjmE9wDf9b9cHSbq" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" /></span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Taking a few steps to improve your site speed can make a big difference. </span><a href="http://www.yarddogfenceofnashville.com/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yard Dog Fence Company</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nashville fencing company that specializes in pet-friendly and child-safe fences</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, took the recommendations from Test My Site to significantly improve their mobile speed. They reduced the file sizes of the images on their site and now their mobile site loads in 5 seconds compared to 26 seconds. For Michael Casper, the owner of Yard Dog, it’s made a real difference: “90% of our business comes from our mobile site. Since we improved our mobile speed, we doubled our sales.”</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Making changes like these can help you see a real impact on your business, too </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">– get started now with </span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Test My Site</span></a></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6aa9e31a-c807-26de-b917-ff9fa6cad309"></span><br /></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-74910487-e586-b131-f226-142ffe8e4b91"></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Posted by </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yong Su Kim, VP Americas, Google Marketing Solutions</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-74910487-e58e-72da-b89f-2ea0cd69af18" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Think with Google, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/articles/mobile-page-speed-new-industry-benchmarks.html" style="text-decoration: none;">Find Out How You Stack Up to New Industry Benchmarks for Mobile Page Speed</a>, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Webmaster Central Blog,</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2015/04/mobilemadness-campaign-to-help-you-go.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">#MobileMadness: a campaign to help you go mobile-friendly</a>, </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">2015.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DoubleClick by Google,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.doubleclickbygoogle.com/articles/mobile-speed-matters/" style="text-decoration: none;">The need for mobile speed</a>, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">2016.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Think with Google, </span></span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-resources/micro-moments/future-of-marketing-mobile-micro-moments/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">4 Things You Need to Know About the Future of Marketing</a>, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017.</span></span></div></div></div>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-31574262946608055422017-06-22T15:00:00.000-07:002017-09-30T09:14:21.090-07:00Make your business stand out on Google with Posts<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd19-8a12-165e-c62f63b8078c"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With 82% of people turning to search engines to find local information</span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-d03e-1230-6520-939ff59d7737"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 6.6pt; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> your Google listing is the ideal place to showcase what is unique about your business. Even when customers know exactly what they're looking for, they still want to get to know the business and see what it has to offer. That’s why Google My Business is bringing Posts to local businesses — an easy way to help attract new customers and build relationships with the customers you already have.</span></span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd16-c3a5-fac2-8546add3d065"></span></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; width: 468pt;"><colgroup><col width="*"></col><col width="*"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-left: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-right: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-top: solid #ffffff 1pt; padding: 5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="200" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/BcQ72SjAvmcYvJMcLKxoh_w3sjTtNU3uVxGX87GllWbQBj6D0i2_ufK3bVD0w2WsQV1uUMQivU78O03MeY43i9F4tgyT7_kTW9CKi1J9NO65DGKBTTyszHhYKWDHN-xu-Tg5Tlpi" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="98" /></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-left: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-right: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-top: solid #ffffff 1pt; padding: 5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="200" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/t9AgRLkgVQIvUweExnBu45RVsugg_f4Fa0F5iy_bDnJgHm3S8WNliwTkJc05e3sH4ZL6We1tXCdyPlKsQRFhIe_MhPg3rbQsGUN5uXMHig5SNPEttUOTjDUXOJ4KBmyocZSgnPYm" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="98" /></span></div></td></tr><tr style="height: 21pt;"><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-left: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-right: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-top: solid #ffffff 1pt; padding: 5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><h3 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Posts appear on your Google business listing. Customers can tap </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to read the full post, and they can also share your post with their friends </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">directly from Google.</span></span></h3></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"><span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Posting on Google gives you new ways to engage with your customers:</span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"></span><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Share daily specials or current promotions that encourage new and existing customers to take advantage of your offers.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Promote events and tell customers about upcoming happenings at your location.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Showcase your top products and highlight new arrivals.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Choose one of the available options to connect with your customers directly from your Google listing: give them a one-click path to make a reservation, sign up for a newsletter, learn more about latest offers, or even buy a specific product from your website.</span></div></li></span></ul><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd1a-8461-7f70-bd1ad19fa266"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seventy percent of people look at multiple businesses before making a final choice</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 6.6pt; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"> With Posts, you can share timely, relevant updates right on Google Search and Maps to help your business stand out to potential customers. And by including custom calls-to-action directly on your business listing, you can choose how to connect with your customers. </span><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"><br /></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cdcd-56bd-a967-e89b0e0504e6"></span></span></span><br /></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; width: 468pt;"><colgroup><col width="207"></col><col width="209"></col><col width="*"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-left: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-right: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-top: solid #ffffff 1pt; padding: 5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="393" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/SmM0JVcFJDl_r50sdxNVqqeuMjLmFBJf6EwxbjxFVwgLF-yKCqFEyQvaWGtKVTpzvNRNNT6VV3hMvC4apEnn4y0Iz5gv1Y6oXttM6RKmr31kfRVkQxsR76WOQCv6A26GkPK2kLRK" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="194" /></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-left: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-right: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-top: solid #ffffff 1pt; padding: 5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="393" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/I4NCYeDAyyHETuOzmttZzZq9F3hn3w6xRh8Cpd5RaiWECbQsZaTYoL-LU-V7IsArOp88W9FS1FijM3n17E0KwqltRXmTQ-DVhhktqkJqKS_isi5qP1iYuPbXdTQTf-zf3k69_p-4" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="194" /></span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-left: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-right: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-top: solid #ffffff 1pt; padding: 5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="393" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/xBKbZNT4hw8ydhnIdv60f8fVkkCqqY3UZjfSkClbhyJ45x9kMIjzCSu9eRaX1lfmlAoFoT9TkHaqZr5YhsPX6klgmuLTWMsDFjh86mdIWf-T5ZpcM9LHvcbPr1tXo_kY_pnxuRF2" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="194" /></span></div></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-left: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-right: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-top: solid #ffffff 1pt; padding: 5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Posts definitely helped our business because a lot of people look us up through Google. When they do, they want to see the vibe of the place. Being able to post directly to Google allows them to see the reviews and get a feel for the shop all in one spot.” - </span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cut & Grind, </span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">London, UK</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-left: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-right: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-top: solid #ffffff 1pt; padding: 5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“As a small business, we don’t have a ton of resources. We post with the intention of engaging new and existing customers, informing them of new therapists and services we offer as we expand our business. The posts help us stand out in a unique way and allow us to differentiate ourselves from our competition.” - </span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just Mind</span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Austin, TX</span></div></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-left: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-right: solid #ffffff 1pt; border-top: solid #ffffff 1pt; padding: 5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Posts are worth my time because with limited effort you can get something fresh that is reaching people's eyes. 1,100 people saw my last post. Getting information out to the customers is big for this kind of business, letting them know we have bikes or different sporting goods they may not be aware of.”- </span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 700; text-align: right; white-space: pre-wrap;">Play It Again Sports, </span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; text-align: right; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saint Paul, MN</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"><br /></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you’re a Google My Business user, you can start posting</span><span style="color: #434343; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://business.google.com/post" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">right now</span></a><span style="color: #434343; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Posts can be created on-the-go using the Google My Business Android and iOS apps or website. </span></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you’re not yet using Google My Business,</span><span style="color: #434343; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://www.google.com/business/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sign up</span></a><span style="color: #434343; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and get started today managing your business listing on Google. Once you’ve verified your business, you’ll be ready to start posting. To learn more, visit the Google My Business</span><span style="color: #434343; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://support.google.com/business/answer/7342169" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Help Center</span></a><span style="color: #434343; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-d3830d04-cd05-f032-2d04-9ffb83052a45"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Posted by Rosa Wu, Product Manager, Google My Business</span></div><div><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">1 Google. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.consumerbarometer.com/en/graph-builder/?question=N41&filter=country*:united_states,austria,belgium,bulgaria,croatia,czech_republic,denmark,estonia,finland,france,germany,greece,hungary,ireland,italy,latvia,lithuania,netherlands,norway,poland,portugal,romania,russia,serbia,slovakia,slovenia,spain,sweden,switzerland,united_kingdom,ukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Google Consumer Barometer</a>.</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: xx-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">2014/2015.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #434343; font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5ace3a4-c1f0-9216-a929-a74de96722ab"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline;">2 </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">Google. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.consumerbarometer.com/en/graph-builder/?question=N41&filter=country*:united_states,austria,belgium,bulgaria,croatia,czech_republic,denmark,estonia,finland,france,germany,greece,hungary,ireland,italy,latvia,lithuania,netherlands,norway,poland,portugal,romania,russia,serbia,slovakia,slovenia,spain,sweden,switzerland,united_kingdom,ukraine" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Google Consumer Barometer</a>.</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: xx-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">2014/2015.</span></div></div></span>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-9810349511804150262017-05-19T18:01:00.000-07:002017-09-30T06:58:59.091-07:00ACCA SEPTEMBER 2017 EXAM PREPARATION TIMETABLE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">ACCA SEPTEMBER 2017 EXAM PREPARATION TIMETABLE</span></i></h2><div><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Study smart with us for your ACCA September 2017 exams. 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color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Small businesses are the backbone of our local economy, and they make our communities special. Businesses are revitalizing their towns, creating jobs, and shaping their communities—one customer and employee at a time. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We wanted to better understand the web’s role in helping small businesses grow in today’s economy, so we recently commissioned <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/connectedsmallbusiness" target="_blank">new research with Deloitte</a>. The study found that the use of digital tools (such as websites, analytics, and online marketing) positively impacts small business growth in four key ways: reaching new customers, reaching new markets, growing faster, and creating jobs.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reaching more customers</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-843f42d6-0d1b-648e-a08c-6f678b95e53a"></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Digital tools help small businesses reach more customers at every stage of the purchase process. In fact, Deloitte’s research found that small businesses using advanced digital tools such as web analytics and online video, were almost </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3x as likely to have increased customer interest, like calls and leads</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. They were also more than </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3x as likely to have seen more sales inquiries, like foot traffic and orders, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in the last year. </span><a href="https://www.wichitafurniture.com/"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wichita Furniture</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in Wichita, KS has experienced these highly qualified leads first-hand. Their website traffic increased almost 50 percent in 2016, and they attribute the lion’s share of this growth to online advertising.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH9oNn1bONkN1_8htcfKWbe2ppfpnEmsp_1Djohzs6WLmUQLsQSIfF84NqcbDyV0amvf7V2GTYECAQ0GNrZNzt0NVKTy0boRPG1pqcCkKRDMPQYXjVv2G2NLigsDmM2KHrLy_lf4BpXbc/s1600/KS-Wichita+Furniture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH9oNn1bONkN1_8htcfKWbe2ppfpnEmsp_1Djohzs6WLmUQLsQSIfF84NqcbDyV0amvf7V2GTYECAQ0GNrZNzt0NVKTy0boRPG1pqcCkKRDMPQYXjVv2G2NLigsDmM2KHrLy_lf4BpXbc/s1600/KS-Wichita+Furniture.jpg" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">“...[Online advertising] brings quality customers through our doors—people who have seen our products and know what they’re looking for. As a result, we’ve seen a drastic increase in our sales per guest.” </span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">- </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Jay Storey, President & Founder, Wichita Furniture</span></span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reaching new markets</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-843f42d6-0d1c-bafc-979f-ace33189f8e7"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The web can open up new markets to small businesses, whether they’re across the country or across the world. Deloitte’s research found that digitally advanced small businesses are </span><span style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3x as likely to have exported </span><span style="text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in the last year. That’s what Jim and Kelley Hobart discovered with their company </span><a href="https://www.alpacadirect.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline;">Alpaca Direct</span></a><span style="text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, based in Hayden, ID. Digital resources like online video and </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">cloud-based communication tools</span><span style="text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> connect Alpaca Direct to customers across the globe.</span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG_8QUi0AHroCZUBJu7lI6f0sP9ptLke2KXwdKoYlIJS25YqCD3H1waaApOWGdqPupM9vbuJ0SHWqZtrA7qWJOS0LCOfGqHwcs-9i8TzvBKTN70_nb5zaYhjz41iJ7ZAx5W2J0iWbTn9E/s1600/ID-Alpaca+Direct.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG_8QUi0AHroCZUBJu7lI6f0sP9ptLke2KXwdKoYlIJS25YqCD3H1waaApOWGdqPupM9vbuJ0SHWqZtrA7qWJOS0LCOfGqHwcs-9i8TzvBKTN70_nb5zaYhjz41iJ7ZAx5W2J0iWbTn9E/s1600/ID-Alpaca+Direct.jpg" /></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"There are a lot of people all over the world who don't have a local yarn shop. We want to become their local yarn shop even though we're all the way here in Idaho." </span></span></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Kelley Hobart, Co-Owner, Alpaca Direct</span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></div></div><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Growing faster</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-843f42d6-0d1d-1275-8046-267e9ce714a2"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Digitally advanced small businesses experienced </span><span style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">revenue growth that was nearly 4x as high</span><span style="text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> as the previous year. Businesses like </span><a href="http://www.iluvcolors.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline;">Kaleidoscope Hair Products</span></a><span style="text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> based in New Orleans, LA, are growing faster because of the web. In 2016, Kaleidoscope reached more than 43,000 customers and doubled their revenue from the previous year. </span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhFree9ZabYTplSiZyrCLMhDwwYuEBsFp2G825GhBjZcHGe9FGcX3mx19iZJJae6NdYAKcxipYYHmUuxV1lYTZIEpegQJ_rDb_gJwVX9qzcSW61Vg_Q64yZ36lUeir2GyOhY20GgakgkY/s1600/LA-Kaleidoscope+Hair+Products.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhFree9ZabYTplSiZyrCLMhDwwYuEBsFp2G825GhBjZcHGe9FGcX3mx19iZJJae6NdYAKcxipYYHmUuxV1lYTZIEpegQJ_rDb_gJwVX9qzcSW61Vg_Q64yZ36lUeir2GyOhY20GgakgkY/s1600/LA-Kaleidoscope+Hair+Products.jpg" /></a></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody></tbody></table><span style="color: black; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"><br />"We went from selling no products to having a full warehouse, exponential growth, and distributors all around the world."</span><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #444444;">- Jesseca Dupart, Owner and CEO, Kaleidoscope Hair Products</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Creating jobs</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-843f42d6-0d1d-3c1a-dbf1-16b9eeaf6a7d"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Digitally advanced small businesses are job creators.</span><span style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In fact, they were nearly </span><span style="font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3x as likely to have created new jobs </span><span style="text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in the last year. </span><a href="http://www.dreamstyleremodeling.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline;">Dreamstyle Remodeling</span></a><span style="text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, based in Albuquerque, NM, is a job creator in their community. They have been growing 34 percent annually since 2013 and expect to reach $100 million in sales this year. Since developing their digital strategy, Dreamstyle has added 250 employees to keep pace with their growth. They plan on hiring another 500 people to support their expansion in two additional locations by 2020. </span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj74LZd6lRVXPQZgSNJg6dRAgYQyGUADkTqrf9QPU_lSng4z-T_-G5yilh8OU4uC0gmGoKiM7Osr5r1bIU4Iie8gxsx43q84BSM84-fe9IJFPNM7883nXRd8KWbm6JN8glhYKlyQbSFhwk/s1600/NM-Dreamstyle+Remodeling.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj74LZd6lRVXPQZgSNJg6dRAgYQyGUADkTqrf9QPU_lSng4z-T_-G5yilh8OU4uC0gmGoKiM7Osr5r1bIU4Iie8gxsx43q84BSM84-fe9IJFPNM7883nXRd8KWbm6JN8glhYKlyQbSFhwk/s1600/NM-Dreamstyle+Remodeling.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">"We think [our 2020 plan] is possible... And the web and Google tools are going to be critical to that growth."</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">- Larry Chavez, CEO, Dreamstyle Remodeling</span></span></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-843f42d6-0dd8-0560-faa3-00c8b715efe6"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a glimpse into how small businesses are growing using digital tools. Read the full results from the </span><a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/connectedsmallbusiness"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deloitte research study</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-843f42d6-0d1e-01a4-abd7-040e70848fcf"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To learn how your business can get online and grow, check out new resources available through our </span><a href="http://www.gybo.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline;">Get Your Business Online</span></a><span style="text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> program.</span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-3580387256106561912017-05-10T11:26:00.000-07:002017-09-30T09:14:21.140-07:00Across the U.S., businesses are using the web to grow <span id="docs-internal-guid-0d5c6ba5-f2dd-e3a3-ddf5-2891c1f468e6"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When their 10-year-old daughter asked if she could raise alpacas on the family ranch, Jim and Kelley Hobart figured, “Why not?” They welcomed the animals onto their land and soon thereafter discovered the many benefits of alpaca wool. It was soft, durable, warm and eco-friendly</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">—it had to be shared with the rest of the world. To the delight of their daughter and alpaca lovers everywhere, the Hobarts launched </span><a href="http://www.alpacadirect.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alpaca Direct</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in 2005, producing quality yarns and apparel made from the unique fiber.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJUP9wghb9Mh5if4o3WwReuNS_yxXQ3RB2gOVLuQfFiLEn9KKZMVEBzfmr9DKrdiUllGefQdqRhnai5JdLGEh9lFf7Xt1y_3xWTzfF-lk0uzqoltpu3He-b1nFD6Bkezqm2xYjIu3ccMs/s1600/ID-Alpaca+Direct.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJUP9wghb9Mh5if4o3WwReuNS_yxXQ3RB2gOVLuQfFiLEn9KKZMVEBzfmr9DKrdiUllGefQdqRhnai5JdLGEh9lFf7Xt1y_3xWTzfF-lk0uzqoltpu3He-b1nFD6Bkezqm2xYjIu3ccMs/s1600/ID-Alpaca+Direct.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jim and Kelley never imagined that a curious request from their youngest daughter would transform into a full-fledged business, or that a small storefront in Hayden, ID, would become a popular travel destination for knitting enthusiasts worldwide. Yet today Alpaca Direct is at the heart of a vibrant and global knitting community. With the help of the web, they’ve brought the warmth of alpaca wool to more than 100,000 customers across 30 countries. As Kelley says, “With Google tools, we can do that, and [customers] can be part of our community.”</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2016, Google’s search and advertising tools helped provide $222 billion of economic activity for 1.5 million businesses, website publishers, and nonprofits across the U.S. Our </span><a href="https://economicimpact.google.com/#/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2016 Economic Impact Report</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> explores that economic impact state-by-state and the local businesses that are helping to drive it. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d5c6ba5-f2e3-0522-00fc-6776c0223e59"></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While working on a small leather goods line in New York City, Tanya Menendez and Matthew Burnett realized how difficult it was to find local manufacturers. In an effort to democratize that access, the two started </span><a href="http://makersrow.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maker’s Row</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an online marketplace that helps small businesses find American factories to make their products. They use AdWords to both establish factory partnerships and find new customers, and YouTube to, as Tanya describes, “put a face behind the products that are made in the United States.” In five years, the company has helped 120,000 small businesses source and create products in 11,000 American factories.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7P21Yt5h-y2YFiIrxa8-TSzc-SpkWqX9OJJeEJbESQrO74pwrk9rdSYsSJHEeA-3OvnXZQJWJNfQy_X2coXTQ1zmJVJWtlYgTpu4lHk3GU2Gmu2tmtcy8XYcHBWqBYzggFNUpoBuTLA0/s1600/NY-Maker%2527s+Row+%25232.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7P21Yt5h-y2YFiIrxa8-TSzc-SpkWqX9OJJeEJbESQrO74pwrk9rdSYsSJHEeA-3OvnXZQJWJNfQy_X2coXTQ1zmJVJWtlYgTpu4lHk3GU2Gmu2tmtcy8XYcHBWqBYzggFNUpoBuTLA0/s1600/NY-Maker%2527s+Row+%25232.jpg" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0d5c6ba5-f2e3-f673-10ad-04eda9141e94"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">After serving as a U.S. Marine for six years, Nick Baucom founded a company, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.twomarinesmoving.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline;">Two Marines Moving</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, in Alexandria, Virginia. His goal was to keep his fellow veterans gainfully employed, while giving local residents a moving option they could trust. Today, Two Marines Moving employs more than 100 veterans. They use Search and AdWords not only to find customers, but also to recruit employees. Nick has opened a second location in Florida and hopes to create job opportunities for 500 veterans in the next five years, vowing that “veterans will always have a home here.”</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigU7-PZ91qQJZLViLOa2PBTluXxvI-0qUEn__1g6x5q8OJboHZmL2LndOFvSWNqoDPsuJNlG3T5ERKK7OZz8OKasVT8VFIUvTgerGGSyosjck9Qq13t5Nyx2hlj-L3dW3QDTExMvpvLv4/s1600/VA-Two+Marines+Moving.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigU7-PZ91qQJZLViLOa2PBTluXxvI-0qUEn__1g6x5q8OJboHZmL2LndOFvSWNqoDPsuJNlG3T5ERKK7OZz8OKasVT8VFIUvTgerGGSyosjck9Qq13t5Nyx2hlj-L3dW3QDTExMvpvLv4/s1600/VA-Two+Marines+Moving.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Across the U.S., businesses large and small are using the web to find their customers, grow, and make an impact. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’re proud to be part of their </span><a href="http://www.google.com/economicimpact" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline;">stories</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #666666;">Posted by Claire Mudd, Director, Americas Small Business Marketing</span></div>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-65334051571534984042017-05-04T09:19:00.000-07:002017-09-30T09:14:21.167-07:00Let’s Make Work Better <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1998, Google was a small start-up being run out of a garage. As we’ve grown over the past nearly 20 years, we’ve experimented a lot with our workplace culture and management practices. A few years ago we started sharing what we’ve learned — what works and what doesn’t — on our </span><a href="https://rework.withgoogle.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">re:Work website</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-16e56e6c-d1d2-6a0b-799a-93d34700dbf0" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This </span><a href="https://www.sba.gov/nsbw/nsbw" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Small Business Week</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, we’ve compiled some of the re:Work guides that we think are most helpful for small business owners to help you do what you do even better: </span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://goo.gl/Rf92Nx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hiring</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Small business owners report that finding and keeping qualified employees is one of the top ten issues keeping them awake at </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">night.</span><span style="font-size: 6.6pt; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">See how to make every step of the hiring process more effective:</span></div></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/ldJVd0" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Create a job description</span></span></a></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/qUHLS6" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Review resumes</span></span></a></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/pCzSLz" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Use structured interviewing</span></span></a></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/Djop2p" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hire by committee</span></span></a></div></li></ul></ul><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://goo.gl/4yG0m0" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Managers</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We gathered insights from surveys, studies, and on-the-ground conversations with employees about what makes a great manager. Learn from what we found: </span></span></div></li><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/jDSS9x" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Develop and support managers</span></span></a></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/zj4TDa" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Setting and communicating a team vision</span></span></a></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://goo.gl/sBmJKG" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coaching managers to coach</span></a><a href="https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/managers-coach-managers-to-coach/steps/introduction/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/vTeOia" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Empowering your team</span></span></a></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/5p4JkY" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Caring professionally and personally for your team</span></span></a></div></li></ul></ul><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://goo.gl/hQ4wvP" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teams</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In the modern workplace, most productive work happens in teams. Google did a deep dive into workplace culture and structure to find out what improves a team’s performance. Check it out: </span><a href="https://goo.gl/emy1E4" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Understand team effectiveness</span></a></span></div></li></ul><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://goo.gl/xtFOwm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Setting Goals</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Research has shown that when businesses commit to a goal, everyone’s performance can improve. At Google we set and track “Objectives and Key Results” (OKRs). Learn more: </span><a href="https://goo.gl/vnBoN7" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set goals with OKRs</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></div></li></ul><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For even more ideas, keep up with re:Work’s </span><a href="https://goo.gl/5GQ7N0" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">weekly blog</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, where we’ll be sharing new content focused on the needs of small businesses. You can also get inspirational content delivered to you by </span><a href="https://rework.withgoogle.com/contact-us/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">signing up for our monthly newsletter</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Posted by the Google re:Work Team</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-08ff2497-cf41-cfa3-f8a8-965cea1a238f"><span style="font-size: 6.6pt; vertical-align: super;">1</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Federation of Independent Businesses, </span><a href="http://www.nfib.com/assets/NFIB-Problems-and-Priorities-2016.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NFIB Small Business Problems and Priorities</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2016.</span></span></div><div><br /></div>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-51061156564917683912017-05-01T09:19:00.000-07:002017-09-30T09:14:21.192-07:00This National Small Business Week, Build Your Online Skills with Lessons from the Pros<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The web is helping small businesses grow. As the place where people turn to learn, discover, find, and buy things, it’s connecting customers to small businesses and small businesses to customers. Being online can have a big impact–in fact, businesses that are online grow 40 percent faster and are twice as likely to create new jobs than those that remain </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">offline.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-d5ace3a4-c1f2-048c-8280-4d5a5b32c065" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We see the power of the web working for American small businesses. Millions of small businesses are found on Google Search and Maps every single day across the nation.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With a little bit of elbow grease and the help of technology, we believe every business can grow online. So together with our partners, we’re continuing our mission to help make that happen.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through our <a href="http://www.gybo.com/" target="_blank">Get Your Business Online</a> initiative, we’re bringing together free resources and tools to help you this National Small Business Week and beyond.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn from the pros through bite-sized lessons </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Build your online business and marketing skills with five-minute lessons from </span><a href="http://yourprimer.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Primer</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, our free mobile app. To celebrate National Small Business Week, we’re happy to announce new lessons created by small business experts</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/smallbiztrends" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anita Campbell</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ducttape" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John Jantsch</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ramonray" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ramon Ray</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/RhondaAbrams" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rhonda Abrams</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Each has created a special lesson from their decades of experience working with and coaching small businesses. We’re also excited to share </span><a href="https://www.gybo.com/online-lessons" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">new web-based lessons</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Get your business online </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be where your customers are. Get your free listing on Google Search and Maps. Show pictures of your business, list your hours, and add your phone number so customers can just click to call you or get directions. Businesses with complete listings are considered twice as </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5ace3a4-c1f6-40cd-6ebd-5dfb6c690eab"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">reputable.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Use this </span><a href="https://www.gybo.com/business" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">handy tool</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to get started.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make sure your website works on mobile</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did you know that more than half of all Google searches happen on mobile phones? Mobile shoppers want quick results–53 percent say they’ll wait no more than three seconds before abandoning a </span><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5ace3a4-c1f6-b659-a3de-bf9d3b8d73b9"><span style="font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">site.</span><span style="font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> How fast does your website load? Use the free </span><a href="http://testmysite.withgoogle.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Test My Site tool</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to see how well your site works on mobile. We’ll email you a personalized assessment with specific recommendations on how to make it better.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Want even more? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During National Small Business Week (and throughout the year), Google and our partners are hosting in-person workshops to help you grow your business online. </span><a href="http://www.gybo.com/events" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Find a workshop near you</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Small businesses are the heart of our communities. Thank you for making the places we call home, home. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Happy National Small Business Week. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "roboto"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.google.com/smallbusinessweek">www.google.com/smallbusinessweek</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "roboto"; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Posted by Soo Young Kim, Head of Marketing, Get Your Business Online </span><span style="font-family: "roboto"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5ace3a4-c1ef-8cca-15aa-a8991d932514"></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">1 </span>BCG Report, <a href="https://www.bcg.com/documents/file100409.pdf" target="_blank">The Connected World: The $4.2 Trillion Opportunity</a>, March 2012.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5ace3a4-c1f0-9216-a929-a74de96722ab"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline;">2 </span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;">Google</span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;">/Oxera,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.gybo.com/downloads/verification-benefits.pdf" target="_blank">The Benefits of Complete Business Listings</a></span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;">December 2014.</span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "roboto"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5ace3a4-c1f0-6851-b469-5dbfc1befdb8"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;">3 Google Data, Global, n=3,700 aggregated, anonymized Google Analytics data from a sample of mWeb sites opted into sharing benchmark data, March 2016.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/articles/au-mobile-page-speed-new-industry-benchmarks.html" target="_blank">Think With Google</a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span> </span></span></span></div>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-83247230806242805082017-04-25T09:00:00.000-07:002017-09-30T09:14:21.218-07:00Get Your Business Online with a Workshop Near You During National Small Business Week<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <a href="http://www.gybo.com/events" target="_blank"><img alt="Blog Post NSBW edited GYBO workshop image (1).png" height="429" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/OuPMZ8-q6dG9TUvOTXxWfHcYaDvK9E89Yb3-yAD8ZSwe4GDu0TdG1fAqE5U53CZ29MQr1b1GDebQuC0D-QVyeC8B0wzZJoM08avX65GlTFJyIaS893wSJK6qQiaEYXEjj6c6jFPE" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" title="" width="624" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Next week is National Small Business Week, and our partners across the country are hosting free workshops in their communities. You’re invited to join us.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-cbe40fc5-a558-d4be-b1a3-19d8bedefb71" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through these workshops you can learn how to grow online and reach more customers. Be sure to check </span><a href="http://google.com/smallbusinessweek" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">google.com/smallbusinessweek</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> when the celebration begins on April 30 for more free resources and tools. </span></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://gybo.com/events" style="text-decoration: none;">Find a local workshop.</a></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br /><h4><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Posted by </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Emily Harris, Program Manager, Get Your Business Online</span></span></h4></div></div><br /><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></span></div>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-45933253272034798662017-04-13T13:55:00.000-07:002017-09-30T09:11:27.577-07:00Business Studies Notes for IGCSE 2012 (All in one) in pdf<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://igbusinesss.blogspot.ru/2017/04/business-studies-notes-for-igcse-all-in.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7AahSeL-y84ZKxZD242oY0CywSV4mLY1fj9CIsQJ2cYGjdmifkLPWTOOv2R1rjXs9DdKBCF5q8H6v_RT_aHzzBZ_GwwAza2yYr4xYId_1yS2pNoQ91vn2KWn3CbSCtTeqxK1t3BR_-no/s320/1.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here is a pdf file with all <b>Business Studies Notes</b> for IGCSE 2012 for you to download. The pdf files for separates chapters are also available. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">HAPPY READING!</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span> <br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Business Studies Notes (All in one)</span></b></div><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span><br />Click on the <b>Pop-out </b>button on the upper right corner of the pdf file to have full view and to download or download it <b><a href="https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B9bHdm7rrnQXRjhxMDZrSmpYdDg&export=download" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</b><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe height="780" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXRjhxMDZrSmpYdDg/preview" width="628"></iframe> <br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">PDF by chapters: </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXdkV0dEVLTHRSNUU/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 1: The purpose of Business Activity</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXYXBsd1JuZkdRdUU/view" target="_blank">Chapter 2: Types of business activity</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXUUtZZDd6N1Y2S0k/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 3: Forms of business organisation</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXX3hiOWNVMjVQcnM/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 4: Government and economic influences on business</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXQ1RVNGQ3LUU0aDg/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 5: Other influences on business</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXRHVZRzRRdlZRbUE/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><br /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXRHVZRzRRdlZRbUE/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 6: Business costs and revenue</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXTXQyRW12RG9kR1E/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 7: Business Accounting</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXWjNZREpBMXNGdU0/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 8: Cash flow planning</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXR1NGTWttZmtBUU0/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><br /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXR1NGTWttZmtBUU0/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 9: Financing business activity</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXVlRjd1BXNWpMLTA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 10: Organisational Structure</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXMEFLaTlwanZicDA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 11: Managing a business</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXYUpmZENOTGNRUVE/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 12: Communication in business</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXbjBGQnZxNHhFMUk/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 13: Motivation at work</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXSGQyN3d1S3hGMnM/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 14: Recruitment, Training, and human resources</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXdVo3a2VVeFBrRkU/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 15: Employee and employer associations</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXbmZXemhXdlhabnc/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 16: The market and marketing</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXN3JDR2JTM0t3blU/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 17: Market research</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXNGdtUlN6VF8zc2M/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 18: Presentation of information</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXaXVMLU1RSE5rVkU/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 19: The marketing mix: product and packaging</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXdjAxbFIwMTB5WDQ/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 20: The marketing mix: price</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXN3M3a21WTkxZazA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 21: The marketing mix: promotion</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXc29JNWw2ZUl3SnM/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 22: The marketing mix: place</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXN2NsOUp0Z0RyZmM/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 23: Factors affecting production</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXdngxckpDa1VjQWs/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 24: Factors affecting location</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXRHZkb1F4ZGN1X28/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 25: Business in the international community</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /></div></div>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-25535882102082009302017-04-12T07:25:00.000-07:002017-09-30T09:11:27.606-07:00Biology Notes for IGCSE 2014 (All in one)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://igbusinesss.blogspot.ru/2017/05/biology-notes-2014-all-in-one.html" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgycHsvXkQOrKYdd_CRZy0qPJjx7t8FzLGheg4AuMc6DV40-Lr1btUi2AAZBp2-TFlvocNxg_9pU768lStDRaBIolRS6JmTqsSRoi3FjU_ybz9mAMmd_nJ8aGI7N_S3o_zzjAyHgVr7XR1/s1600/biology+books.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Here is a pdf file with </span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Biology Notes for IGCSE 2014</span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px;">The pdf files for </span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/search/label/pdf" target="_blank">separate chapters</a></span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/search/label/pdf" target="_blank"> </a>are also available. </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px;">Source: <a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.ru/2014/04/biology-notes-all-in-one.html" target="_blank"><b>Biology Notes for IGCSE 2014</b></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><div><a name='more'></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: normal;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Biology Notes All in one</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman";"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Click on the <b>Pop-out</b> button on the upper right corner of the pdf file to have full view and to download or <b>download</b> it <a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0B9bHdm7rrnQXbmh2dnVxQVBiWkk&export=download" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b>.</a></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></span></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe height="880" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bHdm7rrnQXbmh2dnVxQVBiWkk/preview" width="720"></iframe><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>By chapters</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>1. <a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/04/01-classification-of-living-things-pdf.html" target="_blank">Classification of living things</a> </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">or click </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0BxxY3nc7MoX5bGVveUVkYWgyZzQ&export=download" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="">Here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> to download</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>2. <a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/04/02-cells-pdf.html" target="_blank">Cells</a> <o:p></o:p></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">or click</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> <a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0B6BwiBtA43FrdG9ZakpQVVNYQmM&export=download" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="">Here</a> </strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to 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class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>4. <a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/04/04-plant-nutrition-pdf.html" target="_blank">Plant Nutrition<o:p></o:p></a> </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">or click</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6BwiBtA43FrWGxGeEJGblpyWWc/view" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""> Here </a></strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to download </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>5. <a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/04/05-animal-nutrition-pdf.html" target="_blank">Animal Nutrition</a> <o:p></o:p></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">or click</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0B6BwiBtA43FrSXdvUTNfWVQ0ZVU&export=download" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""> Here </a></strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to download</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span 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style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>7. <a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/04/07-human-transport-pdf.html" target="_blank">Human Transport</a> <o:p></o:p></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">or click</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0B6BwiBtA43FrZjVPQjI4eVJ5Qms&export=download" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""> Here </a></strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to download</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>8. <a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/04/08-respiration-pdf.html" target="_blank">Respiration</a> <o:p></o:p></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">or click</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0B6BwiBtA43FrRnFfT0pXbFNSY3c&export=download" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""> Here </a></strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to download</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>9. <a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/04/09-coordination-and-response-pdf.html" target="_blank">Coordination</a> <o:p></o:p></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">or click</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0B6BwiBtA43FrdldYSUR3VW1WQzA&export=download" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""> Here </a></strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to download</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>10. <a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/04/10-excrestion-pdf.html" target="_blank">Excretion</a> <o:p></o:p></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">or click</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0B6BwiBtA43FrVVBJVE1yNHNudkE&export=download" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""> Here </a></strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to download</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>11. <a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/04/11-homeostasis-and-drugs-pdf_8.html" target="_blank">Homeostasis and Drugs</a> <o:p></o:p></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">or click</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0B6BwiBtA43FrR2ltTWFoTWY1bk0&export=download" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""> Here </a></strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to download</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>12. <a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/04/12-reproduction-pdf.html" target="_blank">Reproduction</a> <o:p></o:p></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">or click</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0B6BwiBtA43FrM3Z1THRYTEhLRDQ&export=download" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""> Here </a></strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to download</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>13. <a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/04/13-inheritance-pdf.html" target="_blank">Inheritance</a> <o:p></o:p></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">or click</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0B6BwiBtA43FrNEgzXzVaUGI4MXM&export=download" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""> Here </a></strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to download</span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>14.<a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/04/14-ecosystem-pdf.html" target="_blank"> Ecosystem</a> <o:p></o:p></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">or click</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0B6BwiBtA43FrMDFUdEtiZldhcUU&export=download" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""> Here </a></strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to download</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>15. <a href="http://igbiologyy.blogspot.com/2014/04/15-human-and-ecosystem-biology-notes.html" target="_blank">Human and Ecosystem</a> </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">or click</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/uc?authuser=0&id=0B6BwiBtA43FrMDFUdEtiZldhcUU&export=download" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""> Here </a></strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">to download</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span></div></div>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-88875838340771301112017-03-08T09:18:00.000-08:002017-09-30T09:14:21.238-07:00Celebrating Women Entrepreneurs<h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c0d28a3d-ae97-eb42-4fb3-828fddbe4867" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every new woman entrepreneur who takes the leap to start her own business or takes the helm of a business is creating a more diverse and inclusive economy.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.6pt; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In the U.S., women have been starting businesses at a rate that’s 1.5 times higher than men.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.6pt; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> That’s added up to some big numbers: by 2015, 46% of the privately held companies were owned or co-owned by women.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.6pt; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">3</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Women-owned businesses now employ over 7.9 million workers in the U.S.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.6pt; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">4</span></span></h2><b id="docs-internal-guid-597ebd86-ae87-add3-b6e2-cd3583d600af" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c0d28a3d-aece-7212-b965-bf14d512b5ec"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To celebrate women entrepreneurs this International Women’s Day, we chatted with some women entrepreneurs who’ve inspired us with their boldness. Here are some highlights. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was the biggest hurdle you faced when starting your business? How did you overcome it? </span></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The biggest hurdle when starting a business [was] not knowing what I didn't know! Running a business is totally different...and co</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mpletely different skills are required. I learned a lot by reading business and legal books, and making tons of mistakes.” </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">— Limor Fried</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Founder & Lead Engineer of </span><a href="http://www.adafruit.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adafruit</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I probably should have started a business five years before I did. However, I let my fears hold me back from going after what I wanted. One day I just decided to go for it. I knew if I didn't, I would regret not starting this business for the rest of my life.” </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">— Kathryn Jackson, Founder of </span><a href="http://protectyourpumps.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Protect Your Pumps</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I think our biggest hurdle was handling growth. Once we got too big to do everything ourselves, we had to hire the right people to represent us and keep our customers happy, while preserving the culture of our small family business.” </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">— Jenny Doan, Founder of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://www.missouriquiltco.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Missouri Star Quilt Co.</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What’s the best piece of advice you received when starting your business?</span></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make sure you have your happiest, most cheerful people working in the front of your store. Those are the people your customers will remember.” </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">— Jenny Doan</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Read more from Jenny</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/The-Latest-from-Google-Small/Women-s-History-Month-Spotlight-Missouri-Star-Quilt-Company/ba-p/1087355" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.)</span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invest in protecting your business. Once you're on your way, invest in a proper accountant, legal counsel, continuing education and training, copyrights and trademarks and other legal protections, website design, R&D, etc." </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">— </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Limor Fried </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Read more from Limor</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/The-Latest-from-Google-Small/Women-s-History-Month-Spotlight-Adafruit-Industries/ba-p/1087393" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.) </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Get started. Take that initial step, even if it is a small one. Don't let let the big picture overwhelm you so much that you don't even take the first step.” </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> — Kathryn Jackson</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Read more from Kathryn</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/The-Latest-from-Google-Small/Women-s-History-Month-Spotlight-Protect-Your-Pumps/ba-p/1087233" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.) </span><br /><br /><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-c0d28a3d-aece-9e47-9945-d75563db6faf"></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We hope Jenny, Kathryn, and Limor's voices and experiences will inspire budding women entrepreneurs everywhere. </span><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">#IWD2017 #BeBoldforChange</span></div><br /><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 World Economic Forum "<a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/05/the-importance-of-a-diverse-workforce/">The Importance of a Diverse Workforce</a>." May 2015.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 Calhoun, Lisa. "<a href="http://www.inc.com/lisa-calhoun/30-surprising-facts-about-female-founders.html">30 Surprising Facts About Female Founders</a>." 06 July 2015. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 </span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Calhoun, Lisa. 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Easy as Pumpkin Pie.Heather Mohorn, owner of Momo’s Tree House, adds special hours on Google to let last-minute shoppers know when her business is open. “The holiday hours feature makes it easy to communicate [changes in hours] to customers,” she says. “It reduces the number of phone calls we receive to ask whether we’re open, which is nice when we’re busy wrapping those last-minute gifts on Christmas Eve.”<br /><br />With Google My Business, you can update your business info on Google for free to ensure that your phone number, address, and hours of operation are correct so customers can find you this season (and beyond).<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0KpEJd8j0B4/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0KpEJd8j0B4?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe></div><br /><b>To help you make the most of the season, we put together a holiday workshop filled with tips for using the web to connect with shoppers. 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No more wasting your precious quality time with stories that are not relevant to your ACCA course.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>We teach you how to pass your exams !!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>BOOK YOUR SEATS NOW !!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: xx-large;">Register at our website : <a href="http://www.jprotraining.com/">www.jprotraining.com</a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: xx-large;">OR</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: xx-large;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: xx-large;">CALL 016 263 0649 (Kumar) </i></div><div><br /></div></div>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-61346866505219940922016-10-21T09:49:00.000-07:002017-09-30T09:14:21.279-07:00Help Holiday Shoppers Find Your Business<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Since 1992, Werkheiser Jewelers has been helping customers find the perfect holiday gift–from picking out an engagement ring to restoring cherished family heirlooms. While they’ve kept their love for tradition alive, the way they do business has changed with the times. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today, 78% of shoppers online use the Internet for holiday research.</span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5d8442c-e823-d905-7423-501181a0cb43"><span style="font-size: 8.8px; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1 </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That includes jewelry shoppers searching for a gift for that special someone. Alyssa Rizzo-Berg, Media Marketing Manager at Werkheiser Jewelers, explains, “</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybe they’re looking to buy that first big piece of jewelry or an engagement ring. Because of Google, they’re able to find us</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.” </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We all rely on small businesses to help make our holidays special, and we rely on the Internet to help us find the right local spots. Is your business ready to connect during this busy time of year?</span></span></div><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W27gVPWlDbM" width="640"></iframe></center><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the next few weeks, Google and our partners are bringing hundreds of local workshops to a city near you to help your business get ready for the holidays. On October 26th, we’re also hosting a live workshop online with the U.S. Small Business Administration. Join us to l</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">earn how to create a free business listing on Google, optimize your website for mobile, and advertise online.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.gybo.com/?gmbsrc=us-en_US-gxbo-z-z-gmb-s-416-o~z-hol16generic-u" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Find a holiday prep workshop near you at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gybo.com/holidays</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- OR - </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.gybo.com/holidaylivestream" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tune in on Wednesday, October 26th at 10 AM PT/1 PM ET to watch the livestream</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5d8442c-e81b-2335-33ae-efdbf429a5fb"></span></span><br /><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We hope to see you there. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And from our team to yours, happy holidays! </span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="post-author" style="font-family: inherit;">Posted by Emily Harris, Program Manager, Let's Put Our Cities on the Map</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">1. Ipsos MediaCT, Google Post Holiday Shopping Intentions Study, January 2015, n=1,500.</span>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-14145239872989153492016-10-16T23:02:00.000-07:002017-09-30T06:58:59.232-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><u>ACCA DECEMBER 2016 REVISION TIMETABLE</u></i></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><u><br /></u></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Congratulations for those who passed their papers in September sitting. Those who failed, do not give up.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>There is still hope, you can sign up for our revision classes.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Limited to 24 seats per class. 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Register at <a href="http://www.jprotraining.com/">www.jprotraining.com</a> or </i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">call us at 016 263 0649 Kumar for more information.</i></span></div><div><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></i></div><div><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheXWVTQYCRptgChgdzqKto5W8024A8P5SmWfRgIweSgN1a4lusz49NAQGiffJGLZh1yDTY6mXe8EknlmWlE0A6Tp48GNdGRWb4WwqaOnkDAFpm53bvMgxAapfJHJQe0LsJWpq6PTNjqjQ/s1600/P1.P3+Dec+Revision-page-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheXWVTQYCRptgChgdzqKto5W8024A8P5SmWfRgIweSgN1a4lusz49NAQGiffJGLZh1yDTY6mXe8EknlmWlE0A6Tp48GNdGRWb4WwqaOnkDAFpm53bvMgxAapfJHJQe0LsJWpq6PTNjqjQ/s640/P1.P3+Dec+Revision-page-001.jpg" width="451" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0pnToAADULvPFwYN8LN_-EdajEnb1ZV4q6wpI6jTN4q0NEiYzgmQlLQOXJ5mQQgX9RhkzVVZxcIKvcem3wE1wys00G4mtsO5kJci_wwK9W0HfzSro0Livp8pQEvm0m96qjRErdpBVY2U/s1600/P4.P7+Dec+revision-page-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0pnToAADULvPFwYN8LN_-EdajEnb1ZV4q6wpI6jTN4q0NEiYzgmQlLQOXJ5mQQgX9RhkzVVZxcIKvcem3wE1wys00G4mtsO5kJci_wwK9W0HfzSro0Livp8pQEvm0m96qjRErdpBVY2U/s640/P4.P7+Dec+revision-page-001.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></i></div><div><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></i></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><br /></div></div>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-51620858758225441122016-10-03T10:00:00.000-07:002017-09-30T09:14:21.302-07:00Academy for Ads: On-The-Go Training for Google's Ad ProductsBecoming a digital advertising expert takes time, and it’s important to get off to a good start. Only 50 percent of marketers say they’re confident in their knowledge of digital advertising,<sup>1</sup> despite the wide range of educational materials available – sometimes “more” isn’t the same as “better.” You’ve told us that you want quick, bite-sized training in more interactive formats. And we heard you.<br /><br />We’re pleased to announce <a href="http://landing.google.com/academyforads/?utm_campaign=launch&utm_source=mobile-blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_content=homepage">Academy for Ads</a>, a new digital training platform designed to help you learn how to use Google’s ad products in a mobile-first world. We built Academy for Ads to promote learning on-the-go, whether you’re on a laptop, a desktop, or a mobile device.<br /><br /><b>Grow your Google product know-how</b><br />Guided by input from our team of product experts, Academy for Ads courses cover the topics that matter most to Google advertisers – from AdWords basics and the essentials of campaign management to bid strategies, reporting, optimization, and more ways to successfully advertise with Google.<br /><div><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/87GrNuDl7W4" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><b>Learning paths, Assessments, and Achievements</b><br />We’ve organized the courses into “Learning paths” that you can walk through at your own pace. At the end of each path, take an Assessment and earn an Achievement to show that you know your stuff. Earning an Achievement for AdWords helps prepare you to take the <a href="https://support.google.com/partners/answer/3154326?hl=en&ref_topic=3203989&utm_campaign=launch&utm_source=mobile-blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_content=homepage">AdWords Certification exam in Google Partners</a>, or try deeper education offerings such as <a href="http://g.co/adwordsacademy">AdWords Academy</a>.<br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg72Ctz_k7cDsUasw-xLi_lWBP5cCDLaC18MjcYVfP1j2cHO8ljwfkqbaWWZMFvy_-HBqdPSTf4jADsk24xW_C36y7BK-jqCv3qTzBKw2pD4YIJsu0OrBPr95kFxiJFWNW_OXyyMg6g5NY/s1600/BlogMnt_v6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg72Ctz_k7cDsUasw-xLi_lWBP5cCDLaC18MjcYVfP1j2cHO8ljwfkqbaWWZMFvy_-HBqdPSTf4jADsk24xW_C36y7BK-jqCv3qTzBKw2pD4YIJsu0OrBPr95kFxiJFWNW_OXyyMg6g5NY/s1600/BlogMnt_v6.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div>A few example Learning paths:<br /><ul><li>Digital concepts: Learn the essentials of online ads, including third-party ad-serving, programmatic buying, remarketing, and more.</li><li>Get started with AdWords: Learn the basics of AdWords and prepare for the <a href="https://support.google.com/partners/answer/3154326?hl=en&ref_topic=3203989&utm_campaign=launch&utm_source=mobile-blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_content=homepage">AdWords Certification exam offered by Google Partners</a>.</li><li>Get started with AdWords Display: Learn how you can show ads to your online audience via the Google Display Network.</li></ul>Academy for Ads also offers training for DoubleClick clients, with Learning paths covering Bid Manager and Ad Exchange – and more to come.<br /><br /><b>Get started</b><br />If you already use Google Partners, you can sign in through the Partners portal at <a href="http://g.co/learnwithpartners">g.co/learnwithpartners</a> — or, you can go directly to <a href="http://g.co/AcademyforAds">g.co/AcademyforAds</a> to sign up and start sampling courses and Learning paths. We’re constantly adding more content, so if you like what you learn, keep coming back for more.<br /><br /><span class="post-author">Posted by Tracy Bizelli, Head of Academy for Ads</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1. <a href="http://tfmainsights.com/6-fundamentals-managing-digital-marketing-2015/">6 Fundamentals to Managing Digital Marketing in 2015</a>, TFM Insights (January 2015)</span>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6228249401157389157.post-26198695381897932492016-08-27T22:06:00.000-07:002017-09-30T06:58:59.251-07:00ACCA December 2016 Exam Preparations Timetable<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">ACCA December 2016 Exam Preparations Timetable</span></i></b></h2><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Are you preparing for ACCA Dec 2016 exams and wondering whether there is adequate support for you to get a pass.</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>If you are considering to start your preparations after the September 2016 ACCA Exams for the Dec 2016 ACCA exams, the at Jpro Training we have tailored a learning plan that caters for you specifically.</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>The key benefits of studying at Jpro training includes the following</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>1. 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She offered high quality support at a lower cost than many competitors, and was driven to get things right on the first try. But when she opened her business, she found it difficult to bring customers through the door with traditional methods like flyers and a listing in the phone book. That’s when Sandra decided to try Google advertising.<br /><br />Today, Sandra says 80% of her new customers come from Google ads, and she relies on AdWords Express, our smart advertising tool, to manage campaigns for her so she can focus on running her business. For small businesses without a professional marketer on staff, AdWords Express can lighten the load – and over the last year, the number of businesses using AdWords Express has nearly doubled, with more signing up every day. <br /><br />We’re thrilled to see business owners finding success with AdWords Express, and are determined to make it a one-stop shop for helping to grow your business. To reach this goal, we’re introducing 3 new features to help you reach a larger audience and understand exactly how your ad is impacting your business.<br /><ol><li>Ad Scheduling – Choose to run your ad at specific times<br /><div style="text-align: left;">Nearly one third of searches for local businesses in the US come from consumers who want to make a purchase immediately.<sup>1</sup> Ad scheduling is a simple way to make sure your ad only runs at times you choose, (during your hours of operation, for example), so you reach your customers at exactly the right time.</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIHxvAan2Y2I_2DjhM6JdLqmB86U3_8G5iiT52NmEGGWGZWfLlhuN1-BmuOE8aUNgPsPxPTRcKtnaVHO5_JFvo92mKsojq2bwQy-xW4Q40BK1d_Rv0NQkQ6m9COc64kMfjenylP7EQSdY/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-08-16+at+11.49.04+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIHxvAan2Y2I_2DjhM6JdLqmB86U3_8G5iiT52NmEGGWGZWfLlhuN1-BmuOE8aUNgPsPxPTRcKtnaVHO5_JFvo92mKsojq2bwQy-xW4Q40BK1d_Rv0NQkQ6m9COc64kMfjenylP7EQSdY/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-08-16+at+11.49.04+AM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">You can choose custom hours or link to your Google My Business account to automatically run your ad only during your business hours.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></li><li>Map Actions – Understand how your ads drive people to your store<br />Map Actions shows you how many customers who’ve viewed your ad go on to view your business on Google Maps – which can be vital, since over 1/3 of visitors in the US use online maps to find local businesses.<sup>2</sup> If you care about whether your ads drive people to your storefront, Map Actions might just be your favorite new tool.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIEY7042LtDwljoa69F9ICNbAchwiE7mAaIfFJkoDfJ-LLAC1E7AOEQun5BKRcgx4FxHLBhUOH4fKiHliuSRKFq98Td-UD2mRAqhZIX53RbJg12FWYnTFJj40P3-DlNuZXjX1UbdH-_Qw/s1600/mapactionsnew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIEY7042LtDwljoa69F9ICNbAchwiE7mAaIfFJkoDfJ-LLAC1E7AOEQun5BKRcgx4FxHLBhUOH4fKiHliuSRKFq98Td-UD2mRAqhZIX53RbJg12FWYnTFJj40P3-DlNuZXjX1UbdH-_Qw/s1600/mapactionsnew.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Map actions shows how many customers interacted with your<br />Google Maps listing after viewing your ad. </span></td></tr></tbody></table></li><li>Verified Calls – Get better call tracking<br />Right now we’re piloting a new way for advertisers to track which phone calls they receive come from customers who clicked “Call now” on an ad on their mobile phones. Advertisers who opt into Verified Calls will also see detailed information about incoming calls, including the area codes and call duration. We’ve already rolled this out to many AdWords Express advertisers, and hope to expand it to all users soon.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMGb6pKhKUAJ3f_xfjFxgj3dBnRCcyDTAJlCmGlzX_yuXlhAJ2U7a8Pzou6dDhnwtOhDzsH8ZnYAkRl-CBK1y36a9niWUcukfmh3FVdXaBfLqD5kZbEr8tDVgCmoQs3FDRXUF2PxC3CY/s1600/vcalled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMGb6pKhKUAJ3f_xfjFxgj3dBnRCcyDTAJlCmGlzX_yuXlhAJ2U7a8Pzou6dDhnwtOhDzsH8ZnYAkRl-CBK1y36a9niWUcukfmh3FVdXaBfLqD5kZbEr8tDVgCmoQs3FDRXUF2PxC3CY/s1600/vcalled.jpg" /></a></div></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">New insights into verified calls allow you to see time, duration, and location of each call along with overall trends in call volumes.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></li></ol>If you’re already advertising on AdWords Express, start understanding more about your performance with these new features today. Or, if you’re just getting started, visit <a href="http://goo.gl/a756MY">google.com/adwords/express</a>, or check out our <a href="https://goo.gl/Y6HDLV">help center</a> to learn more. <br /><br /><span class="post-author">Posted by Kavi Goel, Senior Product Manager, AdWords Express</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1. <a href="https://goo.gl/vmb2t9">Google Consumer Barometer</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2. <a href="https://goo.gl/43fAyh">Google Consumer Barometer</a></span>linda linklinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07907394430562179031noreply@blogger.com0